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/ 14 November 2006
A board of inquiry has been set up to investigate the horror accident in which 19 people were killed when a train ploughed into a truck carrying farmworkers on a rail crossing near Somerset West, Metrorail said on Tuesday. ”It must be noted that the accident has nothing to do with commuter rail and the state of our infrastructure,” said spokesperson Lucky Tshepo Montana.
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/ 14 November 2006
Johnathan Thurston was on Tuesday reinstated as scrumhalf in the Australian team to face Britain in the Tri-Nations rugby league Test in Brisbane on Saturday. Thurston ousted utility Ben Hornby from the number seven jersey following Australia’s upset 23-12 loss to the Lions in Melbourne on November 4.
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/ 14 November 2006
Lewellyn Delport, chief executive of Trans Hex, says he sees diamond prices moving either sideways or up depending on the demand over Christmas and the perception of the industry created by a Hollywood movie in coming months. "We are mindful of the issues like the <i>Blood Diamond</i> film’s effect on Christmas sales," said Delport.
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/ 14 November 2006
Benin is hoping that a five-year, multimillion-dollar grant from the United States under the auspices of the Millennium Challenge Account will finance development projects to reduce poverty, notably through resolving land ownership and credit problems. The government says these funds will allow it to meet enormous economic challenges.
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/ 14 November 2006
Brazil’s Minister of Health, Agenor Ãlvares, has admitted that the public health system is imbued with racism, stirring up more controversy over policies for specific treatment plans targeting Brazilians of African descent. There are clear signs of discriminatory practices, the minister said two weeks ago in Rio de Janeiro.
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/ 14 November 2006
Antibodies that are active against HIV proteins may provide a successful strategy against infection, investigators report. In test tube experiments, an antibody that attacks the outer HIV envelope glycoprotein 41, which was labeled with a radioactive isotope so its movement could be detected, killed white blood cells infected with HIV.
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/ 14 November 2006
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan intends to propose a ”hybrid” African Union-UN force for Darfur in talks with Sudanese officials and has invited major powers to take part. Sudan has been adamantly opposed to a UN force so the UN is considering alternatives to get a larger and better-funded peacekeeping operation acceptable to Khartoum.
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/ 14 November 2006
It’s tough being a cop in Virginia. You may be 10-7 (off duty) when you see a 10-54 (livestock on a highway) cause a 10-50 (traffic accident). There’s nothing to do other than call in a 10-32 (alarm) and a 10-13 (request a wrecker). 10-4? Message received? Probably not.
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/ 14 November 2006
Maanda Manyatshe, chief executive officer of cellphone company MTN, resigned on Monday to clear his name after being accused of pushing through a deal worth R100-million without a tender process while he was CEO of the South African Post Office.
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/ 14 November 2006
Hundreds of thousands of women and girls have been raped over the past decade by soldiers, rebels and ethnic militias in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The scale of the assaults has become increasingly evident over recent months as growing numbers of women have emerged for treatment with the reduction in fighting ahead of presidential elections.