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/ 21 September 2005
Less than 24 hours after signing up to a draft agreement to denuclearise the Korean peninsula, the government in Pyongyang threw the negotiating process into disarray yesterday by declaring that it would not abolish its atomic weapons programme until it had been given a light-water reactor.
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/ 21 September 2005
Iran has yet again raised the stakes in its long stand-off with the West over its nuclear programme and the risk of being referred to the United Nations Security Council, but this time the hardline regime does not appear to be bluffing. The Islamic republic’s top nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, vowed on Tuesday to respond to being hauled to New York by resuming uranium enrichment work.
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/ 21 September 2005
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe’s governor says the poor way in which new farmers are using land is ”criminal”, the state-controlled Herald newspaper reported on Wednesday. ”It is criminal, the manner in which we are using land,” Gono told a parliamentary committee.
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/ 21 September 2005
Thousands of Zimbabwean television viewers are deserting that country’s ZTV and opting for foreign networks via satellite as uneconomic licence fees have crippled ZTV’s programming, Zimbabwe’s Herald Online reported on Wednesday. There is a roaring trade in decoders and satellites and their installation.
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/ 21 September 2005
Evidence gathering by a London High Court judge in the corruption and theft case against Zambia’s former president Frederick Chiluba would not undermine Zambia’s sovereignity or its courts. Zambian authorities began pursuing the case against Chiluba after he left office and in December sanctioned the London High Court in a bid to recover property he allegedly acquired with stolen public funds.
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/ 21 September 2005
A third of Nelson Mandela Bay’s population of about 1,3-million is HIV-positive, making the region’s prevalence the highest in the province, the Eastern Province Herald newspaper reported on Wednesday. The figure was revealed in the annual national ante-natal HIV prevalence study.
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/ 21 September 2005
South Africa’s largest listed wine and spirits producer Distell on Wednesday announced that it had entered into an empowerment deal with a broad-based black empowerment consortium to be led by women’s empowerment group Wiphold. Wiphold is a company driven by a dedication to the empowerment of women, and black women in particular.
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/ 21 September 2005
A court in India’s western desert state of Rajasthan fined an Israeli couple $22 for kissing in public after their wedding ceremony at a revered Hindu pilgrimage site, reports said on Wednesday. The court in Pushkar imposed the 1 000 rupee fine on the couple, identified as Opez Alone and Selev Kermit, for "committing an act of indecency".
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/ 21 September 2005
Marissa Naidoo, the 10-year-old child who was kidnapped and murdered last week in Benoni, will be buried in the town on Wednesday, South African Broadcasting Corporation radio news reports. Meanwhile, investigations have yielded no evidence that her killer worked with an accomplice, East Rand police said on Tuesday.
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/ 21 September 2005
Manchester United forward Wayne Rooney will miss the next two Champions League matches after being sent off at Villarreal last week. Uefa said on Tuesday that the 19-year-old England international will be absent when United hosts Benfica on September 27 and at Old Trafford against Lille on October 18.