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Italy fines Apple nearly 100 million euros over app privacy feature
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ROME, Italy (AFP) — Italy's competition authority said Monday it had fined the United States (US) tech giant Apple 98 million euros ($115 million) for...
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BY HAROLD G BAILEY Observer writer 
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Rastas express mixed views on cannabis exec order in US
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December 22 12:28 AM
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Two die in Manchester crashes; two-month-old among four hospitalised
BY KASEY WILLIAMS Observer staff reporter kaseyw@jamaicaobserver.com 
December 22 12:24 AM
Two die in Manchester crashes; two- month-old among four hospitalised
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Falmouth: prosperity on the horizon
By Olivia Leigh Campbell Observer Staff Reporter 
March 19, 2005
These days, for most people, Falmouth is either an inconvenient traffic bottleneck along the northcoast corridor between Montego Bay and Ocho Rios, or...
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Customs clerks on firearm charges remanded
KARYL WALKER, Observer staff reporter 
March 18, 2005
THREE customs clerks charged with the seizure of 16 high-powered weapons at the Kingston Wharves last month, were Thursday remanded in custody when th...
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‘We’re at war’
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March 17, 2005
Declaring that the country is "at war" with criminal gangs, the Government yesterday announced the introduction of soldiers, including the National Re...
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Sixth form student robbed, slain
BY ARLENE MARTIN-WILKINS Observer staff reporter 
March 17, 2005
EIGHTEEN year-old Mesha-Gaye Tomlin probably had a premonition that death was near. Only two hours before she was mercilessly stabbed by two men near ...
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Another cop shot dead
Horace Hines | Observer Writer 
March 17, 2005
WESTERN BUREAU - The Jamaica Constabulary Force has lost another of its police officers who was gunned down yesterday morning attempting to apprehend ...
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Housekeeper says Jackson ranch was a ‘pleasure island’
AFP 
March 17, 2005
SANTA MARIA, California (AFP) - Neverland Ranch was a "pleasure island" where children ran amok, appeared to be drunk and slept in Michael Jackson's p...
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Doctor, nurse in rape scandal get bail
Observer Reporter 
March 17, 2005
MATT Myrie, the gynaecologist charged with the rape of a patient in the ultrasound room at the Victoria Jubilee Hospital, was yesterday offered bail i...
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March 16, 2005
Bon Appetit food editor Kristine Kidd is in Jamaica on a taste tour. "I'm here to experience the cuisine in the hope of returning to cover the island ...
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Accountant to do hard time for a year for stealing company funds
KARYL WALKER, Observer staff reporter 
March 16, 2005
ACCOUNTANT Lorna Bhali wept bitterly as her 12-month sentence at hard labour was handed down Tuesday in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court...
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GOLDING versus WITTER
Observer Reporter 
March 16, 2005
PRIME Minister PJ Patterson yesterday announced April 13 as the date for the by-election in the Jamaica Labour Party safe-seat of West Kingston, a vot...
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Cockpit Country boundaries being re-marked to better police reserve
JIS 
March 15, 2005
THE Forestry Department will be re-marking the boundaries of a 28-kilometre stretch in the Cockpit Country by the end of March, as part of efforts to ...
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Michael Jackson’s accuser explains statement denying abuse
AP 
March 15, 2005
SANTA MARIA, California (AP) - The teenage boy who says Michael Jackson molested him testified yesterday that he denied the abuse to a school administ...
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US Government funds $24-m sanitation project for schools
Observer Reporter 
March 15, 2005
THE United States Government, through the US Agency for International Development (USAID), will today present Education Minister Maxine Henry- Wilson ...
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Guyana gets more help
Observer Reporter 
March 15, 2005
THE Florida-based First Data Western Union Foundation and Western Union Financial Services Inc, along with their authorised agent, Grace Kennedy Remit...
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Nurse in rape scandal again remanded in custody
Observer Reporter 
March 14, 2005
JANET Spence, the nurse who is charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice after she allegedly approached a woman who accused a doctor at...
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NEWS BRIEFS…..NEWS BRIEFS…..NEWS BRIEFS
March 14, 2005
Amended budget to be tabled in Parliament THE second supplementary estimates for 2004/2005 will be tabled in the House of Representatives today by fin...
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Man gets life for murder of Kingston businessman
Observer Reporter 
March 14, 2005
DENVER Lyons, 32, of Mannings Hill Road, Kingston, was yesterday sentenced to life in prison for the 2003 murder of businessman Eugene Pitt. Pitt, 44,...
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Foreign cops bring fresh thinking, new approaches to crime fight
BY DWIGHT BELLANFANTE Observer staff reporter 
March 13, 2005
ARGUING that fresh thinkers were needed to deal with escalating crime, national security minister Dr Peter Phillips came out in strong defence Thursda...
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Released prisoner rapes 12-year-old boy, charged with buggery
Observer Reporter 
March 13, 2005
JANET fears for the sanity of her 12-year-old son. He only sits and stares off into space, traumatised from being raped in his community by a man rece...
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Gunman kills seven, wounds four at church service
AP 
March 13, 2005
BROOKFIELD, Wisconsin (AP) - In a minute, a quiet church service at a suburban Milwaukee hotel turned into bloodbath. Terry Ratzmann, a buttoned-down ...
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Churchyard shot up at funeral
BY TANEISHA DAVIDSON Observer staff reporter 
March 13, 2005
ARMED with high powered weapons, a group of gunmen brazenly entered a churchyard where Finance Minister Dr Omar Davies was attending a funeral service...
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Thousands pay last respects to Togolese ruler
AFP 
March 13, 2005
LOME, Togo (AFP) - Thousands of Togolese lined the streets of the capital Lome yesterday to pay their last respects as a state funeral was held for th...
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