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...Both sides contend that the big providers have too much power because they hold as much as 20 per cent of the shares of many US companies....
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...Map of the day Since last Friday, Israel has moved a vanguard of tanks into largely unpopulated areas of northern Gaza as part of its military operation to destroy Hamas....
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