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An effective Aids vaccine could be found as early as 2012, saving six million lives if the world is willing to put £10-billion a year into a new programme, the British chancellor, Gordon Brown, said in a speech on Wednesday night in Tanzania. Brown put forward a four-point package to fight HIV/Aids as a central strand of Britain’s presidency of the G8 this year.
British minister wants more aid for Africa
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/ 13 January 2005
Indonesia on Wednesday began restricting the movements of the 2Â 000 foreigners helping the tsunami relief operation in Aceh, ordering aid groups and journalists to register, seek permission before leaving the province’s two main towns, and only travel with a military escort.
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/ 13 January 2005
Mark Thatcher, the son of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, on Thursday formally pleaded guilty to involvement in last year’s failed Equatorial Guinea coup. He has agreed to a R3-million fine as well as a four-year suspended jail term. The deal will allow Thatcher to leave South Africa.
The wayward son
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/ 13 January 2005
Villagers digging in China’s rich fossil beds have uncovered the remains of a tiny dinosaur in the belly of a mammal, a startling discovery for scientists who have long believed early mammals couldn’t possibly attack and eat a dinosaur. Scientists say the animal’s last meal probably is the first proof that mammals hunted small dinosaurs about 130-million years ago.
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/ 13 January 2005
Among the many ironies surrounding last year’s abortive coup in Equatorial Guinea is that the helicopter funded by Sir Mark Thatcher never got off the ground. Plans to use a hired chopper as a gunship and air ambulance were abandoned less than a month before South African mercenaries launched a British-backed assault on the oil-rich West African state’s island capital of Malabo on March 7
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/ 13 January 2005
As Maria Ramos completes her first year as Transnet chief executive she is becoming bolder, undertaking an often ruthless set of cost-cutting and repositioning exercises at this most important and difficult of parastatals. As her axe is sharpened and vested interests feel its cut, the lobby to throw momma from the train is growing louder.
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/ 13 January 2005
It is Baghdad on a winter morning chilled by yet another power cut and parents are dropping off their children for school. A vast generator rumbles so loudly in the street that it shakes the pink swings and blue roundabouts in the small grass playground outside.
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/ 13 January 2005
A tsunami of human solidarity is sweeping across the surface of the globe in response to the physical tsunami that has ravaged many shores of the Indian Ocean. Every day brings a staggering upward estimate of deaths — and of aid donations. At a season of religious festivals, the rich peoples of the world indulge in a benign competition to do good.
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/ 13 January 2005
It’s been a while since Lemmer straddled a desk at the Dorsbult Christelike Sekondêre Skool vir Moedswillige Seuns, but he can still remember the pleasure of opening brand-new textbooks: Die Bantu Hordes was a favourite of the district inspector, who translated it into English as Die, Bantu Hordes! It saddens him, therefore, to read a report from News24 that new South African textbooks while skimping on coverage of disabled people.
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/ 13 January 2005
Hezekiel Sepeng, the 30-year-old holder of the South African senior and junior 800m records and finalist in three Olympics, has decided to have a final go at the 2008 Games in Beijing. He was persuaded to do so by Kelly Holmes, double Olympic gold-medal winner in Athens.