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/ 21 February 2005
Constitutional Court judges grilled the state on Monday for raising issues in an application for leave to appeal against certain legal issues arising from the acquittal of apartheid chemical and biological warfare expert Dr Wouter Basson, that were not detailed in the initial indictment against him.
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/ 21 February 2005
Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa is offering to hold talks with civic groups and founding president Kenneth Kaunda on their demands for a new Constitution to be adopted before next year’s elections, state radio reported on Monday. Mwanawasa made the offer at a rally held on Sunday outside Lusaka, the report said.
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/ 21 February 2005
Kenyan authorities have arrested three men with alleged links to Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda on suspicion of plotting terrorist attacks in the East African nation, a police official said on Monday. The trio — a Sudanese national and two Kenyans — were detained on Saturday in northeast Kenya near the border with lawless Somalia.
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/ 21 February 2005
An article in <i>Business Day</i> on Monday conformed "to the time-honoured practice within the South African media, stretching back to the disinformation campaigns of the 1980s, of depicting an African National Congress consumed by factionalism and conflict", says the ANC’s Smuts Ngonyama.
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/ 21 February 2005
One of Australia’s main airport terminals was shut down for eight hours on Monday as emergency crews hunted in vain for the cause of a mystery illness, which struck down nearly 60 staff and passengers in the building, officials said. Paramedics, firefighters and hazardous materials crews in full protective clothing rushed to Melbourne airport early on Monday.
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/ 21 February 2005
It was billed as a chance for British Finance Minister Gordon Brown to quiz China’s young elite about what they wanted from the future. And he got his answer — more Harry Potter memorabilia. In a question-and-answer session at the Beijing Number Four Middle School, Brown chatted to around a dozen teenage pupils, all star English students.
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/ 21 February 2005
Loss of habitat looks set to put paid to one of South Africa’s more distinctive and charismatic bird species, the southern ground hornbill. The savannah-dwelling birds, once widespread across the country’s grasslands, now face a ”very real possibility” of extinction, says the Endangered Wildlife Trust.
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/ 21 February 2005
A South African woman and owner of a piece of jewellery believed stolen from the tomb of King Tutankhamen has asked the government in Cairo for help in breaking King Tut’s curse after two members of her family suffered untimely deaths. Several people linked to the 1922 discovery of King Tut’s tomb have died mysteriously.
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A nervous-looking Schabir Shaik finally went into the witness box in the Durban High Court on Monday to state his defence against fraud and corruption charges. Shaik, who constantly played with his glasses, was offered a chair by Judge Hillary Squires because he had been ”unwell” previously.
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/ 21 February 2005
The lead changed hands repeatedly on the final day of the Telkom PGA Championship at the Woodhill Golf Estate on Sunday but in the end it was Warren Abery who came home best of all to claim the spoils. The Mount Edgecombe Country Club professional rounded the course on Sunday on three-under-par 69.