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/ 18 February 2005
A major police operation in Angola against illegal diamond prospectors was a success, with tens of thousands of mostly Congolese prospectors expelled from the country, officials said. Police estimate they have cleared more than 100 000 illegal prospectors, as well as their families, from the diamond areas.
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/ 18 February 2005
Banking group Mercantile Lisbon has seen its headline loss for 2004 widen by 3,8 times over that of 2003, at R213,8-million from R56,5-million a year earlier. The group’s headline loss per share came in at 11,7 cents, up from 6,6 cents in 2003, and no dividend was declared.
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/ 18 February 2005
”Well, he’s damned if he does, and damned if he doesn’t,” says leading Kenyan lawyer Albert Mumma of the dilemma that may shortly face President Mwai Kibaki: whether to prosecute former head of state Daniel arap Moi in connection with the Goldenberg scandal. For the past two years, a commission has probed the dealings of the company at the heart of this corruption scam.
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/ 18 February 2005
Somalia’s government-in-exile has begun its return to its volatile country by sending teams to the southern part of the country, the prime minister said on Thursday. Government officials had said they would start relocating on Monday — but such promises have been made and broken before.
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/ 18 February 2005
Hezbollah, the Lebanon-based militia organisation, rejected United States demands to disarm on Thursday, one of the main causes of tension between Washington and Iran and Syria. Spokesperson Hussein Nablousi said: ”We are a sword that prevents Israel attacking Lebanon. Without Hizbullah, you would see the Israelis back in downtown Beirut.”
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/ 18 February 2005
A British historian has discovered the tomb of a couple married for 81 years, accepted by Guinness World Records as historically unique. Thomas and Elizabeth Morgan celebrated their marriage in Cwmbran, Wales in May, 1809, which ended with her death in January 1891 when she had just turned 105 and he was 104 and 260 days.
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/ 18 February 2005
Lebanon was hunting on Friday for six suspects over the killing of former premier Rafiq Hariri as the Syrian-backed regime faced escalating calls to stand down and Washington issued more stark warnings to Damascus. Hariri’s murder in a bomb blast on Monday sent shockwaves through the country and added to tensions with its political masters in Syria.
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/ 18 February 2005
Unfriendly Russian courts and a European court that offers no protection drove embattled Russian oil company Yukos to seek help to regain solvency in a United States bankruptcy court, its lead lawyer said on Thursday. ”This is the last place that this company has to have the opportunity to survive as an ongoing concern,” said Yukos lawyer Zack Clement.
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/ 18 February 2005
VSNL, part of India’s Tata Group and represented in South Africa by Tata Africa Holdings, will not be paying any set price for its 26% stake in the entity owning 51% of South Africa’s second national operator (SNO), according to Communications Minister Ivy Matsepi-Casaburri.
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/ 18 February 2005
In contrast to the corporate environment, small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) will shy away from voice over internet protocol (VoIP) in 2005. These are the latest findings from a study conducted by World Wide Worx, which announced in January that 78% of corporations surveyed will be using the technology by the end of the year.