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/ 24 January 2004
A former bank manager jailed for the murder of Mozambique journalist Carlos Cardoso, who was probing the country’s biggest bank fraud, admitted on Friday that he was involved in the -million scandal.
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/ 24 January 2004
Nigeria launched an anti-corruption drive on Friday when five former government officials charged with accepting bribes appeared in court for a test case of the country’s desire to clean up its image. Nigeria is second from the bottom in a corruption index of 133 countries. The joke goes that Nigeria bribed the corruption watchdog to rank Bangladesh lower.
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/ 24 January 2004
England cricket officials said Friday they had delayed making a decision on whether to tour Zimbabwe later this year because they want to study the advice of the British government. The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) have set themselves a deadline of next Thursday to decide.
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/ 24 January 2004
South Africa will play Australia in two internationals over the next year in an agreement announced by the Australian Soccer Association (ASA) on Saturday. The ASA said the Socceroos will play South Africa in London on March 30 and meet again in South Africa on February 9 next year.
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/ 24 January 2004
The South African Football Association (Safa) met Bafana players after their morning training session in Sousse, Tunisia on Friday, to give them feedback on their request for a consolidated payment for the African Cup of Nations tournament.
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/ 23 January 2004
Israel has come up with a new system aimed to stop suicide bombers boarding buses before blowing themselves up, by detecting the explosives they are carrying. The system takes the form of a turnstile fitted with shields that contain sensors which can detect explosive materials a distance of up to a metre from the bus.
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/ 23 January 2004
The United States economy will keep growing and is just starting to add significant new jobs, Commerce Secretary Don Evans said on Friday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. His upbeat forecast got a swift rebuttal from top American trade union leader John Sweeney.
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/ 23 January 2004
A man who escaped from a fire that engulfed a wedding pavilion and killed at least 45 people in southern India on Friday, said he could hear people crying out from the flames. ”We could hear a lot of shouting from inside asking for help. We could do nothing because the fire was blazing,” he said.
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/ 23 January 2004
The affair involving allegations that National Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka was an apartheid spy should teach South Africa an important lesson, says President Thabo Mbeki in his weekly letter to the nation. He argues that forgiveness — and the end to labelling — is required.