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/ 23 November 2006
Guerrilla fighters attacked an Iraqi ministry in central Baghdad on Thursday with mortars and machine guns in one of the most dramatic shows of force by militant groups in the capital since the United States invasion in 2003. A deputy minister in the Shi’ite-run Health Ministry and a police source said about 30 unidentified gunmen were involved.
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/ 23 November 2006
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) will look into establishing a code of conduct to avoid repeating past mistakes. Cosatu secretary general Zwelinzima Vavi and president Willie Madisha said this at a press conference on Thursday following the Cosatu executive’s first meeting since its national congress.
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/ 23 November 2006
North West police shot and wounded a reverend during a search for the man who escaped from Pretoria’s C-Max prison on the weekend. Captain Elsabe Augoustides said on Thursday that the incident happened when police received information about the whereabouts of a man resembling Annanias Mathe (29), who escaped from custody on Saturday.
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/ 23 November 2006
Gay and Lesbian life-partners are entitled to inherit from the intestate estates of their partners just as spouses do, the Constitutional Court ruled on Thursday. The court upheld an earlier ruling by the Pretoria High Court that section 1(1) of the Intestate Succession Act of 1987 was unconstitutional because it excluded homosexual couples.
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/ 23 November 2006
South African Soccer World Cup organisers said on Thursday they had complained to Canberra over suggestions that preparations for the 2010 tournament are in trouble and Australia could fill the breach instead. Danny Jordaan, head of the local organising committee, said that a letter had been sent to the Australian Foreign Ministry over recent remarks by several officials.
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/ 23 November 2006
Migration is an age-old fact of life that governments must accept if they want to manage the flow of job-seekers moving from Africa to Europe, Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi told an Africa-Europe conference on migration. ”Action against nature is like rowing against the stream, which leads to failure,” Gadaffi told African and European interior ministers.
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/ 23 November 2006
Thirty-year-old nurse Rie Wakaume is a camera maker’s dream. About to get married in Italy, Wakaume is ready to splurge on the latest trend in photography — digital SLR cameras — even though she has a perfectly good camera. ”Digital SLRs are now cheaper, smaller and take better pictures,” Wakaume said.
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/ 23 November 2006
The death of a British hostage in Nigeria’s oil-producing south in a shootout between kidnappers and troops raises the stakes for oil workers but is unlikely to change much for the industry. Abductions of oil workers are frequent in the lawless delta but this was the first time a foreign hostage has died.
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/ 23 November 2006
Around 50 soldiers loyal to Congolese former rebel chief Jean-Pierre Bemba were withdrawn from Kinshasa on Thursday after President Joseph Kabila gave an ultimatum for Bemba’s forces to be removed from the city. Diplomats intensified efforts to head off another confrontation between soldiers and supporters of the two rivals, who faced off in a historic presidential run-off vote.
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/ 23 November 2006
The toll in one of Europe’s deadliest mining accidents for years rose to 22 on Thursday, as rescue workers at a southern Polish pit discovered more bodies and hopes faded of finding the remaining missing miner alive. Rescuers who have been battling hellish conditions at the Halemba mine at Ruda Slaska in Poland’s Silesian coalbelt since a methane gas blast on Tuesday found 16 more bodies.