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France is to aid the Central African Republic’s (CAR) army with logistics and aerial reconnaissance in its fight against rebels in the north-east of the country, the French Foreign Ministry said on Monday. ”Our help will consist essentially of logistic support and providing intelligence,” a spokesperson said.
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/ 13 November 2006
Nineteen people were killed and 12 injured in an accident involving a train and a truck at a railway crossing near Somerset West in the Western Cape, Metrorail confirmed on Monday afternoon. Earlier reports had quoted a Netcare 911 spokesperson as saying that 27 people had died in the accident.
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/ 13 November 2006
Australian scientists have invented a T-shirt that allows air guitarists to play actual music as they strum the air. The T-shirt, created by scientists from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, is called a ”wearable instrument shirt”.
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/ 13 November 2006
No matter how busy he gets, cocoa farmer Simon Afram never keeps his children home from school to work on his farm. ”If you don’t let a child go to school, it will spoil his future,” Afram said. ”I don’t want them to become farmers and suffer like me.”
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/ 13 November 2006
Kenalemang Moitsheki squints through an eyepiece at a tiny diamond as a cutting tool etches heart-shaped facets on the gem. Moitsheki had never seen a raw diamond before she secured a training place at Botswana’s new Eurostar cutting factory, even though her country produces a quarter of global supply.
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/ 13 November 2006
Diabetes poses a deadly threat to indigenous people across Asia, the Pacific and the Americas as Western lifestyles and diets replace traditional habits, medical experts warned on Monday. Professor Martin Silink, head of the Brussels-based International Diabetes Foundation, said indigenous people had a greater genetic risk of contracting Type 2 diabetes.
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/ 13 November 2006
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) on Monday distanced itself from a <i>Sunday Times</i> report that the Scorpions were in possession of a diary linking police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi to Glenn Agliotti. Spokesperson Makhosini Nkosi said the report was written in a "dishonest way".
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/ 13 November 2006
Former African National Congress chief whip and fraud convict Tony Yengeni will be hauled before a Correctional Services Department hearing for his alleged breach of the parole code of conduct. Yengeni, who was granted parole for the past weekend, is being investigated following claims he contravened the code of conduct.
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/ 13 November 2006
South Africa on Monday sought to deflect criticism that it is dragging its feet on the roll-out of Aids drugs, saying about 60Â 000 people have been added to the programme in the past year. The Health Ministry also defended controversial Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang.
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/ 13 November 2006
The search for four crew members of a supply tug that went missing on the KwaZulu-Natal coast last week will continue indefinitely, the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) said on Monday. ”We’re not speculating that the crew may have drowned,” said NSRI spokesperson Craig Lambinon.