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/ 13 December 2006
The future of Southern Africa is dependent on governments in the region halting the effects of HIV/Aids and ensuring orphans receive good nutrition, education and care, the United Nations special envoy for humanitarian needs in Southern Africa, James Morris, said on Wednesday. Southern Africa has nine of the ten highest HIV/Aids prevalence rates in the world.
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/ 13 December 2006
The world’s oldest living person, 116-year-old Elizabeth ”Lizzy” Bolden, died on December 11 at the Mid-South Health and Rehabilitation Centre in Memphis, Tennessee, according to her grandson. ”She was always very family-oriented,” said James Bolden, who came from the Philippines last week to visit his grandmother.
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/ 13 December 2006
Augusto Pinochet, who died on December 10 after suffering a heart attack, came to symbolise Latin American military repression and was linked to thousands of cases of torture, abduction and death. He ruled Chile with an iron fist from 1973-1990. Pinochet (91) died without ever standing trial on any charge.
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/ 13 December 2006
Martin Nodell, the creator of Green Lantern, the comic-book superhero who uses his magical ring to help him fight crime, has died. He was 91. Nodell died at his home in Muskego, Wisconsin, on December 9 of natural causes, his son Spencer Nodell said on Tuesday. He previously lived in West Palm Beach.
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/ 13 December 2006
A wildlife worker in Sydney, Australia, pulled a 2m-long python from a septic tank on Wednesday after a plumber found it hiding in a domestic toilet, officials said. Peter Phillips, of the Northern Territory’s Parks and Wildlife Service, was called to remove the snake after a plumber fixing a blocked toilet discovered it curled in the pipes.
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/ 13 December 2006
A car bomb exploded on Wednesday in a busy marketplace close to a mosque in a majority Shi’ite area of Baghdad, killing 10 people and wounding 25, a security official said. The explosion occurred at about 9am local time in the Kamaliyah neighbourhood at the eastern edge of the city, the official said.
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/ 13 December 2006
Zimbabwe’s cash-strapped government is struggling to provide for its army, with most soldiers set to earn salaries far below the breadline next year, according to a report by a special parliamentary committee on defence. Harare has in the past gone out of its way to meet almost every cash request from the Ministry of Defence.
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/ 13 December 2006
Unless affluent Premier Soccer League (PSL) champions Mamelodi Sundowns find their way back on to a path of respectability in their PSL encounter against Benoni United at Atteridgeville’s Super Stadium on Wednesday night, coach Gordon Igesund and his team could find themselves over a barrel.
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/ 13 December 2006
South Africa and Zimbabwe played to a 1-1 draw in the last group-A game in the Metropolitan Cosafa Under-23 Cup at the Itsoseng Stadium in Mafikeng on Tuesday afternoon. Crowd attendance, despite the blazing heat, was better than when the two teams met previously.
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/ 13 December 2006
Wildly excited over the prospect of playing in the World Cup finals on home soil in 2010, prodigal Bafana Bafana son Benni McCarthy seems less enamoured over the prospect of playing in the 2008 African Nations Cup — or helping South Africa get to Ghana in the first place.