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/ 16 January 2006
The Australian and Japanese governments weighed in on Monday in the escalating struggle between whalers and activists in the Antarctic, with Canberra urging restraint before someone is killed. The call by Environment Minister Ian Campbell came after a Japanese harpoon narrowly missed a Greenpeace dinghy trying to protect a minke whale on Saturday.
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/ 16 January 2006
Ethiopian authorities have disclosed the release of an additional 2 252 persons detained about 11 weeks ago during unrest in cities around the country to protest against alleged fraud in last May’s elections, the local press reported on Saturday.
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/ 16 January 2006
The number of people killed in air crashes around the world more than doubled in 2005, with 1 050 victims in 34 fatal accidents, according to statistics from trade magazine Flight International. The number of fatalities in both passenger and freight plane crashes is the highest since 2000 and compares with 466 in 28 accidents in 2004, the figures showed.
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/ 16 January 2006
Global resources group Anglo American has assembled a team of advisers to sell or unbundle paper and packaging group Mondi as well as to sell its 51% stake in gold miner AngloGold Ashanti, London’s Sunday Times reported at the weekend. Anglo has appointed investment bank UBS to either sell or unbundle Mondi into a separate company.
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/ 16 January 2006
He’s among an elite coterie of chefs who command the sort of respect usually accorded royalty, but when Thierry Marx comes to Hong Kong there’s only one place you’ll find him searching for a meal. "I hit the street as soon as I come here," says an excited Marx. "There is nothing like street food, especially in Asia.
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/ 16 January 2006
There’s a new name in the grape industry that does not conjure images of luscious vineyards, the South African Broadcasting Corporation reported on Sunday. It is called Riemvasmaak — best known as South Africa’s first successful land claim — and now maybe as the Northern Cape’s grape capital.
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/ 16 January 2006
Israel drafted hundreds of police reinforcements to the West Bank town of Hebron on Monday in a bid to quell what the press is calling a Jewish Intifada, sparked by plans to evacuate settlers. The build-up of border police and soldiers followed two consecutive days of clashes between hundreds of hardline settlers and Israeli security forces ahead of the enforcement of eviction orders to Jewish families.
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/ 16 January 2006
London- and South Africa-listed financial-services group Old Mutual has received acceptances for 68,6% of Skandia shares under its R38-billion offer for the Swedish insurer, up from the 64,28% it had received under the first offer period, which closed on December 16, the company announced on Monday.
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/ 16 January 2006
South African gold-mining group Gold Fields and Toronto-listed Bolivar Gold on Monday announced that Scion Capital has delivered a notice of dissent in respect of its approximately 19% common share interest in Bolivar and that Gold Fields intends to waive the condition in section 7.2(e) of its arrangement agreement with Bolivar.
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/ 16 January 2006
France’s Luc Alphand, driving a Mitsubishi, improved on his runners-up spot last year to win the Dakar Rally following the 15th and final stage in Dakar on Sunday ahead of South Africa’s Giniel de Villiers and Nani Roma of Spain. Alphand, the 1997 overall World Cup skiing champion, said afterwards: ”This was definitely the most exciting Dakar Rally that I have been involved in.”