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/ 20 October 2006
A new research report, which was prepared by Genesis Analytics for regional development initiative the ComMark Trust, says that if the Southern African region is to benefit from the huge number of tourists who will be visiting South Africa for the 2010 Soccer World Cup, countries have to start liberalising their air transport routes now.
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/ 20 October 2006
The Science museum in London has consulted its patrons before mounting an exhibition of artefacts salvaged from the Titanic, reports Maev Kennedy in London.
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/ 20 October 2006
A new play is set to review the accepted notion that all political activists endured their sentences with a high-minded celibacy. Matthew Krouse speaks to director Robert Colman.
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/ 20 October 2006
On Thursday scores of foreign humanitarian aid groups and charities that failed to meet a deadline for registration under a controversial new law had to suspend their work in Russia. Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the Danish Refugee Council are among those obliged to cease their activities.
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/ 20 October 2006
Doctors in Gaza have reported previously unseen injuries from Israeli weapons that cause severe burning and leave deep internal wounds, often resulting in amputations or death. The injuries were first seen in July, when Israel launched operations in Gaza following the capture of an Israeli soldier by Palestinian militants.
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/ 20 October 2006
Iran’s Islamic government has opened a new front in its drive to stifle domestic political dissent and combat the influence of Western culture — by banning high-speed internet links. In a blow to the country’s estimated five million internet users, service providers have been told to restrict online speeds to 128 kilobytes a second.
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/ 20 October 2006
Britain has joined the United States, China and Russia to block a proposed ban on cluster bombs in the wake of extensive use of the weapons during the war in Lebanon. A group of countries, led by Sweden, is urging a worldwide ban on cluster bombs at arms talks in Geneva.
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/ 20 October 2006
Vacant: Sometimes impossible job with often impossible boss at under R1-million a year. This is an apt description of the post of director general (DG), the mandarins who sit atop national departments. The overriding theme of our first directors general report card is that it is a hard job to do. In the blushes of freedom, straight after 1994, these were coveted posts at the apex of a negotiated revolution.
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/ 20 October 2006
Peter Hayes’s one-man drama The Fence takes a look at a famous gay hate murder in the United States, writes Guy Willoughby.
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/ 20 October 2006
Brent Meersman is impressed by dancer and choreographer Jacki Job’s This Side Up, an imaginative and inventive collection of five dance pieces.