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THE US government is heading towards owning a 36 per cent stake in the troubled banking giant Citigroup.

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MEXICO’S president, Felipe Calderon, said he hoped to quell his country’s rampant drug violence by the end of his term in 2012, and denied his government was losing

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ISRAEL was last night on course to form one of the most hardline governments in its history after the right-wing Likud party leader Benjamin Netanyahu’s efforts to form a

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A FREELANCE British journalist has been detained by Sudanese security and his whereabouts are unknown, it was claimed last night. The British Embassy is investigating.

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AMANDA Knox, on trial in Italy for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher, did the splits and turned cartwheels in the police station after the killing, Italian inve

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JAPAN’S lower house of parliament approved a record budget of 88.5 trillion yen (£627 billion) yesterday, a step likely to intensify pressure for the unpopular pri

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ALLAN Boesak, a popular former African National Congress leader with a criminal record, has made a political comeback for the party’s breakaway faction that is certain to

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TURKISH Airlines yesterday named four crew members who died in the crash in the Netherlands, as investigators at the scene mapped the exact location of each piece of debris.

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THE great-grandson of Afghanistan’s legendary Iron Amir – who forced rogue courtiers to eat each other – has joined the race to be the country’s next president.

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AY CARAMBA! The Simpsons is to become US television’s longest-running prime time series after it was announced that the show will continue for another two seasons.

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