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/ 15 December 2006
It’s no secret that Italians are passionate people — they’re passionate about their food, their family, their culture and, most importantly, their cars. They are proud to the point of obstinance — try to disagree with Italians about anything that has come out of their country (including the Mafia) and they’ll argue with you until you give up out of sheer exasperation.
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/ 15 December 2006
Botswana’s government on Thursday grudgingly accepted a High Court order to allow the country’s last hunter-gatherers to live in their ancestral lands in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, but attached tough conditions likely to frustrate the return. The court on Wednesday said the Basarwa were wrongly forced off the land.
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/ 15 December 2006
For a brief moment on Wednesday night it appeared that Belgium had disappeared. The main French-language television station hoodwinked the country into thinking that it had split in two when it reported that Flanders had issued a unilateral declaration of independence.
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/ 15 December 2006
According to several informants, the Scorpions recently put questions to police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi in connection with the broader investigation surrounding Glenn Agliotti, the alleged crime kingpin charged with Brett Kebble’s murder. The broader investigation is a multinational probe into criminal syndicates and the alleged involvement of senior police officers.
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/ 15 December 2006
Hundreds of civilians were reported to be fleeing their homes in central Somalia on Thursday as the prospect of a war between Islamist militants and government forces, backed by Ethiopian troops and artillery, appeared to draw closer. The exodus was under way in the area around Baidoa.
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/ 15 December 2006
The Scorpions’ strategy of taking down the conspirators in the Brett Kebble murder one at a time bore further fruit this week when Glenn Agliotti confirmed his role in the killing, while dubbing it an "assisted suicide". It appears that Agliotti has now joined Kebble’s former security boss Clinton Nassif and others as a state informant.
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/ 15 December 2006
"He was the tungsten tip of the drill bit, and Kebble was the great, flabby weight behind it." That’s how one Brett Kebble associate who dealt with John Stratton described the man who was regarded as Kebble’s right-hand man and the nearest thing the mining magnate had to a friend.
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/ 15 December 2006
The price of uranium has quietly, in a behind-the-scenes kind of way, soared elevenfold since 2000, having reached $63 a pound from about $7 previously, according to uranium industry watchers UX Consulting. Analysts believe it could reach $70 a pound next year. The metal is not traded on the open market and only spot prices are available.
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/ 15 December 2006
The Basilica San Paolo, also known as St Paul’s Outside the Walls, slumbers in marble splendour in an attractively shabby southern suburb of Rome. Graffiti-illuminated trains rattle and roar past its imposing cloister walls, and elderly harpies in heels goad tiny, furry martyrs resentful motion across the wide common at its rear that runs down towards the Tiber.
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/ 15 December 2006
The Botswana High Court’s ruling in favour of the Bushmen who were forcibly removed from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, means that more than 1Â 000 displaced people can return immediately to their ancestral land. "It is their constitutional right to go back as soon as they like," said lawyer Gordon Bennett, who represented 239 applicants in the matter.