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/ 26 September 2003
Europe’s trading relationship with the United States deteriorated further this week when the European Commission said it had no option but to impose tit-for-tat sanctions in a rumbling row over an illegal US trade law.
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/ 26 September 2003
The European Commission this week announced long-awaited proposals to reform some of the most criticised aspects of the its subsidy-laden common agricultural policy (CAP).
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/ 26 September 2003
Rival companies have accused Microsoft of cynical commercialism for pulling the plug on its Internet chatrooms. MSN — the Internet arm of Bill Gates’s Microsoft empire — said it took the decision after a series of high-profile cases involving children being abused by adults they had met in chatrooms.
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/ 26 September 2003
With the end of apartheid, many hoped that life for the people of Southern Africa would begin to yield something entirely different from the unhappy past. Unfortunately things have not turned out this way and the daily news from the hole in the region we still call Zimbabwe underlines this. So, what did happen to Southern Africa’s post-apartheid moment?
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/ 26 September 2003
Old transatlantic wounds within the UN’s Security Council were reopened this week, as France condemned American unilateralism and demanded a rapid transition to democracy, and the US defended the war and insisted the move to Iraqi sovereignty would not be rushed.
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/ 26 September 2003
Mark Stein, the South African-born former Chelsea striker who has demanded a transfer from Dagenham & Redbridge because of the manager’s alleged racism, claims that other black players may follow his example. ”Black players have more confidence in their ability and they will not tolerate racism,” he says.
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/ 26 September 2003
According to some hacks who go out and get the news when and where it happens (as opposed to those who merely sit in the Dorsbult and wait to hear about it), following Bill and Melinda Gates around on their PR funding exercise last week was an enormously frustrating experience. As regular readers of this column will know, Oom Krisjan holds deep and dark suspicions about the Microsofted one.
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/ 26 September 2003
The United Nations’s food agency has warned that despite an urgent appeal made in the summer, it faces a ”significant” funding shortfall that could leave millions in Southern Africa facing food shortages. The agency asked for -million to feed people in Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Zambia, Swaziland, Lesotho and Malawi.
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/ 26 September 2003
Travel agents are claiming that high costs and ticket chaos are stopping thousands of rugby fans going to Australia for next month’s Rugby World Cup. The 12 licensed travel agents in Britain estimate that business is down 20% while figures from South Africa are 50% down.
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/ 26 September 2003
New Pakistan captain Inzamam-ul Haq has insisted there was nothing sinister behind the sudden resignation of previous incumbent Rashid Latif ahead of the crucial series against South Africa. ”I assure everyone there was no controversy behind Latif’s resignation,” Inzamam said.