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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)
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/ 7 February 2003
The spin doctors of the left had a very hard time convincing anyone, but their line at least was clear. Trevor Manuel is a jolly nice man, well loved by his colleagues in the NEC, a good egg, whose stock as master of his financial ministry increases along with the rand.
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/ 7 February 2003
Ry Cooder’s heart still lies in Cuba, no matter how much they may disapprove in Washington, writes Nigel Williamson.
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/ 7 February 2003
Review: Walter and Albertina Sisulu: In Our Lifetime
(David Philip)
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/ 7 February 2003
South African Minister of Labour Membathisi Mdladlana on Friday warned farmers and their representative bodies to stop threatening to retrench agricultural workers as a way to get the government to change agricultural legislation.