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		<title>Avis Budget offers $1.3bn for Dollar Thrifty</title>
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		<title>Conoco to sell stake in Russia’s Lukoil</title>
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		<title>Sanofi set to make offer for Genzyme</title>
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		<title>Activists heckle Vedanta over bauxite mine</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vedanta’s board defended the company’s practices against several human rights groups who packed its annual meeting where activists jeered chairman Anil Agarwal Read the full story on the Financial Times]]></description>
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		<title>Sage in lead to buy IT group with €650m bid</title>
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		<title>Telefónica to pay €7.5bn for Vivo stake</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spanish telecoms group confirms an agreement to buy Portugal Telecom out of Vivo, their Brazilian mobile phone joint venture, ending three months of acrimonious wrangling Read the full story on the Financial Times]]></description>
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		<title>ICBC in rights issue after heavy lending</title>
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		<title>Chinalco to unveil Rio Tinto mystery deal</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[People close to the Chinese state-owned miner suggest a venture with its Anglo-Australian rival could involve Simandou, an iron ore project in Guinea Read the full story on the Financial Times]]></description>
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		<title>ArcelorMittal warns on pace of global upturn</title>
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