Group F dishes up a few surprises
Italy fought back to avoid an upset against Paraguay on Monday but Japan broke African hearts with their first Soccer World Cup win on foreign soil.
Denmark
Danes’ bias sank climate change talks
UN chief’s leaked letter fingers ill-considered draft agreement that pitted rich against poor.
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Bafana win hearts — and games
Bafana Bafana’s 71st minute winning goal over Denmark was like a flashback to those black and white videos of SA’s football in the 70s.
Denmark
After a six-year absence, Denmark is once again set to explode on the elite world soccer scene.
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Somali charged with murder attempt on cartoonist
A Somali man has been charged with trying to murder a Danish artist whose cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad sparked a storm of protest.
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Danish police arrest man trying to kill Muhammad cartoonist
Danish police said on Saturday they shot and wounded a Somali man with al-Qaeda links when he tried to break into the home of a cartoonist.
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Copenhagen deal ‘devoid of any sense of responsibility’
High drama in the Copenhagen negotiations last weekend failed to deliver an agreement strong enough to save the world from climate change.
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Copenhagen: Obama fails to deliver
Barack Obama’s speech at Copenhagen on Friday contained nothing significantly new to help the world reach an climate change agreement.
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Temperatures rising
With the UN climate negotiations the hottest show on Earth this week, thousands more participants than expected descended on the Danish capital.
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Climate hope fades
Copenhagen summit is on a hiding to nowhere, with no agreement likely now
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Will we be takers or givers?
This is the moment at which we turn and face ourselves. Here, in the plastic corridors, humankind decides what it is and what it will become.
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Copenhagen: Desperately seeking a strong deal
Analysts at the Copenhagen conference believe a strong climate deal may not be forthcoming.
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Arnie and the megafauna charm Copenhagen
Until now Copenhagen’s most famous citizen was a girl with a fishy tail sitting on a rock. No more.
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UN climate negotiators hammer out initial draft
Negotiators facing a Friday deadline hammered out an initial draft United Nations climate pact overnight.
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Something rotten in the State of Denmark
During the past two days the Bella Centre in Copenhagen has been a place filled with anger.
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Leaders fear for outcome of climate summit
Prospects for an ambitious accord to tame global warming darkened on Thursday with the UN summit deadlocked.
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Maverick trio scoff at the West at climate summit
Firebrand leaders Hugo Chávez, Evo Morales and Robert Mugabe turned up the heat at the United Nations climate talks on Wednesday.
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Climate talks face uphill battle despite funding pledges
UN climate talks move into the final two-day straight on Thursday blighted by bitter wrangling that could wreck efforts to draw up a sweeping pact.
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India: Kyoto climate pact in ‘intensive care’
The Kyoto Protocol is in ”intensive care” and global negotiations to extend the pact have stalled, India’s environment minister said on Wednesday.
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UN chief ‘signals delay on climate financial aid’
Ban Ki-moon suggested that a deal on climate change might not include a figure on financial aid for developing countries, a report said on Wednesday.
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Ministers work to break deadlock at climate talks
Ministers strived to break a deadlock in global climate talks on Tuesday, three days before world leaders are meant to agree a new pact.
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Copenhagen bursting at the seams
The world has descended on Copenhagen – or it certainly feels that way.
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World leaders try to save floundering climate summit
World leaders began arriving at the United Nations climate summit on Tuesday, seeking to give a shot in the arm to the floundering talks.
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Climate negotiators in race against time
Ban Ki-moon heads to global climate talks on Tuesday warning that negotiators face a race against time to prevent the meeting ending in failure.
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‘Climate code red’ at UN talks, warns Nigeria
Africa’s frustration at the United Nations climate summit boiled over on Monday as delegates walked out of key talks.
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Walkout heightens failure fears over climate summit
The UN climate summit hit major turbulence on Monday when developing nations walked out of key negotiations and China accused the West of trickery.
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UN climate marathon risks failure
The spectre of failure loomed on Monday over the United Nations climate summit, with China accusing wealthy nations of ”playing tricks”.
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Crunch climate talks enter second week
The marathon United Nations climate summit entered its second week on Monday as environment ministers readied closed-door meetings.
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Thousands march for tough action on climate change
Tens of thousands of activists demanding a planet-saving climate deal blazed a path to the door of the UN talks on Saturday.
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Progress in UN climate talks, tougher issues ahead
UN climate talks have made progress at the halfway mark but many of the toughest issues are deadlocked, delegates said on Saturday.
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Climate talks: First blows struck over deal
Major players fired the first shots in a three-way battle on climate change on Friday, wrangling over a document proposed as the blueprint of a pact.
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China says US envoy ‘irresponsible’ on climate aid
China on Friday attacked a top US envoy as ”extremely irresponsible” for saying at the Copenhagen summit that no US climate aid would go to China.
