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- ZIMBABWE
- Mugabe under fire as cholera kills hundreds
- Friday 05 December 2008
- South Africa announced it would send a team to Zimbabwe to assess the extent of a cholera epidemic that has killed over 560 people, as US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called on President Mugabe to step down.
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- DR CONGO
- Government and rebels to 'finalise' ceasefire in Nairobi meeting
- Friday 05 December 2008
- Rwanda and the DR Congo's foreign ministers announced a joint military plan to fight Hutu rebels, while Tutsi rebels loyal to General Laurent Nkunda will meet government officials in Nairobi on Monday to "finalise" a ceasefire in North Kivu.
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- CAR RACING
- Honda pulls out of Formula One
- Friday 05 December 2008
- Japanese carmaker Honda says it is pulling out of the multi-billion-dollar Formula One to concentrate on its core business activities amid slumping car sales due to the economic crisis.
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- THE OBSERVERS - CHINA
- Chinese web users give Sarkozy a roasting
- Friday 05 December 2008
- Chinese web users have Sarkozy's head on a spit
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- RELIGION
- Head of Russian Orthodox Church dies
- Friday 05 December 2008
- The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Alexiy II, has died. The 79-year-old outspoken patriarch had led the world's biggest Orthodox church since 1990, presiding over a major religious revival following the collapse of the USSR.
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- ISLAM
- Haj pilgrimage to Mecca begins, Palestinians delayed
- Friday 05 December 2008
- Saudi Arabia said it was prepared to receive Palestinian pilgrims who arrived late at the holy city of Mecca because of difficulties in securing visas to leave the Gaza Strip. The yearly haj pilgrimage begins this week.
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- ROBBERY
- Paris thieves run away with €80m Harry Winston gems
- Friday 05 December 2008
- Armed robbers burst into the prestigious Paris jeweler Harry Winston, located near the world-famous Champs Elysees avenue, snatching jewels worth 80 million euros (100 million dollars), French police said.
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- MUMBAI ATTACKS
- India admits security lapses ahead of terror strikes
- Friday 05 December 2008
- India's new home minister said Friday that the Mumbai attacks had revealed security lapses. According to media reports, the US warned in October that the city would be targeted by attackers coming from the sea.
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