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/ 21 January 2006
The Iranian government has started moving billions of pounds in assets from Britain and the rest of Europe in case international sanctions are imposed over the nuclear crisis. Iran’s pre-emptive action marks a significant escalation in the stand-off between Iran and the West. It is the firmest sign yet that Tehran fears sanctions will be imposed.
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/ 21 January 2006
Canada looks poised to take a turn to the right on Monday, when elections are widely expected to end more than 12 years of Liberal government and bring to power a Conservative leader known for his opposition to the Kyoto accord on global warming and his support for United States President George Bush’s missile defence scheme.
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/ 21 January 2006
Threats of sanctions are against Iran are immature, and a referral to the United Nations Security Council would not help alleviate the nuclear crisis in Iran, its acting Foreign Minister, Mehdi Mostafavi, said on Friday. Speaking after a week-long visit to South Africa, Mostafavi said Iran will not be deterred from its nuclear programme.
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/ 21 January 2006
The KwaZulu-Natal government has pulled out of the annual re-enactment of the historic Battle of Isandlwana on Saturday, costing the event a financial injection of R200 000. The treasury said anyone authorising expenditure on the event would have to reimburse the province with his or her own money.
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/ 21 January 2006
An electricity blackout in Cape Town had nothing to do with the maintenance work at Koeberg nuclear power station, Eskom and the city of Cape Town said on Friday. ”It has nothing to do with us, it has to do with the City of Cape Town,” said Carien de Villiers, a spokesperson for Koeberg.
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/ 21 January 2006
A legal stand-off between the United States Justice Department and internet search giant Google has added fuel to an already heated debate over the government’s right of access to potentially personal data. Google has decided to oppose a government subpoena to turn over records on millions of its users’ search queries.
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/ 20 January 2006
Opposition leader Tony Leon on Friday criticised the African National Congress government’s attempts to ”place the judiciary under executive control”. He said the 14th Constitution Amendment Bill would give ”power over the administration and budgets of courts to the minister of justice, effectively putting judges at her mercy”.
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/ 20 January 2006
The third accused in the Hoedspruit lion murder case, Richard Mathebula, has died in hospital, Polokwane police said on Friday. Superintendent Moatshe Ngoepe said Mathebula (36) died in the Nelspruit prison hospital after a long illness. Mathebula fell ill at the start of the trial in January last year.
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/ 20 January 2006
A man was found dead on a New York subway car near the start of the morning rush hour, raising the possibility that his lifeless body rode the train for several hours overnight, authorities said. The body of Eugene Reilly (64), a United States Postal Service employee, was discovered on Thursday.
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/ 20 January 2006
Emergency crews have recovered the bodies of all 42 victims killed when a Slovak military plane crashed into a mountainside in north-eastern Hungary as it flew troops home from peacekeeping duty in Kosovo, officials said on Friday. Only one person of the 43 on board survived, and was able to call his wife on his cellphone from the crash site