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/ 1 September 2003
Vicious storms that lashed through northeast Italy, triggering massive landslides and killing two people, have caused between €500-million and €1-billion in damages after months of drought and heat waves.
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/ 1 September 2003
South African Finance Minister Trevor Manuel has painted a positive picture of the South African economy amid growing imbalances in many developed economies, saying he is confident the inflation target will be met.
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/ 1 September 2003
South African motor retailer McCarthy Limited on Monday reported a rise in fully diluted headline earnings per share of 5,7c for the year ended June 30 from 3,4c a year ago. No dividend was declared.
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/ 1 September 2003
Kenya’s government has lifted a ban on the Mau Mau movement, which spearheaded an uprising against British colonial rule in Kenya in the 1950s. Mau Mau fighters are now seeking compensation from the British government for maltreatment in detention camps.
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/ 1 September 2003
The FBI is to investigate links between the bomb massacre in the Iraqi city of Najaf and the deadly attacks on the United Nations’ Baghdad headquarters and Jordan’s embassy.
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/ 1 September 2003
Singapore’s major hospital has gone on ”heightened alert” for Sars following reports of seven health-care workers in Hong Kong developing flu-like symptoms last week.
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/ 1 September 2003
Daniel arap Moi called her a ‘mad woman’ and a ‘threat to order and security’. MPs threatened to mutilate her genitals. Women in Kenya, particularly young women, see themselves in a different light since the advent of environmentalist Wangari. Caroline Kihato, a young Kenyan, explains why.
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/ 1 September 2003
In 1982, a group of private investors opened the Palm beach Hotel, a sprawling tourism complex by the Atlantic ocean in Benin, a small country on the coast of West Africa.
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/ 1 September 2003
At 83 years old Emmanuel Kouang is the oldest person in Ebome. Sitting in a dusty armchair in his wooden house next to the dirt road he recalls how, as a teenage boy, he sat on the beach and watched in disbelief as a dark figure seemed to walk out over the water and sink beneath the waves of the Atlantic.
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/ 1 September 2003
Somebody once said: "Poor Mexico, so far from God, so close to the United States." But few can dispute the fact that Mexico’s unique relationship with the US is the primary reason for its stable economic performance in recent years. In the first of a two-part series we examine Mexico’s free-growth strategy.