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/ 11 February 2005
Stung by intense criticism over new corruption allegations, Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki on Thursday ordered anti-graft officials to examine a cancelled suspect passport deal with a French firm. Faced with mounting concerns over his government’s commitment to fighting corruption, Kibaki has forwarded the contract to an anti-graft panel.
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/ 11 February 2005
The African National Congress has reversed its policy on disclosing party donors in the wake of a landmark legal challenge to force political parties to divulge their private funders. The court case, which was launched by the Institute for Democracy in South Africa on Thursday, has also brought the ANC and the Democratic Alliance together on their key defence arguments.
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/ 11 February 2005
The Johannesburg Metro Council has quietly ditched its multimillion-rand contract with Wozani Security, better known as the ”Red Ants”, after alleging that the security company obtained the contract through corruption and black empowerment fronting.
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/ 11 February 2005
Former champion Amelie Mauresmo, the second seed, ousted fellow Frenchwoman Mary Pierce to advance to the quarterfinals of the 000 Paris Indoor Open on Thursday. Mauresmo, the 2001 champion, won 6-4, 6-3 in a tight second-round match against the unseeded Pierce, the 1998 winner.
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/ 11 February 2005
Former South Africa skipper Corne Krige has announced he will retire from rugby at the end of the season after his contract with English side Northampton is finished. Krige said he will then return home to Cape Town with his wife, Justine, and their new baby, Sophia. Krige arrived at Northampton just before the start of this season.
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/ 11 February 2005
Phil Mickelson birdied six of the first eight holes and broke the Spyglass Hill course record on Thursday with a 10-under 62 that gave him a three-shot lead in the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. He took advantage of pristine conditions on the Monterey Peninsula, with brilliant blue skies and only a trace of wind.
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/ 11 February 2005
In the words of Bobby Kennedy, there’s nothing like a good old-fashioned race riot. No sir, said Bobby one day while we were dynamiting for trout in the Oswald Pirow dam, you can’t beat watching tolerance-mongering New Englanders give in to the overwhelming urge to leave tyre-iron-shaped depressions in ‘fros, or iron-willed Nation of Islam acolytes renounce their pacifism just long enough to perform avante garde rhinoplasties on smug beaky Caucasian noses with baseball bats.
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/ 11 February 2005
An elegant young Chechen, her head bared in defiance of tradition and her feet cosseted in fine shoes, never falters in her animated cellphone conversation even when a Russian armoured car passes her on a Grozny street lined with gutted houses.
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/ 11 February 2005
David Talbot, founder of the online magazine Salon, stepped down as editor-in-chief and as the publishing company’s chief executive on Thursday — the same day the struggling company reported its first profit ever. ”It’s an excellent time for me to move into a new role,” said Talbot, who is working on a book about John and Robert Kennedy.
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/ 11 February 2005
A German tourist has sent a stone he found in historic ruins back to Thailand, blaming it for three years’ of bad luck, officials said on Friday. The Tourism Authority of Thailand said the tourist, Michael Beil, told officials that he found the stone in 2001 during a visit to a temple in the old royal capital of Ayutthaya and took it home to Germany.