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/ 6 February 2004
Pigs in Vietnam have tested positive for the bird-flu virus that has infected millions of chickens and ducks across Asia and killed 18 people, the United Nations’ Food and Agricultural Organisation said on Friday. However, some experts cautioned the tests were not conclusive and that it was too early to start talking about culling swine.
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/ 6 February 2004
At least 18 shellfish hunters died when they were trapped by fast-rising tides in treacherous Morecambe Bay in northern England, police said on Friday. Police reported seven others were rescued and the search was continuing. The dead — 16 men and two women — were among a group of people all believed to be Chinese nationals.
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/ 6 February 2004
As the United Nations’s new envoy to Ethiopia and Eritrea settles into his post, relations between the two countries appear as inflexible as ever. The appointment of Lloyd Axworthy, a former Canadian minister of foreign affairs, was confirmed at the end of last month.
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/ 6 February 2004
A series of powerful earthquakes measuring up to magnitude 6,9 struck Indonesia’s remote Papua province Friday, killing 26 people, injuring as many as 600 and destroying hundreds of houses, authorities said. The quakes hit hardest in the town of Nabire, damaging the local airport, a bridge, roads and buildings.
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/ 6 February 2004
The lone liberal challenger to President Vladimir Putin in March 14 elections said on Friday that a Moscow metro blast that killed at least 30 people was aimed at undermining the Russian leader’s credibility and highlighting his failure to ease tensions in separatist Chechnya.
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/ 6 February 2004
Women worldwide have fearlessly fought against sexual discrimination and maltreatment. Daniel Mengara, a Gabonese author, champions their outcry with his novel Mema, which adroitly portrays the gloomy life many African women lead. Leseli Mokhele reviews.
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/ 6 February 2004
”I first encountered Yoko Ono’s work at a big exhibition at the Riverside Gallery in London. It was some time in the late 1980s, when I was at art college. I liked her work immediately, because it was beyond any genre or categories I had seen before”. Yoko Ono, who turns 71 on February 18, is a household name. But no one knows how good she is as an artist, writes Sam Taylor-Wood.
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/ 6 February 2004
Three new local albums feature the handiwork of some of our best DJs and producers. Thebe Mabanga lends an ear to House Afrika’s Mzansi House, House of T Bose Volume 2 and Glen Lewis’s Sgubu sa Mamapela.
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/ 6 February 2004
Political reactions on Friday streamed in to President Thabo Mbeki’s opening of Parliament and State of the Nation speech in Cape Town. Tony Leon, leader of the official opposition Democratic Alliance, said: ”He [Mbeki] did not address the real failures of crime, unemployment and HIV/Aids.”
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/ 6 February 2004
Reviewers have hailed Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation as though it were the cinematic equivalent of the Second Coming. Reading the praise, I couldn’t help wondering whether I had watched a different movie and whether the plaudits had come from a parallel universe of values, writes Kiku Day in London.