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/ 11 November 2003
Fake drugs, which can be useless, harmful or deadly, are on the rise as they are easy to make and sell cheaply, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday as it launched a campaign to fight the problem. Up to 25% of medicines consumed in developing nations are believed to be counterfeit or substandard.
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/ 11 November 2003
Microsoft is to launch a last-ditch effort on Wednesday to avoid harsh penalties in Europe for alleged monopoly behaviour that could force it to change the way it sells its ubiquitous Windows software. Microsoft’s underlying aim is likely to be sniffing out the prospects for a damage-controlling settlement with the European Union.
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/ 11 November 2003
More than 60 witnesses are expected to be called by the prosecution in the corruption trial of politicians Peter Marais and David Malatsi, which gets under way next week. ”Everybody is very positive about the fact that they would like the matter to proceed and be brought to finality as soon as possible,” Scorpions prosecutor Bruce Morrison said.
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/ 11 November 2003
The ”fast-track” land grab and resettlement the Zimbabwean government claims to have completed ”successfully” has been described as one huge national scandal. Reports say senior government officials and Zanu-PF politicians are displacing ex-combatants of Zimbabwe’s liberation war resettled during the controversial exercise.
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/ 11 November 2003
An explosion on Tuesday on a road frequently used by British troops killed six civilians in the southern city of Basra in Iraq, hospital officials said, and the top United States commander in Iraq said the military had detained about 20 people suspected of links to al-Qaeda.
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/ 11 November 2003
Although Saudi men can have up to four wives under Islamic law, 30% of Saudi women at marriage age cannot find husbands, official statistics revealed on Tuesday. The study revealed that the number of women who have exceeded the marriage age — determined socially as 30 — reached 1 813 000 by the end of 2002.
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/ 11 November 2003
One of the world’s leading electrical companies, Schneider Electric, has been implicated in a R16-million bribery case in the Lesotho High Court. The alleged bribery relates to the construction of the now-completed Lesotho Highlands Water Project. French-based Schneider boasts operations in 130 countries.
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/ 11 November 2003
European and Asian countries joined together on Tuesday to demand that the United States drop its duties on imported steel or face the possibility of billions of dollars in retaliatory measures against products ranging from oranges to Harley-Davidson motorcycles.
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/ 11 November 2003
After closing Kenya’s six public universities, the Kenyan government has announced it will only negotiate with lecturers if they call off their strike. On Monday, the six universities were closed indefinitely after the strike began. Police were posted around the universities, but students remained calm.
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/ 11 November 2003
Security was very tight at the Johannesburg High Court on Tuesday at the hearing of Israeli national Lior Saat, alleged to have murdered Shai Avissar, the estranged husband of socialite Hazel Crane, who was murdered on Monday. Members of the media were forbidden to sit on the press bench in court.
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