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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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/ 25 January 2006
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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.
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/ 25 January 2006
<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/262374/vote-box_blue.gif" align=left>Inkatha Freedom Party Ingwe municipality mayor Innocent Miya and three councillors from nearby Ubuhlebezwe municipality have defected to Ziba Jiyane’s National Democratic Convention (Nadeco). Miya, according to Nadeco spokesperson Linda Hlongwa MPL, has been mayor of Ingwe since 2000.
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/ 25 January 2006
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Gideon Gono on Tuesday forecast the country’s inflation to hit 800% in March, but said the key rate would drop to 230% by year-end. Gono said inflationary pressures are expected to remain high in the crisis-hit Southern African nation.
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/ 25 January 2006
In one of France’s most exciting artistic discoveries of recent years, two paintings by the 16th century Italian artist Caravaggio have been found in a church in the central town of Loches. <i>Pilgrimage of Our Lord to Emmaus</i> and <i>Saint Thomas putting his finger on Christ’s wound</i> were discovered in 1999 under the organ loft in the church of Saint Anthony.
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The African National Congress has published its national consolidated list of candidates for all municipalities for the 2006 local government elections due to take place on March 1. Nelson Mandela metro mayor Nceba Faku does not appear at all on the list while Tshwane Mayor Smangaliso Mkhathswa appears at number four slot.