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United States President George Bush’s election campaign received support from an unusual quarter last week when Hasan Rowhani, head of the Iranian Supreme National Security Council, said that four more years of George W would be good for Iran. Such views are probably not what most people would expect to hear.
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Despite two acknowledgement of debt letters, there was no indication that the R1,2-million that fraud and corruption accused Schabir Shaik gave Deputy President Jacob Zuma was as loans, the Durban High Court heard on Friday. It was not evident from the accounting records of Shaik’s Nkobi Holdings that there was an amount owing by Zuma.
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Oil prices bounced higher on Friday following two days of sharp declines that came on the heels of rising inventories of crude in the United States and a move by China to cool its economy. Prices rose ahead of the weekend as traders sought to protect themselves in the event of a supply disruption before Monday.
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The grandson of a Namibian diplomat based in Pretoria was arrested on Friday, the Department of Foreign Affairs said. He was first arrested by police last week after an alleged attack on a former National Prosecuting Authority prosecutor in her townhouse in Pretoria, but was released from custody as he had diplomatic immunity.
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One of South Africa’s most prolific mass murderers was released on parole on Friday after serving 12 years in jail for a shooting spree that made him an apartheid folk hero. Louis van Schoor is believed to have shot 101 black people, killing 39 of them, including children, while working as a security guard in East London.
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<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/140248/USA2.GIF" align=left>If you aren’t already addicted, take a look at the electoral college vote tracker featured on the <i>Los Angeles Times</i> website. Forget <i>Doom</i> or <i>Grand Theft Auto</i>, this is where it’s at when it comes to interactive computer fun. Re-loadable drama and intrigue are but a mouse click away.
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Two United States television networks are squaring off to produce a miniseries dramatising the September 11 2001 terror attacks, based on the report of the federal commission that investigated the event. NBC Entertainment has joined forces with Graham Yost, producer-writer of <i>Band of Brothers</i>, for the project.
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Iraq’s most feared militant group has stepped up its attempts to disrupt the country’s first democratic elections by sending letters to the authorities warning it will kill anyone involved in administering the January poll. The group has delivered the letters to the Mosul and Baghdad offices of the Independent Electoral Commission.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/pd.asp?cg=BreakingNews-InternationalNews&ao=124614">Last chance for peace in Fallujah</a>
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Unbelievable as it may seem, not everyone in New England in the United States is thrilled about the Red Sox winning the World Series. Retailers of everything from T-shirts to ice cream and cookies had been making money off the team’s championship drought for years.