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These unruly kids should follow procedures. – Youth Minister Kazenambo Kazenambo said on Monday of the struggle children after revealing that the struggle children from the Berg Aukas Camp who have marched to Ondangwa and Windhoek this month have disqualified themselves for Government’s recruitment programme.

It was hot, and just like humans get all touchy when they are hot, so bees too get moody. Something triggered them, and unfortunately these people became the target. – Swakopmund’s local bee expert and controller, Ernst Ritter, said the hot weather could have played a big role in making the bees short-tempered leading them to attack two Swakopmund residents. I wanted to take his soul. – Frenchman Nicolas Cocaign, 39, told an investigating judge probing his case after he went on trial on Monday for allegedly killing his prison cellmate and then slicing open his chest to remove and consume his heart – but mistakenly eating his lung. It took us years to get the resorts to the level they were at. And within an hour, nothing was left. – Hilton Jessiman, co-owner of The Whaler, said on Sunday. Three holiday resorts in Ponta do Ouro, Mozambique, were razed by fire after a woman apparently knocked over a candle in her sleep.From The History BooksHe who cannot support himself, cannot take his own decision. – On June 23, 1956, Gamal Abdel Nasser was elected president of Egypt. He was the second President of Egypt from 1954 until his death on September 28, 1970. He led the bloodless coup which toppled the monarchy of King Farouk and heralded a new period of modernisation and socialist reform in Egypt together with a profound advancement of pan-Arab nationalism.

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