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/ 24 February 2005
Workers in Zimbabwe are beaten, maimed and in some cases even castrated, Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) president Willie Madisha said at this year’s Solidarity trade union congress on Thursday. He said there is a ”very serious problem” with the Zanu-PF ruling party calling itself a ”party of liberation” when workers are killed and beaten.
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/ 24 February 2005
Two British soldiers were on Wednesday convicted of the abuse of Iraqi prisoners in a case that has seriously undermined the standing of the British army and been dubbed the country’s Abu Ghraib. Another pleaded guilty and a fourth was sentenced last month.
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/ 24 February 2005
Captured Iraqi insurgents who claim to have beheaded dozens of hostages were shown on television on Wednesday saying that they practised on chickens and sheep before moving on to people. Speaking with little sign of remorse, the men said they were told they would be made princes after 10 beheadings.
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/ 24 February 2005
Russian prosecutors on Wednesday charged a Chechen with the murder of United States journalist Paul Klebnikov, shot dead outside his Moscow offices in July last year. Klebnikov (41) was the high-profile editor of the Russian edition of Forbes magazine, which revealed the obscure, extravagant and sometimes criminal world of the country’s most wealthy businessmen.
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/ 24 February 2005
Attorneys for lion murder accused Mark Scott-Crossley may have to go into the witness box to explain whether they acted for his co-accused knowing there was a conflict of interest. Allegations against the attorneys, made earlier in the trial, also remain unchallenged, Judge George Maluleke said in the Phalaborwa High Court on Thursday.
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/ 24 February 2005
Chalk another one up for the bloggers. Less than a month after claiming that United Statates forces had deliberately targeted and killed journalists during the war in Iraq, CNN’s chief news executive, Eason Jordan, resigned. A typical media story, except his comments were not reported by the mainstream media, but on a weblog, an online diary.
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/ 24 February 2005
Online games where players battle fantasy creatures in interactive universes, pitting their skills against thousands of others simultaneously, are changing the internet and reaping huge profits for developers. In five years, since Everquest — now owned by Sony Online Entertainment — was launched in 1999, global sales of all video games have reached ,5-billion, outstripping cinema sales.
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/ 24 February 2005
Pope John Paul II has been hospitalised on Thursday at the Gemelli clinic in Rome suffering a flu relapse, Vatican spokesperson Joaquin Navarro-Valls said. He said the pope suffered a relapse on Wednesday, but was not hospitalised until early on Thursday. ”He has been hospitalised … for specialised treatment and tests,” Navarro-Valls said.
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/ 24 February 2005
Don’t cry for Carly Fiorina. She may have lost her job running Hewlett-Packard, but she’s leaving with a severance package worth at least -million. She’ll probably make lots more money in the future, having become famous as the world’s most powerful businesswoman.
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/ 24 February 2005
The African Union’s Peace and Security Council is to meet to consider further sanctions against the government of Togo, where the military installed Faure Gnassingbe as president to replace his late father. His accession has been deemed a power grab by much of the international community, further isolating the West African state.