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Two American soldiers were killed when their Abrams battle tank was damaged by resistance fighters, resulting in the number of US soldiers killed in combat since major fighting ended topping the wartime total. In a separate attack, seven Ukrainian troops were wounded in the first ambush of a multinational unit in Baghdad.
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/ 29 October 2003
The Airports Company of South Africa on Wednesday said the South African Police Service on Wednesday morning arrested 36 striking members of the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (Satawu) at Cape Town International airport. The Satawu strike is the first strike action at the company in five years.
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/ 29 October 2003
Some South African National Defence Force bases and their troops were identified in 2001 to help carry out a plan to overthrow the state, the Pretoria High Court heard in the Boeremag treason trial on Wednesday. Meetings to this end had taken place with the commanding officers of several commandos and generals.
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/ 29 October 2003
Twenty-six government officials, including two heads of districts from the KwaZulu-Natal agriculture department, have been arrested for fraud totalling R1,1-million, police said on Wednesday. The affected areas are Vryheid, Nongoma, Babanango, Empangeni and Eshowe.
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/ 29 October 2003
Former judge Joos Hefer has decided to subpoena the country’s intelligence agencies for information, his commission announced on Wednesday. Commission secretary Advocate John Bacon said the heads of the various agencies will be summonsed to testify before the commission.
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/ 29 October 2003
The strength on the global equities front filtered through to the JSE Securities Exchange South Africa on Wednesday, with the bourse firmly in the black at midday. Slight weakness in the currency was also lending support to rand-hedge
and resources counters.
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/ 29 October 2003
Microsoft yesterday said it had reached a -million settlement of class action antitrust lawsuits in six additional American states. The agreements mean that the software firm has now settled complaints with 10 states for a total of ,5-billion, leaving just five more actions pending.
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/ 29 October 2003
British tourist Derek Bond, who had a horror stay in a Durban jail for 20 days earlier this year, has returned to KwaZulu-Natal — this time at the expense and guest of Tourism KwaZulu-Natal.
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The Freedom of Expression Institute and the South African History Archive said on Tuesday they were dismayed at the country’s intelligence agencies for not cooperating with the Hefer commission. They said the intelligence services had made it clear they were going to make it as difficult as possible for the commission to access their records.
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/ 29 October 2003
Australia’s worst serial killers were sentenced on Wednesday to life in prison for their role in what became known as the bodies-in-the-barrels case. ”The evidence has drawn me to the conclusion that both of you are incapable of true rehabilitation,” Judge Brian Martin told John Bunting (37) and Robert Wagner (31).