Ms Stewart, for instance, is defending herself against the accusation that she committed securities fraud by declaring to her shareholders that she was innocent of insider trading.

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Our correspondent in Addis Ababa said that Ethiopian Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin refused to be drawn, at a news conference, into saying whether Ethiopia planned military spending cuts, saying only that Ethiopia had learnt lasting lessons about defending herself in the past couple of years.

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