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/ 30 September 2005
Microsoft’s chief executive Steve Ballmer will meet with the European Union’s antitrust chief next week, her spokesperson said on Friday, as the company appeals a March 2004 ruling by EU regulators. Neelie Kroes planned to meet Ballmer over breakfast on Wednesday to discuss general antitrust issues, EU spokesperson Jonathan Todd said.
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/ 30 September 2005
Oscar-winning South African movie star Charlize Theron was welcomed into the heart of Tinseltown on Thursday when she was awarded her own star on Hollywood’s glittering Walk of Fame. The star of the 2003 film Monster turned out for the ceremony on Hollywood Boulevard’s famous pavement.
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/ 30 September 2005
I have been a bad parent. The teachers tut-tut; my children look at me uncomprehendingly, the first traces of disappointment sketched on their faces. ”We understand,” says one teacher. ”You’re not from here. But it is something you need to do.”
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/ 30 September 2005
Southern Sudan’s new parliament sat for the first time on Friday in the southern capital of Juba to discuss the region’s post-war constitution, according to reports monitored in the Kenyan capital. The legislature is part of a peace deal signed by the Khartoum government and the former southern rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Movement .
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/ 30 September 2005
Côte d’Ivoire rebels holding the north of the country said on Friday they want a ”bold decision” from a West African regional summit in Nigeria to end the mandate of embattled President Laurent Gbagbo. They accused Gbagbo of failing to implement measures called for in the three-year-old, French-brokered peace deal.
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/ 30 September 2005
After years of bloody civil war, Algerians overwhelmingly voted in favour of a plan of national reconciliation that would give amnesty to thousands of suspected Islamic terrorists, Interior Minister Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni announced on Friday. Nearly 80% of Algeria’s more than 18-million eligible voters went to the polls.
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/ 30 September 2005
Biritish Prime Minister Tony Blair today insisted Turkey’s future was in the European Union as British officials in Brussels worked to dispel a looming crisis over next week’s talks on its membership. In an interview with Turkey’s Hurriyet newspaper, the prime minister said he would work hard to help Turkey realise its EU ambitions.
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/ 30 September 2005
Marketing company Proudly South African on Friday announced the appointment of Manana Moroka as its new CEO with effect from November 1. First launched in 2001, the campaign made progress by achieving a national awareness rate of 80% and is now recognised as one of the country’s top 50 brands, the company said.
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/ 30 September 2005
New York Times reporter Judith Miller has been released from prison after agreeing to testify in a federal probe on the outing of an undercover CIA agent, the newspaper announced. Miller, who spent 12 weeks in a prison near Washington, was set free after her source waived her pledge of confidentiality, the Times said on Thursday.
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/ 30 September 2005
South Africa recorded a deficit of R3,243-billion for its trade with non-Southern African Customs Union trading partners in August after a R1,017-billion deficit in July, according to the latest Customs and Excise figures released on Friday. "It’s not a great number at all and there are no massive imports to account for it either," said one economist.