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Four people were killed in bomb attacks in Iraq on Thursday and United States forces shelled rebel holdouts in the restive city of Fallujah, as differences over Iraq moved back into the spotlight at an Anglo-French summit. The world also voiced more outrage over the suspected murder of British aid worker Margaret Hassan.
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Mzansi, the account for the previously unbanked, had topped the 100 000 customer mark just over three weeks since it began, the Banking Council of South Africa said on Thursday. The account is a joint effort between the country’s big four commercial banks — Standard Bank, First National Bank, Absa, Nedbank — and the state-owned Postbank.
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A senior Iranian official on Thursday angrily denied allegations by an exiled opposition group that the clerical regime is running a secret nuclear-bomb facility near Tehran, and indicated that United Nations inspectors will be allowed to visit the site. ”I totally deny these allegations,” top diplomat Hossein Moussavian said.
Russia to get new nuclear weapons
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Global brewing giant SABMiller posted a strong performance across the group in the six months ended September 30, growing market share in each of its business segments. And CE Graham Mackay believes the group’s businesses are benefiting from strengthening market positions and improving mix.
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/ 18 November 2004
The JSE Securities Exchange (JSE) was in positive territory in noon trade on Thursday, defying the rand, which remained strong below the R6-per-dollar level. Solid results released by Swiss-listed luxury goods group Richemont and London-listed brewer SABMiller before the opening fuelled already positive sentiment.
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/ 18 November 2004
Microsoft developed policies stressing the systematic destruction of internal e-mails and other documents crucial to lawsuits it has faced in recent years, a California software company alleges. Burst.com, in court papers unsealed this week, also accuses Microsoft of destroying e-mails crucial to Burst’s lawsuit against the software giant even after the trial judge ordered it to retain the documents.
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/ 18 November 2004
Online search engine leader Google is setting out make better sense of all the scholarly work stored on the intenet. The company’s new service, unveiled late on Wednesday at scholar.google.com, draws upon newly developed algorithms to list the academic research that appears to be most relevant to a search request.
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/ 18 November 2004
A frosty Christmas beer on Sydney’s Bondi Beach has long been a cherished rite of passage for sweltering backpackers more used to spending the festive season in the chilly northern hemisphere winter. But authorities at the tourist icon have slapped a booze ban on the thousands of young visitors, most of them British and Irish, who descend for an impromptu beach party on Christmas Day.
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The rand remained firm below the R6-per-dollar level in late morning trade on Thursday, although importer demand for dollars was preventing it from fully capitalising on strength in the euro, which was trading near record highs. At 11.39am, the rand was quoted at R5,9468 per dollar from an overnight close of R5,9651 on Wednesday.
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Internet junkies, take heart: Microsoft chairperson Bill Gates receives four million e-mails daily, most of them spam, and is probably the most spammed person in the world. But unlike ordinary users, the software mogul has an entire department to filter unsolicited e-mails and only a few of them actually get through to his inbox, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said in Singapore on Thursday.