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/ 20 January 2004
Tensions ran high on Israel’s northern border on Tuesday after the army threatened retaliation for a Hezbollah attack that killed one soldier and wounded another, despite suggestions they might have strayed into Lebanese territory. Defence sources said the army was considering a retaliatory strike deep inside Lebanon.
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/ 20 January 2004
Another new year and another new Beatles release. This may come as a bit of a shock, but the Beatles split up in 1970. Alexis Petridis on the mighty machine behind the band that won’t go away.
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/ 20 January 2004
Health authorities in China are refusing to disclose the origins of an avian influenza (bird flu) virus that can be lethal when transmitted to humans, a South African medical official said on Tuesday. The virus could be the source of the flu that is suspected of having caused 13 deaths in Vietnam since the beginning of the year.
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/ 20 January 2004
The commander of the United Nations mission in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide on Tuesday accused his superiors of denying him permission to raid caches of weapons that three months later were used in the slaughter of up to a million people, mainly Tutsis.
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/ 20 January 2004
National prosecutions head Bulelani Ngcuka ”probably never” acted as an agent for the apartheid government, the Hefer Commission of Inquiry has found. ”I have come to the conclusion that he probably never at any time before 1994 acted as an agent for a state security agency,” retired judge Joos Hefer said in his final report, made public on Tuesday.
Hefer report critical of Zuma response
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/ 20 January 2004
The final report of the Hefer Commission of Inquiry into spying allegations against national prosecutions head Bulelani Ngcuka was critical on Tuesday of Deputy President Jacob Zuma’s threat to ignore a subpoena to testify.
Ngcuka ‘probably never’ was a spy
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/ 20 January 2004
Zimbabwe’s year-on-year rate of inflation fell 21% to 599% in December, the first decline in the country’s skyrocketing cost of living in 18 months, according to official figures released in Harare on Tuesday. The reported trend surprised economists, with some even suspecting ‘doctoring’ of the figures.
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/ 20 January 2004
As many as 30 000 former fighters could go through Cote d’Ivoire’s disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) programme, the head of the National DDR Committee, Alain Donwahi, said on Sunday. ”We don’t think we will go beyond 30 000 ex-combatants”, Donwahi said on national TV.
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/ 20 January 2004
The newly formed Chambers of Commerce and Industry of South Africa (Chamsa) on Tuesday appointed Sipho Mseleku as the new CEO of the body. Chamsa is a constituent member of Business Unity South Africa, which is the new national body replacing the former Black Business Council and Business South Africa.