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/ 18 January 2006
Former South African president FW de Klerk and former deputy president Jacob Zuma are to be among honoured guests at the official opening of Parliament and the State of the Nation address. This emerged at a press conference at Parliament on Wednesday addressed by the presiding officers.
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/ 18 January 2006
The South African men’s hockey team bounced back from Monday’s embarrassing 8-0 defeat to England to draw 2-2 with Ireland in the first Test at the Tshwane University of Technology on Tuesday night. But there was still disappointment as the South Africans squandered what looked to be a match-winning 2-0 lead.
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/ 18 January 2006
Leroy Lita’s hat-trick inspired Championship leaders Reading to knock Premiership side West Brom out of the FA Cup 3-2 after extra time in a thrilling third-round replay at the Madejski Stadium on Tuesday. Tamworth came close to knocking out Championship side Stoke City before losing 5-4 in a penalty shoot-out.
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/ 18 January 2006
Phil Mickelson begins the 2006 United States PGA Tour season in Palm Desert, California, on Wednesday at the 90-hole Bob Hope Classic with hopes of claiming a major championship for the third year in a row. The 2004 Masters and 2005 PGA Championship winner is the only world top-10 player here.
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/ 18 January 2006
The JSE was heading for its fifth consecutive weaker close on Wednesday, with the bourse dragged to a three-week low by profit-taking and sharply lower international markets, equity traders said. By 11.46am, the all-share index was down 1,28% and the all-share industrial lost 1,51%.
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/ 18 January 2006
Well before President George Bush said in 2003 that Iraq was buying uranium from Niger, a high-level state department intelligence assessment deemed the deal ”unlikely” for several reasons, The New York Times said on Wednesday.
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/ 18 January 2006
The fight against cancer is the most important thing in Lance Armstrong’s life. The legendary seven times winner of the Tour de France said in Johannesburg on Wednesday that if he had to choose between his personal battle with cancer, and winning the Tour de France, he would choose cancer.
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/ 18 January 2006
A Thai court on Wednesday sentenced two men to death for the rape and murder of a 21-year-old British tourist, amid political pressure over fears for the country’s post-tsunami tourism industry. The judges said DNA evidence linking fishermen Bualoy Kothisit (23) and Wichai Sonkhaoyai (24) to the crime could not be disputed, describing the defendants as ”inhuman”.
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/ 18 January 2006
South Africa’s Wesley Moodie would love another crack at world number two Andy Roddick in different match conditions after going out of the Australian Open on Wednesday. The 26-year-old giant matched serves with the fastest server in men’s tennis, but rued crucial unforced errors as he was knocked out 7-5, 6-3, 6-2.
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/ 18 January 2006
An engineer from Malawi was kidnapped and 10 people, including bodyguards and drivers, were killed in an ambush on Wednesday in western Baghdad, an interior ministry official said. A three-vehicle convoy of personnel working for the Iraqna mobile telephone network was attacked by gunmen in a tunnel, the official said, adding that the dead included seven bodyguards and three drivers.