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4 novembre 2006, 00:00

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<B> THE NEW YORK TIMES.

US Web archive is said to reveal a nuclear primer</B>

Last March, the federal government set up a Web site to make public a vast archive of Iraqi documents captured during the war. The Bush administration did so under pressure from Congressional Republicans who had said they hoped to «leverage the Internet» to find new evidence of the prewar dangers posed by Saddam Hussein. But in recent weeks, the site has posted some documents that weapons experts say are a danger themselves : detailed accounts of Iraq?s secret nuclear research before the 1991 Persian Gulf war. The documents, the experts say, constitute a basic guide to building an atom bomb. The New York Times asked about complaints from weapons experts and arms-control officials. A spokesman for the director of national intelligence said access to the site had been suspended «pending a review to ensure its content is appropriate for public viewing.» Officials of the International Atomic Energy Agency, fearing that the information could help states like Iran develop nuclear arms, had privately protested last week to the American ambassador to the agency, according to European diplomats who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the issue?s sensitivity.

<B> DELHI GLOBE.

Flavoured condom ad is bad taste</B>

Indian authorities want to stop the daytime airing of a television advertisement promoting flavoured condoms saying it is obscene and in bad taste, a newspaper reported on Friday.The advert promotes DKT?s «XXX» strawberry, chocolate and banana flavoured condoms with the catchline «What is your flavour of the night?».

But the Advertising Standards Council of India and the Censor Board have asked the government to bar the advert from being broadcast during the day, especially during the popular Champions Trophy international cricket tournament.» This campaign is obscene,? Sharmila Tagore, chairwoman of the Censor Board was quoted as saying in the Times of India. «Maybe DKT is targeting raunchy teenagers. But the ads are definitely not meant for children.»Tagore, who is also an anti-AIDS activist, said she did not want to ban the advert totally, but recommended it be aired after 11 p.m. or in cinemas with an «A certification» instead of during the day when children were watching television.An A certification on a film or advert indicates that it is meant for adult viewing only. A senior DKT official told the newspaper the flavoured condoms were not meant to promote oral sex, but to encourage couples whodo not like the smell of latex. Conservative attitudes to sex and contraception and a lack of awareness is common, especially in rural India.Experts say this has not only left children and women vulnerable to abuse but has also exacerbated the spread of HIV/AIDS in the country, which now has the highest number of cases in the world. According to the United Nations, 5.7 million Indians are living with the virus. But activists say the true figure may be far higher as social stigma forces many of those infected to keep their status a secret.

<B> DISPATCH DAILY.

They laughed as she died </B>

Within a short while of this photograph being taken Nomanelwa Ngwane, aged 50, was dead. Beaten, battered and bloodied, she died horrifically after she was accused of being a witch. She was stoned, stabbed and then burned by villagers who were once her neighbours and possibly her friends. On Monday they became her killers. As she died, they laughed. The terrible image of a sad and possibly mentally deranged woman?s brutal murder was captured by Max Mxabo, editor of a local community newspaper, who was travelling along the N2 between Mount Ayliff and Kokstad on Monday when he saw a crowd near a homestead on the roadside and stopped to investigate. His picture has been cropped for the front page to contain the horror that we show in full, but in black-and-white, on page three. Mxabo told the Daily Dispatch: «This woman was being stoned and assaulted with sharp instruments and all sorts of things, man it was hectic. I could not believe my eyes.»The attackers «struggled among one another in order to get to the woman, throwing stones and sticks at her. Wounds were visible on her whole body.» «The mob kept hitting her head with bush knives. Some villagers were swearing at her as if she was the devil.»They shouted Bulala umthaskathi (kill the witch). It was as if they wanted her to die then and there. None of the villagers seemed to want to stop the attack. «They said they would not take her to the police because the police were afraid of witches and the only solution was to kill a witch.» The attack followed the woman being found naked on the doorstep of a widower, Zakahle Jakuja, hours of Monday morning. Villagers claimed that Ngwane had «come to bewitch» the man.

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