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Monty Panesar captured five wickets on his Ashes debut to help England bowl out Australia for 244 before struggling to 51-2 on the opening day of the third Test on Thursday. The left-arm spinner claimed the scalps of Justin Langer, Andrew Symonds, Adam Gilchrist, Shane Warne and Brett Lee to finish with figures of 5-92.
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/ 14 December 2006
Eritrea is calling for an emergency East African meeting to discuss the situation in Somalia, where it and arch-foe Ethiopia have been accused of waging a proxy war, officials said on Thursday. As all-out war, which many fear could engulf the Horn of Africa, looms in the lawless nation, Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki urged a crisis meeting.
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/ 14 December 2006
The Department of Minerals and Energy and the South African Petroleum Industry Association (SAPIA) gave an assurance on Thursday that there will be adequate fuel supplies for the holiday season. However, SAPIA cautioned that peaks in demand on certain days could result in localised shortages at particular service stations.
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/ 14 December 2006
Tourism officials in the Indian coastal resort state of Goa are having a tough time finding lifeguards after just one candidate out of 129 passed the swimming test, a report said. Only one could swim 400m in the mandatory nine minutes and nearly half could not complete the stretch at all, the <i>Times of India</i> reported under the headline "No Baywatch in Goa: Lifeguards flunk test."
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/ 14 December 2006
African leaders met in Kenya on Thursday to discuss security, governance and economic development in the continent’s troubled Great Lakes region. The impoverished and volatile area, which includes Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and eastern Democratic of Congo, has been mired in violence since Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, which triggered a string of wars and counter-wars.
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/ 14 December 2006
A week-long tuberculosis (TB) blitz in the Northern Cape has shown that patients are not complying with their TB treatment, the provincial health department said on Thursday. The Northern Cape provincial minister for health, Shiwe Selao, visited communities such as Kommagas in Namaqualand and Upington in the Siyanda district during the week-long TB blitz.
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/ 14 December 2006
Veteran Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe, who is due to step down in 2008 after a 28-year rule, has endorsed the idea of his presidency being extended by another two years. In comments published by the state-run Herald newspaper, 82-year-old Mugabe said it would make sense for presidential and parliamentary elections to be held simultaneously.
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/ 14 December 2006
Millions of children across the world will continue to suffer from lack of food, healthcare and education as long as their mothers are forced to live with abusive conditions at home and discrimination in the workplace, according to a major new study released at the United Nations on Monday.
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/ 14 December 2006
In the Mile 46 area of Kajiado in southern Kenya, roads are few and public health facilities sorely lacking. This creates several problems, not least with the immunisation of children against tuberculosis, polio and measles. Now, four mobile clinics in the region are bringing healthcare closer to residents.
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/ 14 December 2006
The long arms of the world’s tallest man saved two dolphins in north-east China by reaching inside them to remove plastic they had swallowed, state media reported on Thursday. The dolphins at an aquarium in Fushun, Liaoning province, had fallen sick after swallowing the plastic from the edge of their pool.