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/ 25 November 2006
Chadian rebels attacked the eastern regional capital of Abeche on Saturday in their latest strike against President Idriss Déby Itno’s rule, but government forces said they had withdrawn and surrounded the town. Chad’s chief of staff said in a statement it had pulled troops back from Abeche.
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/ 25 November 2006
South Africa’s Vulindlela, with Adrian Zaugg at the wheel, qualified eighth out of 22 for the fourth round of the A1Grand Prix (GP) World Cup of Motorsport on Saturday. The 20-year-old winner of the A1 GP season-opening sprint race in The Netherlands in October finished 2,2 seconds behind pole-position winner A1 Team Switzerland.
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/ 25 November 2006
Three Gauteng men were arrested on Saturday for firing shots at the funeral in Khuma, North West, of a robber involved in a cash-in-transit heist. The arrests came shortly before President Thabo Mbeki was due to hold an imbizo (meeting), police said.
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/ 25 November 2006
Emerging with a shock of white fur, a cat stunned cargo workers in the United Kingdom as it jumped out of a goods container after a 17-day sea voyage from Israel to Britain, a journey of more than 3 200km, an animal charity said on Friday. The cat fled from staff when the container was opened, hiding for more than five hours.
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/ 25 November 2006
A classified ad that offered a free baby boy on the Craigslist website was under investigation by police on Friday, although the posting was believed to be a hoax. The ad was posted to the ”free stuff” section of the site early on Thursday alongside offers for free turkey dinners, a set of crutches and an electric stove.
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/ 25 November 2006
”I didn’t know it was wrong to beat my wife,” says a man featured in the documentary Women Wake Up, one of the films that won a prize on Thursday in Senegal at the first pan-African film festival promoting public awareness of gender-based violence.
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/ 25 November 2006
Rwanda on Friday severed all ties with France as a row over a French judge’s implication of the Rwandan president and top aides in the assassination of the country’s former leader boiled over. President Paul Kagame’s Cabinet ordered the closure of the French embassy and the expulsion of its envoy in Kigali.
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/ 25 November 2006
Federal regulators in the United States have pressed Ford for information about its business in Syria and Sudan, which are under economic sanctions or other controls for being state sponsors of terrorism. Ford said its operations in those countries are legal and not material to investors.
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/ 25 November 2006
Bidvest Wits salvaged a point when they played to a goalless draw in their Premier Soccer League encounter against Santos at the Greenpoint Stadium on Friday night. Wits toiled hard all evening but found the Santos defence in form, especially Musa Ongao who was outstanding as he broke up many of the Wits waves of attack.
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/ 25 November 2006
The Highveld Lions can consider themselves to be in the driving seat after two days of their Supersport Series match against the KwaZulu-Natal Dolphins at the Maritzburg Oval, but they will be hoping for better weather over the next two days if they are to press for victory.