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/ 24 January 2006
Millions of United States BlackBerry users can now turn their attention back to a federal court where the fate of the popular wireless e-mail device may be decided.
After the Supreme Court chose on Monday not to intervene in the case, the resolution of the long-running battle over patents for the handheld device is up to a district judge.
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/ 24 January 2006
Bone-chilling weather claimed dozens of lives on Monday across Europe as glacial temperatures swept the Baltics to the Balkans, brought rare snowfalls to Istanbul and sparked a scramble for heating fuel. The unusually low temperatures have left well more than 100 fatalities in Germany, Poland, Russia, Turkey and the Czech Republic.
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/ 24 January 2006
MultiChoice said on Tuesday it would welcome competition after the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) announced that it would be inviting applications for a subscription broadcast licence at the end of the month. MultiChoice said it supports and adheres to the process set down by Icasa.
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/ 24 January 2006
African leaders on Tuesday named Congo as the chair of the African Union and agreed that Sudan would take over the leadership of the 53-nation body in 2007, according to a text issued at a summit in Khartoum. Sudan on Monday offered to withdraw its bid to head the AU to avoid a split among leaders of the 53-nation body.
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/ 24 January 2006
Emergency teams resumed searching the wreckage of a four-car passenger train on Tuesday, which derailed and plunged into a river canyon outside the Montenegrin capital, killing at least 44 people and injuring 198, officials said. Many of the passengers were schoolchildren returning from a ski trip.
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/ 24 January 2006
Ford Motor Company has announced further massive retrenchments plans of thousands of workers, the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa said on Tuesday. The trade union attributed the potential retrenchments to the relocation of Volvo and Land Rover production operations in Pretoria’s Ford assembly plant to Europe.
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/ 24 January 2006
Myanmar’s illegal timber trade with China has picked up in recent days, after an unexplained halt of several months, a forestry watchdog said on Tuesday. Global Witness said logging trucks had been crossing to China’s southwestern Yunnan province from northern Myanmar every seven minutes when the London-based group released its previous report in October.
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/ 24 January 2006
Cape Town-based Linux solutions provider Redlinx has built a high-end digital video-recording appliance based on open-source software. The solution runs on Suse Enterprise Linux and MySQL for a highly scalable and customisable solution to all security woes.
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/ 24 January 2006
Canada’s next prime minister, Stephen Harper, promised on Tuesday to deliver change after voters swept his Conservatives to power, ending 12 years of Liberal rule. ”Tonight, friends, our great country has voted for change,” he told a cheering crowd in Calgary after his party emerged as the single largest grouping in the new Parliament.
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/ 24 January 2006
Bombs killed six people and wounded several others in the south-western city of Ahvaz on Tuesday, Iranian state television reported. Fire engines and ambulances rushed to the site of the explosions, a state environmental agency building and a bank in Ahvaz, the capital of oil-rich Khuzestan province.