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The final list of hopefuls for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize totals 194 candidates, making it the longest to date in the history of the prestigious award, the Nobel Institute announced on Tuesday. The list of candidates includes names such as British Prime Minister Tony Blair and United States President George Bush.
The plight of white South Africans feeling the pressure of affirmative action was taken up on Tuesday by a seemingly unlikely benefactor in the form of the Inkatha Freedom Party. IFP leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi signed an accord with labour union Solidarity on non-discriminatory affirmative action.
About 11 000 members of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) will stage a sympathy demonstration against a Germiston electrical manufacturing plant next week, the union said on Tuesday. The protest will be carried out against the planned retrenchment of 100 workers from Alstom.
<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/41909/10-X-Logo.gif" align=left>A thunderstorm interrupted President Thabo Mbeki’s canvassing for votes in Botshabelo, east of Bloemfontein, on Tuesday afternoon. Mbeki visited Botshabelo, a Bloemfontein suburb with about one million people, in order to canvass for votes for the African National Congress in the upcoming general election.
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At least 29 people were killed in three-way gunfire triggered by an attack on a procession of Shiite Muslims in the southwest Pakistani city of Quetta on Tuesday, a senior official said. The chaos forced authorities to declare a curfew and call in troops.
Officials caught two suspects red-handed in the deadly attacks in Karbala on Tuesday, a security spokesperson said. "They were caught red-handed as they prepared to launch new mortar attacks," said Colonel Zdzislaw Gnatowski. Twin blasts in Karbala and Baghdad killed at least 125 people on Tuesday.
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A team of researchers has reported the discovery of animal fossils more than four million years old in the Galila area of southeastern Ethiopia. The team discovered more than 400 faunal remains, including three ancient hominids, during excavation undertaken in 2003 and early this year.
Zimbabwe’s Daily News is due to challenge the Southern African country’s tough media laws before the Constitutional Court, a lawyer for the paper said on Tuesday. Mordecai Mahlangu said the Daily News, which was shut down by armed police in September, would ”ask for leave to be heard on the constitutional challenge”.