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/ 15 February 2005
Britain has raised the stakes in its fight against sleaze in Kenya by warning that ministers, civil servants and businessmen suspected of involvement in corruption will be refused visas to the United Kingdom. The decision was made public on Monday following a week of mounting tension between Britain and its former colony.
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/ 15 February 2005
Digital media company Napster last week unveiled a portable subscription service that it claimed would ”change the music industry forever” and allow it to compete more effectively in its increasingly bitter battle with Apple’s market-leading iTunes. Napster To Go will give the company a significant point of difference from Apple, allowing subscribers to rent songs from its catalogue of 1,3-million tracks.
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/ 14 February 2005
Former national director of public prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka denied on Monday having promised politician and convicted fraudster Tony Yengeni a maximum R5Â 000 fine in exchange for a guilty plea. ”This is a distorted version of the truth,” Ngcuka, now a businessman, said through spokesperson Sipho Ngwema.
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/ 14 February 2005
Iraq’s long-oppressed Shi’ites were basking on Monday in their electoral triumph but pledged to reach out to rival Sunnis whose political isolation could further threaten the country’s stability. The Kurds were also celebrating their strong performance in the landmark January 30 election.
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/ 14 February 2005
The City of Pretoria no longer exists, the African National Congress’s Tshwane region said in a statement issued on Monday. The statement was released after the party’s strategic planning lekgotla (meeting) at the weekend, attended by its women’s league, youth league and alliance partners.
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/ 14 February 2005
The Abu Sayyaf, the Muslim militant group that claimed responsibility for a series of Valentine’s Day bombings in the Philippines, has been blamed for the country’s worst terrorist attacks. The group was founded in the early 1990s with seed money from Saudi-born September 11 terror mastermind Osama bin Laden.
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/ 14 February 2005
An Italian shopkeeper with an incurable tumour confessed to committing 13 bank robberies in 18 months but said he did it to care for his family after his death, a police official said on Monday. The 53-year-old man raked in a haul of €115 000 before being spotted by chance by plainclothes police, police said.
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/ 14 February 2005
The South African Football Association (Safa) is planning to use 10 stadia for the 2010 Soccer World Cup instead of 13, the association’s CEO, Danny Jordaan, said on Monday. ”In the bid book, we submitted 13 venues. We are now looking at 10 venues. Fifa wants eight,” Jordaan said.
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/ 14 February 2005
A senior South African military law officer is to help the United Nations investigate allegations of sexual abuse in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Commander Gordon Wardley has served for six months as legal adviser to the UN force commander in the DRC and for nine months as the UN force commander’s legal adviser in Liberia.