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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.
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/ 13 November 2006
United Nations humanitarian chief Jan Egeland held a dramatic jungle meeting with the leader of the rebel Ugandan Lord’s Resistance Army on Sunday but failed to secure the release of women and children. Joseph Kony, an elusive self-proclaimed mystic, emerged with an entourage of heavily armed young men from dense forest on the border between Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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/ 13 November 2006
The granting of a weekend pass by the Correctional Services department to fraud convict and former parliamentary African National Congress (ANC) chief whip Tony Yengeni "sends the wrong message about corruption to the South African public", says Democratic Alliance correctional services spokesperson James Selfe.
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/ 13 November 2006
Five years ago today the Taliban vanished from Kabul and a liberated city exploded with joy. As the turbaned Islamists scurried, whooping residents rushed on to the streets. Men queued to have their beards shaved, some women removed their burkas and Radio Kabul played music for the first time in years.
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/ 13 November 2006
The Wallabies have been heavily criticised by coach John Connolly and sections of the Australian media despite recording their first win on foreign soil this year, 25-18 over Italy in Rome on Saturday. Connolly said his team’s performance was their worst effort since he took charge at the start of this year while Australia’s newspapers described the side’s display as woeful.
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/ 13 November 2006
The real champion? Not yet. But close. Wladimir Klitschko’s seventh-round knockout of Calvin Brock on Saturday made for an impressive first defence of the IBF title he took from Chris Byrd in April. Now Klitschko has his sights on the other three heavyweight champions: Shannon Briggs, Nicolay Valuev and Oleg Maskaev.
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/ 13 November 2006
The Zimbabwe government has directed the country’s largest journalism training school to accept only students who have completed a controversial national youth-service training programme — blamed by critics for brainwashing youths into zealots of President Robert Mugabe’s ruling Zanu-PF party.
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/ 13 November 2006
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has called for the resignation of the five Supreme Court of Appeal judges who turned down Schabir Shaik’s appeal. Cosatu said the five misrepresented the findings of the trial judge and damaged African National Congress deputy president Jacob Zuma.
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/ 13 November 2006
Carlo Scott scored a brace to place Bloemfontein Celtic in fourth place in the Castle Premiership log table when they beat Amazulu 3-1 at the Princess Magogo Stadium on Sunday afternoon. The first goal was scored by Amazulu in the second minute by Benedict Chenene.