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/ 19 January 2006
British opposition parties demanded answers from the government on Thursday after a leaked memo suggested uncertainty about the exact number of United States ”rendition” flights allowed to use British airspace. A Foreign Office memo to Downing Street suggests the US Central Intelligence Agency may have operated more flights than the two already confirmed by London.
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/ 19 January 2006
<i>Going Home</i> by Simão Kikamba tells the story of an exiled man’s plight in South Africa. Here is an excerpt.
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/ 19 January 2006
The Egyptian authorities freed more than 230 Sudanese who had been detained and threatened with expulsion after police brutally broke up a protest in Cairo, the United Nations refugee agency said on Thursday. Thousands of riot police wielding batons and water canons broke up a three-month sit-in in central Cairo on December 30, killing at least 28 Sudanese refugees.
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/ 19 January 2006
Third seed Lleyton Hewitt and women’s fifth seed Mary Pierce were sent spinning out of the Australian Open on Thursday, but an awesome Roger Federer glided through to the third round. Hewitt’s dream of glory in front of his home crowd was shattered by Argentina’s Juan Ignacio Chela, who outclassed the Australian 6-4, 6-4, 6-7 (8/10), 6-2.
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/ 19 January 2006
South Africa could have more women than men serving as metropolitan mayors after the local government elections, the African National Congress said on Thursday. Fifty percent of the ANC’s public representatives in local government have to be women, said party secretary general Kgalema Motlanthe.
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/ 19 January 2006
The launch of Apple Macintoshes based on Intel processors raises a space-saving — and perhaps a money-saving — idea. Will we be able to run Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X on the same machine? There are two ways to do this: the first is to buy a Mac and install Windows. Apple executives have stated that they will not try to prevent this.
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/ 19 January 2006
Police have called off a search for the bodies of as many as 60 Zimbabweans believed to have drowned last week when they tried to sneak across the Limpopo River into South Africa, state radio reported on Thursday. The search was called off late on Wednesday ”after a two-day fruitless search”, the radio report said.
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/ 19 January 2006
Media and entertainment giant Walt Disney Company is in discussions to buy Pixar animation studios in a transaction that would make Pixar chairperson and CEO Steve Jobs the largest individual shareholder in Disney, The Wall Street Journal reports on Friday.
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/ 19 January 2006
Swedish insurer Skandia, which has been pursued by Old Mutual for four months as a takeover target, on Thursday gracefully bowed to the inevitable and called a shareholder meeting to facilitate the takeover. The Anglo-South African insurer on Wednesday won approval from the Financial Services Authority for its bid.
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/ 19 January 2006
It is better to take anti-retrovirals continually as regular breaks can cause further health problems, a United States study which included South Africans said this week. Taking regular breaks to avoid side effects and to save money, was more than twice as likely to make people ill, the study said.