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/ 18 December 2002
British unemployment fell to 934,200 in November when 6 200 people signed off the benefits register, leaving the jobless rate steady at 3,1%, official figures showed on Wednesday.
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/ 18 December 2002
The Great Barrier Reef has recovered from severe bleaching and is now one of the world’s healthiest coral reefs, the Australian Institute of Marine Science said in a report issued yesterday.
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/ 18 December 2002
The Department of Health has found itself in unusual company at the African National Congress’ Stellenbosch conference, running a promotional stand almost alongside South Africa’s largest cigarette manufacturer.
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/ 18 December 2002
Washington formally inaugurated the ”Son of Star Wars” anti-missile shield yesterday, inviting Britain and other allies to subscribe to the controversial new vision of strategic defence.
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/ 18 December 2002
The National Council of Trade Unions has expelled its treasurer over allegations he made of financial mismanagement.
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/ 18 December 2002
Two-and-a-half-year-old Sanele Thanga is no different from any other ”terrible two” — active, naughty, loud and experimental — except that his home is a prison. His bedroom is a ward lined with beds and cots.
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/ 18 December 2002
The multinational coffee corporation, Nestle, is demanding a m (£3,7m) payment from the government of the world’s poorest state, Ethiopia, as the country struggles to combat its worst famine for nearly 20 years.
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/ 18 December 2002
The US and Britain edged closer to war yesterday after they judged the Iraqi president, Saddam Hussein, to have failed the crucial United Nations test by supplying a untruthful declaration about weapons of mass destruction.
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/ 18 December 2002
It became the defining image of US business in 2002 – senior executives led in handcuffs from the courts, displayed in front of the world’s television cameras as a warning to other white collar criminals.
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/ 18 December 2002
Delegates attending the African National Congress’ 51st conference in Stellenbosch will meet behind closed doors on Thursday to adopt a range of constitutional amendments, resolutions and a programme of action for the next five years.