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/ 24 February 2004
The world’s largest diamond producer, De Beers, is involved with talks with the United States Justice Department to settle charges of price fixing levelled against it nearly 50 years ago and return to the US market, The Wall Street Journal said on Tuesday.
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The Freedom Front Plus and Cape People’s Congress have agreed on a cooperation strategy for the April 14 general election, the two parties announced on Tuesday. The leaders of the two parties said their aim is to prevent the African National Congress gaining a two-thirds majority in the election.
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/ 24 February 2004
A powerful earthquake measuring more than six points on the Richter scale struck northern Morocco overnight on Tuesday, killing at least 300 people. Local rescue workers and medical staff said several hundred people were injured. The death toll was expected to rise throughout the day, the Interior Ministry said.
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/ 24 February 2004
Initially they stood at the back of the gathering, arms folded, but looking confident — smiling, jesting with one another. The ration dealers of rural Rajasthan — or, at least, of one small part of this giant Indian state. But this was a day of reckoning; soon they were to be called to account, shaken off their smug perches.
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/ 24 February 2004
The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa (JSE) was drifting in the red in noon trade on Tuesday, in line with weaker world markets. Dealers said the local bourse seemed to be biding its time ahead of the release of consumer inflation data on Wednesday and an announcement on interest rates the following day.
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/ 24 February 2004
South African media and communications group Johncom has concluded an agreement with media group New Africa Investments (Nail) in terms of which Johncom will acquire Nail’s shares in New Africa Publications, owner of the <i>Sowetan</i> and 50% of <i>Sunday World</i>. Johncom already owns the other 50% of <i>Sunday World</i>.
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/ 24 February 2004
Amnesty International and two other leading human rights organisations are protesting to the Pentagon about its decision not to let them attend the planned trials of al-Qaida suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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/ 24 February 2004
A probe into allegations by Roman Catholic nuns of trafficking in human organs in northern Mozambique has turned up no evidence of any such sales, prosecutors said on Monday.
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/ 24 February 2004
Libya’s Prime Minister Shokri Ghanem has said that Libya only agreed to pay compensation for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing to ”buy peace”, according to a BBC interview broadcast on Tuesday. He also said there was no evidence that a Libyan was responsible for the shooting of a British policewoman 20 years ago.
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/ 24 February 2004
A coelacanth — a pre-historic fish once thought to be extinct and now known as ”the living fossil” — was discovered last week by divers in Sodwana Bay. African Coelacanth Ecosystem Programme programmes manager Tony Ribbink said on Monday the fish was found at the unusually shallow depth of 54 metres.