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/ 20 October 2003
Zimbabwe’s main constitutional change pressure group has taken its campaign to a level, demanding that the next general election be held only under a new democratic constitution. The National Constitutional Assembly says to get into another election before changing the rules would be self-defeating.
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/ 20 October 2003
The leaders of the militant Hamas and Islamic Jihad groups vowed on Monday to retaliate against Israel for continuing attacks against Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The groups’ statement followed Israeli airstrikes on Monday in Gaza that killed two Hamas activists and a bystander.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=22257">Gaza strike kills three</a>
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/ 20 October 2003
It should be possible to prevent the intelligence community’s sources and methods from being revealed before the Hefer commission, commission secretary John Bacon said on Monday. ”We are not interested in their sources or methods,” Bacon said.
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/ 20 October 2003
Rights organisations are demanding that Kenya’s draft constitution be adopted to allow inmates to vote in 2007. Like in most African countries, Kenyan prisoners do not vote. If Kenya allows its prisoners to vote, it will be the second African country — after South Africa — to do so.
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/ 20 October 2003
Three suspected members of the radical Hamas group were killed in Gaza City when an Israeli attack helicopter fired missiles at a car containing the group. Ten people were reported wounded in the attack, which destroyed the vehicle as it was travelling in the northern part of Gaza City.
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/ 20 October 2003
Multinational corporations need to rethink their investments in poor countries so they can provide lasting opportunities for people there rather than just make profits for their shareholders, the chief executive of Hewlett-Packard said on Monday.
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/ 20 October 2003
This death thing is actually beginning to piss me off. It is true that you can never really know another somebody, really know them with all the secrets that they will probably carry to the grave. But in the difficult contours of life you can sometimes inch closer and closer to where another somebody might be at and make contact.
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/ 20 October 2003
Papa Wemba, the Congolese music star accused of aiding an illegal immigration network in France and Belgium will resume his performances in Paris with a concert on Saturday. The 53-year-old Afropop musician, whose real name is Jules Shungu Wembadio Pene Kikumba, was released from a Paris prison on June 5 after he posted bail of 30 000 euros.
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/ 20 October 2003
Burundi on Tuesday enters its 11th year of civil war that has claimed more than 300 000 mostly civilian lives and ravaged this tiny French-speaking central African country that nevertheless clings today to hopes for peace.
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/ 20 October 2003
The Financial Advisory and Intermediary Services Act cannot function as a one-man-fits-all legislation across the financial services industry, says Carstens Mphelo, a director at Metropolitan Asset Managers. Financial services regulators must take into account that different sectors in the industry operate differently, he says.