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/ 6 May 2002

Le Pen trounced – but can Chirac lead?

WORLD leaders reacted with relief on Monday after French President Jacques Chirac trounced extreme right-winger Jean-Marie Le Pen in an election that had cast a cloud over France’s image on the world stage. With almost one voice, governments in Europe, the Middle East, North Africa and Asia lauded the result as a resounding defeat for […]

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/ 6 May 2002

Ravalomanana to be sworn into office

Ravalomanana was on April 29 officially declared the winner of a December presidential election, after months of dispute with incumbent president Didier Ratsiraka who has refused to accept the result, leaving the island with two rival governments. In a sign of international recognition for Ravalomanana, the popular mayor of the capital, France and the 15-nation […]

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/ 6 May 2002

High drama as Harksen tries to get bail

GERMAN fugitive Jurgen Harksen’s bail application in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court halted abruptly on Saturday, after a night of drama in which the defence team had to obtain a Cape High Court order for access to him in the Goodwood prison. Saturday’s proceedings before Magistrate Ingrid Freitag were to have started at 10am, but […]

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/ 6 May 2002

550 Maoists killed in Nepal

MORE than 550 Maoist rebels have been killed in a huge offensive by the police and army in Nepal over the past three days, a home ministry official said on Sunday. The deaths came as the security forces targetted a camp in western Nepal where around 800 guerrillas were gathered for training. ”The Maoists’ casualty […]