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/ 26 February 2004
The Democratic Alliance has again hit out at the African National Congress’s apparent ”inability” to provide answers on allegations that the ruling party may have benefited from a private oil deal with the government of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
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/ 26 February 2004
At least 15 people were killed and 17 more injured on Thursday in a café explosion in Siberia, which apparently was caused by a natural gas leak. Neglect of safety precautions has led to frequent gas explosions in Russian apartment buildings and public facilities.
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/ 26 February 2004
Israeli soldiers shot and killed two Palestinians during violent protests against Israel’s West Bank barrier on Thursday, and two Palestinian gunmen killed an Israeli soldier at a Gaza Strip crossing before being gunned down by troops. The West Bank protesters were trying to block construction workers from putting up a new section of fencing.
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/ 26 February 2004
Year-on-year producer price inflation for all commodities for South African consumption (PPI) came in higher at -1,4% last month compared with -1.8% in December 2003, Statistics SA reported on Thursday. This could be explained by increases in the annual rates of change of several production price indices.
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/ 26 February 2004
The Anglican church on Thursday sought to smooth the ruffled feathers of its Catholic brethren in the wake of Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s criticism of the Catholic stand on condoms. Tutu earlier this week spoke out against Catholic disapproval of condoms as a way of preventing the spread of Aids.
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/ 26 February 2004
Macedonia’s President Boris Trajkovski was killed on Thursday when his plane crashed in a mountainous part of southern Bosnia en route to an international investment conference. The Macedonian government aircraft, carrying Trajkovski and several other officials to the conference in the western Bosnian city of Mostar, crashed near the Bosnian village of Bitonja shortly after 8am.
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/ 26 February 2004
Authorities in Sierra Leone have started a campaign to rid the country of its so-called ”pepper doctors”: people who practise medicine under false pretences. The pharmacy board recently joined forces with police to raid the premises of suspected pepper doctors in the capital, Freetown, and elsewhere.
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/ 26 February 2004
Swaziland’s Red Cross society has issued an SOS to retired nurses to help revive public health services, crippled by a nurses’ strike that entered a third day on Thursday and has claimed at least six lives, according to media reports. Swaziland’s Red Cross officer said if no volunteers come forward, more people will die.
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/ 26 February 2004
The South African online recruitment website <i>CareerJunction.co.za</i> says the internet business model has finally come of age and now achieves the largest job advertising reach in South Africa.
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/ 26 February 2004
Small online merchants have been finding loopholes in exchange control for years, but as the laws become clearer and international accountability frameworks are finally restricting their movements, the merchants are going to have to come clean. But how do they do it?