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/ 31 October 2001
SIX staff members at the US consulate general in Durban, South Africa, were taken to a hospital for tests after an anthrax scare Tuesday, said public relations officer Amelia Broderick. She said the secretary to consul general Craig Kuehl opened a typed envelope, addressed to the consulate general, which contained “an unidentified white powder”. “We […]
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/ 31 October 2001
MOZAMBIQUE’S main international partners have pledged a total of $722-million in aid for the southern African state in the fiscal year 2002, the World Bank said on Saturday. A press release issued by the World Bank after two days of consultative talks with the Mozambican government said the aid package is aimed at supporting the […]
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/ 31 October 2001
THE South African government is concerned about the deaths of civilians in Afghanistan, and has called for constraint in the use by the US of military strikes, an official said on Tuesday. “While South Africa recognises the right of the United States government to track down the perpetrators of the September 11 terrorist attacks to […]
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/ 31 October 2001
Washington | Monday US Muslim leaders have called on the administration of President George W. Bush to halt its bombing campaign against Afghanistan, in a marked departure from their earlier stance. A broad coalition of Muslim groups on the weekend urged the White House to ”urgently reassess its action in Afghanistan, and to cease the […]
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/ 31 October 2001
Pretoria | Wednesday ONE of the three Mozambican immigrants who had dogs set on them by East Rand police last year filed an assault and abduction complaint after an incident on Monday night, SABC radio news reported on Wednesday. Sylvester Khosa said he was kidnapped and assaulted by four white men who identified themselves as […]
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/ 31 October 2001
COLOMBIA is taking additional security measures to ensure it will not become a transit point for heroin from Afghanistan destined for users in the United States, a police official said on Monday. ”It is possible that narcotraffickers could use existing smuggling routes to try to bring heroin from Afghanistan to Mexico and the United States. […]
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/ 31 October 2001
Bloemfontein | Wednesday A 14-MONTH-old baby girl was raped, allegedly by her uncles, in Tweeling in the Eastern Free State on Tuesday. This is the second reported rape of an infant this week. The girl’s mother left her baby in the care of the men when she went to visit her mother-in-law, police representative Sergeant […]
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/ 31 October 2001
Pretoria | Monday SOUTH African multi-national gold producer AngloGold showed a headline earnings increase of 19% (R637-million) in its report for the quarter ended September 30, released on Wednesday morning. This was the third successive improved quarter. The equivalent US dollar increase in headline earnings was 15%, or US76-million. This increase was before unrealised losses […]
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/ 31 October 2001
Washington | Tuesday US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld accused the Taliban and al-Qaeda of using Afghan civilians as human shields and blamed the US foes for ”every single casualty” of the war in Afghanistan. Rumsfeld’s counterattack this week came amid growing uneasiness among leaders in Muslim countries over the toll in civilian lives from US […]
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/ 31 October 2001
POLICE on Wednesday morning cordoned off President Thabo Mbeki’s Tuynhuys office in Cape Town, following what is believed to be an anthrax scare. A standard emergency plan was put into place when a suspicious envelope was found at the reception area, soon after 9am. The envelope will be sent for forensic tests, although it is […]