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Jacob Zuma’s lawyer advocate Kessie Naidu told the Durban Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday that his client’s case could not be transferred to the High Court without an indictment. ”There are no charges pending in the High Court,” said Naidu.
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Anthony Brink, President Thabo Mbeki’s former HIV/Aids muse and now Dr Rath Health Foundation "policy adviser", has launched an extraordinary attack on a number of South African women journalists, describing them as "pious, industry-sweetheart, trendy-leftie stupid white women" .
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A 39 year-old South African man was detained in France after walking through the channel tunnel from Britain, police said on Tuesday. The unnamed man, who had only a pair of flip-flop sandals on his feet, was spotted by security cameras at the French end of the 50km tunnel early on Sunday morning.
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German police and authorities are preparing for an influx of more than 100 000 English soccer fans next summer after England qualified for the 2006 World Cup. Plans include issuing banning orders against potential troublemakers and the deployment of British police officers in Germany.
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Crude oil prices edged up on Tuesday as weather watchers predicted a colder-than-normal winter in the north-eastern United States, raising concerns that supplies will be inadequate due to hurricane damage to refineries. A colder winter would result in increased consumption of home heating fuels.
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Fraudsters are growing increasingly sophisticated in their efforts to beat identification systems, but Japanese electronics maker Hitachi thinks it has the answer — technology to read your finger veins. Hitachi said on Tuesday it is launching a global sales push for the system.
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Former deputy president Jacob Zuma arrived at the Durban Magistrate’s Court shortly before 9am on Tuesday for his second appearance on charges of corruption. Zuma arrived in a black Mercedes 4×4 with tinted windows. He was greeted with shouts of ”viva” and ululations from the few supporters who were allowed inside the court premises.
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Irish author John Banville beat higher-profile favourites Julian Barnes, Kazuo Ishiguro and Zadie Smith to become the surprise winner of Britain’s prestigious Booker Prize for fiction late on Monday. Banville’s The Sea was described by the judges as ”a masterly study of grief, memory and love recollected”.
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Four Brazilian cities in the Amazon jungle state of Amazonas have been declared disaster areas as the worst drought in 60 years dries up rivers that thousands of families depend on to receive food and medicine, authorities said on Monday. In Manaquiri, the hardest hit of the four cities, small rivers have all but disappeared.
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Fears rose on Tuesday that the death toll from devastating mudslides in Guatemala could reach 2 000, as rescuers suspended their search for hundreds of people buried for six days under solidifying mud near a volcano west of Guatemala City. More than 650 are confirmed dead, but 1 400 still are listed as missing.