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/ 11 February 2003
A chill has invaded once-cozy homes. Ice hangs from leaking municipal pipes. And the only reliable source of heat in this small town is a private gas line that exasperated residents built themselves.
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/ 11 February 2003
Don’t chew gum in front of TV cameras, don’t overdo the heckling and don’t miss too many sessions, dozens of parliament freshmen were told -but few believed the brief orientation seminar would help turn the unruly Knesset into a decorous debating club.
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/ 11 February 2003
Junior doctors at Ghana’s largest hospital launched a strike on Monday, citing poor working conditions and the government’s delay in implementing a package promised to them.
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/ 11 February 2003
The historic war crimes trial of Slobodan Milosevic enters its second year on Wednesday with the end of the proceedings not yet in sight.
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/ 11 February 2003
Detectives from the Office for Serious Economic Offences arrested a couple in Orange Farm south of Johannesburg on Monday in connection with the illegal sale of low-cost houses in Gauteng.
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/ 11 February 2003
The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa bounced into the black in early trade on Tuesday, buoyed by heavyweight rand hedge stocks which were boosted by a weaker rand. Gold stocks, under pressure because of the lower bullion price, pared the bourse’s gains.
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/ 11 February 2003
Ron Ziegler, the former press secretary to President Richard Nixon who famously called the Watergate break-in a ”third-rate burglary,” died on Monday of a heart attack, his wife said. He was 63.
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/ 11 February 2003
Clare Short yesterday warned the oil industry there is the risk of more Brent Spar-style consumer boycotts if companies fail to join a global drive to stamp out corruption in the developing world by disclosing the payments they make to governments.
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/ 11 February 2003
The White House came under mounting pressure last night to force America’s pharmaceutical companies to accept a deal to provide cheap drugs to poor countries amid fears that the deadlocked global trade talks could end in a repeat of the disastrous Seattle meeting three years ago.
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/ 11 February 2003
Nasa engineers examining the break-up of the space shuttle Columbia think a possible cause may have been the clutter of human debris in space.