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/ 29 November 2006
The chief judge in Saddam Hussein’s trial on Wednesday ordered a defence lawyer to be jailed for a day for ”insulting the court”. Saddam and six co-defendants are on trial for the so-called Anfal or ”Spoils of War” military campaign against ethnic Kurds in 1988 which prosecutors say killed up to 180 000 people.
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/ 29 November 2006
Police were still on the site of an old hotel in the Strand where explosives and ammunition were seized, said Western Cape police on Wednesday. ”They are still on the scene. They are still searching …,” said Inspector Bernadine Steyn. ”Several civil commercial explosives as well as ammunition were found stored in boxes,” said Steyn.
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/ 29 November 2006
The Zambian government has overturned a police ban on planned nationwide rallies by the main opposition party, the country’s solicitor general said on Wednesday. Sunday Nkonde said the police had no powers to stop the rallies due to be addressed by Patriotic Party leader Michael Sata, who lost to President Levy Mwanawasa in recent elections.
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/ 29 November 2006
Former India captain Saurav Ganguly is likely to be recalled for next month’s Test series in South Africa when the selection committee meets in New Delhi on Thursday. The move has been prompted by uncertainty over skipper Rahul Dravid’s fitness for the opening Test in Johannesburg due to a finger injury and a string of poor batting displays by the team in one-day cricket.
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/ 29 November 2006
Zimbabwe’s embattled government will present its annual budget this week with a traditional prayer for salvation, but analysts say the plan is unlikely to ease a crisis savaging the economy. Finance Minister Herbert Murerwa will unveil the 2007 budget in Parliament on Thursday for an economy that has shrunk 40% in the last six years.
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/ 29 November 2006
Demand for credit by South Africa’s private sector soared by a record 27,48% in the year to October, beating forecasts and rendering another interest rate rise this year virtually certain. Analysts said although the central bank’s rate hike campaign is likely to start dampening growth eventually, current rate levels are still too low to cool mortgage borrowing.
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/ 29 November 2006
The Asian Games has been hit by a chickenpox outbreak amongst the Maldives team but organisers insist that the problem will not affect the 10 000 athletes taking part. The disease hit three members of the Indian Ocean island’s volleyball squad.
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/ 29 November 2006
Wayward fast bowler Steve Harmison lingered under a stay of execution on Wednesday as England gravely weighed their bowling options ahead of the second Ashes cricket Test against Australia, starting at the Adelaide Oval on Friday. England have been able to make only running repairs, mental and physical, since Monday when Australia completed a 277-run first Test win.
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/ 29 November 2006
Andy Robinson was still in his post as coach of the England rugby team on Tuesday with the Rugby Football Union (RFU) refusing to confirm reports throughout the British media that he had resigned. An RFU spokesperson reiterated that a review, which started on Monday, into world champions England’s November home international programme, was continuing.
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/ 29 November 2006
Matthew Hayden has warned England’s batsmen they face a torrid examination from master leg-spinner Shane Warne on a cracking Adelaide Oval pitch in Friday’s second Ashes Test. Opening batsman Hayden, who regularly stands at slip when Warne comes into the attack, believes he will be particularly tough work for the left-handers, Andrew Strauss and Alastair Cook, out of the foot marks late in the Test.