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/ 17 February 2004
A new variant of the Bagle internet worm, dubbed Bagle.B, was on Tuesday spreading quickly by e-mail throughout the world, internet security experts said. ”It was initially spread through spamming, which gave it a good start,” said Mikael Albrecht, with the Finnish Security firm F-Secure.
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/ 17 February 2004
An earthquake that struck Indonesia’s Sumatra island killed five people, damaged 60 homes and prompted many panicked residents to spend the night outdoors, officials said on Tuesday. Earlier this month, an earthquake in West Papua province with an estimated magnitude of 6,8 killed three dozen people.
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/ 17 February 2004
The managing director of PSC Guaranteed Growths Limited Funds, Jack Milne, was sentenced to an effective five years’ imprisonment by the Johannesburg Regional Court on Tuesday in a fraud case involving R160-million. Three years of his eight-year sentence were suspended in terms of a plea-bargain agreement.
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/ 17 February 2004
Increased levels of awareness about Aids and the human immunodeficiency virus have resulted in a stabilisation in the HIV rate nationally, Deputy President Jacob Zuma said on Tuesday. He said a recent antenatal survey showed a drop in the infection rate among South African youth under the age of 20, from 22% to 15%.
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/ 17 February 2004
The head of the local prison in Pretoria was ordered on Tuesday to return a Boeremag treason trialist’s laptop to him and allow him and his fellow accused to use the computer for purposes of the trial. The prison had told him his computer was only to be used for ”study purposes” and not for preparing for the trial.
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/ 17 February 2004
Rape and indecent assault charges against three University of Pretoria (Tuks) students and a former student were withdrawn in the Pretoria Regional Court on Tuesday due to insufficient evidence. Two of the accused are the grandsons of former foreign affairs minister Pik Botha.
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/ 17 February 2004
Former soldiers took Haiti’s rebellion to the key central city of Hinche, torching the police station and freeing prisoners as President Jean-Bertrand Aristide appealed for international help to end a bloody uprising. Rebels have driven police out of more than a dozen towns in 12 days.
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/ 17 February 2004
Nigeria’s Niger Delta region is one of the largest wetlands in the world. It is a source of great irony, therefore, that people living in the area struggle to get hold of clean drinking water: they take what they can from creeks and rivers. Providing safe drinking water for the country’s 120-million people will require considerable investment in the future.
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/ 17 February 2004
Men eager to marry virgins in Chief Naboth Makoni’s eastern border town in Zimbabwe must produce documented proof of their HIV-negative status as part of Makoni’s controversial anti-Aids campaign. His unorthodox initiative has drawn the ire of women’s rights activists and health care workers, to name but a few.
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/ 17 February 2004
Israeli President Moshe Katzav has called for Muslims around the world to end suicide bombings, but said that as long as ”terrorism” existed his country would have no option but to build its controversial barrier cutting off the Palestinian population. Katzav made the comments late on Monday in Paris.