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/ 5 December 2006

Wenger denies Henry rift

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger insisted on Monday there was no rift between himself and captain Thierry Henry. Henry, who faces several weeks on the sidelines with a sciatic nerve problem, was reported to have stormed out of training on Friday after learning he would not play against Tottenham.

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/ 5 December 2006

Yard’s murder investigators face extradition obstacle

The polonium-210 poisoner who claimed the life of the former spy Alexander Litvinenko may never face British justice because Russian citizens cannot be extradited to stand trial. As a team of Scotland Yard detectives touched down at Moscow’s Domodedovo airport on Monday night to interview a series of possible witnesses, the scale of the judicial and political problems which they are likely to face was becoming clear.

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/ 5 December 2006

Swedish pensioner’s epic voyage in homemade yacht

The adventure would not be out of place in an anthology of ancient tales of foolhardy mariners. A pensioner who set sail for the Caribbean in a homemade boat because he liked pictures of the tropical islands has reached his destination after overcoming violent storms, shipwrecks, burglary, severe damage to his vessel and eight months marooned in Norfolk.

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/ 5 December 2006

Everydog trots back with Disney shorts revival

The Goof, as Walt Disney called him, is back. Nearly 50 years after Disney shifted focus from short cartoons to feature-length animation, the company has decided to return to the form. The first short will be a reprise of the "how to" series popular in the 40s and 50s in which Goofy plays the American Everydog, befuddled by the complexities of modern life.

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/ 5 December 2006

Good governance needed to deal with Aids

Good governance in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) was the key to dealing with HIV/Aids, Judge Edwin Cameron said on Monday. ”Where there are human rights abuse, we cannot deal properly with Aids,” Cameron said in Johannesburg at the launch of the Aids Rights Alliance for Southern Africa’s report.

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/ 5 December 2006

Fiji military stages coup, fourth in 20 years

Fiji’s military chief said on Tuesday the army had taken over the country, plunging the South Pacific island nation into its fourth coup in 20 years. ”As of six o’clock this evening the military has taken over the running of the government and the country,” Commander Frank Bainimarama told a news conference in Suva, the capital.

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/ 5 December 2006

Don’t wear fake clothes overseas, Chinese told

A Chinese province has banned its tourists from wearing counterfeit clothes overseas to avoid flagrant abuse of intellectual property rights and to protect its image, local media said on Tuesday. The government in the north-eastern province of Jilin had also banned carrying or sending pirated goods, including CDs and DVDs, overseas.

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/ 5 December 2006

Aid arrives for mudslide survivors

The first foreign aid flights of food and medicines arrived on Tuesday in the eastern Philippines, where officials said devastating mudslides have left more than 1 080 people dead or missing. The devastating torrents of mud and volcanic ash triggered by typhoon rains swallowed entire villages near Mount Mayon volcano last Thursday.