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/ 30 December 2003
The deposed Iraqi leader could harken back to the trials of Nazi leaders and Japanese commanders after World War II to fight expected charges of genocide and war crimes, claiming he never personally killed anyone or that he had no control over atrocities committed in his name, defence lawyers and scholars say.
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/ 30 December 2003
Former Mauritanian president Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidallah has been released from prison after receiving a suspended prison sentence for plotting to overthrow the current head of state, Maaouiya Ould Sid’Ahmed Taya. The five-year suspended sentence effectively bars him from mounting a fresh challenge through the ballot box.
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/ 30 December 2003
Former Mauritanian president Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidallah has been released from prison after receiving a suspended prison sentence for plotting to overthrow the current head of state, Maaouiya Ould Sid’Ahmed Taya. The five-year suspended sentence effectively bars him from mounting a fresh challenge through the ballot box.
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/ 30 December 2003
The world number-five gold miner, South Africa’s Harmony, on Tuesday announced that it had decided not to exercise an option to buy shares in Australian group Bendigo Mining NL due to Harmony’s exercise price being above the company’s share price.
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/ 30 December 2003
KWV International, the export subsidiary of KWV Ltd, one of South Africa’s largest producers of wine and spirits, has continued to see its export volumes grow in the first half of its financial year, but financially the strong rand is having a negative impact on the group, according to managing director Vernon Davis.
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/ 30 December 2003
Undetected by most media Richter scales, important shifts are taking place beneath the architecture of globalisation. Journalists’ silence about this story is surprising given that much of the movement has been directly about the media and their relation to other powerful pressures welling up from subterranean levels.
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/ 30 December 2003
Japan’s top carmaker, Toyota, will develop a humanoid robot designed to help factory workers and provide assistance in nursing care and rescue operations, a newspaper report said on Tuesday. Toyota will announce details of the project in January and plans to unveil the as-yet-unnamed robot in 2005.
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/ 30 December 2003
The South African Castle Premiership has drawn to the the end of the first half of the season and there are still no clear contenders or pretenders to the league title. But look elsewhere in Europe and you can already predict who is going to win. In England, it is between Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal. In Italy, Juventus or AC Milan, while in Spain it is between Real Madrid and Deportiva La Coruna.
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/ 30 December 2003
Noted linguist and author Charles Berlitz, whose book sparked interest in the Bermuda Triangle and whose grandfather founded the language schools that bear the family name, has died at age 90. Berlitz was known for his bestseller The Bermuda Triangle and other books on paranormal phenomena.
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/ 30 December 2003
The Nation of Islam is rallying to support Michael Jackson and has begun handling some security for the pop star as he prepares to defend himself on child molestation charges, sources have said. The sources said the Chicago-based group’s involvement may extend into Jackson’s financial affairs.