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/ 19 January 2006
President Jacques Chirac for the first time on Thursday raised the threat of a nuclear response to states that launch "terrorist" attacks against France. "That response could be conventional, it could also be of another nature," Chirac said in a clear reference to nuclear weapons during a visit to a French nuclear base in the northwestern region of Brittany.
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/ 19 January 2006
The Qatar-based Arab broadcaster al-Jazeera is to set up a news bureau in Zimbabwe, state radio reported on Thursday. It said officials of al-Jazeera met with Zimbabwe Information Minister Tichaona Jakonya in Harare and said they would report objectively on the Southern African country.
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/ 19 January 2006
A dead whale was lying in front of the Japanese embassy in Berlin on Thursday after Greenpeace brought it to the German capital to protest Japanese whale hunting for scientific research. The whale was brought to Berlin by the environmental group after it was found beached near Wismar on Germany’s Baltic coast on Saturday.
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/ 19 January 2006
A United States mission to resolve a territorial dispute between Ethiopia and Eritrea will be shortened because Eritrean authorities refused to accept the envoy, the US State Department said on Wednesday. ”They are not facilitating her travel to Eritrea so she is not going to the boundary region” on the Eritrean side, said department spokesperson Julie Reside.
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/ 19 January 2006
The Airports Company South Africa (Acsa) has embarked on a plan to build a R90-million multistorey parkade at Durban International airport (DIA) to increase the current capacity to 2 950 bays. The project will be completed in July next year, Acsa said in a statement on Thursday.
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/ 19 January 2006
Australia will bring in two new players for their tri-series limited-overs clash with South Africa in Melbourne on Friday, naming opener Phil Jaques and bowler Brett Dorey. Simon Katich was ruled out after suffering a groin strain in training on Thursday and the selectors announced that Jaques, who made his Australian debut against the Proteas in the Boxing Day Test, would be his replacement.
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/ 19 January 2006
Halima Abdullah Aden was just a teenager when she watched her father and two brothers die during the last famine that hit Ethiopia’s remote south-east Somali state six years ago. Now in her 20s, she is haunted by memories of the gnawing hunger that engulfed the region in 1999-2000 claiming tens of thousands of lives, and fears for the health of her own children as famine looms once more.
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/ 19 January 2006
Côte d’Ivoire President Laurent Gbagbo and Prime Minister Charles Konan Banny called on Wednesday for their compatriots to end the street violence which has brought chaos to Abidjan and go back to work. Clashes between supporters of Gbagbo and United Nations peacekeepers saw a renewed bid to storm the UN base in Abidjan and the killing of four Côte d’Ivoire citizens in the west.
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/ 19 January 2006
A battle for livestock between Ethiopian and Kenyan nomads has left 38 people dead in drought-stricken northern Kenya, official and aid workers said on Thursday. Dongiro warriors crossed into Kenya last Friday and attacked Turkana herdsmen in order to steal their animals, said the district commissioner for Turkana.
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/ 19 January 2006
Roger Federer saved some energy for the rest of the Australian Open, while Kim Clijsters hobbled into the third round. Fifth-seeded Mary Pierce, the 1995 Australian champion and a two-time finalist at last year’s majors, became the highest-seeded player ousted in the tournament when she lost 6-3, 7-5 to Iveta Benesova on Thursday.