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Interpol resources will be moved to where they are needed, said the newly appointed president of the international policing organisation, Jackie Selebi, in Pretoria on Tuesday. His priority will be to redirect resources to weaker countries. This will include the establishment of a centre in Africa to pool information on international terrorism.
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/ 12 October 2004
The South African government was close to a decision on rail restructuring, South Africa’s Public Enterprises Department director general Eugene Mokeyane told parliamentarians on Tuesday. He said: ”Government is gearing towards a policy decision to move forward with rail restructuring and the underlying restructuring models.”
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/ 12 October 2004
Libya’s oil reserves total 47-billion barrels and could reach significantly higher levels, said Prime Minister Shukri Ghanem on Wednesday. Until now, Tripoli has said its proven oil reserves stood at 36-billion barrels. He added that investment projects are open to all potential investors, adding that Libya would not give preference to companies from any particular country.
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The current record high crude oil prices are unsustainable, according to economists surveyed by I-Net Bridge, but a return to last year’s Opec basket of seven crude oils’ average of $28,10 per barrel is also unlikely, mainly because of the depreciation of the dollar against other currencies.
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/ 12 October 2004
It has been fenced in, roughed up — critically and literally — and monitored by closed-circuit cameras. Now the problem-plagued Princess Diana memorial fountain in London is to close again for an unspecified period so that the surrounding turf can be re-laid, park officials said on Tuesday.
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/ 12 October 2004
A pipeline carrying crude oil across the unruly Niger delta region to Nigeria’s main export terminal has burst and is on fire, the Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell and a local leader said on Tuesday. Shell said it had already moved in to control the fire and the leak, but a local ethnic leader insisted that the firm’s engineers had not yet arrived.
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/ 12 October 2004
The prevalence of HIV among health workers in South Africa is ”very high” and they need to be targeted with anti-retroviral treatment as part of a multipronged approach to augment the sector, the South African Medical Journal warns. The journal said the high prevalance of HIV in the health sector had serious implications for the health system, with increased absenteeism and non-infected workers becoming overloaded with work.
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/ 12 October 2004
A growing number of fraud scams are being run by organised crime syndicates where criminals take out policies on fictitious people and then submit claims in respect of these policies using fake identity documents and unclaimed corpses from mortuaries, according to Cape Town-based insurance underwriter Desmond Smith.
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Black economic empowerment (BEE) financial services group Arch Equity is rapidly building up its asset base to become one of the largest BEE players in the Western Cape, with plans to list on the JSE Securities Exchange before year-end. CEO Desmond Lockey said the company has already started the process to list the company on the JSE.
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With polls showing the United States presidential race too close to call, the incumbent George Bush headed for the Rocky Mountain state of Colorado on Tuesday to shore up his Republican base there while preparing for his last nationally televised face-off with Democrat John Kerry.
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