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/ 12 December 2006
The forecast of a spin-friendly Western Australian Cricket Association (Waca) wicket could see champion Australian leg-spinner Shane Warne become the first bowler to claim 700 Test wickets during the third Ashes Test. After his fifth day heroics in Adelaide, Warne is poised on 694 Test wickets.
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/ 12 December 2006
Nigeria, which will on Thursday host its first-ever meeting of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, is a paradox: the country ranks sixth among the world’s oil producers and yet remains mired in poverty. Africa’s most populous nation, with its 130-million inhabitants, produces 2,6-million barrels of oil per day.
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/ 12 December 2006
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has written to Presidency Director General Frank Chikane, asking him what progress has been made in updating the draft presidential handbook following Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka’s recent multimillion-rand flight to the United Kingdom in a hired Swiss jet.
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/ 12 December 2006
There is no change in the status of the four South Africans who were kidnapped in northern Baghdad, Iraq, on Sunday, the Department of Foreign Affairs said on Tuesday morning. At this stage it is not yet known who kidnapped them as no demands have been made, said spokesperson Ronnie Mamoepa.
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/ 12 December 2006
Iran’s President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, faced an unprecedented outburst of public opposition on Monday from student demonstrators who burned his picture and chanted ”Death to the dictator”. In the first sign of open dissent since he took office last year, dozens of activists shouted abuse and set off firecrackers.
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/ 12 December 2006
An international cast of established Holocaust deniers and implacable foes of Israel were given an open forum by Iran on Monday at a two-day conference, Review of the Holocaust: Global Vision, to support President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s contention that the murder of six million Jews by the Nazis was a ”myth”.
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/ 12 December 2006
A puppy chewed off four of a baby girl’s toes next to her sleeping parents, who were then booked on charges of child desertion and criminal negligence, police said. The parents, of Bossier City, Louisiana, told police they woke to the baby’s cries on Sunday and found her mangled foot.
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/ 12 December 2006
South African Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu on Monday sharply criticised Israel’s failure to cooperate with a United Nations human rights fact-finding mission into the killing of 19 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Tutu confirmed that Israeli authorities had effectively thwarted the mission by failing to grant travel visas in time.
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/ 12 December 2006
Christmas came early on Monday for a group of 35 South African Air Force soldiers based in Kamina in the south-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). They were the first group to be visited by top-ranking officers from the South African National Defence Force who are on a goodwill tour.
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/ 12 December 2006
Thousands of people have been displaced by about a week of heavy flooding in the north-western Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), United Nations and government officials said on Monday. Many houses were washed away, while some in low-lying areas were completely inundated, a local official said.