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/ 10 February 2004
The European Union is set to agree this month to roll over for a third year sanctions imposed against Zimbabwe, 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.
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/ 10 February 2004
A car bomb exploded on Tuesday morning at a police station south of Baghdad as dozens of would-be recruits lined up to apply for jobs, and a hospital official said at least 50 people were killed and another 50 injured. United States troops sealed off the area around the station and refused to allow journalists near the blast site.
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/ 10 February 2004
Finnish computer security experts warned on Tuesday of a new worm, known as Doomjuice, that is expected to attack computers infected by Mydoom. The virus, first detected by Helsinki-based company F-Secure on Monday night, has so far infected at least 30Â 000 computers worldwide since it was activated on Sunday.
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/ 10 February 2004
A Zimbabwean MP dismissed on Tuesday assertions that talks between the ruling Zanu-PF and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) were taking place. "There is absolutely nothing taking place. I can give you that at first hand," said Roy Bennett, a farmer and senior MDC official.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=30948">Britain ‘puzzled’ by SA attitude</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=30963">Mugabe shuffles around Cabinet</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=30959">More sanctions for Zimbabwe</a>
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/ 10 February 2004
Portugal has agreed to sell Mozambique a controlling stake in the firm which runs the African country’s giant Cahora Bassa dam, Foreign Minister Teresa Gouveia said on Monday. ”An agreement has been reached,” she told a news conference following talks with her visiting Mozambican counterpart Leonardo Simao.
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/ 10 February 2004
John Kerry turns his momentum in the Democratic leadership contest to the south today, hoping to tie down victories in Tennessee and Virginia and seal his domination of the primary season. Within Democratic party ranks, Kerry’s anointment as presidential nominee is seen as a near-formality, following his coast-to-coast victories during the weekend.
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/ 10 February 2004
All week Siham Hattab had been planning to stand in the latest council elections, but at the last minute she had nagging doubts. ”No, no. I’ve changed my mind,” she told her astonished colleagues at the council meeting. They were taken aback. After all, everyone thinks of Ms Hattab (33) as a natural leader.
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/ 10 February 2004
Britain is puzzled by the South Africa government’s attitude towards Zimbabwe, the chairperson of the British Foreign Affairs committee, Donald Anderson, said in Johannesburg on Tuesday. Anderson and his committee are in South Africa on a fact-finding mission for the British Parliament.
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More than 90 people were injured in a bus crash on the N8 highway between Bloemfontein and Botshabelo in the southern Free State on Tuesday morning, police said. The bus was transporting about 130 adults and school children towards Bloemfontein when it developed ”mechanical problems”.
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/ 10 February 2004
Independent Democrats leader Patricia de Lille has urged South African Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang to "stop scratching around the vegetable patch" and go and see HIV/Aids patients in hospitals. De Lille was referring to the minister’s suggestions that garlic and African potatoes were important in fighting disease.