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/ 17 November 2006

Tornado kills eight in US riverside community

A tornado flipped cars, shredded trees and ripped mobile homes to pieces in the little riverside community of Riegelwood, North Carolina, early on Thursday, killing at least eight people, authorities said. The disaster brought the two-day death toll from a devastating line of thunderstorms that swept across the United States South to 12.

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/ 17 November 2006

Wrong turn on water rights

A fortnight ago, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) launched its Human Development Report 2006 in Cape Town — a diabolically appropriate choice. South Africa is apparently considered the UNDP’s ideal setting — and maybe deservedly so — for what might be called ”talk left” policies accompanied by ”turn right” practices: turning the tap off, that is to say.

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/ 17 November 2006

Chad readies troops to help Central African Republic

Chad announced plans on Friday to send troops to help its southern neighbour Central African Republic and confront what it said was a widening regional war waged by Sudan from its violent Darfur region. The announcement signalled an escalation of the Darfur conflict, which has increasingly been spilling over Sudan’s western borders into Chad and the Central African Republic.

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/ 17 November 2006

School violence rears its ugly head

A grade eight pupil is to appear in the Frankfort Magistrate’s Court on Friday for allegedly stabbing a classmate, Free State police said. Following the incident on Tuesday at 8am, police arrested an 18-year-old pupil at the Reseng Thabo High School in Tweeling, said Captain Hennie Labuschagne. The victim was in the classroom together with his classmates.

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/ 17 November 2006

Gandalf, meet Adidas and Harry Potter

Britney, Tiger, Gandalf and Madonna will soon join the more usual Peters and Janes in Britain’s playgrounds, while Harry Potter may also drop in, according to a new survey of babies’ names. Other newly fashionable choices include Snoop, after the United States rap star, who may end up hanging out with Reebok and Adidas.