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/ 30 October 2006
Vote-counting started in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday after the vast, war-scarred state turned out to choose a democratically elected president for the first time in more than four decades. Voting proceeded in a calm manner, with only scattered reports of violence after a tense campaigning period.
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/ 30 October 2006
Santos advanced to the quarterfinals of the Telkom Knockout competition when they beat Jomo Cosmos 1-0 at the Huntersfield Stadium on Sunday afternoon. The teams were locked 0-0 all at half-time. As early as the third minute, Santos striker Jonathan Armogam tested Cosmos goalkeeper Walter Khumalo with a shot that hit the cross bar and back into play.
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/ 30 October 2006
Over 200 people were arrested during an anti-crime operation in Johannesburg, police said on Monday. Inspector Kriban Naidoo said 238 people were arrested in Saturday’s crime sweep that started at 4am, for crimes including rape, armed robbery, housebreaking, shoplifting and assault.
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/ 30 October 2006
Halfway through the group stage, some teams can already start planning their move into the next round of the Champions League. Chelsea are one of five clubs that need only one point to advance to the next phase, but if they are to get there, the English side will have to earn it at defending champions FC Barcelona on Tuesday.
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/ 30 October 2006
Celebrating a landslide re-election, Brazil’s leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva vowed on Sunday to fight for social justice while spurring economic growth. "The poor will take precedence," the self-styled defender of the downtrodden told several thousand jubilant supporters after garnering almost 61% of the vote.
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/ 30 October 2006
Typhoon Cimaron whipped a deadly trail on Monday across the northern Philippines, blowing away houses and triggering landslides and floods that killed at least four people. Hundreds of families were forced to evacuate their homes as Cimaron, one of the strongest typhoons to strike the Philippines in recent years, pounded the northern part of Luzon Island.
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/ 30 October 2006
The crash of a commercial airliner moments after take-off in Abuja left seven survivors and 98 people dead, including the spiritual leader of Nigeria’s Muslims, Nigerian newspapers reported on Monday. Flight 053 from Abuja to Sokoto on ADC airlines was carrying 100 passengers and five crew members on a Boeing 737 when it went down on Sunday in bad weather.
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/ 30 October 2006
A year after the United States narrowly avoided a bruising row with the rest of the world over control of the internet, round two of talks on the web’s future opened in Greece on Monday in a United Nations-sponsored forum on internet governance. Over 1 000 internet experts from 90 countries are participating in the forum, established by the Tunis World Summit on the Information Society.
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/ 30 October 2006
Pakistani helicopter gunships on Monday destroyed an Islamic school used as an al-Qaeda-linked training camp near the Afghan border, killing nearly 80 militants, officials and witnesses said. The strike targeting a madrassa near Khar, the main town in Bajaur tribal agency, was the biggest for months in the restive frontier region.
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/ 30 October 2006
A top Chadian army chief has been killed in fierce fighting between government troops and rebels close to Sudan’s volatile Darfur region, officials said. General Moussa Sougui, the army’s deputy commander in chief, was killed during heavy fighting close to the Sudanese border in eastern Chad, a Defence Ministry statement said late on Sunday.