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/ 17 December 2006
The increasingly violent power struggle in the Occupied Territories edged closer to civil war on Saturday as Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announced he would call fresh presidential and legislative elections and insisted he had the right to fire the Hamas-led government.
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/ 17 December 2006
Google is on the move. The internet giant has held talks with Orange, the cellphone operator, about a multibillion-dollar partnership to create a "Google phone" that makes it easy to search the web wherever you are. The collaboration is seen as a potential catalyst for making internet use of cellphones as natural as on desktop computers and laptops.
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/ 16 December 2006
India appeared firmly in control of the first Castle Lager Test at the Wanderers on Saturday after bundling South Africa out for their lowest Test score since readmission. At close of play on the second day, India had 146 for five for an overall lead of 311. It was a day of high drama on which Shaun Pollock made history.
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/ 16 December 2006
Australia were on the verge of regaining the Ashes after their batsmen, led by a devastating Adam Gilchrist, smashed England all over the park on day three of the third Test at an oppressively hot Western Australia Cricket Association ground in Perth on Saturday. The Australians declared late in the day at 527 for five.
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/ 16 December 2006
All good fairy tales have a happy ending, as Cinderella Premier Soccer League club Silver Stars discovered when they beat Ajax Cape Town 3-1 in the Telkom Knockout final at Atteridgeville’s Super Stadium on Saturday afternoon and pocketed the record R4,25-million winners’ prize.
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/ 16 December 2006
About 10 000 security agents, including police officers, were deployed on Saturday to ensure the smooth running of presidential primaries of Nigeria’s ruling party, a police spokesperson said. About 5 000 delegates of the People’s Democratic Party were to converge in Abuja to choose their presidential candidate for 2007.
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/ 16 December 2006
Ernie Els and Trevor Immelman head into the weekend of the South African Airways (SAA) Open at Humewood chasing the one-stroke lead of Swede Patrik Sjoland. Sjoland carded a course record 64 for a total of 12 under par and is seeking to become the second Swedish winner of the championship.
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/ 16 December 2006
There was doping. There was a death. There were more medals and more countries than ever before. And there was no stopping the Chinese. Tiny Qatar’s effort to prove that the Arab world is ready to host the Olympics came to a close on Friday as the 15-day Asian Games wrapped up.
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/ 16 December 2006
Officials from Malaysia’s Environment Ministry have scoffed at the existence of mysterious ”Bigfoot” creatures said to be roaming the jungles of southern Johor state, a report said on Saturday. The ministry’s parliamentary secretary said no firm evidence such as droppings or hair from the creature has ever been found.
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/ 16 December 2006
The worst windstorm in more than a decade tore through the north-western United States on Friday, leaving more than a million people without power and killing at least six. Winds gusted to a record 111kph at about 1am on Friday at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, breaking the old mark of 105kph set in 1993.