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/ 22 September 2003
Pakistan has rejected Australia’s free offer of 57 000 sheep stranded on a ship in the Gulf since Saudi Arabia rejected them five weeks ago. The livestock are at the heart of a dispute between Australian and Saudi Arabia over their level of infection with the scabby mouth viral illness.
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/ 22 September 2003
South African media group Johnnic Communications has joined forces with the Proudly South African campaign to promote South African books and music, new business opportunities for South African companies and a stepped-up consumer education campaign to promote "buy South African".
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/ 22 September 2003
The Boeremag treason trialists have distanced themselves from a so-called ”new” hit list, which includes the names of the trial judge and prosecutors, describing it as a deliberate attempt to blacken their names. One of the accused has also blamed the police for waging a ”campaign” against them.
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/ 22 September 2003
The youth have to take the lead in a social revolution against HIV/Aids in a similar way to the revolution against apartheid.
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/ 22 September 2003
The Ministry of Health has said good progress is being made on tabling an anti-retroviral treatment plan for South Africa. It also hit out at the media reports alleging the opposite, saying it had "noted with concern a false newspaper report that there will be a delay in the provision of anti-retroviral treatment".
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=20834">Cosatu concerned about Aids delay</a>
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/ 22 September 2003
For the first time since the war in Iraq began, less than half of Americans say they approve of the way President George Bush is handling the situation, according to a new poll. The poll comes as the White House girds for United Nations talks to win a new resolution followed, the president hopes, by offers of troops and money.
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/ 22 September 2003
Zimbabwe’s white farmers have been told by the government that they must take the compensation offered to them for their land or risk getting nothing at all, the agriculture minister was quoted as saying in a newspaper report. Many farmers have not collected the money because they are contesting the sums offered.
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/ 22 September 2003
Industrial nations and developing countries are searching for a way to break the deadlock caused by the collapse of the World Trade Organisation talks in Cancun. Trade is the key to winning the fight against poverty, the development committee of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund has been told.
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/ 22 September 2003
A strong earthquake shook the Dominican Republic on Monday, rattling houses and sending waves of tremors that could be felt in western Puerto Rico. Another strong earthquake early on Monday rocked central Myanmar, damaging temples and a bridge, but there were no immediate reports of injuries, officials said.