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South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma on Thursday reiterated the call for restrictive trade barriers to be removed and for the Doha development round on international trade to be finalised in time. He was speaking at the International Meeting on Small Island Developing States in Port Louis, Mauritius.
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Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas said on Thursday that he is ready to honour the security commitments in an internationally backed peace plan, adding that he hopes to resume peace talks with Israel soon. Abbas, elected earlier this week, said he is eager to restart talks on the ”road map” peace plan, backed by the United States, European Union and the Russian Federation.
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Algerian authorities are mopping up the main Islamic extremist group responsible for the deaths of dozens of people, having wiped out another movement, Interior Minister Yazid Zerhouni said in an interview published on Thursday. The Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat has become the principal extremist group in Algeria’s Islamist rebellion.
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More prison workers could be fired following threats of legal action by the South African Prisoners Human Rights Organisation (Sapohr), National Correctional Services Commissioner Linda Mti warned on Thursday. Sapohr has served papers on the Department of Correctional Services after the dismissal of prison staff in KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape.
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It was honours even at lunch on the first day of the fourth Castle Lager/MTN cricket Test at the Wanderers on Thursday. England, who won the toss and chose to bat, went to lunch on 77 for the loss of one wicket. South Africa made two changes to the team that won the third Test.
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South African pop-culture icons have joined the Treatment Action Campaign and jeans manufacturer Levi Strauss in a campaign to limit the spread of HIV/Aids among youth. All money raised by the campaign’s first event, the Rage for the Revolution concert on February 12, will go towards treatment of HIV-positive people.
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Rebels in Indonesia’s tsunami-hit Aceh on called Thursday for ceasefire talks to help the aid effort as new restrictions on foreign relief workers in the province prompted the United States to demand clarification from Jakarta.
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Iranian human rights activist Shirin Ebadi has been summoned to answer questions by the country’s hard-line judiciary or else risk being arrested, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate said on Thursday. ”I have received a summons to a revolutionary court,” the human rights activist and lawyer said.
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An errant husband who agreed to give his wife (R72) for every hour he stayed out past midnight has been ordered by a court to pay her hundreds of dollars, a news report said on Thursday. The couple in Chongqing, central China, struck the agreement to give her peace of mind after she caught him cheating.
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Zimbabwe’s Information Minister Jonathan Moyo has ”now been officially barred” from contesting the March legislative elections as a candidate of the ruling party. State media said that Moyo ”will not stand on a Zanu-PF ticket in the forthcoming parliamentary elections after the seat was reserved for women candidates to punish those who took part” in an unsanctioned secret succession meeting last year.