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/ 19 October 2006
Alarmed by the antics of a fictional TV reporter who portrays their country as a nation of horse urine-drinking misogynists, Kazakh authorities have invited the British comedian who plays the character to come and see the truth for himself. Rakhat Aliyev, Kazakh first deputy foreign ministe, asked British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen to visit the vast, oil-rich steppe nation.
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/ 19 October 2006
Kenyan football officials on Thursday accused Fifa of applying double standards in its condemnation of the country as they braced for another suspension for the second time in as many years. Fifa’s executive committee proposed on Wednesday that Kenya be suspended for failing to respect agreements to resolve recurrent problems in the country’s football association.
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/ 19 October 2006
The United States Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, on Wednesday called for the ”swift and effective” implementation of United Nations sanctions against North Korea and vowed that Washington would continue to protect its allies in the region amid growing fears of an arms race in the far east.
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/ 19 October 2006
One of the last redoubts of cheap housing in the booming environment of Manhattan has been sold to a property company for ,4-billion. The sale of 110 blocks of flats in lower Manhattan marks the end of a fierce battle for ownership of the area, known as Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village.
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/ 19 October 2006
A new Darfur rebel alliance is ready for talks with the government but demands self-determination for the war-torn, arid west of the country, senior rebel leaders said on Thursday. A May peace accord was signed by only one of three negotiating rebel factions and tens of thousands of war victims have rejected it.
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/ 19 October 2006
The MTN Group on Thursday issued a tender for its marketing advertising account as the group strives to entrench its position as the leader in telecommunications in developing markets in Africa and the Middle East. Ten major advertising agencies have been invited to pitch for the MTN account.
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/ 19 October 2006
Housing delivery in South Africa needs to double from the current delivery rate of about 250 000 housing units a year to 500 000 units if the backlog is to be removed and supply to new urban residents to be fulfilled, Director General of Land and Housing Irumuleng Kotsoane said on Thursday.
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/ 19 October 2006
Chelsea, Bayern Munich and Valencia all maintained their 100% records with their third straight wins as the Champions League group phase reached the halfway stage on Wednesday. Chelsea handed European champions Barcelona a 1-0 defeat at Stamford Bridge in Group A where Didier Drogba scored an outstanding individual goal after 47 minutes.
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/ 19 October 2006
Some tight bowling and magnificent fielding by the Titans prevented the Warriors from winning their first limited-overs match of the MTN domestic championship at Buffalo Park on Wednesday. Set 214 to win, the Warriors finished on a disappointing 188 for five wickets, a tantalising 26 runs short of victory.
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/ 19 October 2006
United States President George Bush on Wednesday for the first time acknowledged a possible parallel between the raging violence in Iraq and the Vietnam war. Bush was asked in an ABC News interview if he agreed with a New York Times columnist’s comparison of the strife in Iraq with the Tet offensive, which is considered a key turning point in the US war in Vietnam.