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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.
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/ 19 January 2006
Statesmen, politicians and business leaders paid tribute to South African entrepreneur Anton Rupert on Thursday, calling him a patriot who fought the inhumanities of apartheid and contributed to wildlife, conservation and the arts. Former president Nelson Mandela said the country had lost a friend.
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/ 19 January 2006
Insurgents carried out two dramatic ambushes on Wednesday, killing 11 people, including two American civilians, in a roadside bombing in Basra and an attack on an Iraqi convoy in Baghdad. Meanwhile, Iraqi officials expressed hope that American hostage Jill Carroll would eventually be released.
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/ 19 January 2006
Amri Abdullah, convicted and jailed for cheating, has paid his dues to society. Now he wants the Malaysian government to pay him his dues — -million for holding him an extra 217 days in jail because of an administrative error, a news report said on Thursday.
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/ 19 January 2006
Cold weather so painful that even winter-hardened Russians complained about it has gripped Moscow and much of the rest of the country. At least two dozen people have reportedly died of exposure nationwide and Russians used a record amount of electricity to keep warm. Temperatures dropped to minus 30 degrees Celsius overnight.
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/ 19 January 2006
Nasa scientists hope the third time is the charm for their -million unmanned mission to Pluto. The space agency planned to make a third attempt to launch the New Horizons probe on Thursday, a day after a storm knocked out power at the Maryland-based laboratory that will command the mission.
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/ 19 January 2006
Health workers and a doctor at the Rose Park hospital in Bloemfontein are being monitored for symptoms of Congo fever after treating a Petrusburg woman who died of the virus, a local newspaper reported. A specialist physician and personnel have been placed under observation.
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/ 19 January 2006
Second seed Kim Clijsters struggled with a hip injury that threatens to derail her Australian Open campaign as she fought her way into the third round at Melbourne Park on Thursday. The United States Open champion downed China’s Meng Yuan 6-4, 6-2, but needed medical attention on her right hip early in the second set.