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/ 21 January 2004
South Africa and Morocco are set to transform their African Nations Cup campaigns into one last desperate battle to win the prize of hosting the 2010 World Cup finals. South Africa was considered to be the runaway favourites until recently but Morocco is understood to be winning backers.
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/ 21 January 2004
The public image of botanists got a bit of a boost this week, at a conference in Durban, where they demonstrated their significance in fields from agriculture to social development. Those who thought botanists were stuffy academics who squashed flowers, would have had their perceptions re-wired after attending this meeting.
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/ 20 January 2004
Police in Mumbai on Tuesday said they were investigating ”all the angles” after a prominent South African judge was accused of raping a delegate to the World Social Forum in Mumbai. Activists at the anti-globalisation forum protested on Tuesday against the alleged rape.
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/ 20 January 2004
Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai told the Harare High Court on Tuesday that any attempt on President Robert Mugabe’s life would be ”disastrous”, as he refuted charges that he plotted to assassinate Zimbabwe’s leader and seize power. Tsvangirai began giving evidence on Monday in his 11-month treason trial.
Tsvangirai takes the stand
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/ 20 January 2004
Tensions ran high on Israel’s northern border on Tuesday after the army threatened retaliation for a Hezbollah attack that killed one soldier and wounded another, despite suggestions they might have strayed into Lebanese territory. Defence sources said the army was considering a retaliatory strike deep inside Lebanon.
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/ 20 January 2004
Another new year and another new Beatles release. This may come as a bit of a shock, but the Beatles split up in 1970. Alexis Petridis on the mighty machine behind the band that won’t go away.
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/ 20 January 2004
Health authorities in China are refusing to disclose the origins of an avian influenza (bird flu) virus that can be lethal when transmitted to humans, a South African medical official said on Tuesday. The virus could be the source of the flu that is suspected of having caused 13 deaths in Vietnam since the beginning of the year.
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/ 20 January 2004
The commander of the United Nations mission in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide on Tuesday accused his superiors of denying him permission to raid caches of weapons that three months later were used in the slaughter of up to a million people, mainly Tutsis.