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/ 30 November 2006
<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/291293/aidsday06.gif" align=left>Friday brings another World Aids Day, and while some aspects of the disease are relatively under control in South Africa, the epidemic has created ripple effects of complex issues that go unnoticed. One of these issues is the high rate of depression among HIV/Aids caregivers.
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/ 30 November 2006
<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/291293/aidsday06.gif" align=left>Traditional healers gathered this week under the scorching Limpopo sun in Polokwane on Monday to receive a "speaking book" that is meant to encourage them to combine traditional methods of healing with Western ways of dealing with depression and suicidal patients — especially those living with HIV/Aids.
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/ 30 November 2006
The Mail & Guardian has once again been prevented from publishing a major story — this time by the state. Hours before the M&G print deadline on Thursday, the Office of the State Attorney, on behalf of the Scorpions, warned the newspaper that if it failed to undertake not to publish a story relating to the Selebi-Agliotti scandal, an urgent interdict would be sought.
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/ 30 November 2006
Sweden’s Henrik Stenson took advantage of collapses by Ernie Els and Padraig Harrington to lead the first round of the Nedbank Golf Challenge by one stroke at the Gary Player Country Club course on Thursday. Stenson opened with a bogey free five-under-par 67 to head the field on his debut in the 12-man invitation tournament.
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/ 30 November 2006
Zimbabwe’s finance minister predicted on Thursday marginal economic growth in the coming year and that the country’s four-figure inflation rate would dip to 350% as he presented the budget for 2007. ”The economy is expected to grow marginally by between 0,5% and 1% in 2007,” Herbert Murerwa told MPs in Harare.
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/ 30 November 2006
Pope Benedict visited Istanbul’s Blue Mosque on Thursday during his trip to predominantly Muslim Turkey, becoming only the second Roman Catholic pontiff to ever enter a mosque. The visit was seen as another gesture of reconciliation by the Pontiff after he infuriated much of the Muslim world with comments taken as indicating he believed Islam was violent and irrational.
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/ 30 November 2006
Police in India filed charges on Thursday against 28 suspects over the Mumbai train blasts in July that killed 185 people, and alleged the attacks were linked to Pakistan’s spy agency and militant groups. The police charges claim that Pakistan’s intelligence agency and outlawed pro-Pakistan militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba were behind the blasts.
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/ 30 November 2006
Hundreds of people may have been killed in the heaviest fighting between Sudan’s former north-south foes since they signed a peace deal last year, a senior former rebel officer said on Thursday. United Nations officials in New York said 240 civilian personnel had been temporarily evacuated after the clashes in the southern town of Malakal over the past three days.