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/ 24 January 2003
The awards were spread around at an event that is seen as the warm-up for the Oscars, writes Duncan Campbell.
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/ 18 January 2003
The United States hopes to send an astronaut to Mars in a nuclear-powered rocket, according to a senior Nasa official. Under the space agency’s ambitious plan, humans would be sent on a two-month journey to Mars in a spaceship travelling at three times the current speed of space travel.
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/ 10 January 2003
The teenager accused of taking part in 21 sniper shootings around Washington and in other parts of the United States last year may have been handed over to his co-accused by his mother as security for money she owed. The suggestion comes from an investigation by the Antiguan government.
Duncan Campbell explains why a collection of films about September 11 has yet to find a distributor in the United States.
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/ 4 December 2002
There can be few more spectacular sights in Latin America than El Reventador, the volcano that has been erupting so furiously over the past few weeks that it has cast its dust over the streets of Quito, about 100km away. Now the capital of Ecuador is experiencing the latest in a series of Latin American eruptions of a different nature: the peaceful election of a left-wing president whose declared enemies are corruption and poverty and who looks like the antithesis of the kind of leader the United States would like to see in the region.
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/ 28 November 2002
Ecuador is experiencing the latest in a series of Latin American eruptions: the peaceful election of a leftwing president whose declared enemies are corruption and poverty and who looks like the antithesis of the kind of leader the US would like to see in the region.
Henry Kissinger may face extradition proceedings in connection with the role of the US in the 1973 military coup in Chile. He is wanted for questioning as a witness in the investigation into the overthrow of the socialist president, Salvador Allende.
A -million class-action lawsuit launched against a food manufacturer in the United States has created concerns in the food and restaurant business that obese Americans may now seek damages for being overweight because of the mislabelling snacks.
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/ 16 February 2000
American Beauty by British director Sam Mendes tops the list with eight Oscar nominations, report Duncan Campbell in Los Angeles and Fiachra Gibbons.