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      <title><![CDATA['Harassed' head of BP venture leaves Russia]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[British energy major BP on Thursday said the head of its troubled joint venture in Russia had left the country after "harassment" by the company's]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[WTO hopes to salvage deal on final day of talks]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Crucial WTO talks hung in the balance Thursday, with top negotiators stressing that progress was needed in the next 24 hours to avert another ignominious]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Prison term upheld for Japan's 'graceless' Internet fraud mogul]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Flamboyant dotcom tycoon Takafumi Horie yesterday lost his appeal against a prison term for a fraud scandal that rocked Japan's stock market, with the judge]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[In Brief]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[New York state sues UBS for fraud
New York state officials Thursday filed civil fraud charges against UBS, accusing the Swiss banking giant of marketing certain]]></description>
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      <pubDate>2008-07-26 01:01 AM</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Samsung profit misses analyst estimates]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Samsung Electronics Co., Asia's largest maker of flat screens, chips and mobile phones, posted profit that rose less than analysts estimated as earnings from semiconductors]]></description>
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      <pubDate>2008-07-26 01:01 AM</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Honda quarterly profits up 8 percent, at record high]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Honda Motor Co. said yesterday its net profit rose 8.1 percent to hit a record high for the fiscal first-quarter on brisk demand in emerging]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[EDF to buy British Energy, say reports]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[French energy giant EDF and Centrica will buy British Energy for about 12 billion pounds (US$23.9 billion) and announce the deal early next week, reports]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Credit Suisse reports recovery from losses]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Swiss banking giant Credit Suisse returned to the black for the second quarter as it posted a marked recovery from losses sustained due to the]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Wall Street nosedives on weak housing data]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Wall Street went into a nosedive Thursday as a weaker-than-expected report on the U.S. housing market raised fresh fears about an economic recovery and ended]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[U.S. dollar crawls a little higher in Asian trade]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The dollar edged up against the yen and the euro in Asian trade yesterday on growing concern that a U.S. economic slump is curbing growth]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[U.S. House bid to sell oil reserves fails]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday failed to pass legislation intended to cool off gasoline prices by requiring the government to sell 70 million]]></description>
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      <pubDate>2008-07-26 01:01 AM</pubDate>
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