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/ 17 February 2004
A survey of child sex abuse claims against the Catholic church in the United States has uncovered thousands more cases than previously believed, according to a draft report leaked to the media on Monday.
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/ 17 February 2004
India and Pakistan raised new hopes of a historic peace accord yesterday when officials from the two countries met in Islamabad to discuss the terms for fresh negotiations. The renewed peace process comes two-and-a-half years and one major military stand off after the last round of talks collapsed over the disputed region of Kashmir.
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/ 17 February 2004
The leaders of Yemen and Saudi Arabia are due to meet on Tuesday in an effort to settle a dispute over a security barrier the Saudis are building along their shared frontier. Saudi Arabia, which is battling against insurgents sympathetic to Osama bin Laden, says the barrier will stem the flow of militants and weapons from its southern neighbour.
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The New National Party in the Western Cape on Tuesday became the first of the party’s provincial structures to release its candidates lists for the coming elections. Party leader Marthinus van Schalkwyk tops both the national and provincial lists by virtue of his position as provincial leader.
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/ 17 February 2004
Getting South Africans excited about South Africa normally happens only when we win the Cricket World Cup, or Madiba does his shuffle with the African Nations Cup in his hands. It becomes a bit more challenging when it is done through the use of technology.
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/ 17 February 2004
Software giant India is poised to become a large-scale hardware manufacturer on the back of explosive sales growth, India’s information technology minister said on Tuesday. ”We will see the large-scale manufacture of hardware in India in the next two to three years,” Arun Shourie told a telecommunications conference.
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/ 17 February 2004
The board of directors for Walt Disney rejected a takeover bid by cable television giant Comcast, officials said. The board noted that the current offer to acquire Disney by swapping shares of both companies would undervalue Disney’s holdings.
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/ 17 February 2004
Just 24 hours before Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel announces his 2004/05 Budget in Parliament, a United Nations-accredited NGO called in papers before the Cape High Court on Tuesday to have the government’s multibillion-rand arms deal declared null and void.
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/ 17 February 2004
Risk management is by no means a new concept, but the way it is implemented these days has changed dramatically. In the 1970s and much of the 1980s, businesses simply insured themselves financially against risk. But what happens when enterprises are built (as they are today) on data warehouses of information?
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/ 17 February 2004
The European Union will agree this week to roll over sanctions imposed against Zimbabwe for a third year, notably extending a list of officials banned from the EU, diplomats say. The sanctions were first slapped on the regime of President Robert Mugabe in 2002 for human-rights abuses and ballot fraud after he retained his grip on power in a controversial election victory.