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/ 16 November 2006
Pakistan on Thursday test-fired a nuclear-capable ballistic missile, the military said, a day after agreeing to fresh atomic safety measures at talks with rival India. The Hatf V missile with a range of 1Â 300km was fired from an undisclosed location and the test was successful, it said.
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/ 16 November 2006
Cuban dissidents who were given millions of dollars by the United States government to support democracy in their homeland instead blew money on computer games, cashmere sweaters, crabmeat and chocolates, which were then sent to the island.
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/ 16 November 2006
War veterans in Zimbabwe’s Midlands province have asked President Robert Mugabe to rein in Emmerson Mnangagwa, whom they accused of sowing divisions in the party as a vicious power struggle to succeed Mugabe intensifies. Mnangagwa heads a faction of Zanu-PF that is embroiled in a mortal fight with a rival faction.
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/ 16 November 2006
The Scorpions on Wednesday night arrested a prominent businessman in connection with the murder of mining magnate Brett Kebble in September last year, the elite unit said on Thursday. Talk Radio 702 named the suspect as Glenn Agliotti, a friend of police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi and fixer for Kebble.
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/ 16 November 2006
Australia recently launched a major drive to woo British travellers down under, saying that a flood of more than 40Â 000 cricket fans heading to the Ashes provided an untapped tourism treasure chest. The government and cricket chiefs announced a study to asses the impact of the ”Barmy Army’s” invasion on Australia’s economy.
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/ 16 November 2006
Chinese tourist spending abroad rose 14% in 2005 to ,8-billion dollars compared with 2004 as more and more people in the world’s most populous nation got the travel bug, the World Tourism Organisation (WTO) reported on Wednesday.
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/ 16 November 2006
The new African-Chinese economic and diplomatic partnership, manifested in the pact signed by China and 48 African countries in Beijing this month, is unsettling European leaders and analysts, who continue to see Africa as Europe’s backyard. Analysts have been calling attention to China’s growing presence in Africa for many months.
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/ 16 November 2006
With efforts to protect the world’s fish populations largely failing to boost their dwindling numbers, a new study says that initiatives by seafood buyers, such as individual consumers, supermarket chains and restaurants, could prove more effective. Most seafood, from tuna and salmon to bay scallops, is on the verge of extinction.
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/ 16 November 2006
One of his friends may have died in front of his eyes but 19-year-old Leepile is in no mood to listen to pleas to stop ”train surfing” through South Africa’s sprawling Soweto township. ”We feel like we are in another world when doing it, in heaven or something. It’s like we are floating, and don’t fear anything,” says the teenager.
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/ 16 November 2006
Small tsunami waves hit Japan’s northernmost island late on Wednesday after a major quake in the north Pacific triggered a full-scale tsunami warning for areas of northern Japan and Russia’s sparsely populated Kurile islands. An initial tsunami of 40cm came ashore near Nemuro on the Pacific coast of Hokkaido island, just before 10pm (1pm GMT).