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/ 28 February 2004
Yuri Kaloyev knew his brother was a broken man even before he disappeared a week ago. Two years after his wife, son and daughter, victims of a head-on plane collision over the Swiss-German border, had been laid to rest amid the sombre rows of a cemetery in their home town of Vladikavkaz, in southern Russia, his family’s ghosts still haunted his nights.
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/ 28 February 2004
The United Nations spying row widened on Friday when its former weapons inspector, Hans Blix, told The Guardian he suspected both his UN office and his home in New York were bugged in the run-up to the Iraq war.
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/ 28 February 2004
Wallaby fullback Mat Rogers helped himself to 23 points as the New South Wales Waratahs maintained their winning start to the Super 12 rugby season with a 48-14 thumping of South Africa’s Sharks in Sydney on Saturday.
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/ 27 February 2004
Looting and killings were reported in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, on Friday as loyalists of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide manned barricades and vowed to beat back an expected rebel assault. Banks and most other businesses were shuttered and there was virtually no traffic in the city centre.
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/ 27 February 2004
Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide must quickly resign and hand over the reins to a power-sharing government if he is to stop his country’s rapid slide towards ”uncontrolled” bloodshed, France told a delegation of senior Haitian officials in Paris on Friday.
Looting, killing in Haitian capital
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/ 27 February 2004
Thousands more Sudanese refugees have poured into eastern Chad to escape fighting in neighbouring western Sudan in recent weeks, a United Nations official said on Friday. A yearlong rebellion in Sudan has killed thousands of people and forced more than 600Â 000 others to flee their homes.
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/ 27 February 2004
A delegation from Zimbabwe’s Movement for Democratic Change is in South Africa to draw attention to the plight of Zimbabwe. They are, yet again, calling for pressure to be brought on the government of President Robert Mugabe, which has presided over a political and economic crisis in the country.
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/ 27 February 2004
South African Finance Minister Trevor Manuel tore into opposition parties on Friday — particularly the official opposition Democratic Alliance — for promoting populist economics that would not be sustainable in the country. Manuel argued that two million jobs have been created in the past 10 years and that is where the debate should begin.
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/ 27 February 2004
Ekurhuleni metro police chief Robert McBride said on Friday the objections to his appointment last year were unfair. McBride, a former political activist and former death-row inmate, was appointed to the position by the Ekurhuleni metropolitian council despite objections by the Democratic Alliance.
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/ 27 February 2004
The Scorpions conducted raids at 11 residents and business premises of employees of South African Airways (SAA) Technical in a bid to root out alleged corruption at the unit on Friday, the airline said. Some of the raids were conducted at the purchasing department of SAA Technical at the request of SAA, the airliner said.