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/ 2 December 2008
Insurgent Islamist leader Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys on Tuesday said his group was the only force that could eliminate piracy in the Somali waters.
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/ 2 December 2008
Anti-government demonstrators agreed on Tuesday to allow flights to resume from Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi International Airport.
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/ 2 December 2008
FirstRand said on Tuesday that the group’s earnings for the financial year to June 30 2009 will be negatively affected.
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/ 2 December 2008
Europe’s last refuge for hippies, artists and activists may not last much longer, with the Danish government determined to clean up the giant squat.
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/ 2 December 2008
Japan and Australia announced new measures to try to ease the global credit crisis on Tuesday after the US formally announced it was in recession.
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/ 2 December 2008
Fancy sports shoes were declared off limits at New York prisons from Monday as authorities sought to reduce friction between inmates.
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/ 2 December 2008
Officials in California have unveiled plans to turn the San Francisco Bay area into one of the world’s leading centres for electric vehicles.
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/ 2 December 2008
George Bush is behaving like a furious defaulter whose home is about to be repossessed.
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/ 1 December 2008
Ministers from across the developing world say they want to take control of their own health research agendas.
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/ 30 November 2008
A strike by workers at South African Airways has not affected the airline’s operations, it said on Sunday.
Talks between the parties were continuing.
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/ 29 November 2008
The World Bank has urged industrialised nations to maintain aid flows to developing nations to offset an expected decline in private capital flows.
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/ 28 November 2008
A tribunal ruled on Friday that 78 white Zimbabweans can keep their farms because the government’s land-reform scheme discriminated against them.
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/ 28 November 2008
According to a researcher from the CSIR, poor water quality threatens our health and may also derail economic growth.
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/ 28 November 2008
The JSE slipped into the red by noon on Friday as profit-taking set in by market participants looking to cover their shorts ahead of the weekend.
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/ 28 November 2008
The retail price of all grades of petrol will decrease by R1,61 a litre on Wednesday December 3, the Department of Minerals and Energy says.
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/ 28 November 2008
ON CIRCUIT: <i>Doctor Atomic</i>, <i>Synecdoche, New York</i> as well as <i>Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: Cinema of Cult and Cool Film Festival </i>
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/ 28 November 2008
Mumbaikers know about terror. They have lived through savage inter-religious violence, bombing campaigns and persistent threats of fresh outrage.
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/ 27 November 2008
When Marc Forster was approached to direct
<i>Quantum of Solace</i>, the unusual title was the least of his reservations. Ryan Gilbey reports.
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/ 27 November 2008
Rebels in eastern DRC clashed again on Thursday with pro-government groups, both sides said, each accusing the other of attempted encroachment.
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/ 27 November 2008
BHP Billiton chair Don Argus said the group’s decision to drop its plans to pursue rival Rio Tinto is "disappointing after many months of hard work".
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/ 27 November 2008
US President George W Bush has pardoned his last Thanksgiving turkey,which will now fly first-class to Disneyland in California.
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/ 27 November 2008
Polish border guards have foiled an attempt to smuggle kangaroos, miniature ponies and 11 pheasants across Poland’s border with Ukraine.
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/ 27 November 2008
Rebels in eastern DRC have violated a fragile ceasefire and seized more territory, the United Nations said on Wednesday.
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/ 27 November 2008
<i>Mail & Guardian</i> reviewers look at the albums that could make the festive season more memorable.
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/ 26 November 2008
MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai said on Wednesday that former SA president Thabo Mbeki should step down as the mediator in Zimbabwe’s political crisis.
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/ 26 November 2008
Fedusa and its affiliates on Wednesday said they were worried about the number of possible job losses resulting from the global economic crisis.
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/ 26 November 2008
After opening more than 1% lower on Wednesday, the JSE clawed back and was little changed from its overnight levels by midday.
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/ 26 November 2008
South Africans are among the tourists stranded at the international airport in Bangkok after it was stormed by anti-government protesters.
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/ 25 November 2008
Nedbank Group announced on Tuesday that its Business Banking division will become a stand-alone cluster.
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/ 25 November 2008
Men often bribe guards and managers to get jobs, but sex is the preferred inducement for women in Kenya.
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/ 25 November 2008
BHP Billiton announced on Tuesday it was dropping its controversial hostile takeover bid for rival Rio Tinto due to the state of the global economy.
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/ 25 November 2008
Asian stocks soared on Tuesday after stellar gains on US and European markets as investors welcomed a rescue of US States banking giant Citigroup.