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/ 16 January 2006
David Nalbandian and Ivan Ljubicic led the top men’s seeds safely into the second round of the Australian Open on Monday, but there were some wobbles en route. Nalbandian looked to be cruising to a straight-sets victory before he encountered turbulence from the 121th-ranked Danai Udomchoke.
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/ 16 January 2006
A judge sentenced a Rwandan rebel on Monday to 15 years in jail, a week after convicting him for killing eight tourists from the United States, Britain and New Zealand and a Ugandan tour guide who were on a gorilla-watching trip in 1999. High Court Judge John Bosco Katutsi passed the sentence after Jean-Paul Bizimana, alias Xavier Van Dame, appealed for lenient punishment.
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/ 16 January 2006
Foreign and local experts meet later on Monday to help find the best course of action for repairs to Koeberg nuclear power station, which has been responsible for numerous recent power outages in the Western Cape. Discussions about repairs to one of two faulty generators would be on the agenda, said Carin de Villiers, spokesperson for the nuclear plant.
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/ 16 January 2006
The Johannesburg metro police on Monday condemned the alleged involvement of one of their officers in the hijacking of a car in Berea at the weekend. Spokesperson Superintendent Wayne Minnaar said the 25-year-old officer allegedly hired out his service pistol for R150 to three hijackers.
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/ 16 January 2006
Fifteen armed men robbed the Monte Visto Casino in Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal, of an undisclosed amount of cash on Sunday, said police. The gang overpowered a security guard and forced its way into the casino, said Superintendent Buhle Ngidi. ”They jumped over the cash desk and demanded cash. An undisclosed sum of money was taken,” said Ngidi.
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/ 16 January 2006
Two Syrian intelligence officers began giving evidence in Vienna again on Monday to the United Nations commission investigating the murder 11 months ago of Lebanese former prime minister Rafiq Hariri, a Syrian diplomat said. They are Syria’s former head of intelligence in Lebanon, Rustom Ghazale, and his deputy, retired colonel Samih Kashaami.
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/ 16 January 2006
South Africa have issued a warning to both Australia and Sri Lanka that they deserve respect in the tri-series one-day competition, using power-hitter Justin Kemp to deliver the message. Australian all-rounder James Hopes said on Monday that Kemp had lived up to his billing as the new Lance Klusener.
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/ 16 January 2006
The Muslim Brotherhood made major gains in Egypt’s parliamentary elections in December last year, making it the biggest opposition to the ruling National Democratic Party of President Hosni Mubarak, which has dominated politics in the country for more than two decades.
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/ 16 January 2006
Australia’s summer of discontent with arch-rivals South Africa continued on Monday when yet another of their players was cited for dissent. Hard on the heels of misconduct charges against pacemen Brett Lee and Glenn McGrath, wicketkeeper and limited-overs opener Adam Gilchrist is now in trouble with officialdom.
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/ 16 January 2006
The trial of nine men accused of involvement in a planned coup d’etat in Equatorial Guinea was postponed until July in the Pretoria Regional Court on Monday. Under an arrangement with the defence, the men — all out on warning — did not appear in court, said prosecutor Torie Pretorius.