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/ 19 January 2004
Three strong earthquakes shook mountainous areas in central and southern Iran early on Monday, causing fearful residents to spend a freezing night outdoors, the official Irna news agency reported. The tremors struck less than a month after an earthquake devastated the city of Bam and killed at least 41Â 000 people.
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/ 19 January 2004
Burkina Faso’s Minister of Defence, General Kouame Lougue, was sacked at the weekend, a week after the state prosecutor revealed that he had been questioned in connection with a coup plot against President Blaise Campaore. Lougue had until recently been viewed as a loyal supporter of the president.
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/ 19 January 2004
Anti-globalisation activists on Monday sought to set up alternatives to the current world economic order to benefit the poor as their annual meeting was marred by the arrest of a South African judge on rape charges. More than 100Â 000 people are taking part in the six-day World Social Forum in Mumbai, India.
SA judge on rape charge in Mumbai
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/ 19 January 2004
Stephen Hawking, the severely disabled British scientist renowned for his theories on cosmology, has suffered ”a series of mystery assaults”, the Daily Mirror reported on Monday. Police confirmed they were ”investigating an allegation of assault on a 62-year-old man from Cambridge”.
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/ 19 January 2004
The government needs to review the contradictions between its stated objectives in education and reality on the ground with children of the poor being turned away from schools because they cannot pay school fees, says Independent Democrats leader Patricia de Lille.
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/ 19 January 2004
The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa (JSE) was flat at midday on Monday in a market that lacked major drivers. Dealers said that trade was quiet and with United States markets closed for Martin Luther King Day, there was a general lack of incentive to do anything.
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/ 19 January 2004
South Africa’s two principal oil industry associations, the South African Petroleum Industry Association and the African Mineral and Energy Forum, have signed a cooperation agreement in the common area of liquid fuels in recognition of their common interests and goals.
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/ 19 January 2004
The independence goals championed by Zaire’s first prime minister, Patrice Lumumba, remain unfulfilled in the country now known as the Democratic Republic of Congo, his son said on Sunday, 43 years after the charismatic leader’s assassination.
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/ 19 January 2004
A British newspaper company announced a deal on Sunday with press baron Conrad Black to take over his controlling interest in Hollinger, the Toronto-based parent company of newspaper publisher Hollinger International. Hollinger International said it was removing Black as chairman and suing him to recover more than -million
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/ 19 January 2004
The University of Natal has come to the rescue of a matriculant who, despite passing with four distinctions last year, had resigned himself to being another unemployment statistic. When Julius Mojapelo of Gauteng received his results in December last year, he realised that he had inadvertently forfeited his exemption.