SOUTH AFRICA

Gold Falls For Fourth Day As Euro Sags

South African Miners Stage One-Day Strike

Tens of thousands of South Africans staged a one-day national strike on Wednesday, hitting mining production, as the biggest labour group in the continent's largest economy flexed its muscles to remind the ruling ANC of its political clout.
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Will Keystone XL Pipeline Increase Gasoline Prices?

Gas prices are a potent weapon in an election year. TransCanada Corp's proposed $7-billion Keystone XL pipeline, which would move 800,000 barrels of oil a day from Alberta, Canada, to the Texas Gulf, has suddenly become an inalienable part in the election rhetoric.
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Impala Platinum Says it Will Not Exit Zimbabwe

Impala Platinum, the world's second-largest platinum producer, said on Wednesday that it would not exit Zimbabwe despite the demands being made by the government that it hand over majority stakes in its local operations to Zimbabweans.
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Zimbabwean Official Blasts Impala Platinum

A Zimbabwean minister launched a verbal attack on Impala Platinum Chief Executive David Brown, saying on Wednesday he was sick and tired of the mining group's failure to comply with local black ownership laws.
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Who Are The Hottest KPop Stars? Yoobin Wins Worldwide Poll [PHOTOS]

Korean Pop (KPop) has been making headlines recently as the music phenomenon expands beyond Asia and attracts a Western fan base of screaming teenage boys and girls. Recently, the cable channel tvN conducted a poll, asking 150 foreign students from 20 countries which KPop idol they think is the sexiest.
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Impala Platinum Loses $263.66M in Illegal Rustenberg Strike

Impala Platinum , the world's second-largest platinum producer, said on Tuesday the costs of an illegal strike at its key Rustenburg operation in South Africa have reached 100,000 ounces and a loss of income of 2 billion rand ($263.66 million).
A women and her child walk past portraits of former South African President Nelson Mandela, painted by O.J. Zwane, in Soweto February 26, 2012.

South Africa's Nelson Mandela Released from Hospital

Former South African President Nelson Mandela was discharged from hospital on Sunday after a keyhole abdominal examination showed there was nothing seriously wrong with the 93-year-old anti-apartheid leader, the government said.
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Nelson Mandela Hospitalized

Former South African president Nelson Mandela was admitted to hospital on Saturday for treatment for a long-standing abdominal complaint, the government said.
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Renowned Climate Scientist Comes under Fire

The prestigious California-based Pacific Institute climate research group has launched an investigation of its president and founder, Peter Gleick, after he admitted fraudulently obtaining documents from global warming skeptics challenging his work.
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Saif Ali Khan Arrest: A Flashback by Both Sides

One of the top paid actors of Bollywood and a role model to millions, Saif Ali Khan might have got himself into a big mess. Mumbai police Wednesday registered a case against the actor under section 325 of the IPC for allegedly assaulting a patron of the Taj Mahal Hotel in south Mumbai.
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Sensex Drops; Bharti, Kingfisher Down; SBI up

The BSE Sensex was headed for a second day of decline on Thursday as investors booked profits from recent rallies as concerns mounted over the state of the global economy, including rising oil prices.
Miners at Rustenberg platinum mine

Platinum Prices up 3% on Supply Disruption

Platinum prices shot up more than three percent Wednesday after Impala Platinum Holdings Ltd., the world's second largest platinum producer, told buyers April deliveries would be slashed in half because of a strike in South Africa.
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Brad Pitt to Build Croatian Beach Resort: Report

Actor Brad Pitt may soon have a new role: real estate developer. Croatian paper Jutarnji List reported that Pitt has partnered with businessman Danko Koncar and actor Rade Serbedzija to build a luxury waterfront resort in the Brijuni Islands in the Adriatic Sea.
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Gold Prices Retreat from Two-Week High

Gold prices retreated from an earlier two-week high in Europe on Wednesday as persistent concerns over Europe's finances hurt the euro and weighed on stock markets, while a supply upset in major producer South Africa lifted platinum to a five-month high.
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Hillary Clinton Wears Green in G20 'Family Photo' While Others Sport White: Did She Miss The Memo?

In a strange mix-up, Hillary Clinton stuck out at a meeting of the G20 foreign affairs ministers in Los Cabos, Mexico this week. While the 30 other foreign secretaries and ministers wore crisp white shirts, Clinton stuck out sporting a lime green blouse. The informal meeting marked the first time the G20 Ministers of Foreign Affairs assembled together. The G20 members gathered in Mexico to discuss among other issues food security, sustainable development and the growing international economy.

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