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The police investigation into rape allegations against Jacob Zuma is incomplete, his lawyer said on Tuesday. Mike Hulley said the former deputy president, out of respect for due process, will reserve further comment on the matter until the police have completed their probe.
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/ 29 November 2005
An estimated 10Â 000 newly homeless Nigerians awoke on Tuesday in Chika, a squatter settlement in the country’s capital, Abuja, after being forced to sleep in the open following the destruction of their homes by government bulldozers. The bulldozers had on Monday pulled down more than 1Â 500 houses built illegally in the area.
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The death toll from an explosion at a coal mine in north-eastern China rose to at least 146 on Tuesday, Xinhua news agency said. Three miners were still listed as missing, nearly two days after the Sunday night cave-in at the state-run Dongfeng coal mine, near Qitaihe city in Heilongjiang province.
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General Motors recently announced plans to cut 30 000 manufacturing jobs in North America, closing a dozen assembly and parts factories in an effort to staunch losses that have reached -billion so far this year.
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South Africa, the economic powerhouse of Southern Africa, continues to see an escalating HIV epidemic, while economically crippled Zimbabwe has apparently brought down levels of HIV infection among its people. According to the latest United Nation’s figures, one in three pregnant women in South Africa is HIV-positive, the highest level yet recorded.
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Whether a key ingredient for a special batch of sake that has been to outer space and back will change the taste of the rice wine will soon be found out as the brew is being prepared in western Japan. Sake brewers began preparing this year’s batch with yeast that completed a 10-day stay at the International Space Station.
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To the untrained ear, monkeys of a certain species may all sound the same, but Japanese researchers have found that, like human beings, they actually have an accent depending on where they live. The finding, the first of its kind, will appear in the December edition of a German scientific journal.
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If the government bought up just more than half of the farms that came on the market each year, it would easily achieve its target of redistributing 30% of agricultural land to the previously disadvantaged by 2014, says the Democratic Alliance. ”Government must become a far more active participant in the land market,” the DA says.
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A 63-year-old man died and more than 200Â 000 people were left without power in several cities as Tropical Storm Delta unleashed torrential rain and strong winds on the Canary Islands, authorities said on Tuesday. The rains and winds also affected hundreds of people who were left stranded at the islands’ main airports.
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The HIV/Aids pandemic is continuing its deadly spread across the globe, infecting five million people last year and bringing the total living with the virus to more than 40-million, the United Nations said recently. UNAids tried to lighten the gloom by pointing to Kenya, Zimbabwe and some of the Caribbean countries, where there is some limited evidence that infection rates may be dropping slightly.