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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.
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/ 22 January 2006
Kosovo President Ibrahim Rugova, the ethnic Albanian leader who came to epitomise the province’s decades-long struggle for total independence from Serbia, has died without seeing his dream fulfilled. He was 61. Rugova’s death from lung cancer on Saturday leaves a vacuum in the fraction-ridden political scene at a crucial time.
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/ 22 January 2006
Liberia’s new president says it is crucial the crisis in neighbouring war-divided Côte d’Ivoire be resolved soon, adding the conflict there threatens peace in her own country. ”Liberia’s peace is fragile,” Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf said in an interview on Saturday, one of her first since being sworn in Monday as Africa’s first democratically elected female president.
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/ 22 January 2006
The leader of Nigerian militants who captured four foreign oil workers said on Saturday he would not talk with negotiators sent by the government and reiterated threats to launch new attacks on oil installations. The workers were seized on January 11 near a Shell oil field by militants behind attacks on Nigerian oil installations.
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/ 22 January 2006
Tens of thousands of desperate Somalis have converged on Mogadishu over the past two months, abandoning their homes in the lawless nation’s drought-stricken south and centre to beg for food in the capital as famine looms across East Africa. Somalia has become the poster child for the Horn of Africa drought disaster, officials say.
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/ 22 January 2006
It began with a tip-off to the media that the offices of one of Japan’s top internet entrepreneurs were going to be raided. Soon dozens of reporters were camped outside, a whiff of scandal in the air. Two days later, the Tokyo stock market was in turmoil and more than -billion had been wiped off the market value of Japanese companies.
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/ 22 January 2006
Apple’s grand switchover to Intel processors was originally planned for summer 2006. Yet Apple CEO Steve Jobs took the opportunity at the recent MacWorld Expo in San Francisco to announce that the iMac would come equipped with dual-core processors from Intel effective immediately.
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/ 22 January 2006
From eBay and Skype access to personal identification numbers for online banking — passwords are an everyday part of life with computers. Experts advise against using the same user name and password for all accounts, so security-minded internet users need an extraordinary memory to keep all of their various access codes straight.
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/ 22 January 2006
Andy Roddick’s Australian Open dreams collapsed on Sunday when he was ousted in the fourth round, but women’s top seed Lindsay Davenport remained on course for her second title in Melbourne. Davenport steamed into the quarters along with Justine Henin-Hardenne and Nadia Petrova.