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/ 20 January 2005
An official Sudanese committee of inquiry has determined that serious human rights abuses have been committed in the troubled Darfur region but rejected claims of ethnic cleansing and systematic rape. The committee report, unveiled on Wednesday, said: ”What had happened in Darfur … did not constitute a genocide crime.”
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/ 20 January 2005
Protesting prison warders taking part in a protest march in Pretoria on Thursday were urged not to sing about Minister of Correctional Services Ngconde Balfour’s mother’s genitals or accuse him of being full of shit. ”We are marching to protest against the reduction of warders on duty in prisons over the weekends,” said a Police and Civil Rights Union spokesperson.
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/ 20 January 2005
South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) outgoing CEO Peter Matlare has been appointed to Vodacom South Africa in the capacity of executive director: commercial, with effect from April 1, the group announced on Thursday.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleId=195693&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__national/">SABC boss resigns</a>
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/ 20 January 2005
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s government reacted on Thursday to criticism of its regime by new United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, calling her ”a fascist”. At a hearing to confirm her appointment as secretary of state this week, Rice referred to Zimbabwe, among others, as an ”outpost of tyranny”.
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/ 20 January 2005
Distinguishing between fake amateur footage and reporting and the real thing is the issue that emerged from the recent tsunami picture hoaxes. The potential to make such blapse is high and will increase rapidly. It’s going to recur exponentially. But there’s help at hand for editorial decision-makers.
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/ 20 January 2005
Businesses in Africa, Asia and Russia are too slow in tackling the HIV/Aids epidemic and averting the economic damage it causes, according to the results of a global survey published on Thursday. Companies in most countries rarely draw up written policies to tackle HIV/Aids until 20% of the national population is infected.
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/ 20 January 2005
Facing a potentially perilous referendum on the proposed new European Union Constitution, Britain’s government has hired a commercial PR company to extol the document’s virtues to the people. London-based Geronimo PR had been hired as part of an ”extensive communications campaign” on the Constitution, the Financial Times.
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/ 20 January 2005
A documentary filmmaker has spent more than a year capturing people on film as they jumped to their deaths from the Golden Gate Bridge, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. The report said Eric Steel had filmed most of the 19 suicides that occurred at the San Francisco icon last year plus a number of attempted suicides.
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/ 20 January 2005
United States theme-park visitors will get the chance to confront their phobias when the often stomach-churning reality television show <i>Fear Factor</i> becomes a live amusement-park game. Universal Studios is planning the opening of its <i>Fear Factor Live</i> shows at its Hollywood and Orlando, Florida, theme parks.
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/ 20 January 2005
United Kingdom banking group Barclays Bank plc, which is in talks with South African banking group Absa, said on Thursday that it has made an offer to acquire the wealth business of ING Securities Bank (France), consisting of ING Ferri and ING Private Banking.