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/ 28 December 2006
The Department of Minerals and Energy announced on Thursday that the price of 91 octane petrol will increase by five cents per litre, while 93 octane will rise by six cents a litre and 95 octane by eight cents a litre. The wholesale price of diesel 0,05% sulphur and 0,005%% sulphur will, however, decrease by 17 cents per litre.
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/ 28 December 2006
Moscow says an anti-Kremlin businessman living in Israel could be behind the radiation poisoning of Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko, but the allegation only further complicates a spectacularly bizarre murder case. The prosecutor general said it had found links between the fatal poisoning of Litvinenko and Leonid Nevzlin, a former executive in the Yukos oil company who fled criminal charges in Russia.
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/ 28 December 2006
Nigerians traded recriminations on Wednesday over who was to blame for the deaths of hundreds of people burned alive in a fuel explosion in the heart of Lagos, the country’s teeming economic capital. Many blamed the government for allowing poverty to reach such depths in Africa’s top oil producing nation that ordinary people were ready to risk their lives for a bucket of petrol.
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/ 28 December 2006
Australia thrashed England by an innings and 99 runs at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Thursday, wrapping up a fourth straight win in the Ashes series with more than two days remaining. Australia secured victory after tea on the third day when they bowled the tourists out for 161 to remain on course for a first 5-0 whitewash over their oldest rivals.
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/ 28 December 2006
Ethiopian and Somali government troops advanced to 30km from Islamist-held Mogadishu on Wednesday, but a representative said they would besiege the Somali capital rather than attack it. ”We are not going to fight for Mogadishu, to avoid civilian casualties. Our troops will surround Mogadishu until they [the Islamists] surrender,” Somali Ambassador Abdikarin Farah told reporters in Addis Ababa.
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/ 28 December 2006
Nine people have been arrested for allegedly using explosives to blow up ATMs, police said on Wednesday. Two were later released. Gauteng police spokesperson Director Govindsamy Mariemuthoo said four suspects were arrested on Christmas day and appeared in court on Wednesday.
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/ 28 December 2006
Gauteng’s matric pass rate has improved by 3% to 78%, the South African Broadcasting Corporation news has reported. The province has also managed a slight increase in exemptions. Twenty-three percent of matric pupils who sat for exams received exemptions.
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/ 28 December 2006
The guards disappear and the steel gate clangs shut, sealing off the outside world, and from the gloom appear men with knives, mobile phones and glazed eyes. They are not in a menacing mood this morning, merely curious, and make no effort to block the path from the ground floor, the main killing zone, to the first-floor wing known as the ”special section”.
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/ 28 December 2006
In what may prove to be the final message from Saddam Hussein before his execution, the ousted dictator urged Iraqis to unite against the United States and Iran and portrayed himself as a potential martyr. On Tuesday, Iraq’s highest court turned down Saddam’s appeal against a death sentence in connection with a mass killing of Shia Muslims in 1982.
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/ 28 December 2006
Gerald Ford, broadly condemned during his brief time in the White House for his decision to pardon Richard Nixon, was lauded on Wednesday for his efforts to heal a divided nation, with United States President George Bush leading tributes to the late president.