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/ 19 November 2006
Zimbabwe has the highest number of orphans in the world in relation to its population, mainly due to the HIV/Aids pandemic blighting the economically ravaged country, a United Nations official said on Sunday. ”Zimbabwe has the highest number of orphans per capita in the world,” James Elder, a spokesperson for the UN Children’s Fund told the media.
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/ 19 November 2006
World number one Roger Federer underlined his absolute dominance of men’s tennis when he routed American James Blake 6-0 6-3 6-4 on Sunday to win the Masters Cup for the third time in four years. The Swiss was beaten by David Nalbandian in last year’s final but there was no upset this time.
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/ 19 November 2006
Israel lashed out Sunday against a United Nations resolution calling for a probe into a botched Gaza shelling as ministers convened to discuss the ongoing battle against Palestinian rocket attacks. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert criticised the UN General Assembly resolution calling for a fact-finding mission to probe an Israeli shelling that killed 19 Palestinians this month.
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/ 19 November 2006
The pending arrest down under of another business associate of slain mining magnate Brett Kebble and the ruling party’s unanimous support for embattled police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi added twists to South Africa’s high-profile murder mystery at the weekend.
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/ 19 November 2006
Somalia’s government on Sunday appealed for urgent international help to avert a humanitarian catastrophe from deadly floods rampaging through the nation. Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi, whose administration is beset not only by the floods but is also girding for war with a powerful Islamist movement, made the appeal as torrential rains exacerbated already devastating damage.
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/ 19 November 2006
Actors Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes were married in a medieval castle near Rome on Saturday in a Scientology ceremony attended by a galaxy of Hollywood stars. With torches burning from the battlements of the 15th-century castle, the couple exchanged vows out of sight of the thousands of onlookers and paparazzi camped outside or perched on window ledges and balconies.
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/ 19 November 2006
Asia-Pacific leaders promised progress on freeing up global trade at a summit in Hanoi dominated, as in previous years, by diplomatic manoeuvring over North Korea. Vietnam President Nguyen Minh Triet read a ”Hanoi Declaration” that detailed issues that members of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) forum agreed on, including economic security threats and free trade.
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/ 19 November 2006
At least 17 people were killed on Sunday when a suicide bomber exploded his vehicle among day labourers waiting to be hired in the central Iraq city of Hilla, scene of some of the deadliest sectarian bomb attacks. Police in the mainly Shi’ite city 100km south of Baghdad said 49 people were wounded in the early morning blast.
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/ 19 November 2006
The European Union on Saturday hailed progress made at a worldwide conference on climate change in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. ”The EU welcomes the solid progress made at the United Nations climate change conference which ended [Friday] in Nairobi,” the bloc’s current Finnish Presidency said in a statement.
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/ 19 November 2006
A 24-year-old man was arrested in Butterworth for carrying a human head in his luggage at a bus rank in the Eastern Cape on Saturday, police said. Captain Jackson Manatha said the man was arrested around 11am after a tip-off. The man had already been on a bus when police found him and was taken to the police station where a human finger was found in his pocket.