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/ 4 September 2004
Police in London have arrested a disgraced Nigerian state governor on suspicion of money laundering, said a spokesperson for the British High Commission (embassy) on Friday. He was detained for questioning in London by police as part of a long ongoing investigation by Britiain and Nigeria into corruption.
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/ 4 September 2004
A media briefing called by the Independent Democrats (ID) to welcome eight new councillors into its ranks turned into a public spat with members of the Democratic Alliance (DA). ID Leader Patricia de Lille lost her temper when DA members repeatedly questioned her about her party’s policies.
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/ 4 September 2004
Bill Clinton, the former US president, checked himself into a New York City hospital on Friday for heart bypass surgery after suffering chest pains and a shortness of breath. ”He will be having surgery early in the week,” his wife, Senator Hillary Clinton said last night after visiting her husband in hospital.
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/ 4 September 2004
John Kerry launched a stinging and personal counter-attack against George Bush’s administration, singling out Dick Cheney, the vice-president, for having ”refused to serve” in Vietnam. The ferocity of the Democratic party’s presidential challenger marked a sharp change in his campaign tactics.
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/ 4 September 2004
The Amazon rainforest and savanna lands are being destroyed at a rate of 1,2-million hectares a year to feed Europe’s insatiable desire for more soya bean production, according to a research report on Friday. The UK is one of the chief customers for South American soya production.
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/ 4 September 2004
The influential Zanu-PF Women’s League has entered the Zimbabwean ruling party’s succession race and is now lobbying for a prominent woman politburo member to be nominated as vice-president during the party’s forthcoming December congress.
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/ 4 September 2004
The influential Zanu-PF Women’s League has entered the Zimbabwean ruling party’s succession race and is now lobbying for a prominent woman politburo member to be nominated as vice-president during the party’s forthcoming December congress.
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/ 4 September 2004
The United States has praised South Africa for acting against Pakistan scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan’s secret nuclear network after a local businessman was charged with nuclear trafficking. He had allegedly used the network in efforts to help Libya develop an atomic weapons programme.