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/ 24 February 2004
It was 10 on the dot on Monday morning when the usher called the International Court of Justice to order to hear the case against Israel’s West Bank ”security fence”. Inside the United Nations building, officially called the Peace Palace, everything went smoothly.
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/ 24 February 2004
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe said he was not prepared to hold talks with the main opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai because his Movement for Democratic Change party is a front of the Western powers. He also called some opposition party members, including Tsvangirai, shallow-minded.
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/ 24 February 2004
TV Africa’s application for liquidation signaled the end of a US$57 million vision for a pan-African television network. Although funded in part by the World Bank’s IFC, the business model was fatally flawed. Kevin Bloom reports.
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/ 24 February 2004
Do websites hurt print circulations? Websites are often singled out as one of the main culprits for falling print circulations. Simply put, the argument is why would readers bother to buy a newspaper if they can get the same publication for free over the net? Matthew Buckland tackles a question that has long confounded newspaper editors.
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/ 24 February 2004
The suspension of Metrorail CEO Honey Mateya and two senior executives last week has capped a simmering feud between Mateya and trade unions at the parastatal. Unions applaud Transnet CEO Maria Ramos’s decision to investigate parastatal’s senior executives who ‘lack vision’.
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/ 24 February 2004
Everyone now accepts that poverty — whether actual destitution or state-aided, underclass misery — is a growing global phenomenon. Less well known is the fact that, globally, the middle class is struggling and declining. Margaret Legum comments on the uprush of how resources from poor to rich is weakening ‘society’s stable backbone’.
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/ 24 February 2004
Two-thirds of the Great Wall of China has been destroyed by sightseers, developers and erosion, Beijing’s state-run media has reported in a warning that the world heritage site is crumbling out of existence. Survey teams are said to have found large new breaches in the ramparts, which are believed to have once stretched almost 6 400km.
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/ 24 February 2004
If Comcast’s takeover of the Disney Corporation goes ahead, the world’s biggest media conglomeration will be built around one of humankind’s most ancient practices. Investing animals with human characteristics is something we’ve been doing since we first applied charcoal to the walls of a cave.
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/ 24 February 2004
South African captain Graeme Smith won the toss and chose to bowl first in the fourth one-day cricket international against New Zealand at Carisbrook on Tuesday. New Zealand made one change from the 11 who won by five runs in Wellington last Friday, resting Daryl Tuffey who has a knee injury and including paceman Michael Mason for his fourth one-day international.
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/ 24 February 2004
The fourth limited-overs cricket international between New Zealand and South Africa was postponed on Tuesday because of rain. New Zealand leads the six-match series 2-1 after winning the second match at Christchurch by five wickets and the third at Wellington by five runs.