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/ 25 September 2003
A controversial Pentagon Big Brother programme in the United States that calls for monitoring computer databases containing data on millions of Americans for signs of terrorist activity has been hit with the delete key. The programme has been in the crosshairs of numerous civil liberties groups for months.
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/ 25 September 2003
A bomb at a hotel in central Baghdad housing staff of the United States television network NBC has killed a maintenance worker in what police called the first such attack aimed at foreign journalists in the city. Witnesses said two other people, including an NBC sound man, were wounded by the explosive device.
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/ 25 September 2003
A top broadcaster’s description of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, one of the most respected leaders in the world, as a ”cheeky darkie” provoked a furious row on Thursday which even drew in Prime Minister Helen Clark. Clark has distanced the country from the comments.
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/ 25 September 2003
Wal-Mart Stores Inc has argued that a sexual discrimination lawsuit seeking to represent 1,6-million current and former women workers should be dismantled into separate class actions against each of its 3 473 stores across the United States. If Wal-Mart faces a single class-action, the trial could last 13 years.
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/ 25 September 2003
”We want drugs! You talk as we die,” were some of the angry comments from Aids activists who protested on Wednesday against failure by their governments to give them anti-retroviral drugs. Some rolled on the ground as others shouted and marched through the international conference on Aids in Africa.
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/ 25 September 2003
Microsoft tycoon and philanthropist Bill Gates pledged a long-term fight against the Aids crisis in Botswana on Wednesday on the final leg of the world’s wealthiest man tour through southern Africa.
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/ 25 September 2003
This week, Bill Gates travelled to a rural clinic in Mozambique to announce the donation of £100-million to fight malaria in Africa and to reaffirm a promise to give away his billions before he dies. The founder of Microsoft is leading the charge in a new era of philanthropy.
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/ 25 September 2003
United States President George Bush’s administration’s ban on funds to clinics that offer abortion counselling is adversely affecting the supply of condoms to countries hit by HIV/Aids. Clinics have closed in African countries because those running them refused to sign a declaration that they will not offer abortions.
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/ 25 September 2003
The sixth successive students’ representative council (SRC) victory for the Freedom Front at Tuks, the University of Pretoria (UP), calls into question the extent of transformation at the institution.
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/ 25 September 2003
The prospects for agricultural revival in Zimbabwe in the new farming season have been thrown into doubt following reports that a parastatal charged with implementing the tillage programme among resettled subsistence farmers is facing serious problems.