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Microsoft said on Monday it has settled two major antitrust disputes, ending more than a decade of challenges and possibly undermining European and United States antitrust cases against the firm. Microsoft has agreed to pay -million to end the dispute over Netware with Novell, and has made peace with the hostile trade group, the Computer & Communications Industry Association.
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/ 9 November 2004
Women from the slums in Nagpur in central India have attacked alleged rapists who they say are walking free from court, often with the connivance of the authorities. At the weekend a mob, dominated by 50 women and led by a rape victim, burnt down the houses of three alleged rapists who had reportedly attacked residents with impunity for months.
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/ 9 November 2004
South African IT entrepreneur and the world’s first "Afronaut" Mark Shuttleworth takes ten tough ones from the <i>M&G Online</i>.
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/ 9 November 2004
The timing of Operation Phantom Fury was dictated by two elections. Washington had vetoed an attack while the United States election was under way, not wanting to create a bloody backdrop to the campaign. But with George Bush’s re-election, the administration’s attention turned swiftly to the polls being planned across Iraq at the end of January.
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/ 9 November 2004
The Department of Home Affairs on Tuesday disputed reports that 10 000 identity documents were stolen from its offices in Lebowakgomo in Limpopo, saying it was ”less than 1 000”. Thieves broke into the Department of Home Affairs office last Thursday night and stole the IDs.
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/ 9 November 2004
Following Monday’s announcement that a black economic empowerment (BEE) consortium had concluded an agreement to acquire the remaining 15,1% interest held by Thintana Communications in Telkom, the South African telecommunications giant on Tuesday said it welcomed the new strategic shareholder.
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/ 9 November 2004
A suburban school board in the United States found itself in court on Monday after it tried to placate Christian fundamentalist parents by placing a sticker on its science textbooks saying evolution was ”a theory, not a fact”. Atlanta’s Cobb County school board, the second largest board in Georgia, added the sticker two years ago after a 2Â 300-strong petition attacked the presentation of ”Darwinism unchallenged”.
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/ 9 November 2004
Thousands of American troops fought their way into the most dangerous parts of Fallujah on Monday night at the start of an all-out assault to win back control of the Iraqi insurgent stronghold. The much-heralded attack began shortly after dusk in a two-pronged push by marines into suburbs in the north, while United States army soldiers fired volleys of mortars into the southern parts of the city.
US gamble on election success
Troops storm Fallujah
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/ 9 November 2004
Palestinian leaders arrived in France on Monday night in an attempt to establish the true state of Yasser Arafat’s health, despite the objections of his wife, who has accused them of planning to "bury him alive". But doctors at the Percy military hospital in Paris appeared to pre-empt the leadership’s plans to see Arafat by announcing that he was unfit to receive visitors.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/pd.asp?cg=BreakingNews-InternationalNews&ao=125158">’They are trying to bury Arafat alive'</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-InternationalNews&ao=125119">Leaders’ visit adds to confusion</a>
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It is trite to say that the majority of judges are white males and that has to change. It is already agreed that this change has to fit the demographics of society. Judges agree that "racism is inimical to our constitutional values. It is destructive of the fair and proper administration of justice and the constitutionally mandated process of transformation" as the Heads of Court said recently.