Rapper LL Cool J joined entertainment executives on Tuesday in defending the music industry’s lawsuits against hundreds of internet users who illegally distribute music online. ”My question is, if a contractor builds a building, should people be allowed to move into the building for free?”
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/ 30 September 2003
When Pablo Picasso was 27 he spent the summer in a village in his native Spain, drawing and painting odd angles and curves that looked only a bit like his beautiful French mistress. They ended up helping inspire the cubism that defined his career.
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/ 25 September 2003
A controversial Pentagon Big Brother programme in the United States that calls for monitoring computer databases containing data on millions of Americans for signs of terrorist activity has been hit with the delete key. The programme has been in the crosshairs of numerous civil liberties groups for months.
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/ 24 September 2003
Four leading United States newspapers were divided on the results of US President George Bush’s speech before the United Nations General Assembly requesting help in rebuilding Iraq. The <i>Washington Post</i> and <i>New York Times</i> said Bush did not inspire UN members with his unwillingness to relinquish control in Iraq.
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/ 17 September 2003
U2 rocker and activist Bono has told President George Bush of his fears of seeing the United States fall down on its promise to finance the battle against Aids. ”I can get very angry,” Bono said to reporters. The president in January promised -billion to fight Aids over the coming five years, mostly in Africa.
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/ 10 September 2003
On the eve of the second anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, President George Bush is embarking on two days of events in which he will claim progress in bolstering the United States against future attacks.
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/ 8 September 2003
A federal programme created to monitor the health of rescuers who worked at the World Trade Centre site after the September 11 attacks in 2001 has found thousands still suffering from asthma, pneumonia, bronchitis and depression.
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/ 8 September 2003
President George W. Bush has announced he will seek -billion to cover military operations and reconstruction in Iraq and Afghanistan over the next year. He said military and intelligence operations would cost -billion over the next year.
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/ 4 September 2003
The Bush administration plans to open a huge loophole in the United States’s air pollution laws, allowing an estimated 17 000 outdated power stations and factories to increase their carbon emissions with impunity.
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/ 3 September 2003
The United States on Tuesday begrudgingly offered the faintest of praise for the conduct of weekend local elections in Zimbabwe, saying there had been ”a degree of improvement” over previous polls.
Ali Hassan al-Majid, the Iraqi commander known as ”Chemical Ali”, has been captured and is in custody in the United States, a US defence official said on Thursday.
Anti-war activists who visited Iraq before the United States invasion have discovered that they could face up to 12 years in prison and -million in fines for violating a pre-war travel ban.
The United States on Friday banned the political wing of the Iranian opposition group People’s Mujahedeen, froze its assets and moved to close down its offices in the US. This move against the People’s Mujahadeen follows a similar crackdown on the group in France.
Three people, including a British citizen, have been arrested in the US state of New Jersey on suspicion of trying to smuggle a Russian surface-to-air missile into the United States for sale to terrorists plotting an attack, law enforcement officials said.
The former UN inspector hired by the Bush administration to find evidence that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction will claim in a report next month that Iraqi forces were ordered to fire chemical shells at invading coalition troops.
Microsoft was ordered to pay -million on Monday after losing a patent-infringement suit that accused the world’s largest software maker of stealing technology used in its Internet Explorer web browser, news reports said.
Beleaguered Liberian leader Charles Taylor went to Libya last week to collect a shipment of arms and ammunition to back his campaign to retain power, the Washington Post reported on Friday.
The United Nations is drawing up an ambitious plan to rebuild Liberia’s infrastructure and government which would see the creation of a 15 000-strong peacekeeping force to disarm all the warring factions, The Washington Post said Friday.
The United States has developed an experimental vaccine believed to be capable of protecting primates from the Ebola virus in what is seen as a major breakthrough in fighting one of the deadliest diseases known to man.
Just six months ago, using the words ”internet” and ”profitable business” in the same sentence tended to elicit little more than cynical reactions.
US Secretary of State Colin Powell does not intend to stay on if President George Bush wins a second term next year but has not yet signalled his intention to step down, informed sources and officials said on Monday.
US President George Bush says Americans should respect homosexuals, but he wants to make sure marriage is defined strictly as a union between a man and a woman.
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon defended plans to build a controversial barrier around the West Bank, insisting it will encourage peace between Israelis and Palestinians.
West Bank security fence is ‘racist’
The United States on Wednesday lifted a nine-year-old embargo on weapons sales to Rwanda but kept in place a ban on such transfers to non-governmental entities in the African nation.
Libyan officials have still not met a UN Security Council requirement that they accept responsibility for the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, the State Department said on Monday.
International Monetary Fund chiefs on Monday blamed Zimbabwe’s government for pursuing ”inappropriate policies” that plunged the country into a steep downward spiral.
Anticipating a boom in the number of VIP motorcades with the formation of a new government in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the United States on Thursday advised drivers there to steer clear.
The Pentagon on Thursday released photographs of two corpses identified as Saddam Hussein’s sons Uday and Qusay in an effort to convince Iraqis the feared regime functionaries are dead.
US President George Bush on Wednesday hailed the deaths of Saddam Hussein’s two sons as the clearest sign yet that ”the former regime is gone and will not be coming back”.
The United States and Britain, along with many Iraqis, hailed the deaths of Saddam Hussein’s two sons Uday and Qusay on Wednesday, while officials elsewhere mostly limited themselves to expressing hopes that the event would herald an improvement in the country.