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/ 28 January 2004
An e-mail worm that looks like a normal error message but actually contains a malicious program continued to snarl computers around the world on Tuesday. MessageLabs, which scans e-mail for viruses, said 1 in every 12 messages contained the worm, called Mydoom or Novarg.
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/ 28 January 2004
The decline in inflation seems to be at an end, and further interest rate cuts are unlikely, economists said on Tuesday. December’s 4% CPIX inflation rate probably signalled the bottom of the declining interest rate cycle, said African Harvest Fund Managers chief economist Adenaan Hardien.
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/ 28 January 2004
Representatives of the Inkatha Freedom Party and African National Congress met for talks in Durban on Tuesday, but the talks were inconclusive, ANC national spokesperson Smuts Ngonyama said. He added that the meeting at Kings House in Durban was regarded ”as a meeting in progress, as always”.
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/ 28 January 2004
Relatives of the more than 1 000 people who died during the 2002 explosions at a military barracks in Lagos, Nigeria, have boycotted a ceremony to commemorate the event on Tuesday — this to show their displeasure at the government’s treatment of blast survivors.
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/ 28 January 2004
The South African economy will focus and have its course determined by "the three Rs", Standard Corporate and Merchant Bank managing director Ben Kruger said on Tuesday. "The three Rs in this case are not the ones you learnt at primary school, but are races, rates and the rand," he said.
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/ 28 January 2004
Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai told a court hearing his trial on Tuesday that a Canada-based political consultant had tried to convince him of the need to assassinate Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe, but denied he had in any way agreed to such a plot.
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/ 28 January 2004
The deadly bird flu outbreak in Asia appeared to be spinning out of control on Tuesday as China joined a growing list of countries affected by a virus that has killed eight people and devastated poultry stocks across the region. In a sign of the growing alarm, the World Health Organisation has called for emergency funds from the international community.
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/ 28 January 2004
Kofi Annan, the United Nations secretary general, said on Tuesday he would send a team to Iraq to determine if elections could be held in the summer. The US and Britain hope the mission will find a compromise between Washington’s idea of regional caucuses to choose an Iraqi government and the demands for direct elections.
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/ 28 January 2004
Liberia’s two rebel movements have jolted the country’s fragile peace process by demanding the resignation of the head of the transitional government, Gyude Bryant. A statement signed by the rebel leaders said their fighters would not disarm until Bryant quit.
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/ 28 January 2004
The <i>Daily News</i>, Zimbabwe’s lone independent daily newspaper, on Tuesday won a stay of execution in its battle to continue publishing. The country’s most senior judge postponed a bid by state lawyers to have the newspaper closed until the Supreme Court had decided on an array of law suits involving the paper.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/pd.asp?ao=30277&t=1">Consultant called for Mugabe’s ‘removal'</a>