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/ 24 January 2007
An opportunity to foster stability in Somalia after years of war is ”being squandered”, the deputy chairperson of the African Union said in an interview published in the Financial Times on Wednesday. Patrick Mazimhaka also told the paper that there had not yet been any clear commitment from a non-African country to help fund the mission.
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/ 24 January 2007
Protesters bent on toppling Lebanon’s Cabinet blocked roads with blazing tyres on Tuesday, sparking clashes with government loyalists in which police said three people were killed and 133 people hurt. The violence raised the stakes in a campaign by Iranian- and Syrian-backed Hezbollah and its Shi’ite and Christian allies to oust Prime Minister Fouad Siniora’s Western-supported government.
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/ 24 January 2007
United States President George Bush urged a rebellious Congress on Tuesday to give his new Iraq war plan a chance and insisted in his State of the Union speech it is not too late to shape the outcome. Facing sceptical lawmakers and some of the weakest approval ratings of his six years in office, Bush said the best chance for success is to send 21Â 500 more US troops to Iraq.
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/ 24 January 2007
A 26-year-old man was arrested at Cape Town airport on Tuesday evening for saying he had a bomb in a box, police said. ”He had to put a box he was carrying on the X-ray machine and it detected an unusual item,” said national police spokesperson Senior Superintendent Vish Naidoo.
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/ 24 January 2007
The 12-year-old actor Dakota Fanning has become embroiled in the latest tussle between Hollywood and the religious right over a scene in a new film in which she is seemingly raped by a teenager. Hounddog had its premiere on Monday at the Sundance festival of independent films, founded by Robert Redford and held in Park City, Utah.
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/ 24 January 2007
Genetic sleuths have discovered the earliest known trace of Africa’s contribution to the native British gene pool — from a man who lived in northern England in the late 1700s. Launching an analysis of British genetic diversity, scientists recruited 421 men who described themselves as British and analysed their Y chromosome.
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/ 24 January 2007
A Swedish couple who moved to South Africa watched TV news reports in horror as their personal things were plundered from a ship stranded on the south coast of England. Jan and Anita Bokdal shipped household goods valued at R100 000 from Sweden to Cape Town at the beginning of the year on a container ship.
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/ 24 January 2007
Standard Bank’s chief economist, Goolam Ballim, said at the bank’s economic briefing for 2007 on Tuesday that while the economic vista in 2007 would essentially be benign, the political atmosphere could be violent. "This year South Africans will more earnestly agonise over the presidency in 2009," he said.
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/ 24 January 2007
What’s the recipe for success? The Grace’s executive chef will be revealing all at the Good Food and Wine Show, writes Christina Kennedy.
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/ 24 January 2007
Hila Bouzaglou weighs up the options for women-only events.