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/ 11 February 2003
A controversial new Ethiopian draft press law violates African goals of freedom of expression and good governance, Ethiopian journalists said on Tuesday.
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/ 11 February 2003
China has executed 81 Tibetan political prisoners in the past 16 years and another 208 Tibetans are in detention awaiting the same fate, a human rights group said on Tuesday.
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/ 11 February 2003
Coalition warplanes bombed caves in central Afghanistan after at least five heavily-armed extremists ambushed US Special Forces as they picked their way through a remote mountain valley, the US military said on Tuesday.
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/ 11 February 2003
Israeli forces on Tuesday imposed a complete closure of the occupied territories following warnings of an imminent attack by Palestinian militants, as Prime Minister Ariel Sharon sought afresh to forge a new coalition government.
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/ 11 February 2003
James Kilgore, the former Symbionese Liberation Army member who spent more than two decades on the run, is expected to plead guilty later this month to federal explosives and forgery charges, lawyers in the case said on Monday.
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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.