SIDEBAR: Inside the world's largest diamond-sorting facility
Gaborone - Before entering the world's largest diamond sorting facility in Gaborone, you have to check your chewing gum at the door - lest you be tempted to stud it with a stone. You may also be asked to turn out your pockets, show the soles of your ...
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SIDEBAR: Botswana: key facts
Gaborone - Following are some key facts about Botswana, the world's biggest producer of diamonds. -- Botswana has a population of 1.85 million people living in an area roughly the size of France or Texas. ...
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Novartis begins shipment of swine flu vaccine to US
Geneva - Swiss drugmaker Novartis said Tuesday it has started shipping vaccines against the A(H1N1) virus, better known as swine flu, to the United States. The company began sending doses last week from a production seed strain provided by the World ...
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Pakistani Taliban claim bombing at UN office
Islamabad - The Pakistani Taliban on Tuesday claimed the responsibility for a suicide bombing at United Nations World Food programme (WFP) offices in Islamabad a day ago. The Monday afternoon attack, which killed five employees of the WFP, prompted i...
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Report: New Zealand captain may miss Bahrain qualifier - Update
Wellington - Veteran New Zealand captain Ryan Nelsen hopes to be fit for Sunday's World Cup qualifier against Bahrain in Manama, Radio New Zealand reported on Monday. Nelsen, 31, who skippers the English side Blackburn Rovers, missed his team's 6-2 d...
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Report: New Zealand captain may miss Bahrain qualifier
Wellington - Veteran New Zealand captain Ryan Nelsen faces a battle to be fit forSunday's World Cup qualifier against Bahrain in Manama, a radio station reported on Monday. Nelsen, 31, who skippers the English side Blackburn Rovers, missed his team's...
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The Year of Change - The Fall of Communism in 1989
It began with popular unrest in East Germany and across Central and Eastern Europe, and ultimately led to the collapse of Communism, the end of the Soviet bloc and of an entire era dominated by the Cold War and Europe's post-World...
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Russia's Hiddink wary of Germany's misfiring strikers
Hamburg - Russia coach Guus Hiddink has warned his side to be on guard for Germany's strikers despite a lack of goals in the Bundesliga. Germany take on Russia in a key Group 4 World Cup qualifier in Moscow on Saturday with first-choice forwards Mari...
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The Year of Change - The Fall of Communism in 1989
It began with popular unrest in East Germany and across Central and Eastern Europe, and ultimately led to the collapse of Communism, the end of the Soviet bloc and of an entire era dominated by the Cold War and Europe's post-World...
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Sport can help curing world's problems, Horta tells Olympians
Copenhagen - Sport is one tool to cure evils in the world, and youth is its key ingredient, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jose Manuel Ramos Horta told the Olympic Congress on Sunday. I firmly belive that youth are the personification of the unique impa...
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EU, Arab world seek cooperation on green energy
Brussels - The European Union and the governments of Egypt, Israel, Syria and much of the Arab world kicked off discussions Friday on the launch of a common green energy market. The occasion was a conference in Brussels organized by the European Comm...
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Rocket crashes into moon in seach for water - Summary
Washington - A NASA rocket crashed into the moon Friday, sending a huge plume of dust above the surface in an experiment scientists hope will provide data about ice hidden in the perpetually dark lunar craters. Major telescopes around the world were ...
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Spain call up striker Negredo to replace injured Villa
Madrid - The Spanish football federation announced late on Tuesday that national manager Vicente del Bosque had decided to call up Alvaro Negredo of Sevilla to replace injured Valencia striker David Villa. Villa, 28, will miss Spain's final World Cup...
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England call up Hart, Cahill for Ukraine, Belarus qualifiers
London - Birmingham City goalkeeper Joe Hart and Bolton defender Gary Cahill were called into the England squad on Tuesday for the two remaining World Cup qualifying matches against Ukraine and Belarus. Hart replaces Paul Robinson in the squad after ...
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