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International music provider Kazaa asked the Australian Federal Court on Tuesday to delay hearing alleged copyright breaches against it until a similar case in the United States is finished. The hearing follows raids last week by five record labels on a dozen sites across the country to collect evidence against Kazaa, the world’s largest file sharing network.
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/ 10 February 2004
Australia’s consumer watchdog on Tuesday launched a three-day crackdown aimed at tackling bogus websites designed to swindle internet users, as part of an international campaign to highlight and shut down such scams.
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/ 10 February 2004
Continuing rand strength is likely to discourage foreign investment in South African mining as investors look for cheaper alternative destinations, putting the future development of local mining at risk, industry participants were warned on Tuesday.
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/ 10 February 2004
South Africa’s Labour Department carried out 10 610 inspections on the domestic worker sector during August last year, says Labour Minister Membathisi Mdladlana. "Domestic employers proved to be the friendliest sector to inspect. This is attributed to advocacy work that preceded the inspections," he said.
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/ 10 February 2004
A Limpopo farmer and three accomplices were to appear in the Hoedspruit Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday after allegedly ”feeding” a ”troublesome” worker to a lion. The men were arrested on Monday at a game farm near Hoedspruit after police recovered the skull of 38-year-old Nelson Shisane’s skull and part of his legs.
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Now that the election date has been announced the Independent Electoral Commission plans to gather the party national liaison committee this week to discuss voting details. The committee will decide when to announce voters rolls, voting stations, and deadlines for oversees registration.
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/ 10 February 2004
Israeli human rights groups have asked the country’s supreme court to stop the construction of a vast ”security fence” through the West Bank, on the grounds that it breaches international law and creates a form of apartheid. They argued that Ariel Sharon’s government had spun a legal web to justify the ”intolerable, illegal and immoral” barrier.
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/ 10 February 2004
Half of all Europeans may be suffering from some sort of allergy by 2015 if the escalating epidemic, which is responsible for millions of children missing school and being hospitalised and for adults staying off work, remains unchecked, scientists believe.
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/ 10 February 2004
The World Food Programme has run out of grain and rice to feed six million undernourished North Koreans as the standoff between Pyongyang and Washington takes an increasingly dire human toll. North Korea is suffering a sharp decline in donations as the United States and its allies increase the pressure on it to give up its nuclear weapons programme.
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/ 10 February 2004
An appeal court judge in Kenya accused of having links with suspected drug traffickers appeared before a special tribunal on Monday, the first of a series of trials aimed at tackling corruption in the judiciary. Philip Waki is one of eight of the country’s most senior judges accused of taking bribes.