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/ 19 December 2006
Some of rock ‘n’ roll’s biggest names have teamed up to sue the owner of a website that specialises in streaming rare concert recordings. Wolfgang’s Vault offers thousands of recordings of rare audio and video music performances collected over 30 years by Bill Graham, a famous concert promoter who died in 1991.
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/ 19 December 2006
Dozens of new species of animals and plants including a catfish with protruding teeth and a tree frog with striking bright green eyes have been found in the past year in the forests of Borneo, a WWF report said on Tuesday. The discoveries include 30 unique fish species, two tree frog species, 16 ginger species, three tree species and one large-leafed plant species.
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/ 19 December 2006
One thousand balloons were released on Tuesday by the Solidarity Youth Movement on top of a hill in the administrative capital of Pretoria ”to symbolise the plea of head boys and girls from schools across the country to be exempted from affirmative action”. The movement announced that it was planning a campaign in 2007 that will include music concerts and petitions to Parliament.
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/ 19 December 2006
Bulgaria condemned death sentences imposed by a Libyan court on Tuesday on five of its nationals and a Palestinian doctor found guilty of deliberately infecting hundreds of children with the deadly HI virus. Sofia demanded Libya’s leadership intervene in the case and called on the international community to put pressure on the North African state.
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/ 19 December 2006
The South African Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu) has rejected claims that low-paid teachers are resorting to prostitution to supplement their salaries. ”While it is true that many teachers are paid low salaries, the union refutes the implication that low-paid teachers are becoming prostitutes to augment their salaries,” Sadtu president Willie Madisha said on Tuesday.
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/ 19 December 2006
South Africans are witnessing the destruction of the country’s pharmaceutical services, the United South African Pharmacies (Usap) charged on Tuesday. The Health Department’s new medicine-pricing regulations are ”inherently flawed” and will have a ”disastrous” effect when they came into effect in January, claimed Usap chairperson Julia Solomon.
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/ 19 December 2006
Russia’s foreign minister said on Tuesday a new draft United Nations Security Council resolution on Iran over its nuclear programme largely met Moscow’s concerns and could become the basis of a consensus decision. ”The new resolution … has to a large extent taken into account our approaches,” Sergei Lavrov said in an interview.
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/ 19 December 2006
Aids-stricken Southern African nations should develop a policy of mass male circumcision to fight the disease, the head of the United Nations anti-Aids agency (UNAids) said on Tuesday. Several recent medical studies have reported circumcision cuts the risk of HIV infection among men by 50% to 60%, and the findings have been backed by UNAids.
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/ 19 December 2006
The Cape Flats aquifer, which has the potential to supply Cape Town with billions of litres of fresh water a year, is under growing threat from chemical pollution, say experts. The chemicals, among others, that have found their way down into the water-bearing rock include nitrates from human waste, cyanide from industry and pesticides sprayed by local farmers.
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/ 19 December 2006
Prosecutors in Saddam Hussein’s trial for genocide against ethnic Kurds showed graphic footage on Tuesday of dead civilians, including infants, allegedly killed in chemical attacks on their villages. Chief prosecutor Munqith al-Faroon also showed the court a memo that praised a Dutch businessman for supplying Baghdad with banned chemical weapons.