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One of the strongmen of Palestinian politics, Jibril Rajoub, resigned from the government on Tuesday night as the newly elected President, Mahmoud Abbas, prepared to embark on a long-awaited shake-up of the security services. Abbas has consistently opposed the use of violence in the four-year-old Palestinian uprising.
Abbas calls for Israel peace talks
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Nearly a third of the -million urgently requested by the United Nations for the Asian tsunami relief effort has now been received, the UN’s emergency relief coordinator said on Tuesday. Jan Egeland told the leading aid donors in Geneva that he had urged the speedy release of their government’s unprecedented -billion pledges.
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Standing amid the ruins, Suwandi reflected on what had happened to his old workplace — a giant cement factory next to the sea. "I’m very sad. I don’t have a job any more. We lost all our money in here," he explained, pointing at his office, now a mangled heap of metal and oversized tubing.
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Plastic bottles could provide the cheapest and most practical way of preventing water-borne diseases in regions affected by the recent tsunami, say Swiss scientists. Solar water disinfection, or Sodis, relies on radiation and heat from the sun to kill most bacteria and viruses in the water
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There’s a lot of disinformation that is deliberately being spread around at the moment. Every whisper suggesting that the Asian tsunami was not natural, or was due to something other than an earthquake, is being systematically debunked quite thoroughly in the mass media. Ian Fraser offers up everything you need to know about the Asian tsunami — because if it’s online, it must be true.
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A comprehensive peace deal between the government of Sudan and the southern Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army on January 9 capped a year of slow but steady progress in efforts to end the 21-year-old civil war in southern Sudan.
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An original pirate banner and a treasure chest that belonged to Thomas Tew are the crown jewels of Pirate Soul, a new museum that opened recently in Key West and is dedicated to those hated brigands or heroes, depending on which point of view one prefers.
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A good curry laden with spices can do wonders in keeping a range of diseases including cancer at bay, according to internationally acclaimed researcher Prof Bharat Aggarwal. ”It is not only cancer, there are a number of other diseases … right now there are clinical trials going on in the University of California with curcumin for dementia [and] Alzheimer’s.”
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British Treasury chief Gordon Brown began a six-day visit to Africa on Wednesday by touring a school in what some say is the largest slum in Africa, to see the impact of Kenya’s free primary education policy on efforts to cut poverty. Brown plans to use his trip to Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique and South Africa to step up his appeal for greater international commitment to tackling global poverty.
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The president of soccer world governing body Fifa, Sepp Blatter, arrived in South Africa on Wednesday morning and said he is delighted to be involved in the first World Cup to be held in Africa. Blatter was met at Johannesburg International airport by South African Football Association president Molefi Oliphant and CEO Danny Jordaan.