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Venezuela Selects Partners for Four Oil Areas

Turkey says close to finalizing natural gas agreements with Iran

Indonesia passes anti-porn bill

'27 dead in US strikes' says Pakistan

Royal Bank of Scotland has set aside £1.79bn to cover "staff costs" - including discretionary bonuses - at its investment banking division for the first six months of the year alone. The same division caused a £5.9bn writedown that wiped out the bank's profits for the same period.

Barclays' £7billion deal with Arab investors a 'scandal of mammoth proportions'

Mandelson's billionaire friend 'denied U.S. visa over link to crime gangs'

Brown debts will add 4p to income tax, claim Tories

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