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/ 12 November 2001
LUNGA MASUKU, Mahlanya | Monday SWAZILAND’S young absolute monarch bowed to pressure from the maidens of his kingdom on Sunday and delivered up an ox as a fine for taking a second fiance after demanding that all young women take a vow of chastity. Three hundred young women marched seven kilometres from the village of […]
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/ 12 November 2001
Geneva | Monday CAMPAIGNING New York lawyer Ed Fagan is to sue banks in Europe and the United States on behalf of victims of South Africa’s apartheid regime, it was reported on Sunday. Fagan told the Swiss newspaper Dimanche.ch that banks in France, Switzerland, Britain and the United States had profited from supporting the regime […]
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/ 12 November 2001
Rabat | Monday AMERICAN B-52 planes carried out carpet bombing on Taliban positions north of Kabul on Monday as opposition forces were preparing to go on the offensive. American planes, including one B-52 and at least two F-18s hit targets starting at 9:00 am (0430 GMT) on the southern portion of the front line near […]
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/ 12 November 2001
Islamabad | Sunday OSAMA bin Laden, the Taliban and the atomic bomb — a ”doomsday scenario” that terrorist experts warn can no longer be simply rejected as alarmist fantasy. Two hypotheses have been put forward for the possible use of the ultimate terrorist weapon by Islamic extremists. One involves the acquisition of a nuclear weapon […]
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/ 11 November 2001
Sexual explicitness in the cinema reaches new heights in Intimacy. Kerry Fox, the film’s star, is unrepentant, writes Chris Darke.
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/ 11 November 2001
Tintin has long been a beloved figure among readers of graphic narratives, whether children or adults. <b>TINTIN: THE COMPLETE COMPANION</b> by <b>Michael Farr</b> (John Murray) is a comprehensive guide to the adventures of the boy reporter and his faithful dog Snowy, including visits to the moon and plots in South America and the Balkans.
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/ 11 November 2001
Aurora del Valle is raised amid great wealth in Chile at the turn of the 19th century by her shrewd, commanding grandmother. Her earliest memories are of a brutal trauma, and she discovers a twisted saga of three generations. <b>Isabel Allende</b>’s <b>PORTRAIT IN SEPIA</b> (Flamingo) explores the complexity of passion, the power of memory, and a woman’s emerging self.
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/ 11 November 2001
You don’t really want to know what goes on in restaurant kitchens, do you? You’d be a lot happier not knowing about the fights, the blood, the drugs, the amoebas, the “hypermacho posturing and drunken ranting”. You don’t want to know why you shouldn’t order an elaborate special, particularly if there’s fish in it, or […]
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/ 11 November 2001
Sport fishermen while away the cruel Montreal winter by renting ice shacks on frozen lakes and fishing through a hole in the floor. ICE LAKE by John Farrow (Century) begins when a trapdoor is lifted and a corpse bobs up. It’s not a fisherman who’s lost his footing, but a man who’s come to the […]
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/ 11 November 2001
A Democratic Republic of Congo journalist arrested more than five months ago on defamation charges has been freed, non-governmental organisation Journalists in Danger (JED) said on Thursday. Freddy Loseke, editor of “Free Africa” publication, was freed on Tuesday after being arrested in April, JED said in a statement. He was charged following complaints by the […]