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/ 25 January 2006
An Israeli rescue team pulled three more bodies from a collapsed building in Nairobi, Kenya, early on Wednesday, bringing the death toll to 17, as an officer said tests indicated anyone still trapped under the rubble is either dead or unconscious. Radar, acoustic tests and specially trained dogs indicated there is no sound or movement beneath the ruined building.
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/ 25 January 2006
The worsening humanitarian situation in Zimbabwe is making children more vulnerable to abuse, according to child rights NGOs.
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/ 25 January 2006
Two Eastern Cape provincial ministers have run up a R1-million bill for official mileage with their private vehicles in just 20 months, the Dispatch Online reported on Wednesday. They are finance minister Billy Nel and economic affairs and tourism minister Andre de Wet.
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/ 25 January 2006
The collapse of an impeachment bid against Malawi’s President Bingu wa Mutharika has set off a flurry of resignations by opposition parliamentarians distancing themselves from the parties that had sponsored it. The United Democratic Front MP who introduced the motion in Parliament last year has quit his party to become an independent.
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/ 25 January 2006
While India celebrates Republic Day on Thursday, for many in western Gujarat state the date will bring back terrifying memories of an earthquake that struck with savage force five years ago. The quake levelled buildings across the state of Gujarat, killing more than 25 000 people.
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/ 25 January 2006
Ministers from more than 25 of the world’s major trading powers will start trying again on Wednesday to break a deadlock in global trade talks. Major players at the 149-member World Trade Organisation (WTO) appear as far apart as ever on the vexing subject of farm trade, as well as market access for industrial goods.
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/ 25 January 2006
A hospital in the western Algerian city of Oran carried out precautionary tests for bird flu on a family of four, but initial results were negative, the hospital director said on Wednesday. Definitive test results are not expected for a week, Dr Abderrahmane Attar said in a telephone interview.
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Tension between political parties in certain areas of the country is a concern, the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) said on Wednesday. Thoko Mpumlwana, deputy chairperson of the IEC, asked parties attending a code-of-conduct signing ceremony in Pretoria to conduct themselves peacefully.
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/ 25 January 2006
Twenty years ago, the loss of the United States shuttle Challenger dealt an enduring blow to confidence in manned space flight yet also helped open up a golden era of exploration by machine. As Nasa this Saturday mourns the 1986 disaster, the contrast in fortunes between human and unmanned missions in space has never seemed more acute.
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/ 25 January 2006
The wave of freezing weather claimed three more lives in Romania by Wednesday, bringing the death toll in that country to 18, while three people died in Serbia and Bulgaria. Fifty-three people have died in Ukraine during the past 24 hours as a result of extreme cold, the health ministry said on Wednesday.