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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.
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/ 25 November 2006
South Africa scored a convincing 104-29 victory over Angola in the two countries’ first-ever international in the International Wheelchair Basketball Challenge at the Mandeville Indoor Centre on Friday. It was the second heavy defeat for Angola in the competition, following their 72-40 defeat at the hands of the Pumas on Thursday.
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/ 25 November 2006
Former Truth and Reconciliation Commission deputy chairperson Alex Boraine, backed by a United Nations human rights body, has accused the National Prosecuting Authority and government of dragging their feet with regards to prosecuting people denied amnesty by the commission, media reports said on Saturday.
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/ 25 November 2006
It was the 1980s. Rambo was rescuing his colonel with the help of Afghanistan’s mujahedin. Rocky was making yet another comeback. John McClane was thinking ”not again”. Indiana Jones was on his last crusade. Fast forward 20 years or so, and coming to a screen near you will be more of the same.
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/ 25 November 2006
When Pope Benedict XVI takes to the Istanbul tourist trail next Thursday to admire the mosaics of St Sophia’s under the soaring dome of the sixth-century basilica, it will be the most delicate moment of the most sensitive trip the 79-year-old Bavarian has made to date.
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/ 25 November 2006
The mysterious death of a former Russian spy living in exile in London turned into an unprecedented public health scare on Friday when it emerged that he had been deliberately poisoned by a major dose of radioactive material. On Friday night, health officials were contacting up to 100 people who had come into contact with the former spy.
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/ 25 November 2006
Iraq’s precarious government was teetering on Friday as a powerful Shi’ite militia leader threatened to withdraw support after sectarian killings reached a new peak and the country lurched closer to all-out civil war. On Friday, there were reports that at least 60 Sunnis had died in revenge killings and suicide attacks.