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/ 23 December 2006
Festive-season travellers are paranoid about losing their luggage and many take insurance to cover this. But few of them realise how expensive it could be if one gets ill when travelling abroad. Medical cover can cost you as little as R230 for a two-week holiday, which will pay out up to R7,5-million in medical costs.
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/ 23 December 2006
A motley group of about 20 Mozambican men and women eyed each other tentatively as they met for the first time to discuss how they could jointly fight HIV/Aids. On one side of the table were doctors, nurses and counsellors. On the other side sat traditional healers, or cureindeiros as they are known in Mozambique.
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/ 23 December 2006
As the countdown to the 2007 World Social Forum gains momentum, anti-globalisation activists from around the world are no doubt rolling up their sleeves for spirited debates on the flaws in the current economic order. In Cameroon, however, such debates are already under way.
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/ 23 December 2006
The cholera epidemic that has plagued Angola for nearly a year has placed the spotlight on the continuing lack of safe drinking water in that country. This seems strange in a country with the fastest-growing economy in Africa and one of the fastest-growing economies in the world.
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/ 23 December 2006
Ocean levels will rise faster than expected if greenhouse-gas emissions continue to rise, a leading German researcher warns. Using Nasa data, Stefan Rahmstorf, professor of physics of the oceans at the University of Potsdam near Berlin, estimates that the sea level could rise by 140cm by 2100.
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/ 22 December 2006
It was the sight of a gunman hitting his wife and threatening to do worse that drove a 64-year-old to turn on his attackers and probably save the lives of eight people, the Star reported on Friday. And this despite him being shot twice. On Friday morning, Neville Huxham was in the intensive care unit at the Milpark Hospital.
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/ 22 December 2006
Ethiopian tanks rolled to the battlefront on Friday as Somali Islamists and Somalia’s pro-government troops pounded each other with artillery and rockets in a fourth day of clashes edging closer to all-out war. The Islamists said they would send ground troops to attack en masse on Saturday, ast opposed o fighting from a distance with heavy weapons as the two sides have done so far.
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/ 22 December 2006
The Rating and Investment Information rating agency from Japan has upgraded the Republic of South Africa’s foreign currency long-term rating to A- (A minus) with a stable outlook (upgraded from stable BBB+), South Africa’s National Treasury announced on Friday.
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/ 22 December 2006
Pope Benedict spoke out on Friday against legal recognition for unmarried couples and ”dismal theories” on the rights of gays to marry, which he said stripped men and women of their innate sexual identity. ”I cannot hide my concern about legislation on de facto couples,” the pope said in a Christmas address to the Rome clergy.
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/ 22 December 2006
Rebels in Sudan’s western Darfur region said on Friday they had downed two helicopters and killed 13 Sudanese officers, and denied that 200 members of their movement had died in a government attack. ”The Sudan Liberation Movement and its allies categorically deny information put out by the Sudanese army on Thursday,” the rebel movement said in a statement.