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/ 19 January 2006
Media and entertainment giant Walt Disney Company is in discussions to buy Pixar animation studios in a transaction that would make Pixar chairperson and CEO Steve Jobs the largest individual shareholder in Disney, The Wall Street Journal reports on Friday.
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/ 19 January 2006
Swedish insurer Skandia, which has been pursued by Old Mutual for four months as a takeover target, on Thursday gracefully bowed to the inevitable and called a shareholder meeting to facilitate the takeover. The Anglo-South African insurer on Wednesday won approval from the Financial Services Authority for its bid.
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/ 19 January 2006
It is better to take anti-retrovirals continually as regular breaks can cause further health problems, a United States study which included South Africans said this week. Taking regular breaks to avoid side effects and to save money, was more than twice as likely to make people ill, the study said.
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/ 19 January 2006
East London’s main central-city hospital is facing serious management, health, financial and supply crises, all of which are receiving scant attention from provincial authorities, says the Democratic Alliance. DA health spokesperson Dianne Kohler-Barnard said nurses at Frere hospital had contacted her in their search for help.
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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.