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Consumers are likely to pay less for doctors’ services and come away from hospitals without paying an arm or a leg after the Competition Commission ruled that doctors and hospitals should set their own prices. The commission said on Tuesday an investigation of the health-care sector has found massive price rigging.
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/ 10 February 2004
Malawi’s President Bakili Muluzi on Tuesday said his own brother Dickson died of Aids three years ago, as he launched the country’s first and long-awaited policy on fighting Aids. ”My own brother, third born in our family, died of Aids three years ago,” said Muluzi, who is a strong advocate in the battle against the pandemic.
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/ 10 February 2004
The passing of Namibia’s new Inheritance and Maintenance Law at the end of last year has proved an enormous shot in the arm for illegitimate children battling for their inheritance. The new law has been hailed as long overdue by legal experts and will also put defaulting fathers under closer scrutiny.
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/ 10 February 2004
In the strongest challenge yet to embattled Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, rebels in nearly a dozen towns on Tuesday pressed ahead with a bloody uprising that has killed at least 42 people and prompted fears of a coup d’état. Government supporters in Cap-Haitien on Tuesday built barricades to keep rebels out.
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/ 10 February 2004
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe was due to swear in his newly reshuffled Cabinet — including a new finance minister and an anti-corruption minister — on Tuesday as the government attempts to pull the economy out of a nosedive. Mugabe also announced two new ministries.
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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.
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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.