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/ 23 January 2006
South Africans who are injured in work-related accidents are increasingly being denied treatment by doctors and pharmacists because the labour department’s Workmen’s Compensation Fund has not processed their claims for payment. "Getting an injury while on duty is one of the worst things that can happen to someone," said Renette Oosthuizen of the union Solidarity.
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/ 23 January 2006
The wife of the man allegedly at the centre of the African National Congress’s spy and hoax e-mail scandal on Sunday appealed to the public for help following his disappearance. Durban-based IT executive Muziwendoda Sikhona Kunene was last seen on Friday when his wife, Belinda, dropped him off at a BP garage to board a taxi to Sandton City.
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/ 23 January 2006
The United States navy has captured a crew of suspected pirates off the coast of Somalia after firing warning shots at their ship, in the first sign of a military crackdown on Somalia’s anarchic coastal waters. Sailors boarded the dhow after its crew surrendered and discovered a cache of small arms, the US navy said.
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/ 23 January 2006
A cabal of key ministers, civil servants and businessmen plotted to steal hundreds of millions of dollars from the Kenyan exchequer, according to a dossier compiled by the country’s exiled former anti-corruption tsar. John Githongo accuses Kenya’s vice-president and three ministers of complicity in suspect military and security contracts worth -million.
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/ 23 January 2006
While organic food and ”green” products are gradually catching on among wealthier, educated people around the globe, natural living has long been the norm across Europe’s Nordic region. ”The Nordic countries tend to have a broader, more general consciousness of environmental issues than in other European countries,” says Stockholm University researcher Hans Raemoe.
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/ 23 January 2006
Elephants, buffaloes and other wild animals drink water from one side of a swamp, while Maasai warriors watch hundreds of cattle graze on another side as the tropical sun sears the parched land of the wildlife sanctuary. Wildlife officials recently bent stringent conservation regulations to allow cattle into this national park to help the Maasai save precious livestock from a punishing drought.
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/ 23 January 2006
Racial science has discovered the power of flattery. Last year, three scholars published a paper, Natural History of Ashkenazi Intelligence, in which they argued that Ashkenazi Jews were considerably more intelligent than other Europeans, because their history of moneylending and other financial pursuits favoured genes associated with cleverness.
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/ 22 January 2006
Substitutes Sambegou Bangoura and Ousmane Bangoura scored a goal each in the last 13 minutes on Sunday to help Guinea beat South Africa 2-0 in group C of the African Nations Cup. Guinea were the more dangerous of the two teams in the first half and came close on several occasions.
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/ 22 January 2006
Two explosions ripped through Russia’s main natural gas-supply pipeline to Armenia and Georgia on Sunday, halting supplies at a time of freezing temperatures and sparking accusations of sabotage from Georgian President Mikhael Saakashvili. Officials said it could take up to four days to repair the damage.
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/ 22 January 2006
It captivated onlookers with an unprecedented appearance in the shallow waters of London’s River Thames, but the whale spotted swimming past the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben died while rescue crews tried to ferry it to sea.