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More people have fled their homes in Sudan’s Darfur region than at any time since the conflict started there nearly four years ago, said the United Nations on Monday in a report on the crisis.”The number of IDPs has reached nearly two million, the highest level since the conflict started in 2003 and an increase of some 125 000 since the July 1 report,” said the report.
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/ 28 November 2006
Tobacco-related diseases including cancers and heart disease will kill 6,4-million people a year by 2015, 50% more than than HIV/Aids, a study said on Tuesday. But the HIV/Aids epidemic will be the leading cause of illness and disability in low- and middle-income countries by then and take an increasing number of lives worldwide, it said.
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/ 28 November 2006
A volcano has erupted near the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), spewing lava in an area devastated by a major eruption four years ago. The area around Goma has seen days of clashes between forces loyal to a dissident former general and the DRC’s army that have killed at least three people.
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/ 28 November 2006
Officials in Botswana detained and questioned two Kenyan Okiek hunter-gatherers, Survival International said on Monday. ”They were then questioned for an hour on who they had met, who had invited them, and if they had anything to do with Survival International,” said the organisation’s Miriam Ross in a statement.
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/ 28 November 2006
South African media and entertainment group Naspers on Tuesday reported diluted headline earnings per share of 415 cents for the six months ended September from 337 cents a year ago. Core headline earnings per share increased to 450 cents from 323 cents, while diluted earnings per share declined to 268 cents from 345 cents.
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/ 28 November 2006
South African and London-listed financial services and insurance group Old Mutual on Tuesday reported an adjusted operating profit of £1,058-billion — equating to R12,676-billion — for the nine months to the end of September. This translated into basic earnings per share of 10,4 pence (124,6 cents).
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/ 28 November 2006
Dear Comrade Vavi,
Your article in last week’s Mail & Guardian (”The media must own up to its massive blunder”) will be seen as the view of organised labour on all the issues that you discuss. While this may be the case with many of your statements, some do fill one with concern.
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/ 28 November 2006
Something very, very wrong is happening. I’m flying along the windy, cypress-lined roads of Pebble Beach in California being chased by a hairdryer. Or at least that’s what it sounds like. "Do you drive many high-performance cars?" asks Mike Harrigan, an executive from Tesla motors. He sits in the passenger seat as I take the wheel of his $100 000 vehicle, and he watches over my progress as if the future of the planet depends on this car, writes Dan Glaister.
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/ 28 November 2006
Honda has followed a 4×4 trend in making the new CR-V more of a family wagon than a true off-roader. The third-generation newcomer has a 25mm lower centre of gravity, a 30mm wider rear track, car-like styling and a more luxurious interior. All of this makes sense when you consider that very few of these vehicles are ever going to be called upon to do much serious off-roading.
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/ 28 November 2006
The heads of the United States’s big-three car manu-facturers were granted a long-awaited audience at the White House last week to plead the case for help in overcoming chronic financial problems that have decimated jobs and led to scores of factory closures.