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No settlement talks were underway on Monday, one day before a federal lawsuit seeking -billion from tobacco companies was set to open, United States Department of Justice officials said on Monday. The case alleges that the country’s largest tobacco companies manipulated nicotine levels, lied about the dangers of smoking, and targeted young teens with multibillion-dollar advertising campaigns.
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/ 14 September 2004
John Kerry has fallen behind in the three biggest swing states — Florida, Pennsylvania and Ohio — which pollsters from both parties believe will be the key to the United States presidential election, it emerged on Monday. Polling figures suggest that George Bush’s surge in support after the Republican convention has settled into a significant lead, confronting John Kerry with difficult tactical choices as he battles to regain the initiative.
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/ 14 September 2004
Suspicion about South Korea’s illicit nuclear activities increased on Monday when UN inspectors said they had further evidence of banned operations and diplomats accused the Seoul government of a cover-up. Opening an International Atomic Energy Agency board meeting in Vienna, the director general, Mohamed ElBaradei, said that in the past fortnight its inspectors had found that South Korea had produced 150kg of uranium metal at three locations.
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/ 14 September 2004
President Vladimir Putin made constitutional changes on Monday designed to increase his personal control of the regions and Parliament, saying the government needed ”strengthening” because it had failed at Beslan in its fight against terrorism. He told regional governors, cabinet colleagues and senior bureaucrats: ”We have not achieved visible results in rooting out terrorism and in destroying its sources.”
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/ 14 September 2004
They were promised an ”unforgettable adventure” but on Monday night the mainly British owners of 70 high-performance cars who entered a Cannonball Run competition across Europe were desperately trying to get their vehicles back from the Spanish police.
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/ 14 September 2004
Oil residue has been spotted on a section of beach between the Réunion Canal and Isipingo beach, south of Durban, the Sapref oil refinery said on Monday. This followed last week’s five tonne oil spill at its single buoy mooring about 2,5km from the shore.
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/ 14 September 2004
The African National Congress in KwaZulu-Natal on Monday said 27 new councillors had joined its ranks since the start of the floor-crossing period on September 1. Most of the councillors were from the New National Party, Democratic Alliance and Inkatha Freedom Party.
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/ 14 September 2004
They originally came as indentured workers but almost 150 years later, South Africa’s million-plus people of Indian origin have carved out a special place in the country’s political and economic landscape. The community of about 1,2-million people is made up largely of descendants of labourers who worked in sugarcane plantations, most of whom were herded onto ships to South Africa by British colonial rulers.
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/ 14 September 2004
Interracial marriages among South Africans are increasing. Coloureds are the most likely to marry outside their group, while Africans, followed by whites, are the least likely. Africans are 7 332 times more likely to marry each other than outside their group. The 1996 and 2001 census figures show that the vast majority of people are still married to someone of the same racial group.
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/ 14 September 2004
As dress codes go, the new rules for the Allen Roc discotheque could not be simpler — leave your clothes behind. All of them. The club has organised what it claims is Europe’s first nudist disco night, telling bouncers not to admit the bashful and only those prepared to boogie in the buff.