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Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh has died, a day after being stabbed by an unknown assailant in Stockholm. Lindh had been a high-profile campaigner ahead of Sweden’s vote on whether to swap the krona for the euro, scheduled for Sunday.
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South African Minister of Labour Membathisi Mdladlana told the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration in a Cape Town seminar that the commission plays a vital role in protecting the rights of the most vulnerable of workers.
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A powerful typhoon — the strongest typhoon to hit the Okinawan islands in southern Japan in more than 30 years — swept across the islands on Thursday, flipping over cars, toppling telephone poles and causing at least one death.
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Nationwide ceremonies are to be staged in the United States for Thursday’s second anniversary of the September 11 attacks while President George Bush warned that Osama bin Laden was plotting new strikes against the world superpower.
Sept 11: Asia calls for cooperation
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United States troops on Thursday remembered the September 11 terrorist onslaught that triggered their invasion of Iraq, but faced a new spate of attacks and warnings by Islamic militants the fight here is far from over.
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The Dutch arm of Shell is in negotiations with the Tanzanian government for licences to prospect four deep-sea areas or ”blocks” in the Rufiji delta and another four off Zanzibar. But the oil business does not run smoothly — or cleanly — elsewhere in Africa, especially in Nigeria where the bulk of exploration takes place.
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/ 11 September 2003
The 100-year-old Egyptian Museum has taken a leap into the modern era with the launch of digital tour guides. But while museum officials laud them as a necessary step forward, many tourists still might prefer the human option.
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Governments across the Asian region urged more cooperation against terrorists while people laid wreaths for their victims on Thursday’s second anniversary of September 11, and Australia’s leader warned the battle against terror would not end any time soon.
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Up to 10 000 of the poorest Mexican farmers and trade unionists marched on the World Trade Organistion’s opening meeting on Wednesday, demanding that small farmers be protected from international big business and that trade rules should not determine issues of food and health.