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/ 7 February 2003
A wild Siberian tiger was photographed in northeastern China last week for the first time, a conservation group said -– an indication that the increasingly rare beasts are tentatively returning to areas they once roamed years ago.
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/ 7 February 2003
The US government on Thursday donated 30 000 tons of non-genetically modified sorghum and bulgur wheat to Zambia, struggling to cope with widespread food shortages.
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/ 7 February 2003
Reformed gangster Rashied Staggie was jailed for an effective 15 years on Friday for kidnapping and gang raping a teenage girl as her punishment for being a police informant.
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/ 7 February 2003
The HIV/AIDS pandemic has become a human security and governance issue no less destructive than warfare itself, according to a new project aimed at exploring the impact of the disease on security in Southern Africa.
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/ 7 February 2003
”I wouldn’t label it a crisis,” the deputy secretary of state, Richard Armitage told the United States Senate when he was being interrogated over the nuclear showdown with North Korea. It was more of a ”big problem”, he said.
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/ 7 February 2003
Michael Jackson yesterday made an official complaint to TV watchdogs over the controversial documentary on his life, and angrily accused interviewer Martin Bashir of ”utterly betraying” him.
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/ 7 February 2003
The Israeli army killed two Palestinian nurses in Gaza in a day of targeted attacks and indiscriminate killings that left at least six people dead. About two dozen Palestinians were arrested in raids across the West Bank.
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/ 7 February 2003
The Competition Tribunal has indicated its opposition to the merger between liquor giants Distillers Corporation and Stellenbosch Farmers Winery saying that the move would reduce competition in the spirits market.
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/ 7 February 2003
Russian diamond mining company Alrosa is prepared to reduce diamond sales to De Beers by 25% in a nod to European Union antitrust concerns, an Alrosa executive said on Friday.
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/ 7 February 2003
Review: 1421: the year china discovered the world
by Gavin Menzies
(Bantam)