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/ 30 October 2003
Two Japanese satellites have been in trouble following geomagnetic storms triggered by recent solar flares, one of them the largest in three decades, the Japanese space agency said on Thursday. Adeos-2, one of the world’s biggest earth observation satellites, has lost contact with the Earth.
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/ 30 October 2003
Tourism operator Thomas Cook is set to bring the first of 26 000 Germans over the next two years to South Africa on Friday. It has organised charter flights from Germany as a result of a ground-breaking agreement signed between the tour operator, South African Tourism, Tourism KwaZulu-Natal and the Western Cape Tourism Board.
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/ 30 October 2003
Ugandan rebels bludgeoned 13 civilians to death and abducted several other people when they raided a village in the north of the country, a member of parliament said on Thursday.
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/ 30 October 2003
The T-shirt, the poster, the billboard. Traditionally the weapons of protest and of solidarity are remarkable for their ability to cross oceans with similar messages, as displayed in an exhibition at the Johannesburg Art Gallery.
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/ 30 October 2003
On the eve of his retirement, one of the country’s best known prosecutors has released a report calling for the scrapping of the lengthy recesses currently found in South Africa’s high courts.
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/ 30 October 2003
Hundreds of nurses at Zimbabwe’s state hospitals have called off a strike after the government promised to address their demands for steep pay increases, according to a newspaper report. The government said it would respond to the nurses’ demand for a 7 000% increase within one week.
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/ 30 October 2003
Rightwingers planning a coup d’état were in 2001 provided with maps, aerial photographs and weapons and ammunition stock lists of the Lohatlha defence force base in the Northern Cape, police informer Johannes Coenraad Smit told the Pretoria High Court on Thursday.
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/ 30 October 2003
On Halloween, when legend says disembodied spirits return in search of living bodies to possess, Joe Nickell goes on the prowl, too — for ghosts, ghouls and other things that creep in the night. The former private eye is now a senior research fellow at the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal.
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/ 30 October 2003
Stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV/Aids must be eradicated as a critical component of expanding access to treatment and care.
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/ 30 October 2003
For those who worry the United Nations doesn’t already deal with enough red tape, the UN General Assembly has begun discussing a proposal to set up an international tax organisation that would act as a forum to help countries spell out their own standards and principles so that they could better coordinate tax policies.