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/ 15 January 2004
The bird flu ravaging several east Asian countries — and which has been blamed for the deaths of at least three Vietnamese people — could precipitate a more serious global health crisis than Sars if it spreads by human contact, the World Health Organisation warned on Wednesday.
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/ 15 January 2004
The Aboriginal woman whose life inspired the acclaimed film Rabbit Proof Fence about the so-called ”stolen generations” of indigenous Australians has died at the age of 87. Molly Kelly died in her sleep on Tuesday in the Western Australia town of Jigalong.
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/ 15 January 2004
Police from the Netherlands joined a manhunt in South Africa on Wednesday for a 24-year-old Dutch woman who went missing shortly after Christmas. The Dutch detectives were assisting in the search for exchange student Marleen Konings, who had been due to meet a friend in Cape Town on December 28, but did not arrive at the rendezvous.
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/ 15 January 2004
Associate editor Ferial Haffajee is to become the new editor of the <i>Mail & Guardian</i>, it was announced on Thursday. Haffajee was a trainee at the newspaper in 1991. Haffajee (36) takes over from Mondli Makhanya, who is to take up the post of editor at the <i>Sunday Times</i> in February.
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/ 15 January 2004
A 22-year-old Palestinian mother of two small children, pretending to be disabled, killed four Israelis at a Gaza border crossing on Wednesday after duping soldiers into allowing her a personal security check rather than going through a metal detector.
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/ 15 January 2004
From his hideout after the fall of Baghdad, Saddam Hussein warned the insurgency against working too closely with ”jihadists” who had come to fight the US-led occupation, according to a document reported yesterday.
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/ 15 January 2004
An application for a warrant to arrest the Zimbabwean president, Robert Mugabe, on torture charges was rejected by a British court on Wednesday. Human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell had hoped to bring President Mugabe to justice through the British courts under international human rights laws.
More media arrests in Zimbabwe
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/ 15 January 2004
Public confidence in Liberia’s banks appears to be at a new low, with many people now opting to keep their money elsewhere -– some in foreign accounts. The latest blow to the banking sector comes with the liquidation of the Italian-owned Liberia Trading and Development Bank (Tradevco).
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/ 15 January 2004
Smiling into the camera, a bright-faced little girl of about four dressed in her Sunday best shouts "Trees!", instead of the customary "Cheese!" Tiny, sandal-clad feet stomp the freshly stirred earth around a newly planted acacia tree. Loren Naish looks at a project that’s breathing new life into barren, depressing urban environments.
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/ 15 January 2004
Whereas the job of the media is generally to look outwards, the SABC is in the often unenviable position of having the glare pointed squarely at Auckland Park. So it was this week. The corporation was in hot water with opposition parties for its decision to cover the African National Congress election manifesto launch jamboree in all its green, black and gold glory.