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Twenty-five people, mainly children, were taken to hospital after eating food believed to be dog meat in an Eastern Cape village on Monday, the provincial health department said. Departmental spokesperson Sizwe Kupelo said the parents of a 17-year-old boy had told him to kill a dog that was attacking and killing their sheep.
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”Massive” educational deprivation continues to plague sub-Saharan Africa, South African Minister of Education Naledi Pandor said on Monday. ”It is clear that an extraordinary effort will be required to ensure that all countries are directly assisted to succeed,” she told the 15th Conference of Commonwealth Education Ministers in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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Police used rubber bullets to disperse hundreds of disgruntled Sydenham residents, and arrested 45 of them for marching illegally on Monday, Durban police said. Angry residents marched on the mayor’s office to hand over a memorandum that cited dissatisfaction over housing and the alleged removal of basic services from shack dwellers.
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A man who went to a Portuguese police station to beg for money wound up behind bars after officers found he was a wanted criminal, daily newspaper Correio da Manha reported on Monday. The 32-year-old man told officers that he needed the cash to return to his home in northern Portugal.
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Thai transvestites are often pretty enough to fool tourists into taking them home for the night, but the unwary visitor risks losing his wallet as well as his pride. Members of a transvestite gang have confessed to concealing strong sedative pills under their tongues and spitting them down the throats of their victims while kissing.
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Israel and the Palestinians appeared on Monday on the verge of a crucial deal to open up Gaza’s border with Egypt after a new round of intensive talks with United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, whose visit was shadowed by the killing of a top Islamic militant by Israeli troops.
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The South African government is following up information that two South African contractors were killed in a suicide bomb blast in Baghdad on Monday. The two South African contractors were killed when a suicide bomber blew up a booby-trapped car outside the Green Zone, a high-security area in Baghdad, the AFP news agency reported.
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Former deputy president Jacob Zuma and his lawyer were to meet on Monday to decide what to do about a weekend newspaper report that claimed rape allegations had been made against Zuma. At the same time, the newspaper posted a notice on its website saying it stands by its story ”100%”.
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Pakistan made a good recovery on Monday after Marcus Trescothick’s 193 gave England a big first-innings lead in the first cricket Test. Pakistan — trailing by 144 in the first innings — finished the third day at 125 for two. The home team now trail by just 19 runs.
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Andre Agassi lost 6-4, 6-2 to Nikolay Davydenko and then pulled out of the Tennis Masters Cup on Monday, less than an hour after second-ranked Rafael Nadal withdrew with an injured left foot. Agassi lasted one hour and 14 minutes against Davydenko and then told reporters he had to withdraw after aggravating an ankle problem.