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Iraqi leaders on Tuesday stepped up efforts to persuade Sunni Muslims to return into the political process as the final vote count from the country’s historic election got under way. Iraq reopened its frontiers and Baghdad airport as it eased a security clampdown imposed for the first free election in the country in more than 50 years.
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/ 1 February 2005
The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) denied on Tuesday that it had been summoned to cover an international leprosy conference addressed by Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang on Monday. SABC spokesperson Paul Setsetse said the SABC found it unethical that journalists were reporting on the minister’s private conversations.
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/ 1 February 2005
Unidentified gunmen shot at African Union observers while they were investigating reports that the Sudanese air force had bombed villages in the country’s volatile Darfur region, an official said on Tuesday. The attacks were the latest in a spate of incidents in South Darfur state as violence continues unabated in the vast western region of the country.
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/ 1 February 2005
Microsoft on Tuesday launched its own internet search engine ”built from the ground up”, entering a new market dominated by rivals Google and Yahoo. Microsoft said the search engine, which was unveiled in a test version last November, is now available in 25 markets and 10 languages.
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/ 1 February 2005
Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development Brigitte Mabandla formally introduced Vusi Pikoli, the newly appointed boss of the National Prosecuting Authority, to the institution’s staff on Tuesday, saying she expects the best from him. ”Advocate Pikoli, good wishes and I know you will deliver,” the minister told Pikoli.
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/ 1 February 2005
Murder charges against an elderly couple accused of killing five children at Molomini reserve near Msinga (Tugela Ferry) last month were withdrawn in the town’s Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday. The couple was arrested two weeks ago after the children’s bodies were found in an abandoned car at the couple’s home.
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/ 1 February 2005
Former president Nelson Mandela and his Mozambican-born wife, Graca Machel, are among the nominees for the 2005 World’s Children’s Prize for the Rights of the Child. The announcement was made in Johannesburg on Tuesday by 15-year-old Xola Dubula, who will form part of an international jury of children to decide who will get the prestigious prize.
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/ 1 February 2005
Battered by two years of a strong Namibian dollar, the country’s fishing sector — a key foreign exchange earner — is now in trouble, with retrenchments and factory closures on the horizon. After mining, fishing is the largest industry in Namibia, bringing in just more than R312-million) in export earnings each year.
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/ 1 February 2005
The killing of a 10-year-old Palestinian girl, shot dead in the playground of her school in southern Gaza on Monday, threatened to undermine a tentative truce after Hamas blamed the Israeli army and retaliated by firing mortars into a Jewish settlement.
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/ 1 February 2005
An official United States audit provided evidence yesterday of widespread corruption in postwar Iraq, finding that US’s occupation authority failed to keep track of nearly bn in reconstruction funds. The critique added to warnings from US and international auditors about weak financial controls in Iraq, and growing evidence of cronyism and fraud.