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/ 27 January 2004
With their clocks set to follow the slightly longer Martian day, scientists back on Earth analysing images from two Nasa probes now on the Red Planet keep a tight schedule that includes several daily meetings.
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/ 27 January 2004
South Africa’s CPIX inflation (headline inflation excluding mortgage costs) stood at 4% for the year to December, down from 4,1% in November. This is in line with market expectations. CPIX is the inflation measure used by the South African Reserve Bank for purposes of inflation targeting.
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/ 27 January 2004
King Mswati has expressed concern that Swaziland’s international image was being tarnished by "cowardly" citizens who expose the country’s problems. Mswati made the remark at the weekend while delivering his annual speech on the state of the kingdom at Engabezweni royal village, 25km east of the capital, Mbabane.
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/ 27 January 2004
Four German nationals pleaded guilty to illegally collecting rare stag beetles in the Western Cape when they appeared in the Paarl Regional Court on Monday. The beetles, of the Colophon genus, are reportedly worth thousands of rands on international markets.
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/ 27 January 2004
Zimbabwe’s opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, was grilled during his trial on Monday on why his party hired a Canadian political consultancy to help promote its image when it had already engaged a British firm to do so. The state queried why it engaged Dickens and Madison when BMSG of Britain was already doing work for it.
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/ 27 January 2004
The Democratic Alliance has submitted parliamentary questions to the government in a bid to establish whether South Africa has supplied riot control equipment to the Haitian government. This followed reports that truncheons with the words ‘Made in South Africa’ written on them are being used to control anti-government protesters in Haiti.
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/ 27 January 2004
South Africa’s maize belt is again facing bleak rainfall prospects, due to a tropical low pressure cyclone in the Mozambique channel drawing moisture away from the country, South African Weather Service (Saws) forecaster Evert Scholtz said on Tuesday morning.
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/ 27 January 2004
The United States will consider a request from Libya to pay for dismantling its chemical and nuclear weapons programme, Congressman Curt Weldon said on Monday during a visit to Tripoli. Seven members of Congress arrived in Libya on Sunday for a goodwill visit.
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/ 27 January 2004
France is failing miserably to assimilate immigrants, a government commission said on Monday, painting what it called a ”morbid picture” of ghettos, soaring unemployment, inadequate education, sexual inequality and rising fundamentalism in a ”socially and professionally disadvantaged” community.
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/ 27 January 2004
The father of Pakistan’s atomic bomb and another member of his secretive team have emerged as the prime suspects in a government investigation into alleged sales of nuclear technology to Iran and Libya, intelligence officials said on Monday.