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/ 12 December 2003
Israel’s Supreme Court has ordered a son of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to hand over documents relating to a fraud inquiry that commentators believe could eventually force Sharon to resign.
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/ 12 December 2003
The United States economy added 57 000 jobs during November but that figure was far fewer than expected, adding to fears that the upturn is failing to translate into significant employment growth. The jobless rate in the US fell from 6% to 5,9%, the lowest it has been since March. November was the fourth consecutive month of employment gains.
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/ 12 December 2003
Wednesday’s poll has ensured that Switzerland is being run by the most right-wing government in its post-war history, after Christoph Blocher, the controversial anti-immigrant populist, won a seat in the country’s Cabinet.
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/ 12 December 2003
Beatrice Mtetwa, a fearless Zimbabwean lawyer who has defended those arrested by President Robert Mugabe’s government, including a journalist for The Guardian newspaper, was named Human Rights Lawyer of the Year this week.
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/ 12 December 2003
Shanghai’s population has soared beyond the 20-million mark in the past year as more than three million new job seekers have flocked to the city in the vanguard of China’s spectacular economic surge.
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/ 12 December 2003
The snow was still piled high on either side of Harlem’s Martin Luther King Boulevard this week when former United States vice-president Al Gore brought Howard Dean, the leading Democrat candidate, in from the cold.
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/ 12 December 2003
The past year witnessed the crafting of three potential ground-breaking anti-corruption instruments, and an opportunity for the United Nations, the African Union and the South African Parliament to prove that they are serious about tackling graft.
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/ 12 December 2003
Colombia are last in the 10-team South American qualifying group after four games, with eight goals against and two goals for. One big problem for the Colombian team has to do with money. Too much of it can kill a team, just as too much rain can kill the coca plant.
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/ 12 December 2003
The South African sevens team started the Emirates Airline South African sevens tournament in impressive fashion in George at Outeniqua Park on Friday, easily beating Namibia 49-5 in their opening Pool D game. The hosts ran in seven tries on the opening day of the second leg of the International Rugby Board’s Sevens Series
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/ 12 December 2003
Ernie Els of South Africa has won the 2003 Asprey Golfer of the Year Award for the second successive season, following another remarkable campaign in which he won five individual titles on the European Tour and captured the Volvo Order of Merit for the first time.