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/ 21 October 2003
Eleven Palestinians died in a series of Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip on Monday, including eight in a refugee camp, where Israeli helicopters targeted a car on the main street. Israeli planes and helicopters struck five times on Monday, hitting a suspected Hamas weapons cache twice and a car carrying suspected militants.
Hamas, Islamic Jihad vow to retaliate
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/ 21 October 2003
Radical solutions are being sought for the crisis in African universities, including new sources of funding to supplement government efforts. Representatives of sub-Saharan African countries, who met recently in Ghana, said state funding no longer responds to Africa’s needs to train professionals, especially in science and technical subjects.
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/ 21 October 2003
Sanlam Life, the life assurance subsidiary of listed South African financial services group Sanlam Ltd, confirmed on Monday that about 350 people would lose their jobs as part of the group’s current restructuring process. The restructuring is part of a comprehensive effort to save R250-million in costs in Sanlam Life over the next year.
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/ 21 October 2003
In what is expected to be one of the largest events in the industry in 2003, the South African wine industry is set to hold its first-ever black economic empowerment transformation conference under the auspices of the South African Wine Industry Trust and the South African Wine and Brandy Company, in order to develop a Wine Industry BEE Charter.
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/ 21 October 2003
The multinational companies currently being sued in the United States by the non-profit Khulumani Support Group were not merely doing business in apartheid South Africa, they were knowingly aiding, abetting and in effect sustaining the racist regime.
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/ 21 October 2003
The Hefer commission confirmed on Tuesday that it had been in contact with a former Eastern Cape human rights lawyer who had confessed to being apartheid government agent RS452. Commission secretary John Bacon said Vanessa Brereton, who now lives in London, contacted the commission last Sunday through a go-between.
Sources won’t be compromised
Arms deal focus
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/ 21 October 2003
A controversial German historian is at the centre of a row over his latest book, which includes gruesome photos of German civilians killed by Allied bombing during World War II. The book argues that the relentless bombing campaign against German cities in the last months of the war served no military purpose.
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/ 21 October 2003
The trial of the man charged with last year’s sniper shootings in the Washington area was thrown into turmoil on Monday when the accused began conducting his own defence. With his life in the balance, John Allen Muhammad (42) delivered a rambling opening statement, with reflections on the meaning of truth.
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/ 21 October 2003
Survivors said on Monday that at least 63 would-be immigrants died at sea during a Mediterranean voyage which was supposed to take them to a new life in Europe. One survivor, a Somalian woman, was apparently in such a stricken condition that her rescuers took her for dead.
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/ 21 October 2003
The kebab stalls and tea shops huddled at the foot of the limestone cliffs at the gorge of Gali Ali Beg in Iraqi Kurdistan are doing good business as Arabs from Baghdad and Basra picnic alongside local Kurdish families by the cool, frothy waterfalls.