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/ 30 October 2001
Islamabad | Friday HEAVY US bombing of Kabul on Friday left two young girls dead in a village near the city’s airport and destroyed two Red Cross warehouses. Taliban officials claim over 1 000 civilians have died since US airstrikes began on October 7 but only a handful have been confirmed independently. Following is a […]
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/ 29 October 2001
Ten New Songs (Columbia) is Leonard Cohen’s first collection of new material in nine years; the man is not garrulous. And he seems to have slowed down to a crawl — the result of all that Zen meditation? This is one for very late at night, or you may become impatient.
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/ 29 October 2001
Achmat Dangor, whose new novel has just come out, speaks to Shaun de Waal.
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/ 29 October 2001
The food of the Hare Krishna movement is reliably good, always fresh and surprisingly cheap writes Lauren Shantall.
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/ 29 October 2001
ZIMBABWEAN health staff have begun a mass anthrax campaign after at least 15 people contracted the disease in central Zimbabwe, apparently after butchering infected cows. Local media said the latest outbreak was first noticed in cattle in early October, with the first human case reported on October 20. The Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation said a “massive […]
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/ 29 October 2001
A FIRST contingent of South African soldiers taking part in a multi-national force to protect exiled political leaders returning to Burundi arrived in Bujumbura on Sunday. The soldiers, dressed in full combat gear, arrived in the Burundian capital at 2:00 pm local time after a three-hour flight from the Waterkloof military base near Pretoria. The […]
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/ 29 October 2001
Washington | Wednesday IN a public relations setback, the Pentagon acknowledged on Tuesday that US warplanes missed their targets in two separate incidents over the weekend, dropping bombs on a residential area of Kabul and near a senior citizens home on the outskirts of Herat. Pentagon representative Victoria Clarke said the Pentagon had no information […]
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/ 29 October 2001
THE Nigerian army is investigating an attack by soldiers on an ex-army chief’s house and the massacre of some 200 civilians in central Nigeria. Government troops last week ran rampant in the towns of Zaki-Biam, Gbeji, Anyii, Iorja, Vaase, Tseadoor and Sankara in Benue State in apparent reprisal for the murder of 19 soldiers kidnapped […]
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/ 29 October 2001
GERARD VANDENBERGHE, Nairobi | Monday AFRICA’S airwaves are shortly to become a new battleground in the war against Aids, with Kenyan television stars and a supporting cast of numerous UN agencies and other international backers joining forces in a new soap opera for the continent. “Heart and Soul” will begin radio and television broadcasts as […]