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/ 13 November 2006
Zimbabwe’s troubled national carrier has managed to settle a ,8-million debt owed to a navigation agency and will resume flights to London later this week, reports said on Monday. Air Zimbabwe abruptly halted flights to London last week over fears its plane would be impounded over the unpaid debt.
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/ 13 November 2006
Lebanon’s political crisis deepened on Monday as the last pro-Syrian minister quit the Cabinet shortly before it met to discuss the framework of a special court to try killers of a former prime minister. The anti-Syrian majority coalition has accused Hezbollah of carrying out a Syrian-Iranian plan to overthrow the Western-backed government.
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/ 13 November 2006
A judge began hearing a closed-door legal challenge on Monday to pop star Madonna’s bid to adopt a baby boy from Malawi. The Human Rights Consultative Committee claims the government broke its own laws by granting an 18-month interim adoption order which has allowed the singer to bring up David Banda outside Malawi.
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/ 13 November 2006
Canadian rock band Nickelback’s South African tour, which had been due to kick off on November 25, has been postponed due to the band members’ ”chronic exhaustion” following an extensive American and European tour, promoter Kusasa South Africa said on Monday.
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/ 13 November 2006
First there was On Bullshit, a slim philosophical treatise whose phenomenal success took the publishing industry by surprise. And now there is On Truth, a sequel to On Bullshit that its author, Princeton University philosophy professor Harry Frankfurt, says is meant to plug an analytical gap in his first book.
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/ 13 November 2006
Egypt are hoping Tottenham Hotspur striker Mido recovers in time from a knee injury to play against South Africa in London on Wednesday. The forward, who did not play against Reading in the English premier league on Sunday, has been named in a 20-man squad for the match at Griffin Park.
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/ 13 November 2006
South African cellular operator Vodacom estimates that the South African market will reach 48-million by 2012. Speaking at the presentation of the group’s interim results on Monday, CEO Alan Knott-Craig said Vodacom is strategically placed for continued market leadership.
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/ 13 November 2006
South African integrated media group Moneyweb Holdings on Monday reported fully diluted headline earnings per share of 0,54 cents for the six months ended on September 30 — unchanged from the previous comparable period. Fully diluted earnings per share were at 0,55 cents compared with 0,03 cents last year.
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/ 13 November 2006
Marginalised communities attending a United Nations conference on climate change being held in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, have given accounts of how their lives are being altered for the worse — something they blame on climate change. ”We are almost being left as climate refugees,” an Indian delegate told journalists.
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/ 13 November 2006
Telkom said on Monday it is confident of achieving ADSL penetration of 15% to 20% of fixed access lines by 2010. Telkom CEO Papi Molotsane said ADSL adoption in the consumer and small and medium business segment had increased in the 2006 interim period to 190 172 customers.