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/ 18 September 2003
Officials have announced new measures to bolster security at Argentina’s soccer stadiums, nearly a week after play in the country’s professional leagues was suspended because of fan violence. The government said it was creating a special prosecutor’s unit to investigate sports-related crimes.
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/ 18 September 2003
Subsistence farmers in Kenya are transforming their lives with a simple yet cutting-edge scheme dreamed up by two British scientists. The project has already multiplied maize yields, delivered fresh milk, seen off two major pests and brought cash to an economy on the edge of starvation. And it couldn’t be more organic.
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/ 18 September 2003
Arsenal and Celtic suffered a nightmare start to their European Champions League campaigns on Wednesday as their hopes of joining Manchester United, Chelsea and Rangers in the British winners’ circle were brought to a shuddering halt.
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/ 18 September 2003
In an interview taped before his death in 1995 that is to be shown on the Tennis Channel as part of its 30th-anniversary airing of the Bobby Riggs-Billie Jean King match, Riggs talks about his tennis strategy and the lead-up to the historic match, which drew a massive crowd of 30 472.
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/ 18 September 2003
As the countdown begins to the eighth All Africa Games scheduled to start in Abuja on October 4, Nigeria, the host country, is struggling to be ready for the showpiece of African sports. Finishing touches are still being put to the 60 000-capacity stadium to be used for the games.
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/ 18 September 2003
Players who persistently foul in next month’s Rugby World Cup could be ruled out of the final as a result of measures introduced by the International Rugby Board. Players who pick up three yellow cards will be suspended even if it means them missing the final.
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/ 18 September 2003
Springbok centre Gcobani Bobo is out of the 2003 Rugby World Cup. Bobo tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee during a warm-up game against the Vodacom Cheetahs in Bloemfontein on Tuesday.
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/ 17 September 2003
The government of South Korea wants to buy uranium from Namibia, Ambassador Han Hwa-Ghil, who is based in Pretoria, told Namibian Foreign Minister Hidipo Hamutenya on Wednesday.
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/ 17 September 2003
Police continued to remove confiscated computer equipment from the offices of the independent Daily News on Tuesday as lawyers struggled to get a court hearing to stop authorities closing the newspaper down, company officials said.
SA urged to push Zim to reopen paper
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/ 17 September 2003
A broad-based Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) strategy that socially and economically empowers all previously disadvantaged communities needs to be promoted, the Congress of South African Trade Union (Cosatu) said on Wednesday.