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| Lifeline lost, Yukos gasps for air |
| Russia?s top oil exporter, Yukos, slid closer to collapse after it lost its main production unit to a mystery buyer in a forced auction and acknowledged today that its crude shipments were slowing.
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| Lottery spin to Iraq ballot |
| Spinning a big perspex drum filled with balls, not unlike a national lottery, Iraq?s Electoral Commission determined today where competing parties will rank on the ballot pap
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| Dolce Vita image to end |
| Italy?s restaurant and bar owners are fuming over a smoking ban that could consign to the history books the Dolce Vita image of divas and Latin Lovers idling with a drink in
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| Bush defends Rumsfeld |
| President George W. Bush today brushed aside criticism of defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld over his handling of the Iraq war and described him as a ?caring fellow? who will
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A man dressed as Santa Claus leaves the market place with his chair in Fuerteventura Island, Spain. (AFP) |
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