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/ 23 January 2006
A comedy stunt in which scores of people rode the New York subway in their underwear ended with the arrest of eight panty-proud participants, police said on Monday. A police spokesperson said all had been released after being issued summonses for ”disorderly conduct”.
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/ 23 January 2006
Thirty-two people were killed and another 21 were injured when two buses collided head-on in south-western Brazil, police said on Monday. The crash occurred shortly before midnight on Sunday on the Raposo Tavares highway in Regente Feijo, about 840km west of Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo state police Major Claudemir Alcarria said.
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/ 23 January 2006
Despite a well-managed start to the 2006 school year, problems remain in the primary-school sector, Minister of Education Naledi Pandor said on Monday. ”The gross enrolment rate is excellent, but reading and writing skills are not,” she said at a ceremony to rename Ga-Rankuwa’s Agisanang Primary School the Tim Modise Primary School.
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/ 23 January 2006
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Political parties have until Tuesday to rectify mistakes on their lists of proportional representation candidates for the March 1 election, the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) said at Monday’s handover to Gauteng Premier Mbhazima Shilowa of the 2004 electoral atlas on poll behaviour in South Africa.
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/ 23 January 2006
A five-storey building collapsed in central Nairobi on Monday with more than 280 construction workers inside, killing at least 11 people and injuring more than 70, witnesses and officials said. Dozens of rescuers dug into the rubble in downtown Nairobi with their bare hands while the injured were loaded into any available car to be taken to hospitals.
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/ 23 January 2006
Malaria has claimed the lives of six of 483 people hospitalised for the mosquito-borne disease in Gauteng this year. The health department has denied that there is an outbreak of malaria in the province. ”We don’t have that breed of mosquitoes in Gauteng,” spokesperson Bhungani ka Mzolo said on Monday.
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/ 23 January 2006
Unidentified assailants ambushed United Nations peacekeepers from Guatemala in the restive eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Monday, sparking an hours-long gunbattle that left eight UN troops dead, officials said. Fourteen UN peacekeepers were wounded in the attack in Garamba National Park.
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Opportunities to tackle poverty, unemployment and underdevelopment have never been better, the African National Congress said on Monday. All South Africans should throw their weight behind this task, the party said after the annual lekgotla (meeting) of its national executive council at the weekend.
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/ 23 January 2006
A building collapsed in central Nairobi on Monday while more than 280 workers were inside, leaving at least eight people dead, witnesses and construction workers said. More than 50 seriously injured people were rushed to hospitals, medics said. At the weekend, two buildings collapsed in Nigeria, killing at least 15 people.
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/ 23 January 2006
World oil prices on Monday soared above per barrel for the first time in more than four months, owing to global supply concerns, before easing on profit-taking, analysts and dealers said. New York’s main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in March, hit an intraday peak of ,20 — the highest level since September 1 last year.