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/ 23 December 2002
A Iraqi aircraft shot down a US unmanned surveillance drone over southern Iraq on Monday, American military officials said.
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/ 23 December 2002
The government of Spain’s top wine-making region has given 2 340 bottles of red wine to pilots, sailors and other people who will spend Christmas monitoring or cleaning up oil from a sunken tanker.
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/ 23 December 2002
Britain’s Department of Health accused three pharmaceutical companies on Monday of fixing the price of a blood-thinning drug and said it would sue them
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/ 23 December 2002
The Burundian army on Monday rejected allegations by Kinshasa that had deployed its forces in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo).
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/ 23 December 2002
It won’t be business as usual on Wall Street, officials at the biggest U.S. brokerage firms vow. Hoping to restore investors’ shattered trust, 10 firms – including Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse First Boston – said on Friday they would change business practices and pay ,44 billion to settle allegations they misled investors by hyping certain stocks.
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/ 23 December 2002
The past caught up with the new chief executive of Vodafone, Arun Sarin, yesterday as details emerged of litigation faced by the Indian-born American businessman from his time in the dotcom industry.
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/ 23 December 2002
Yasser Arafat’s cabinet yesterday called off next month’s election for a Palestinian president and legislature because it said the Israeli military occupation of West Bank cities made a free ballot impossible.
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/ 23 December 2002
A Christmas party organised by Nelson Mandela and Oprah Winfrey for 15 000 South African children descended into chaos yesterday when a stampede for food and gifts resulted in several injuries.
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/ 23 December 2002
Baghdad fought back in the highly charged propaganda battle with the US and Britain yesterday by inviting its arch-enemy, the CIA, to enter Iraq and track down the country’s elusive weapons of mass destruction.
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/ 23 December 2002
North Korea has ratcheted up the crisis on the divided peninsula by taking a crucial step towards restarting its suspended nuclear programme.