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/ 12 February 2003
VÃ clav Havel’s departure marks the end of an era. The Czech Republic president recently stepped down after an extraordinary career that spanned 40 years.
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/ 12 February 2003
Alan Greenspan, the world’s most powerful central banker, yesterday blamed the threat of war for delaying the US recovery and delivered a stern warning to President Bush about the dangers of America’s ballooning budget deficit.
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/ 12 February 2003
BP yesterday put its faith in Russia and a host of other politically volatile countries to build its future as it tried to draw a line under a year of production setbacks.
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/ 12 February 2003
Microsoft is to be forced to fight its regulatory battles in Europe on two fronts after a powerful coalition of technology companies disclosed yesterday that it had lodged a fresh complaint against the software group with the European commission.
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/ 12 February 2003
Death squads linked to Ivory Coast’s government are murdering opposition leaders and supporters in Abidjan, where rising ethnic tensions are drawing comparisons with Rwanda on the eve of its 1994 genocide, investigators for the UN’s high commissioner for human rights have warned.
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/ 12 February 2003
Trials of a potential Aids vaccine for Africa have begun with human volunteers in Uganda, one of the worst hit countries on the continent, it was announced yesterday.
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/ 12 February 2003
Osama bin Laden last night returned to haunt America in the midst of preparations for a war in Iraq, when a new tape attributed to the al-Qaeda leader was broadcast on the leading Arab television network, urging Iraqis to carry out suicide attacks against the United States.
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/ 12 February 2003
Thirty-eight people in the Republic of Congo have died in a suspected outbreak of the deadly ebola virus, the country’s health ministry said late on Tuesday.
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/ 12 February 2003
A mysterious group of vigilantes called the Black Scorpions has arisen in the Upper Tugela area of KwaZulu-Natal to combat the rampant stock theft in the area that residents say the police cannot — or will not — control.
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/ 12 February 2003
Controversy continues to dog the Immigration Act, as regulations issued in terms of it by Minister of Home Affairs Mangosuthu Buthelezi receive flak from both the ruling party and the opposition.