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/ 14 November 2006
Any terror risk in Western Sahara stems from Morocco’s illegal occupation, the territory’s independence movement said on Tuesday, dismissing a Moroccan warning that an independent state could harbour terrorists. Mohamed Abdelaziz, President of the self-proclaimed government in exile for Western Sahara, said that Morocco’s policy on Western Sahara was the real security risk.
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/ 14 November 2006
Shanghai, China’s wealthiest and most dazzling city, plans to add to its reputation this weekend with a millionaire party aimed at hooking up rich men with beautiful women, state press said on Tuesday. Men wishing to participate must have assets worth at least two million yuan ($250 000).
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/ 14 November 2006
A Thai zoo will show its star residents, a pair of young giant pandas, "porn" videos to teach the famously sexually inactive animals how to mate, an official said on Tuesday. "We have to encourage them to mate, and the videos will show mating positions of male pandas and female pandas," said a veterinarian at the zoo.
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/ 14 November 2006
A restaurant chain’s campaign to publicise its "Lust" pizza for meat lovers — one of a range of pies representing the seven deadly sins — by delivering condoms to homes across New Zealand has attracted widespread wrath. The campaign by Hell’s Pizzas has become the most complained about in the country.
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/ 14 November 2006
A shoplifter who snatched a haul of cosmetics in an Estonian department store left security scratching their heads, until they found the ill-gotten gains stashed in his wooden leg, officials said on Tuesday. A limping customer entered the shop in the Estonian capital, Tallinn, the Falck security company said.
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/ 14 November 2006
Media group Naspers is to acquire Johnnic Communications’ (Johncom) 38,56% stake in pay television channel M-Net/SuperSport for a combination of Naspers shares and cash, it was announced on Tuesday. Naspers, which currently owns an effective 60,12% interest in M-Net/Supersport, will issue 20,9-million Naspers N ordinary shares and pay R250-million in cash to Johncom for the lucrative stake.
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/ 14 November 2006
South Africa will press on with its mediating role in Burundi to get the last active rebel group to sign a peace accord, Pretoria’s special envoy to the Great Lakes region said on Tuesday. "We are not throwing in the towel. We will carry on," Kingsley Mamabola told a seminar, adding that the National Liberation Forces rebel group was "the one piece left out of the jigsaw puzzle".
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/ 14 November 2006
Only slightly more than one out of 10 South Africans with bank accounts have used their cellphones for banking, according to research released by World Wide Worx on Tuesday. A surprising finding from the research is that the youth market is the least likely to have tried cellphone banking.
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/ 14 November 2006
Former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani, a Republican who guided his city through the chaos of the September 11 attacks, has taken a key step towards a possible 2008 United States presidential run. Giuliani has filed papers in New York state to set up a committee to explore a possible candidacy, although an aide said Monday he has not made up his mind.
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/ 14 November 2006
England batsman Marcus Trescothick is to return home from the Ashes tour to Australia, the England and Wales Cricket Board said on Tuesday. Trescothick has suffered a recurrence of the stress-related illness that led to him returning home from England’s tour of India earlier this year.