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Opener Imran Farhat hit an aggressive half-century and paceman Rana Naved-ul-Hasan took 3-37 to help Pakistan beat the West Indies by seven wickets in the third one-day match on Sunday. The dashing left-hander hit five boundaries and two sixes in his 72-ball 58 to help Pakistan achieve a revised target of 191 with eight deliveries to spare and take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the five-match series.
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/ 11 December 2006
A visit by top ranking South Afr5ican National Defence Force officers to Sudan as part of a goodwill visit to South African troops deployed beyond the country’s borders had to be cancelled when the group was refused entry into Sudan. The group was told on Monday they will only get to visit troops deployed in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Burundi.
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/ 11 December 2006
Iran opened a conference on Monday to examine the Holocaust and question whether Nazi Germany used gas chambers to kill Jews, drawing condemnation in the West and criticism from Iran’s Jewish community. Jewish rabbis were present at the government-sponsored event, Review of the Holocaust: Global Vision, alongside academics from Europe.
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/ 11 December 2006
A United Nations mission to be led by South Africa’s Desmond Tutu to probe last month’s deaths of 19 civilians in Gaza under Israeli shelling has been called off because Israel did not authorise the trip, a spokesperson said on Monday. The Nobel Peace laureate had other engagements and could not wait any longer for Israeli permission, she added.
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/ 11 December 2006
The JSE was in positive territory just before midday on Monday, encouraged by stronger world markets. The market was quiet, however, with value traded hovering around the R1,5-billion mark. By 11.50am, the all-share index added 0,36%. Industrials and financials firmed 0,62% and 0,75% respectively.
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/ 11 December 2006
Strolling through his orange groves, deep in the heart of Florida, farmer Frank Hunt permits himself a cautious smile. The commodity price of his fruit is at a 16-year high — and the cost of a carton of juice on supermarket shelves is rocketing around the world.
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/ 11 December 2006
The owner of the bookshop in the centre of the small Belgian town of Mouscron would be best advised to keep her head down for a while. For a few hours on Friday night, 29 of her friends thought they had won the best part of â,¬27-million (about R191-million) when their syndicate’s numbers came up in the EuroMillions jackpot draw.
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/ 11 December 2006
Burkina Faso launched an effort on Sunday to offer identity cards to hundreds of women chased from their village for alleged witchcraft and often forced to live on society’s periphery in abject poverty. ”We are here to tell them, you are citizens,” Burkinabe Human Rights Minister Monique Ilboudo told the country’s TNB public television station.
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/ 11 December 2006
Madagascar’s incumbent president, Marc Ravalomanana, has been re-elected with 54,8% of the votes, provisional Interior Ministry figures showed on Sunday with all first-round ballots counted. Ravalomanana took 2 430 489 of the votes cast in the first round of the presidential poll across the large Indian Ocean island.
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/ 11 December 2006
Still severely malnourished from a searing drought that struck East Africa last year, thousands of children in the impoverished, lawless nation of Somalia now bear the brunt of devastating floods that have hit the region. Already, the worst floods in 50 years, the crocodiles they have unleashed and waterborne disease have killed about 120 people.