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/ 17 September 2004
New Zealand beer consumption averages 80 litres per head a year, but community leaders in the North Island town of Masterton object to brewing experiments in a school science class, according to a newspaper report on Friday. Masterton deputy mayor Rod McKenzie said he was surprised that pupils were allowed to brew beer.
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/ 17 September 2004
South Africa’s trade negotiations with China should be suspended until their effect on the local economy had been studied, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) said on Friday. Cosatu president Zwelinzima Vavi was addressing the Southern African Textile and Clothing Workers’ Union in Cape Town.
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/ 17 September 2004
Between 30 and 50 people were killed in an explosion at a fuel pipeline on the outskirts of the Nigerian commercial capital, Lagos, police said on Friday. ”People were stealing fuel from the pipeline when it caught fire and exploded,” said police spokesperson Emmanuel Ighodalo of Thursday’s blast in Amore.
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/ 17 September 2004
Shoppers in Sukhumvit Road, Bangkok, are greeted by gleaming white ivory statuettes and whole elephant tusks, but what tourists don’t know is they have probably been made from illegal African ivory. Conservationists are concerned that loopholes in Thailand’s laws allow the ivory trade to flourish in that country.
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/ 17 September 2004
Oil prices bubbled higher on Friday as traders assessed the impact of Hurricane Ivan on supplies, even as another storm loomed. The price of Brent North Sea crude oil for delivery in November rose by 53 cents to ,28 a barrel in late-morning trading in London.
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/ 17 September 2004
Italy will stop applying European Union sanctions against Libya next week even if the measures are not lifted by the EU, Interior Minister Giuseppe Pisanu said on Friday. He was referring to an issue that Tripoli has explicitly linked to efforts to prevent illegal immigration into Europe via its Mediterranean coastline.
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/ 17 September 2004
Hundreds of black peasant farmers in Zimbabwe were this week forcibly evicted from two formerly white-owned farms, witnesses, civic groups and police said on Friday. A witness said he saw scores of huts on fire after riot police had ordered all farmers without official permits to settle on the properties to vacate.
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/ 17 September 2004
An ingenious telephone service helping women in Moscow get rid of undesired suitors has become hugely popular. ”Hello. Welcome to the Moscow refusal service. The person who left you this telephone number does not want to speak to you. Goodbye,” is what an increasing number of men are hearing.
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/ 17 September 2004
Although the entrance of the country’s second national operator (SNO) is seen as a threat to Telkom’s future revenues, the dual-listed telecommunications giant on Friday said it welcomes Minister of Communications Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri’s granting of the licence to the second operator.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-Business&ao=122326">Government grants SNO licence</a>
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/ 17 September 2004
Foreign diplomats taken to the apparent scene of a mystery explosion in North Korea were shown a large building site and told two blasts occurred, but South Korea on Friday cast doubt on Pyongyang’s explanation. Suspicions were aroused last week that a nuclear test could have taken place.