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/ 21 January 2001
LIBERIA has recalled its ambassador from Guinea, accusing its neighbour of backing rebel attacks on its territory during months of border fighting and mistreating its diplomats. A foreign ministry statement noted four recent rebel incursions into Liberia’s northern Lofa county. The statement also referred to the alleged rape of Liberian refugees in Guinea, the beating […]
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/ 21 January 2001
A Sudanese court has jailed an editor-in-chief until her newspaper publishes an apology for a ”defamatory” article alleging financial mismanagement in the courts, her newspaper, Al-Rai Al-Akher, reported on Thursday. The independent daily said Amal Abbas had been transferred to Omdurman prison for women, near Khartoum. The judiciary recently filed a lawsuit against the newspaper […]
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/ 19 January 2001
When the end credits of <b>Dancer in the Dark</b> began to roll at Cannes, I at first thought the applause and cheering for this Scandinavian musical, made in Sweden and Denmark in a form of English, to be ironic. How could anyone have admired or been moved by this tedious, banal, incompetent movie?
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/ 19 January 2001
Andrew Worsdale visits the set of Darrell Roodt’s ‘Mission Impossible without a budget’.
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/ 19 January 2001
With <b>Dancer in the Dark</b> it is as though Lars von Trier set himself the challenge of making a musical from the most unpromising materials possible. Here we have the tragic or melodramatic story of Selma Jezkova (Björk), a Czech immigrant, a single mother with a young son, working in a factory somewhere in middle America.
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/ 19 January 2001
The minister, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, will distribute the report to Minister of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology Ben Ngubane.
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/ 19 January 2001
Talks between the military junta and the opposition could signal change for Myanmar.
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/ 19 January 2001
The main players in Congo’s conflict are waiting to see whether interim president Joseph Kabila is a man of war or peace.
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/ 19 January 2001
A panel of judges sitting at the appeal court in London ruled in favour of an appeal brought by <em>The Sun</em> newspaper.
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/ 19 January 2001
There are certain people whose personalities are accurately depicted by their physical features — one such person was Laurent Desiré Kabila.