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/ 25 September 2003
All Black great Colin Meads fears the All Blacks and the Wallabies have relinquished the edge to their northern hemisphere rivals by not playing any World Cup warm-up matches. And he picks England to win the tournament.
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/ 25 September 2003
Michael Schumacher will attempt to capture a record sixth formula one driving crown in Indianapolis Sunday at the United States Grand Prix while Juan Pablo Montoya and Kimi Raikkonen try to deny the German star. But Schumacher refuses to concede any edge at Indy to Montoya or his BMW.
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/ 24 September 2003
A Nigerian Islamic court will pronounce its verdict on Thursday on single mother Amina Lawal’s appeal against a sentence she be stoned to death for adultery. Lawal has become a symbol of the dispute within Nigeria over a penal code many regard as harsh and out of place in a newly democratic republic.
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/ 24 September 2003
Meeting the UN’s goal of distributing anti-retroviral drugs to three million people living with Aids by the end of 2005 will cost more than five billion dollars, said United Nations health officials on Wednesday. That amount is more than the total spent worldwide on fighting Aids in 2003, they said.
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/ 24 September 2003
A bomb has hit a bus in Baghdad, killing an Iraqi and wounding 21 others, while the United States-installed government moved to assert itself with a tough new set of guidelines for media covering the occupied country. The blast occurred shortly after a US patrol passed through the area.
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/ 24 September 2003
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has called for unity with the opposition as he led tens of thousands of mourners in paying tribute to the country’s late vice president, Simon Vengesayi Muzenda, who was buried in a state funeral broadcast live on national television.
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/ 24 September 2003
Microsoft is shutting down internet chat services in most of its markets around the world and limiting the service in the United States to help reduce criminal solicitations of children through online chat discussions. The changes will take effect on October 14, Microsoft has said in an announcement from Europe.
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/ 24 September 2003
South Africa’s traditional leaders and traditional communities have a critical role to play in the country and should not be allowed to slide into insignificance, says Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon. The DA believes that traditional leaders’ role in managing communal lands has to be respected.
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/ 24 September 2003
Aids could slash African economic growth by up to half, far more than previously suggested by researchers, the World Bank said on Wednesday. Previous studies have suggested that Aids would reduce GDP growth in the worst-hit countries by one or two percentage points annually.