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France seeks help with Airbus A330 crash search

France wants to launch an expanded international effort to find the missing wreckage and flight recorders of the Air France jet which crashed in the Atlantic in June, the country's top crash investigator said on Monday.

Green protesters target E.ON's Ratcliffe plant

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Environmentalists campaigning against climate change said on Monday they would attempt to shut down German utility E.ON's power station at Ratcliffe in central England in a mass action planned for October.
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Lockerbie bomber says backs call for inquiry

The man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people said he would cooperate with a fresh public inquiry and provide documents he has, a newspaper reported on Saturday.
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Noel Gallagher says he has quit Oasis

Songwriter and guitarist Noel Gallagher announced Friday he had quit Oasis, saying he could no longer work with his brother Liam, the rock band's singer.
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NatExpress rejects offer, seeks rights issue

Britain's National Express is looking to raise between 300 million pounds ($488.6 million) and 350 million in a rights issue after rejecting a proposed takeover approach led by its main shareholder.
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Fay Weldon paints bleak picture of future in novel

Author Fay Weldon sets her latest novel only four years in the future, but by then Britain's currency has collapsed, inflation has soared and the bailiffs are knocking on the door of London's middle class.
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Britain pledges $1 billion to help Pakistan

Britain will commit 665 million pounds ($1.08 billion) in aid to help Pakistan stabilize its violent border areas and tackle the underlying causes of extremism, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Friday.
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Berlusconi sues local, foreign media for libel

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is launching legal actions against media in Italy and abroad, including Britain, France and Spain, for libel in their coverage of his private life, his lawyer said on Friday.
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Oil up around $73; barrier at $75

Oil rose above $73 a barrel on Friday, lifted by slightly better than expected GDP and jobs data out of the United States, though traders said it was still rangebound between $70 and $75 for the week.
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Ophone comes next week, gearing up for iPhone invasion

China Mobile is to release the closely-watched 3G Ophone next week, while rival China Unicom is to bring Apple's iPhone to China as soon as Friday, which may add fuel to the flames in the fiercely competitive Chinese market.
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OzForex Daily Commentary - 28 August 2009

Despite more strong local economic data in the form of CAPEX yesterday the Aussie dollar struggled during the majority of the Asian session drifting lower from the days open around 0.8280 to exchange as low as 0.8240.
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Kazakhmys first-half earnings beat expectations

Kazakh copper producer Kazakhmys Plc posted better-than-expected first-half earnings on Thursday, helped by cost cutting and the sale of stockpiled inventories to China, lifting its shares more than 4 percent.

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