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/ 26 December 2010
Pontiff highlights tensions with Beijing as he prays for peace in Middle East and Korean peninsula in Christmas message.
WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange said in an interview published on Sunday he had signed deals for his autobiography worth more than £1-million.
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/ 25 December 2010
United States Vice-President Joe Biden stepped up pressure on Sudan on Friday ahead of its referendum for southern independence.
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/ 25 December 2010
Israeli warplanes hit four targets in the Gaza Strip early on Saturday, wounding at least two people, officials and witnesses said.
North American defence organisation follows sleigh from across the globe using satellites and the infrared signal from Rudolph the reindeer’s nose.
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/ 25 December 2010
Extradition papers have been processed by the justice department, clearing the way for the extradition from the UK of murder-accused Shrien Dewani.
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/ 24 December 2010
Although the Kazakh people have a long and storied history, the country was part of the USSR until its breakup in the early 1990s.
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/ 24 December 2010
The first Session of Inter-Governmental Consultations was concluded between SA and Kazakhstan.
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/ 24 December 2010
An excerpt from the Address of President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Nursultan Abishuly Nazarbayev to the People of Kazakhstan.
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/ 24 December 2010
South Africa has received a formal invitation to join the Brazil, Russia, India and China (Bric) group of large emerging economies.
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/ 24 December 2010
An Indian doctor was sentenced to life imprisonment after being convicted of sedition for helping Maoist rebels.
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/ 24 December 2010
China’s commerce minister warned that measures being taken in Europe to fix the sovereign debt crisis are "turning an acute disease into a chronic".
Cezanne Visser has applied to the Constitutional Court for leave to appeal her seven-year prison sentence for sexual offences.
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/ 24 December 2010
Australia skipper Ricky Ponting said on Friday he was confident of playing in the fourth Test against England as he recovers from a fractured finger.
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/ 24 December 2010
Indian federal investigators questioned a former Indian minister at the heart of one of the biggest corruption cases in the country’s history.
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/ 24 December 2010
The guilty verdict given to sugar-cane serial killer Thozamile Taki proves that those who abuse women have no place in society, the ANC in KZN says.
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/ 24 December 2010
China says its two-way trade with Africa has increased by nearly 45% in a year to hit a record $114,81-billion.
The United Nations has demanded a halt to the "atrocities" triggered by Côte d’Ivoire’s political crisis that have left 173 dead.
We journey to Giyani in Limpopo to uncover the amazing story of how Shangaan music went electro, and then global. Our travels took us to the rural homes of some of the oldest artists, and back to Jo’burg where we spoke to Nozinga, the producer behind the new wave of Shangaan music, which is taking the world by storm.
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/ 23 December 2010
We take a look at some of the photographs that had you taking a second glance.
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/ 23 December 2010
Former South Africa captain Neil Tovey was sacked as coach of second-from-bottom Premiership club Mpumalanga Black Aces.
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/ 23 December 2010
The sugar-cane serial killer was found guilty on 26 charges relating to killing 13 women in the KwaZulu-Natal High Court on Thursday.
The UN mission in Côte d’Ivoire confirmed international peacekeepers met heavily-armed fighters who spoke English and said they were Liberian.
Police chief Bheki Cele has used the fatal shooting of four alleged robbers in Kranskop as an example of what will happen to people who shoot at cops.
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/ 23 December 2010
Scores of people were injured, some critically, by the strong winds and hail that hammered parts of the Eastern Cape.
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/ 23 December 2010
Legislation aimed at closing loopholes in land tenure will be published on Friday, the Rural Development Department said on Thursday.
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/ 23 December 2010
The UN Security Council has voted to increase the number of AU peacekeepers supporting Somalia’s government against al-Qaeda-inspired rebels.
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/ 23 December 2010
Global resources giant Anglo American said on Thursday that it has completed the sale of its interests in five undeveloped coal assets in Australia.
North Korea criticised major land and sea military exercises staged by the South on Thursday, but stopped short of threatening a retaliatory strike.
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/ 23 December 2010
Rio Tinto has offered $3,9-billion to buy Australian-listed coal miner Riversdale in an agreed deal.
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/ 23 December 2010
The head of the ground staff at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) says there is no conspiracy in his switch of drop-in pitches for the fourth Test.
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/ 23 December 2010
A request for leave to appeal a court order that stops more than 1 000 soldiers from being fired has been lodged, the Department of Defence said.