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/ 23 September 2003
World Bank president James Wolfensohn has voiced understanding in Dubai for the stand taken by developing nations in international trade talks and called for a ”new balance” between rich and poor. He said the collapse of trade talks in Mexico reflected the ”forces causing imbalance” between the world’s rich and poor.
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/ 23 September 2003
The managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Horst Koehler, has backed the call by the Group of Seven of leading industrialised economies for more flexibility in exchange rates. ”Allowing greater exchange-rate flexibility would be helpful both domestically and globally,” he said.
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/ 23 September 2003
Quick action taken by TelkomInternet has saved its users from a major virus onslaught, after a new virus, called W32.Swen.A, appeared last Thursday and started ramping up even faster than the sobig.f and blaster worms. The virus masquerades as a Microsoft security patch.
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/ 23 September 2003
An African National Congress Women’s League delegation is departing for Nigeria as part of the organisation’s campaign to save Amina Lawal, the Nigerian citizen facing death by stoning for having a baby outside wedlock. A Southern Africa Development Community women’s delegation would join the league in Nigeria.
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/ 23 September 2003
An estimated 10 000 workers are to strike at Durban Roodepoort Deep (DRD) to protest against retrenchments at DRD operations in the North West. DRD has said 4 504 mineworkers would lose their jobs because the National Union of Mineworkers was unwilling to save about 3 000 jobs from the total figure.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=20877">Thousands of mining jobs to be shafted</a>
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/ 23 September 2003
The United Nations and World Health Organisation (WHO) have condemned Western governments for neglecting Africa’s Aids pandemic while lavishing money and attention on the war on terrorism. The WHO called on rich countries to tackle Aids with the same urgency as the Iraq crisis and the Sars outbreak.
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/ 23 September 2003
More than 60 of the world’s leading science academies called on Tuesday for a United Nations ban on the reproductive cloning of humans, to prevent the exploitation of vulnerable people. But they also urged that any such ban should not extend to cloning human tissue for the treatment of diseases.
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/ 23 September 2003
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan will openly challenge the White House doctrine of pre-emptive military intervention on Tuesday, arguing that it could lead to the unjustified ”lawless use of force” and posed a ”fundamental challenge” to world peace and stability.
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/ 23 September 2003
With winds of up to 140kph and driving rain, Hurricane Marty has slammed into Mexico’s Baja California, killing five people, leaving thousands homeless and causing widespread flooding. In the state capital of La Paz, the storm surge put about 50 neighbourhoods under 1,5m of water.
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/ 23 September 2003
Zimbabwean civic groups plan to meet this week to find alternative means of publishing information following the closure of the country’s sole independent daily paper, threatening a boycott of a state-run newspaper. Civic organisations expressed fears that they might be the next target in the crackdown on dissent.