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/ 5 February 2003
Tour operators and ”jeep jockeys” cashing in on SA’s increasingly competitive wildlife industry have taken to taunting animals and herding them towards tourist vehicles for a close-up view – with fatal consequences. At least two people were trampled by elephants over the festive season.
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/ 5 February 2003
As the nuclear crisis on the Korean peninsula escalates, ethnic Koreans in Japan are increasingly rallying behind Kim Jong-Il — not Pyongyang’s enigmatic supreme leader, but his Japan-based namesake, a one-time supporter turned vocal critic.
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/ 5 February 2003
Nasa was warned nine years ago that the space shuttle could fail catastrophically if debris hit the vulnerable underside of its wings during liftoff — the very scenario that may have brought down Columbia.
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/ 5 February 2003
Forty years after George Bizos argued Nelson Mandela’s innocence in a high-profile treason trial, the top human rights lawyer now finds himself in a Zimbabwean court pleading a similar case.
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/ 5 February 2003
Jacques Chirac delivered a blunt warning to Tony Blair yesterday that Britain and the US will have their work cut out to persuade France to back a military attack on Iraq.
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/ 5 February 2003
Director Ridley Scott says moviegoers are becoming savvy enough to second-guess filmmakers and that’s why deleted scenes, documentaries and unused endings are such popular DVD features.
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/ 5 February 2003
Controversial African National Congress MP Johnny de Lange ruffled political feathers in his own party today when he accused the presiding officers of parliament of pushing their own budget agendas.
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/ 5 February 2003
About 700 homeless people are being housed in social halls in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, as the City Council decides how to reintegrate them back into society.
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/ 5 February 2003
Truth commissioner Yasmin Sooka and the commission itself had been "clueless" about the reality of the Caprivi training and "intentionally blind" to the findings of the Magnus Malan trial court, Mario Ambrosini, Inkatha leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi’s adviser, said.