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/ 4 September 2003
Thirty-two people have been confirmed dead and more than 1 000 injured, and regional governments dispatched teams on Thursday to assess more than -million in damage after Typhoon Dujuan lashed coastal southern China.
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/ 4 September 2003
Entities producing nuclear waste in South Africa will have to bear the financial burden for the management thereof, proposes a draft radioactive waste-management policy by the Department of Minerals and Energy.
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/ 4 September 2003
China refused to buckle under pressure from the United States to strengthen its currency on Wednesday, saying only that a flotation of the renminbi on the world markets was desirable at some point in the future.
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/ 4 September 2003
The Bush administration suffered a humiliating diplomatic climbdown over Iraq on Wednesday as it presented a draft resolution to the United Nations, asking for military and financial help to rescue it from the ballooning human, financial and political costs of the occupation.
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/ 4 September 2003
Thirteen alleged members of the rightwing Boeremag organisation brought an urgent application in the Pretoria High Court on Wednesday to stop prison authorities from ”tormenting” them with radio broadcasts.
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/ 4 September 2003
The African National Congress in KwaZulu-Natal expressed outrage on Wednesday at the ruling of the Speaker of the provincial legislature, an Inkatha Freedom Party member, who ”abruptly” adjourned the sitting of the House on Tuesday to an undecided date.
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/ 4 September 2003
British arms company BAE Systems says South Africa will be a major beneficiary of an Indian decision to buy 66 of its Hawk fighter-trainer aircraft.
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/ 4 September 2003
Astick of R2 "Rose Garden of India" incense from a Soweto spaza couldn’t beat the stench of fakeness ("I love my beautiful wife, I wouldn’t look at her") at this trial. At its heart, a charge of sexual harassment. Only politicians could pull off such brilliant insincerity.
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/ 4 September 2003
Early in March intelligence agents searching the western deserts of Pakistan thought they had finally tracked down the world’s most wanted man. They were wrong. And they are still in the dark as to the whereabouts of Al-Qaeda’s leader, now believed to be in northern Pakistan guarded by a ring of tribesmen.
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/ 4 September 2003
The Bush administration plans to open a huge loophole in the United States’s air pollution laws, allowing an estimated 17 000 outdated power stations and factories to increase their carbon emissions with impunity.