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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned on Monday that Iran will respond to any action against its nuclear activities amid growing signs of a consensus on United Nations Security Council sanctions against Iran. ”From now on, considering your insistence on confronting the Iranian nation, we consider this move of yours as hostile and will act accordingly,” Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying.
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/ 11 December 2006
A number of officials have been deployed at border posts across the country to ensure efficient cross-border operations during the festive season, the government said in a statement on Monday. Among them are police officers and additional immigration and customs personnel to help with extended hours of operation.
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/ 11 December 2006
Leading figures in Durban and KwaZulu-Natal were doing their best on Monday to limit damage to the city’s image following the rape of a French swimming official. As Durban’s mayor Obed Mlaba staged a walkabout on the city’s beach promenade on Monday morning, local newspaper posters told of the French woman’s ordeal.
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/ 11 December 2006
South Africa’ motor industry is expected to increase its trading revenue to R230-billion this year compared with R201,7-billion last year, an industry representative body said on Monday. In its annual report, the National Association of Automobile Manufactures of South Africa said the revenue was on the projected total sales of 714Â 500 vehicles — an improvement of 15,7% on 2005 sales figures.
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/ 11 December 2006
The Netherlands ceased transmission of ”free to air” analogue television on Monday, becoming the first nation to switch completely to digital signals through its ether. Few consumers noticed the difference, as the overwhelming majority of Dutch get TV via cable.
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/ 11 December 2006
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said on Monday his for-profit company, Wikia, is ready to give away — for free — all the software, computing, storage and network access that website builders need to create community collaboration sites. Wikia, a commercial counterpart to the non-profit Wikipedia, will go even further to provide customers with 100% of any advertising revenue from the sites they build.
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/ 11 December 2006
European Union foreign ministers wrangled on Monday over how hard to penalise Turkey for failing to normalise trade with Cyprus at the start of a week that could derail Ankara’s troubled entry negotiations. EU countries are split between some who would shed no tears if talks collapsed and others who say Europe must embrace a key strategic partner to bridge the Western and Islamic worlds.
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/ 11 December 2006
Charl Schwartzel heads to Humewood in Port Elizabeth for this week’s South African Airways (SAA) Open determined to claim the victory that eluded him last week and continue his quest for a place in next year’s United States Masters. The 22-year-old lost to Spain’s Alvaro Quiros on the final hole of last week’s Alfred Dunhill Championship at Leopard Creek.
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/ 11 December 2006
A Botswana court will decide this week whether hundreds of San Bushmen can return to their ancestral land in a dispute activists say pits Africa’s last hunter-gatherers against the world’s hunger for diamonds. The Bushmen say Botswana illegally forced them off hunting grounds in the Kalahari Desert to make way for diamond mining.
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/ 11 December 2006
Typhoon Utor departed the central Philippines overnight, leaving five people dead, 20 missing, nearly 90 000 evacuated and two key regional summits in disarray, officials said on Monday. The mass evacuations were ordered to avoid a repeat of the devastation of Typhoon Durian a week earlier.