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/ 3 February 2003
The first summit of the newborn African Union was set to open in the Ethiopian capital on Monday, with regional conflicts including Ivory Coast high on the agenda.
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/ 3 February 2003
Four people were stabbed to death and a two-year-old baby was among the three reported child rapes in the Northern Cape on Saturday night, police reported.
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/ 3 February 2003
Ivory Coast’s leading human rights group have blamed shadowy ”death squads” for the murder of a popular television star and opposition activist which fuelled fresh rioting in Abidjan.
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/ 3 February 2003
The death toll in the head-on collision between a packed passenger train and a freight train in northwestern Zimbabwe rose to 46, police said on Sunday. A railway worker who might have given a wrong signal was arrested and tested for alcohol, media reports said.
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/ 3 February 2003
Ethnic clashes flared for the third day in Nigeria’s southern oil town of Warri on Sunday, with rival gangs burning houses in a blaze that set the night sky glowing orange, residents said.
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/ 3 February 2003
Chess legend Garry Kasparov and supercomputer Deep Junior played to a draw on Sunday, leaving their Man vs. Machine series tied 2-2 after four games.
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/ 3 February 2003
Just before it disintegrated, space shuttle Columbia experienced an abnormal rise in temperature and wind resistance that forced the craft’s automatic pilot to make rapid changes to its flight path — possible evidence that some heat-protection tiles were missing or damaged, Nasa said.
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/ 3 February 2003
Almost a decade after their former president Kamuzu Banda lost power, Malawians are still terrified by rumours of government-sponsored vampires that circulated under his brutal reign and have held the popular imagination ever since.
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/ 3 February 2003
The US will use more than 3 000 precision-guided bombs and missiles in a 48-hour air onslaught on Iraq, followed by a two-pronged ground invasion barely a week later, according to war plans outlined by the New York Times yesterday.