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/ 26 October 2005
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan on Wednesday urged donors to show the same kind of generosity towards earthquake-hit Pakistan as they did in the wake of last year’s Indian Ocean tsunami. Annan addressed a gathering of UN and other aid agencies, donor governments and Pakistani officials in Geneva.
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/ 26 October 2005
Old allies in the human rights struggle, former president Nelson Mandela and United States civil rights activist Jesse Jackson, meet again.
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/ 26 October 2005
The Freedom Front Plus says that even if the Oilgate scandal ruins the party financially, it won’t disclose its sources and will contest empowerment company Imvume Management court bid to force it to do so. The issue stems from disclosures about the scandal that the FF+ made in the National Assembly in June.
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/ 26 October 2005
Lawyers representing Saddam Hussein announced on Wednesday that they will suspend all contacts with the special tribunal trying the ousted Iraqi president until they are given better security. The decision follows the killing of Saadun Janabi, an attorney representing one of Saddam’s co-defendants, a day after the opening of the trial last week.
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/ 26 October 2005
An Indian health ministry official on Wednesday said local firms could make a generic version of Swiss-based Roche’s Tamiflu as an emergency measure for an outbreak of avian flu. ”India could go in for manufacturing of the medicine [Tamiflu] under compulsory licensing if there is a national emergency,” the senior health ministry officialtold reporters in New Delhi.
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/ 26 October 2005
Parliament’s portfolio committee is debating the future of the country’s broadcasting regulator, the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa). At stake is who, henceforth, will have the power to give — or revoke — licence permissions for telecoms and broadcasting, and what conditions will be attached to these: the minister of communications, or Icasa?
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/ 26 October 2005
About a quarter of the population in Lesotho will need food aid in the next five months, the World Food Programme (WFP) said in a report released in the Southern African country. The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation and the WFP said the situation is exacerbated by the Aids pandemic.
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/ 26 October 2005
Legislation and procedures governing intelligence services will be reviewed in a bid to avoid ”future abuses”, Minister of Intelligence Ronnie Kasrils said on Wednesday. This is aimed at determining ”whether there are any gaps or ambiguities that need tightening up”, the minister said in a statement.
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/ 26 October 2005
Cherie Booth, the high-profile wife of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, was at the centre of a new controversy on Wednesday over a lucrative speaking tour of Australia in February. It is not the first time Booth — who uses her maiden name in her professional life as a top lawyer and on personal engagements — has raised a few eyebrows.
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/ 26 October 2005
Google is fierce competition for Microsoft, but the software giant does not fear the race and plans to upgrade its search technology in the next six months, Microsoft CEO Bill Gates said in remarks published on Wednesday. On his first trip to Israel, Gates praised Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Israel’s contributions to the global high-tech market.