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/ 4 December 2006
Scotland Yard officers are to fly to Russia to interview three businessmen among the last people to have seen Alexander Litvinenko alive before he was given a huge dose of radioactive poison. Detectives of the newly-formed counter-terrorism command may arrive in Moscow as early as Monday to question the trio, as well as two other men who may have met Litvinenko during a visit to London.
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/ 4 December 2006
Globs of rain spat from the slate sky as Echo Company trundled out of the base gates and into the Pech Valley. The supply convoy had dropped early Christmas mail and fresh artillery shells to troops at Camp Blessing, the United States base at the end of the steep-walled valley. Now it was heading home.
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/ 4 December 2006
The Competition Tribunal on Monday confirmed a consent order that imposed a R15-million fine on South African Airways (SAA) for anti-competitive practices, the tribunal said in a statement. The tribunal came to the decision after allegations made by Comair against SAA were investigated by the Competition Commission.
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/ 4 December 2006
Two former South African Defence Force soldiers were arrested for protesting in full military uniform outside the Lenz Military Base near Lenasia on Monday. Another five protesters — some also in camouflage uniform — are thought to have also been arrested when they went on to the base to speak to the commanding officer.
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/ 4 December 2006
Police found about 50 bodies with gunshot wounds in Baghdad over the past day, an Interior Ministry source said on Monday, a day after United Nations chief Kofi Annan declared Iraq’s plight as worse than civil war. Sectarian death squads have made the Iraqi capital a killing field and many of the bodies had been bound and tortured.
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/ 4 December 2006
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) had not envisaged how fast Beijing’s traffic situation would worsen, and are waiting to see the city’s plans for avoiding gridlock during the 2008 Summer Games. Hein Verbruggen, who leads the IOC’s coordination commission for the Beijing games, said the rise in vehicle numbers had taken the IOC by surprise.
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/ 4 December 2006
Arsenal beat Tottenham 3-0 in the Premier League on Saturday to maintain a seven-year unbeaten streak against its north London rival. Emmanuel Adebayor opened the scoring and Gilberto Silva scored from two debated penalties in the first north London derby at Emirates Stadium.
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/ 4 December 2006
South African car makers are set for another record sales year despite a flood of economic data sealing the case for another interest rate hike this week — the fourth this year. Some economists believe that South Africa’s monetary authorities will continue hiking interest rates well into the New Year in a bid to force consumers to tighten their purse strings.
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/ 4 December 2006
Zimbabwe police Commissioner Augustine Chihuri has warned that President Robert Mugabe’s government faces revolt by disgruntled junior security officers following the awarding by Harare of hefty salaries to youths from a controversial national-service training programme.
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/ 4 December 2006
No one will ever know how many Chinese men — and women — were sexually satisfied after taking the American Number One, Male Exclusive, Great Big Brother pills sold by Xi Yongli. When the product was raised in court recently, it was not its potency that was on trial. Rather, it was the legality of using a drug better known as Viagra.