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/ 18 November 2006
A shooting. A stabbing. A beating. A hold-up. Friday’s release of the new PlayStation 3 gaming console led to several violent incidents across the United States. In Connecticut, two armed men tried to rob a line of people waiting to buy the console early on Friday and shot one who refused to give up the money, authorities said.
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/ 18 November 2006
Nato ”cannot win” the fight against the Taliban alone and will have to train Afghan forces to do the job, the United Nation’s top official in the country warned on Friday. ”At the moment Nato has a very optimistic assessment. They think they can win the war,” warned Tom Koenigs, the diplomat heading the UN mission in Afghanistan. ”But there is no quick fix.”
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/ 18 November 2006
Police would not comment on reports on Friday that a Johannesburg police commissioner had been arrested in connection the murder of mining magnate Brett Kebble. National police spokesperson Sally de Beer would also not comment on a report, in the <i>Star</i> newspaper, that the former Hell’s Angels biker suspected of killing Kebble had vanished.
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/ 17 November 2006
A former Hell’s Angels biker who, it is believed, killed mining magnate Brett Kebble last October, has vanished, media reports said on Friday. Also, a Johannesburg police commissioner has apparently been arrested in connection with Glenn Agliotti, the businessman arrested on Thursday morning in connection with the murder.
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/ 17 November 2006
The odds seem stacked against India when a five-match one-day international series against South Africa starts at the Wanderers Stadium on Sunday. India have won just three times in 16 one-day internationals against the host nation in South Africa and suffered a 37-run defeat in their only warm-up match against a Rest of South Africa team in Benoni on Thursday.
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/ 17 November 2006
The Gauteng Cricket Board announced on Friday that it would take firm action against any spectator guilty of racial abuse during the tours by India and Pakistan. Chief executive Alan Kourie said that following incidents of racial abuse reported from Australia, the board had decided to pay careful attention to the situation at matches at the Wanderers.
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/ 17 November 2006
A Zimbabwean student’s application to be sent for psychiatric evaluation following his alleged attempt to hijack a South African Airways (SAA) flight was on Friday postponed in the Bellville Regional Court. Lawyer Reuben Liddell will now, on Tuesday, launch the application to have Tinashe Rioga sent to the Valkenberg Psychiatric Hospital to assess whether he is fit to stand trial.
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/ 17 November 2006
New data shows a child is abused every hour in Zimbabwe and more than half the reported cases involve sexual abuse, a coalition of child protection groups said on Friday. ”Are Zimbabweans really horrified by these statistics?” said Childline director Audrey Gumbo.
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/ 17 November 2006
Roger Southall surveys the fourth annual edition of State of the Nation by the HSRC Press, and reflects on its three predecessors.
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/ 17 November 2006
England pace spearhead Steve Harmison is in doubt for next week’s Ashes opener with a side strain that forced him out of the tourists’ final lead-up match on Friday. Harmison, who has taken 179 wickets in 45 Tests, was left out of the three-day tour practice match against South Australia at Adelaide Oval as a precaution.