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Published: Friday 30 June 2006

Musicians from the Shaman forest community in Brazil are on a musical tour of Britain. The tour intends taking vignettes of this Amazonian community's culture to the hosts.

Kenya had to rescind its recently announced ban of smoking in public after an order from the country's Supreme Court. The court was responding to a petition from tobbaco firms, which pleaded they had little time to respond to the ban.

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