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Experts are puzzling over the latest videotape of Osama bin Laden in the hope of establishing firm clues that may indicate when and where the recording was made. A French terrorism expert has said that it is mostly a collection of old footage and soundtracks.
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/ 12 September 2003
The Israeli government has declared Yasser Arafat an obstacle to peace and said it will ”act to remove the obstacle” in a move widely interpreted as a threat to exile the Palestinian president. However, Arafat has said he would not be forced out.
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/ 12 September 2003
The Arab League said on Friday expelling Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat would be disastrous, and there were numerous calls around the region for like-minded countries to intervene to prevent his removal. United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan also warned that it would be "unwise" to expel Arafat.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=20375">Israelis threaten to exile Arafat</a>
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/ 12 September 2003
Employees at the Gauteng Department of Health have an opportunity to play the "money or the box" game by choosing electronic appliances instead of cash for their end-of-year bonuses.
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/ 12 September 2003
Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka is reaping the whirlwind of an equivocal investigation into Jacob Zuma as the deputy president now moves to exploit the "deference" granted to his status during the conduct of the investigation.
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/ 12 September 2003
At least half of the 2 500 environmentalists attending the World Parks Congress in Durban have forked out "compensation" for the energy they are using by attending the event, contributing at least $30 each into a fund called the Johannesburg Climate Legacy (JCL).
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/ 12 September 2003
Disgraced New York Times reporter Jayson Blair, who quit in a plagiarism scandal, has signed a book contract worth around half a million dollars. The book Burning Down My Master’s House: My Life at The New York Times will be published early next year.
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South African soccer star Mark Fish’s father, Malcolm Fish, was on Thursday jailed for two years for going on a string of drinking binges with stolen cheques. The magistrate said Fish had used the cheques to enjoy himself, and had shown little remorse.
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/ 12 September 2003
Two of the alleged rapists arrested in connection with the gang rape of a matric pupil at a University of Pretoria hostel have been identified as relatives of a high-profile politician in the former government of national unity.
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Zimbabwe’s Supreme Court has ruled that a private daily newspaper, which is critical of President Robert Mugabe’s government, is operating illegally because it has not registered under tough media laws.