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/ 23 January 2003
England cricketers would be ”unhappy” to play their World Cup match in Zimbabwe if the security situation deteriorates, the country’s cricket board said on Wednesday.
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/ 22 January 2003
Internet service providers (ISP) must agree to requests by the music industry to track down computer users who illegally download music, a US judge recently ruled. It is a decision that could dramatically increase online pirates’ risk of being caught.
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/ 22 January 2003
Eight members of a family — including five children –- were shot and set alight by gunmen in their home in KwaMaye in the Upper Tugela district of the KwaZulu-Natal midlands on Tuesday night, police said.
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/ 22 January 2003
A four-billion dollar claim against Germany and two firms for alleged atrocities committed against Namibia’s Herero people in colonial times may go to court within two months, The Namibian daily reported on Wednesday.
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/ 22 January 2003
North Korea on Wednesday described the UN’s atomic watchdog as a ”henchman” of the United States, accusing it of applying double standards to the Stalinist state in the ongoing nuclear standoff.
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/ 22 January 2003
A lawmaker from Zimbabwe’s main opposition Movement for Democratic Change party was arrested this week by police on unspecified charges. Three other opposition supporters have already been arrested this month.
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/ 22 January 2003
A powerful earthquake hit west-central Mexico last night, sending panicked residents spilling into the streets of major cities and knocking out power supplies to many areas.
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/ 22 January 2003
A study of syphilis among homosexual men in New York City has found high rates of HIV infection, unprotected sex and recreational drug use.
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/ 22 January 2003
The mention of the words war veterans conjures up images of large groups of men marching through the city streets in demand of war pensions, or stick wielding groups of people trying to accelerate the country’s land reform programme by camping outside white-owned farms up for compulsory acquisition.