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Reserve Bank Governor Gideon Gono has joined the condemnation of continuing and often violent farm seizures, saying new seizures and the under utilisation of land already confiscated were hurting the government’s effort to check hyperinflation.
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Waving banners and banging drums, thousands of primary school children on Wednesday paraded through the northwest Chinese city of Jiuquan, celebrating the nation’s second manned foray into space. ”Shenzhou VI successfully launched,” they chanted in not entirely perfect unison, one hour after China’s most ambitious space mission yet blasted off from a secretive launch site in the desert three hours’ drive away.
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Egypt has banned all live poultry imports and called off this year’s wild bird hunting season, in an effort to keep out potentially deadly bird flu. The Cabinet stressed late on Tuesday that Egypt would stop ”all live birds imports whether from countries with which we have import agreements or not”.
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The final portion of storm-savaged New Orleans was open to residents on Wednesday, with road blocks lifted at a neighbourhood nearly obliterated during hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Mayor Ray Nagin cleared the way for displaced residents to return to the Lower Ninth Ward for the first time since storms and flooding laid waste to the working-class neighborhood.
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At least 60 people were injured on Tuesday when thousands of people stormed an already packed soccer stadium in northern Brazil to watch the national team train for a World Cup qualifying match against Venezuela. The incident occurred at Mangueirao stadium in the city of Belem, about 3 040km north of Sao Paulo in the state of Para.
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Syria’s former strongman in Lebanon, who was questioned over the assassination of former Lebanese premier Rafiq Hariri, committed suicide in his Damascus office on Wednesday, the government said. Interior Minister Ghazi Kanaan spoke to Voice of Lebanon radio earlier on Wednesday and said it would be his "final declaration".
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Former deputy president Jacob Zuma’s trial date has been set for July 31 next year, the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) said on Wednesday. ”We are very pleased with this as it offers us what we wanted all the time — which is enough time to prepare for this case,” NPA spokesperson Makhosini Nkosi said.
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Thirty people were killed on Wednesday when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a large crowd of people outside an army recruitment centre in the north-western Iraqi town of Tal Afar, police said. The attack, which also left 35 people wounded, came just a day after another attack in the town killed 30 people at a crowded market.
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The chairperson of the General Council of the Bar, advocate Norman Arendse, on Wednesday denied being part of any conspiracy to discredit John Hlophe, Judge President of the Cape division. Media reports suggested Hlophe had deliberately tried to sabotage his fellow judge and colleague, Wilfred Thring.
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Controversy over the frequently tragic attempts of African immigrants to storm the European Union’s Spanish borders clouded European Union talks on Wednesday, amid a claim the bloc is trying to erect new "Berlin walls". EU justice commissioner Franco Frattini briefed ministers about an EU mission to the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla in North Africa, which have been assaulted by waves of African would-be EU immigrants.