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/ 25 December 2003
A bronze statue of Martin Luther King in the North Carolina town of Rocky Mount was meant to honour a little-known but much cherished connection between a big moment in history and a small southern United States town. But then everything started to go wrong.
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/ 25 December 2003
Swaziland’s absolute monarch King Mswati III was on Wednesday ensconced in a sacred location for an annual ritual to prove he is fit to rule over the landlocked Southern African nation for another year. The king has been widely criticised for refusing to introduce democratic reforms.
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/ 25 December 2003
Tottenham have agreed a deal to sign Sheffield United midfielder Michael Brown as soon as the transfer window opens on January 1. Brown, whose current deal runs out next summer, had also been a target for Rangers but will now join Spurs after talks on Wednesday between Tottenham’s David Pleat and United boss Neil Warnock.
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/ 25 December 2003
The West Indies cricket side breathed an enormous sigh of relief on Wednesday when it was learnt that talismanic batsman Brian Lara had not suffered a serious injury after being struck on the arm. Lara, the West Indies skipper, was hit on the left forearm by a net bowler while batting at Kingsmead.
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/ 24 December 2003
Black economic empowerment has become the core business strategy for companies going forward and the information, communications and technology (ICT) industry is no different. In fact, with the ICT charter scheduled for finalisation in April next year, companies are starting to scrabble to get their houses in order.
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/ 24 December 2003
The Israeli army called a halt on Wednesday to a massive operation in the southern Gaza Strip as the death toll rose to nine from a raid denounced as a ”massacre” by the Palestinians and condemned by United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan. Medical sources said that nine Palestinians are known to have died in the raid.
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/ 24 December 2003
The Zimbabwe government is investigating the country’s biggest private mobile phone company and could withdraw its operating licence for alleged ”subversive activities”, the state-run Herald newspaper said on Wednesday. The paper said this followed a probe into the foreign currency dealings of Econet Wireless Zimbabwe.
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/ 24 December 2003
Two men whose disruptive begging at Cape Town’s premier shopping complex, the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront, led to a court battle, have been given the city’s High Court’s permission to go back, but have been ordered to behave with the requisite decorum.
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/ 24 December 2003
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger toured the community hardest hit by California’s first deadly earthquake in nine years, declaring a local state of emergency even as aftershocks rattled beneath the central wine country. There had been 100 magnitude-3 or higher aftershocks by Wednesday morning.
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/ 24 December 2003
Philippines rescuers rushed on Wednesday to save five people clinging to parts of a ferry that sank three days ago in a series of weather-related disasters that left about 300 people dead or missing. Efforts continued to reach villages isolated by weekend mudslides and floods in the central and southern regions of the country.