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/ 14 January 2006
The United States moved on Friday to stop Spain completing a -billion arms sale to one of America’s bitterest critics in the Americas, Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez. State department officials informed the Spanish government that it would not give the licences needed to allow the sale of a dozen military aircraft that carry US technology.
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/ 14 January 2006
A gay man with full-blown Aids donated blood on Friday — after lying about his sexual practices, the SA National Blood Transfusion Service (SANBTS) has been told. This, after the blood bank reiterated its refusal to accept donations from men who have had sex with men in the past five years. SANBTS spokesperson Ianthe Exall said every donation was still being tested for HIV/Aids and hepatitis.
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/ 13 January 2006
Department of Health and blood-bank data does not reflect the HIV/Aids status of South Africa’s gay community, a Western Cape lobby group said on Friday in reaction to the South African National Blood Transfusion Service’s recent decision to exclude all sexually active homosexual men from donating blood.
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/ 13 January 2006
The nursing student sex orgy that reportedly took place in a KwaZulu-Natal children’s ward was condemned by the South African Nursing Council on Friday. The Sowetan reported that two female and three male trainee nurses were expelled after a mother comforting her sick child raised the alarm.
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/ 13 January 2006
Swiss Professor Henri Rieben, one of the original architects of what is now the European Union who was once described by former EU chief Jacques Delors as the ”guardian of the European flame”, has died, his former assistant said on Friday. He was 84. Rieben died on January 11 of cancer in his hometown just north of Lausanne.
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/ 13 January 2006
If admiring art were enough to change the world, Africa would have got justice long ago, says Jonathan Jones. He decided to go in search of the art that doesn’t get into galleries, but has real function in the lives of ordinary Africans.
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/ 13 January 2006
The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu could be passing from person to person in Turkey even though health experts have no evidence that the virus is spreading that way, a senior World Health Organisation (WHO) expert said on Thursday. But he said such contact would not necessarily trigger a pandemic.
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/ 13 January 2006
A British national is assisting the South African police with an investigation into the alleged rape of a teenager in Johannesburg, the British high commission in Pretoria confirmed. A Friday-afternoon edition of a Johannesburg daily newspaper identified the man as a son of a British diplomat in South Africa.
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/ 13 January 2006
Justine Henin-Hardenne survived a three-hour dogfight with Italian Francesca Schiavone to win the Sydney International tennis tournament on Friday. The Belgian eighth seed fought back from dropping the opening set to win a titanic battle 4-6, 7-5, 7-5, her second Sydney title, in a see-sawing struggle.
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/ 13 January 2006
<b>AUTHOR’S NOTES</b>: Writer Shaun Levin creates dream-like prose that takes readers into and out of a maze of personal relationships fraught with nostalgia. He speaks to ZA@Play about his writing process and what he is currently reading .