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/ 20 February 2007
Google has launched legal action against a group of Polish poets, demanding that they give up their internet domain name <i>Gmail.pl</i>, a member of the cultural collective said on Friday. The domain belongs to GMAiL — the "Grupa Mlodych Artystow i Literatow", or Group of Young Artists and Writers.
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/ 20 February 2007
Britain’s Defence Ministry on Sunday launched a rival to online auction site eBay, offering surplus and ex-government military equipment at knock-down prices. Among the items being sold are "his and hers" military uniforms, outdoor gear — mostly in camouflage green — seven light aircraft, three ships and an eight-person rowing boat.
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/ 20 February 2007
An Iranian website fiercely critical of the President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has been shut down in an apparent fresh crackdown on anti-government dissent on the internet. Baztab, a fundamentalist site which has previously accused Ahmadinejad of betraying the Islamic revolution by attending a female dance show, has been closed for acting against the Constitution
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/ 20 February 2007
South Africans may be basking in the joy of hosting the 2010 World Cup, but we should not forget that this is a time for the whole continent to rejoice. The event provides all of Africa with the chance to open the eyes of the world to our rich potential — that which will perhaps be the most important legacy of what has been described as "Africa’s World Cup".
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/ 20 February 2007
The weekly <i>Son</i> has pointed out that the latest circulation data is misleading. The October – December 2006 figures make it seem as if its total ABCs have dropped by more than 100 000 while, in fact, the totals for the weekly newspaper are lower because <i>Son</i> in the Western Cape made no submission.
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/ 20 February 2007
A new award for investigative journalism, initiated by businessman Taco Kuiper shortly before his death in 2004, has been met with dismay from broadcasting and internet journalists who have been excluded from entering.
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/ 19 February 2007
I was lurking around the lobby of the famous old Hotel Kempinski in Berlin, hoping to catch a glimpse of the famous writer and journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski and approach him for an interview. I had told the organisers of the Berlin-based Lettres Internationale prizegiving we were attending (this is about three years ago) that this was the hook for me in flying all the way from Johannesburg.
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/ 19 February 2007
The Freedom Front Plus (FF+) has lambasted the South African Defence Force’s transformation policy, saying it has contributed to thousands of experienced white officers leaving the force. The party’s spokesperson on defence, Pieter Groenewald, said the policy, introduced two years ago, required more than 5Â 000 white senior officers to leave the force.
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/ 19 February 2007
Groups wanting to retain the names of Potchefstroom and Pretoria have joined forces, civil rights group AfriForum said on Monday. ”Action Group Potchefstroom and AfriForum will pool their legal expertise and will use the same legal team for possible legal steps required for the preservation of both place names,” said AfriForum chief executive Kallie Kriel.