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/ 7 November 2003
She’s the unrivalled queen of rap and the first black female music mogul, so it’s no surprise that Missy Elliott has a reputation as the diva you cross at your peril – in the male-dominated, misogynist world of hip-hop, she needs to be seen to be tough to survive, writes Lindsay Baker in Puerto Rico.
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/ 7 November 2003
Andre 3000 is one half of the most exciting hip-hop act around: OutKast. Or was. Now he only talks about the act in the past tense. Have the duo split up? Alex Petridis speaks to the big-haired, big rap star and yoga enthusiast in London.
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/ 7 November 2003
Ever since its foundation, Israel has been troubled by the thought that it might have as much to fear from supposed friends as from avowed enemies. That is one reason why Israelis are often anxious monitors of public opinion in North America and Europe.
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/ 7 November 2003
The prospect of a future plagued by water shortages in Sub-Saharan Africa is coming under the spotlight this week, in Nairobi. About 200 scientists and decision makers are meeting in the Kenyan capital under the auspices of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research to discuss the matter.
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/ 7 November 2003
Pollution from the Prestige oil tanker spill is far worse and more widespread than the authorities have admitted, and marine scientists warned yesterday that fish and shellfish from Spain may be poisonous for up to 10 years.
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/ 7 November 2003
In the few weeks before its fall, Iraq’s Ba’athist regime made a series of increasingly desperate peace offers to Washington, promising to hold elections and even to allow US troops to search for banned weapons. But the advances were all rejected by the Bush administration, according to intermediaries involved in the talks.
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/ 7 November 2003
They called him the sultan, the emir, the sheikh. He wore crocodile-skin loafers and fine silk suits, rode in chauffeur-driven limos and leather-upholstered private jets, ate in three-star restaurants, slept in five-star hotels, maintained servants and even boasted, on special occasions, a harem.
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/ 7 November 2003
Jessica Lynch, the American soldier held for eight days during the Iraq war, was raped by her captors, according to an authorised biography due for publication next week.
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/ 7 November 2003
Walter Senoko, the man whose R1-million payment to Mpumalanga politician Steve Mabona we exposed last week, obtained an interdict in the Pretoria High Court on Thursday preventing the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> from publishing certain follow-up information.
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/ 7 November 2003
Deputy President Jacob Zuma says French arms manufacturer Thales has denied the existence of a note alleged to reveal that he tried to solicit a half-a-million-rand-a-year bribe from the company.