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Shivering under a tattered blanket, a young woman tries to sleep at the foot of the mist-shrouded Entoto Mountain, north of the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. ”I decided to come to Entoto to seek a cure from the holy water after a doctor told me that I am HIV-positive,” Abebech Alemu (35) said.
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A haunting tune plays from a radio at a crowded flea market behind Zambia’s main business district, accompanied by a baritone voice urging Africa to rise up against Aids. ”That’s KK, it’s very nice, very moving,” a trader says of the song released by Zambia’s former president Kenneth Kaunda.
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The United States Embassy in Argentina rejected reports that it had told President George Bush’s twin daughters to leave the country after a widely publicised purse-snatching incident. ABC News reported that embassy officials had ”strongly suggested” that the twins cut short their visit to due to security concerns.
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The prestigious United States journal Science will tighten safeguards to
prevent a repeat of the 2005 episode when it was forced to retract fraudulent stem-cell research by a South Korean scientist, the magazine’s editor said. Editor Donald Kennedy said on Tuesday that he accepted the conclusions of a panel looking into the fiasco and vowed to elaborate new rules to prevent such fraud.
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The suspension and ”golden handshake” for former Eastern Cape Treasury superintendent-general Monde Tom cost R4-million, the Public Service Accountability Monitor said on Wednesday. Tom’s 15 month suspension and confidential settlement package were revealed in the Auditor General’s report on the treasury’s 2005/06 annual financial statements.
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A strong undersea earthquake struck near the Moluccas islands in northern Indonesia on Wednesday, the United States Geological Survey said on its website, but there were no reports of a tsunami or casualties. The agency put the strength of the quake, which struck at 10.32am (1.32am GMT), at a magnitude of 6,1.
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Rapper Snoop Dogg was arrested for investigation of illegally possessing a handgun and drugs as he left NBC Studios after performing on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, police said. The 35-year-old rapper and two members of his entourage were arrested around 6pm on Tuesday after a search of his Diamond Bar home and car, Sergeant Kevin Grandalski said.
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Beijing Olympics organisers are selling over half the tickets for the 2008 Games at less than each to allow as many people as possible a chance to attend the event. Tickets to competition events would be priced from 30 to 1 000 yuan (,85 to ), with preliminary sessions starting from 30 yuan and finals tickets costing 60 yuan.
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The Catholic Church has told the Kenyan government to ban the advertisement and distribution of condoms ahead of World Aids Day.
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South Africa will unveil a new plan aimed at fighting its HIV/Aids crisis on Friday, seeking to calm bitter debate. South Africa’s Aids battle has been two-fold, with doctors and community groups struggling to help an estimated five million people infected with the virus and government officials fending off critics.