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India on Monday was set to launch its first satellite to be used exclusively for education, which will connect classrooms in remote parts of the country, the space agency said. The satellite was built with a mission life of seven years and will transmit information that will train teachers and provide primary and university education in remote regions.
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Roy Disney said he had heard the myths at Walt Disney for a long time — that Salvador Dali’s artworks from a long-forgotten project were somewhere in the studio’s archives. It turned out not to be a myth. The artwork — which Disney valued at -million to -million — sat in the studio unseen by the public for 58 years. That is, until now.
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/ 20 September 2004
Sudan’s justice minister told visiting United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour that there was no genocide or rape in the strife-torn region of Darfur, a newspaper reported on Monday. But Ali Mohamed Osman Yassin said ending the crisis in Darfur is at "the top of the government priorities".
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/pd.asp?cg=BreakingNews-Africa&ao=122458">Khartoum to abide by ‘unfair’ resolution</a>
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Coca-Cola has emerged as the world’s best global brand and the most admired company in South Africa, according to research published by the <i>Sunday Times</i> this weekend. The annual Top Brands Survey also revealed that eight of the top 10 brands in the soft/cool-drink market belong to the Coca-Cola stable.
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Cofimvaba hospital near Umtata is in financial crisis, with patients being fed mostly on dry rice and eggs and staff often arriving at work drunk, an investigation by the provincial health portfolio committee has found. Committee chairperson Mzukisi Mpahlwa said the hospital would run out of money within a month.
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Pharmaceutical companies will on Monday be told by their shareholders to do more to help improve the health of the developing world. They will also be warned that they are not ready to face the coming demand for drugs for diseases other than Aids.
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<i>The Sopranos</i> finally whacked its competitors in the best-drama category at the Emmy Awards, but it was HBO and its record-breaking <i>Angels in America</i> that fluttered away with the most trophies. <i>Frasier</i> and <i>Sex and the City</i>, which have both ended their runs, also collected some trophies.
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/ 20 September 2004
Sudan promised to protect civilians in Darfur on Sunday, responding to Saturday’s United Nations security council resolution threatening the regime with oil sanctions and ordering an inquiry into whether the atrocities in the region constitute genocide. Khartoum appeared to bow to the pressure to rein in its militias, but in a statement by its Washington embassy it called the resolution ”unfair and unjust”.
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Public servants have put on hold plans for further strike action after a working group set up by labour unions and the government re-drafted a proposed pay rise agreement on Sunday afternoon. The latest draft provided for a 6,2% increase for public servants for this year and consumer inflation plus 0,4% for the following two years, a union negotiator said.
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Beslan residents, desperately searching for their missing relatives, have begun to suspect that the government has underestimated or tried to conceal the true casualty figures from the massacre. The official death toll from the siege 16 days ago has remained at 329. Yet Zhana Gasiyeva, a deputy to the transport minister for North Ossetia, said that 1 347 people had been taken hostage — a figure that contradicts the ministry of interior’s total of 1 189.