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/ 11 October 2003
The public prosecutor’s office in Paris said yesterday it was opening a formal judicial inquiry into alleged corruption by a French engineering firm and the American oil services giant Halliburton, which was headed until two years ago by Dick Cheney, the vice-president of the United States.
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/ 11 October 2003
An Iranian human rights lawyer who fell foul of her country’s conservative clerics has won the Nobel peace prize, in what some see as a rebuff to the Pope, who was heavily tipped to win the prize.
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/ 11 October 2003
The two chief lieutenants of ousted New York Stock Exchange chief, Richard Grasso, will receive $22-million on their retirement in addition to earnings of about $13-million each over the past five years, it was disclosed yesterday.
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/ 11 October 2003
International Cricket Council match referee Clive Lloyd Saturday banned South African captain Graeme Smith for one limited overs international match and fined 50% of match fee for breaching the code of conduct.
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/ 11 October 2003
South Africa were still leading the eighth All Africa Games medal overall standing standings on Friday night. South Africa, winners of the previous event in Johannesburg in 1999, were leading with 77 medals – 32 gold, 23 silver and 22 bronze.
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/ 11 October 2003
Lanky pacer Andre Nel registered best figures of 4-39 to lead South Africa to a series levelling six-wicket win over Pakistan in the fourth day-night limited overs international at Pindi stadium here on Friday.
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/ 11 October 2003
New Zealand got their World Cup campaign off to an expected winning start with a 70-7 Pool D win over Italy under the Docklands Stadium roof on Saturday. But despite running in 11 tries, New Zealand saw first choice goalkicker Carlos Spencer miss three out of four place kicks.
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/ 10 October 2003
Conservationists are hopping with joy at the discovery of a population of the Cape’s critically endangered riverine rabbit well outside its previously known range. There have been several sightings of the mammal on the privately-owned Bijstein nature reserve in the Touwsrivier district about 150 km north-east of Cape Town.
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/ 10 October 2003
The SA Revenue Service confirmed on Friday it had asked Justice Minister Penuell Maduna to intervene in the controversial liquidation of the Retail Apparel Group (Rag). Commissioner Pravin Gordhan said SARS believed it had a valid tax claim on the spoils of the Rag estate.