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/ 30 October 2003
In a dramatic legal reversal, a US federal court judge in Houston, Texas, has overturned the conviction of a former CIA agent who has spent 20 years in jail for trafficking high explosives to Libya, it emerged on Wednesday.
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/ 30 October 2003
The National Film and Video Foundation launched the Dr Lionel Ngakane Scholarship Fund in Johannesburg on Wednesday, celebrating the legacy of the South African filmmaker.
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/ 30 October 2003
The total volume of goods transported in South Africa during August 2003 slipped by 1,0% y/y to 61 196-million tons after easing back to July’s 2,5% y/y increase of
60 489-million tons, Statistics South Africa said on Thursday.
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/ 30 October 2003
As the 22nd Congress of the Socialist International entered its last day on Wednesday, leftists from around the world put the final touches on a declaration in favour of a new world order and against the unilateral policies of the United States.
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/ 30 October 2003
Angola’s central province of Huambo used to be the country’s breadbasket, but 18 months after the end of the country’s 27-year civil war the majority of its one million people still depend on foreign aid.
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/ 30 October 2003
Inquiries from scientists at the Global Change Symposium in Kirstenbosch in Cape Town on Wednesday on the whereabouts of a report completed three years ago raised queries into whether the government has been suppressing potentially worrying information on the consequences of climate change in South Africa.
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/ 30 October 2003
The Zimbabwe government has deployed military doctors and nurses to state hospitals that are reeling under a strike by state medical staff, the <i>Herald</i> newspaper reported on Wednesday. Health Minister David Parirenyatwa told the state-run daily that the deployment was an emergency measure aimed at avoiding loss of lives.
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/ 30 October 2003
Pupils at state schools in the west African state of Guinea Bissau resumed classes on Wednesday for the first time in two years after teachers called off a strike over back pay. The union decided on Tuesday to call off the marathon stoppage after a meeting with Guinea-Bissau President Henrique Rosa.
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/ 30 October 2003
The UN Security Council was to meet on Thursday to discuss a report on the booming trade in African diamonds and minerals which is continuing to finance what may be the deadliest conflict since World War II.
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/ 30 October 2003
Afghanistan risks degenerating into a state controlled by ”narco-terrorists” and drug cartels unless the soaring level of opium and heroin production is curbed. Two years after US airpower and northern guerrillas drove the Taliban from power, the world’s biggest source of heroin is cultivating opium poppies and processing the opium into heroin at near record rates.