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/ 19 January 2004
Police detained a South African judge at the World Social Forum after another participant of the anti-globalisation conference alleged that he raped her in his hotel room, police said on Monday. The 27-year-old woman delegate, also from South Africa, told police she was raped on Saturday night.
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/ 19 January 2004
The United States and Britain are to open their first direct negotiations on Monday with United Nations nuclear inspectors over how to scrap Libya’s secret nuclear bomb project, amid a row over who should be in charge.
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/ 19 January 2004
Harare used to be abuzz. Especially compared to the sleepier towns in the region, like Lusaka and Blantyre, for which it used to be something of a Mecca, second only to Johannesburg. That was in the days when it was called Salisbury.
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/ 19 January 2004
Public service announcements featuring three “jive-talking, gaffe-prone condoms” that were produced by a group of volunteers from various Ottawa, Canada, production companies are airing up to 20 times a day on South African television, the <i>Ottawa Citizen reports</i>.
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/ 19 January 2004
Not far from the red, white and blue paving stones, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) graffiti and the ”Chinks out” notices scratched outside Chinese takeaway restaurants in south Belfast, the capital of Northern Ireland, Hua Long Lin was at home watching TV when a man burst in and smashed a brick into his face.
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/ 19 January 2004
In this world centred on capital, everything is for sale, everything is a commodity. Biodiversity and life forms and genes and seeds are patentable intellectual property. Water, the very basis of life, is a tradable commodity, not an ecological common or fundamental human right. Food and agriculture are not the basis of sustenance or livelihoods, but only sources of profits for agribusiness.
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/ 19 January 2004
Andre Nel’s wife offered the paceman sound advice after they tied the knot on Saturday night: ”Let’s have a good time but not too good a time.” It appears that Deanne Nel was determined that nobody would blame the wedding for any below-par performances on Sunday, the third day of the fourth Test against the Windies at Centurion.
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/ 19 January 2004
South African pace bowler Makhaya Ntini stormed to his third five wicket haul of the series on Sunday as the West Indies’ chances of saving the fourth cricket Test at Centurion nose-dived. At stumps on the third day, the West Indies had stuttered to 44 for two in their second innings after being forced to follow on.
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/ 19 January 2004
South Africa’s Mbulelo Mabizela scored an own goal in the 85th minute on Sunday as Senegal beat its visitors 2-1 in an African Cup of Nations warm-up match. Malick Diop also scored for Senegal while Siyabonga Nomvete gave Bafana Bafana an early lead.