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/ 6 February 2003
A tornado that tore through remote villages in the central Democratic Republic of the Congo killed 164 people, destroyed homes and ruined crops, the country’s top health official said on Wednesday.
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/ 6 February 2003
Negotiations aimed at improving opportunities for international trade cannot succeed unless nations also tackle the abuse of rules on goods that are dumped in foreign markets, a group of 15 nations said on Wednesday.
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/ 6 February 2003
Nokia Corp. unveiled its N-Gage on Wednesday and said the company’s foray into handheld gaming marks a new path for the world’s largest mobile phone maker.
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/ 6 February 2003
One of two former police dog handlers who has pleaded not guilty to charges of needlessly setting their animals on three illegal immigrants in 1998, is to take the stand in his own defence in the Pretoria High Court on Thursday.
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/ 6 February 2003
A man accused of defrauding the development agency of the African kingdom of Swaziland has been sentenced to five years in federal prison for conspiring to cheat two American banks.
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/ 6 February 2003
The was a big question mark over whether Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri is overstepping her powers by determining a new process in selecting the 51% stakeholder in the second national operator, says official opposition MP Dene Smuts.
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/ 6 February 2003
Zimbabwe promises to provide a classic case study on whether economic necessity forces political change during the course of 2003, according to a leading Zimbabwean academic.
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/ 6 February 2003
The European Union last night failed again to agree to renew its sanctions against Zimbabwe.
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/ 6 February 2003
Colin Powell yesterday used satellite photographs, tapes of intercepted conversations and newly opened CIA files to make the United States case against Iraq in a determined attempt to win over international opinion.
‘Enough, enough, enough’
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/ 6 February 2003
The seven astronauts aboard the doomed space shuttle Columbia are likely to have known they were going to die for between 60 and 90 seconds before the craft broke apart, Nasa officials said yesterday.