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United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan called on Monday for stronger efforts to protect the world against biological weapons, which he said pose a growing threat due to advances in science and technology. Annan told the Convention on Biological Weapons that awareness of the dangers had been heightened by the twin global focus on terrorism and natural diseases.
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/ 20 November 2006
Embattled Ekurhuleni metro police chief Robert McBride shot at protesting municipal employees who were calling for him to be suspended, the South African Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) alleged on Monday. ”He was the first one to shoot at workers,” said Samwu’s East Rand branch secretary Koena Ramatlou of McBride after the protests.
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/ 20 November 2006
President Thabo Mbeki told religious leaders on Monday to trust what he had done regarding the controversy around police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi — and they did. This was after the religious leaders had suggested an inquiry into the relationship between Selebi and Glenn Agliotti, who was arrested last week for the murder of Brett Kebble.
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The presidential task team on African traditional medicines has been compromised by the inclusion of Professor Herbert Vilakazi and advocate Christine Qunta, the Democratic Alliance (DA) said on Monday. The inclusion of Vilakazi and Qunta is a giant step backwards in developing a regulatory framework for traditional medicines, DA spokesperson Gareth Morgan said.
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/ 20 November 2006
Chris Gayle and Daren Ganga forged an undefeated opening stand of 151 for the West Indies to cap a miserable day for Pakistan on day two of the second Test on Monday. Gayle (87) and Ganga (59) posted the first century opening stand for the West Indies in 20 Tests in Pakistan after the home side were bowled out for 357 with paceman Jerome Taylor taking 5-91.
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/ 20 November 2006
Africa will never climb out of poverty unless devastating health challenges such as a ”silent epidemic” of maternal and child death are tackled, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said in a report released on Monday. Some of the biggest health problems Africans face are worsening despite attempts to reverse them, the African Regional Health report said.
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/ 20 November 2006
The United Nations special envoy for Somalia on Monday won a pledge from the country’s weak government to patch up an internal rift on how to deal with powerful Islamists, with whom it is on the brink of war. After talks aimed at reviving efforts to avert all-out conflict, the government said it would reconcile with a maverick Parliament speaker.
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/ 20 November 2006
European Ryder Cup player Lee Westwood will be one of the biggest stars on local fairways in December when he makes his debut in the Alfred Dunhill Championship at Leopard Creek Country Club near Malelane. Westwood is a member of Ian Woosnam’s victorious European Ryder Cup team and winner of 25 titles worldwide.
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/ 20 November 2006
Fans rushed on Monday to buy the first ”new” Beatles album for a generation — a radical remixing of some of the group’s most famous songs, more than 35 years after the break-up of the iconic band. Love, which has the backing of Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, comprises 26 of the Fab Four’s hit songs.
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/ 20 November 2006
Pioneering sociologist Yuri Levada, who was shut out of his profession in Soviet times but came back to track public opinion as Russia made the transition from communism, died on November 16 at his institute in Moscow. The cause of the 76-year-old Levada’s death was a heart attack, said a colleague at the Levada Analytical Centre.