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• Iran president defends petrol rationing after protests

  - 2007-06-29

  TEHRAN AFP — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad defended Friday his government's decision to ration petrol in oil-rich Iran after the move sparked violent protests. "Petrol rationing is great task, although it is a complex task," the president was quoted as saying by the ISNA news agency. "This issue needs...

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• Senior British cop nabbed using mobile while driving

  - 2006-10-22

  LONDON AFP — A senior policeman in southern England was caught driving his car while using his mobile phone, an offence in the UK, by an angry motorist who followed him all the way back to his police station, The Times reported. Guy Darby, a chief superintendent in the Surrey...

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• Australian driver charged for reversing across outback

  - 2006-10-06

  SYDNEY AFP — Shocked police have slapped an Australian driver with reckless driving charges after he tried to reverse more than 500 kilometres (310 miles) across the country's outback. Police were astounded by the man's ambitious attempt to drive backwards all the way from the gold mining town of Kalgoorlie,...

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• Make-up at the wheel costs Welsh motorist dearly

  - 2006-03-08

  LONDON AFP — A motorist in Wales was fined 200 pounds (290 euros, 350 dollars) on Wednesday -- and seen on national television -- after she was caught on police video putting on her make-up while driving. Donna Maddock, 22, from Mold in north Wales, was pictured with both...

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• Australian fined after wounding motorist while trying to shoot cow

  - 2005-10-26

  SYDNEY AFP — An Australian received a 1,000 dollar (750 US) fine for accidentally wounding a passing motorist in the leg while trying to shoot dead a cow. Rudolf Stadler, 51, was also banned by a Brisbane district court from holding a gun license for five years, national radio...

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• Flash floods block Paris-Brussels motorway

  - 2005-06-30

  BRUSSELS AFP — Torrential rain left parts of the main Paris-Brussels motorway underwater overnight, triggering huge traffic jams with motorists stuck for up to nine hours. Flash flooding caused by storms was at its worst on the E19 motorway near Mons in southern Belgium, where a 600-metre stretch of...

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• Nigerian agency lauds court ruling on fuel prices

  - 2004-09-23

  LAGOS AFP — Nigeria's petrol pricing agency welcomed a court ruling which worried motorists when it opened the way for fuel sellers to fix their own prices and barred a planned mass strike over higher costs. A federal high court in Abuja on Tuesday banned the Nigeria Labour Congress...

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• Wrong-way British motorists fess up

  - 2004-07-27

  LONDON AFP ? One in 10 drivers in Britain confesses to having driven on the wrong side of the road while travelling abroad, according to a recent survey. If the findings are correct, they mean that 814,000 British motorists have found themselves driving in the face of oncoming traffic...

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• Snowstorms kill three, shutter schools and businesses in Middle East

  - 2004-02-15

  AMMAN AFP ? Snowstorms shuttered schools and businesses in the Middle East and left a total of three dead in Lebanon and Jordan, where many called the weather a blessing for their water-starved country. Strong winds buffeted Jordan overnight and snow fell heavily on northern and central regions of...

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