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/ 2 November 2002
In the bleached shantytowns of Southern Africa they call them the ugly sisters — a twin force of such devastation that from the wreckage it is seldom possible to distinguish one sibling’s impact from the other: Aids and hunger have become inseparable.
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/ 28 September 2002
Iraqi agents have been negotiating with criminal gangs in the Democratic Republic of Congo to trade Iraqi military weapons and training for high-grade minerals, possibly including uranium, according to evidence obtained by The Guardian in London.
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/ 17 September 2002
April 11 2002. About 10.20am. A coach full of German tourists is bumping down the road that leads to the ancient El Ghriba synagogue on the Tunisian island of Djerba. Around the corner, in a narrow, cobbled lane that runs alongside, an old Iveco tanker truck is waiting, driver inside.
The world is in a ”race against the clock” in the war against hunger, United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation chief Jacques Diouf said on Thursday at the end of the World Food Summit.
A Latin-American cardinal — Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga, tipped as the next pope — has launched an extraordinary attack on the United States media by comparing its coverage of church sex scandals to persecution by Nero, Hitler and Stalin.
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/ 12 January 2001
The crime boss was in the family home, issuing orders from a secret room behind a kitchen cupboard and a sliding wall panel.