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/ 22 January 2003
A four-billion dollar claim against Germany and two firms for alleged atrocities committed against Namibia’s Herero people in colonial times may go to court within two months, The Namibian daily reported on Wednesday.
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/ 22 January 2003
North Korea on Wednesday described the UN’s atomic watchdog as a ”henchman” of the United States, accusing it of applying double standards to the Stalinist state in the ongoing nuclear standoff.
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/ 22 January 2003
A powerful earthquake hit west-central Mexico last night, sending panicked residents spilling into the streets of major cities and knocking out power supplies to many areas.
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/ 22 January 2003
A lawmaker from Zimbabwe’s main opposition Movement for Democratic Change party was arrested this week by police on unspecified charges. Three other opposition supporters have already been arrested this month.
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/ 22 January 2003
A study of syphilis among homosexual men in New York City has found high rates of HIV infection, unprotected sex and recreational drug use.
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/ 22 January 2003
The mention of the words war veterans conjures up images of large groups of men marching through the city streets in demand of war pensions, or stick wielding groups of people trying to accelerate the country’s land reform programme by camping outside white-owned farms up for compulsory acquisition.
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/ 22 January 2003
The journalist from the Israeli daily Ha’aretz who revealed Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was being probed over a ,5-million loan was interrogated over the circumstances of the leak, the justice ministry said on Wednesday.
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/ 22 January 2003
Southern African Development Community chief executive Prega Ramsamy on Tuesday renewed calls for the regional organisation to speed up the implementation of a free trade area and assimilate it into a customs union.
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/ 22 January 2003
President of the Swaziland Law Society Paul Shilubane on Tuesday called for the reinstatement of the full powers of the Swaziland Judicial Service Commission under the Minister of Justice and Sapire.
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/ 22 January 2003
Moving into a new realm, Microsoft Corp. is buying a company that provides Web-based conferencing services, hoping to spark growth in the software giant’s maturing business software unit.