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/ 23 December 2002
Nestle, the Swiss-based multinational embroiled in controversy over its demand for m from the famine-stricken government of Ethiopia, has promised to donate the money to hunger relief.
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/ 23 December 2002
So was the war on Afghanistan worth it after all? The daisy-cutters and the cluster bombs, the misguided missiles butchering wedding parties while al-Qaida slipped away? , a year after Kabul fell as the Taliban ran, was it worth the killing of anything from 800 to 3 000 men, women and children?
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/ 23 December 2002
"Careerism", graft, faction, lack of accountability and indiscipline are the recurring nightmares of the African National Congress.
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/ 23 December 2002
<i>’In the fall the war was always there, but we did not go to it any more.”</i> The now almost immortal line opening Hemingway’s short story, <i>In Another Country</i>, has a continuing and sometimes desperate resonance.
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/ 22 December 2002
Seventh-ranked US carrier US Airways, which declared bankruptcy last August, said Saturday it had filed a disclosure statement and reorganization plan aimed at emerging from Chapter 11 protection as
early as next March.
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/ 22 December 2002
The British government’s travel warning to its citizens about possible terrorist attacks in South Africa was general and South Africa did not believe there was really an elevated terror threat, Foreign Affairs representative Ronnie Mamoepa said on Saturday.
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/ 22 December 2002
President Marc Ravalomanana’s party won an absolute majority in the country’s parliamentary elections, the interior ministry said on Saturday – marking solid support for the new president.
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/ 22 December 2002
Africa’s last absolute monarch faces a tense 2003 after being accused of wasting millions of dollars on a private jet, kidnapping a schoolgirl, and wrecking the judicial system.
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/ 22 December 2002
Africa’s last absolute monarch faces a tense 2003 after being accused of wasting millions of dollars on a private jet, kidnapping a schoolgirl, and wrecking the judicial system.