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/ 3 February 2004
German health officials were examining two women on Monday night suspected of having contracted the deadly bird flu disease. If confirmed, the infections would be the first in Europe and the latest in an outbreak which has so far killed 12 people and spread across 10 Asian countries.
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/ 3 February 2004
United States President George Bush, facing a record-breaking federal deficit of -billion this year, on Monday delivered a ,4-trillion Budget for 2005, providing further ammunition for critics accusing the White House of dangerous financial mismanagement.
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/ 3 February 2004
Ghanaian women’s rights groups have called for stronger laws against female genital mutilation following two landmark rulings in northern Ghana against the traditional practice. Female circumcision is designed to reduce a woman’s sex drive and remove her temptation to have sex before marriage.
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/ 3 February 2004
Abdul Qadeer Khan, the father of Pakistan’s nuclear bomb, has admitted selling nuclear technology to Iran, North Korea and Libya, government officials said on Monday. However, diplomats and analysts in Islamabad suggested on Monday that Khan may not be charged. In fact, he is a hero to many in Pakistan.
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/ 3 February 2004
South African farmer body Grain South Africa (GSA) on Monday reacted sharply to the statements made by the Deputy Director General of Agriculture, Masiphula Mbongwa, regarding efforts by GSA to get producers to cut back grain production in an attempt to increase prices to consumers.
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/ 3 February 2004
As workers began to clear the scenes of the two explosions in Irbil, Iraq, that claimed 67 lives and injured at least 267 on Sunday, hundreds of people gathered at mosques across the Kurdish town to mourn the victims of one of the worst acts of violence in Iraq since the war.
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/ 3 February 2004
”Stupid as boots,” the old Russian saying goes, but the makers of ”valenki”, the traditional woollen boots worn in the countryside in Arctic temperatures, are determined to see that their product earns a little more respect.
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/ 3 February 2004
Boxing in South Africa could change for the better if Boxing SA (BSA) and its licensees lived up to the resolutions that were agreed upon during BSA’s two-day convention at Birchwood hotel over the weekend. The inaugural conference went smoothly after fears that there could be ugly scenes from disgruntled licensees.
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/ 3 February 2004
South African Football Association deputy president Irvin Khoza — better known to some at the Iron Duke of soccer — has resigned from all his posts at the organisation with immediate effect. In a statement issued on Tuesday, Khoza said: ”I am tired of being used as a scapegoat.”
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/ 3 February 2004
Pity poor Faieza Desai. On Monday she was at Cape Town International airport to welcome back the judge at the heart of the Mumbai jiggery-pokery and was immediately lauded by at least four daily newspapers for standing by her man.