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News: Spain debt rises on aid to banks, regions, finance cost Two Venezuelan opposition activists shot dead China leaders stage show of unity after expelling Bo Holiday gifts take wraps off China graft challenge Egyptian leftist leader eyes parliament majority Woods missing out on U.S. Ryder Cup party Venezuela opposition party says 2 leaders shot dead As Obama and Romney prep for debates, VP candidates seek votes Ancient market burns as fighting rages in Syria's Aleppo Fox News blames live airing of suicide on "severe human error" Egypt's Copts to return to Sinai homes, says government Israel PM tells coalition partners to back budget or face poll Libyans hand over their weapons in arms collection drive Northern Irish parade passes peacefully amid tight security Egypt's top military commander promises army overhaul Bradley and Mickelson become Ryder Cup rock stars FACTBOX-Soccer-Host cities for the 2018 World Cup in Russia Guantanamo's last Western detainee returned to Canada Sudan tells United Nations its debts must be canceled Slowdown galvanizes Polish opposition protesters Nuclear site ends security contract following nun's break-in Billionaire Georgia opposition leader says vote win hours away Portuguese protest against austerity, await more measures U.N. chief urges careful handling of Myanmar Rohingyas issue Mexico's lower house gives final approval to labor reform Somalia's al Shabaab rebels pull out of Kismayu bastion North Ireland police mount major security operation for key parade Palestinian man dies of wounds after being shot by Israel troops Factbox: Last Western prisoner from Guantanamo returns to Canada Iran's rial currency dives to historic low Obama, Netanyahu seek to get past Iran differences Syria's Assad to win, victory to be Tehran's too: Iran official Islamists smash Sufi saint's tomb in northern Mali Germany's Steinbrueck urges SPD unity to oust Merkel Tymoshenko calls on Ukraine to rise up against "mafia-rule" With charts and charm, Paul Ryan aims to steady a shaken ticket Two killed in suicide bomb attack on Yemeni official Guantanamo's last Western detainee, Khadr, returned to Canada Bahraini teenager killed in Friday's protest Youngest Guantanamo prisoner Khadr returning to Canada: reports Spain debt rises on aid to banks, regions, finance cost Sat,29 Sep 2012 10:02 PM PDT Reuters - MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's debt levels are set to rise next year, piling pressure on the government to apply for aid as it pours funds in to cash-strapped regions, an ailing banking system and rising refinancing costs, its budget showed on Saturday. Spain's debt as a ratio of gross domestic product will reach 90.5 percent by end 2013, according to the document presented to parliament for approval, almost three times that registered before the property bubble burst in 2008. The budget aims to make savings of around 13 billion euros ($16. ... Full Story Top Two Venezuelan opposition activists shot dead Sat,29 Sep 2012 09:22 PM PDT Reuters - CARACAS (Reuters) - Gunmen shot and killed two local leaders of parties backing presidential challenger Henrique Capriles on Saturday in the worst violence of a volatile campaign before Venezuela's election next weekend. Capriles' party, Primero Justicia (First Justice), said the gunmen fired from a van that witnesses identified as belonging to state oil company PDVSA or the local mayor's office during a rally in the agricultural state of Barinas. The government of President Hugo Chavez, who is seeking re-election, confirmed the deaths and vowed the perpetrators would be brought to justice. ... Full Story Top China leaders stage show of unity after expelling Bo Sat,29 Sep 2012 09:16 PM PDT Reuters - BEIJING (Reuters) - China's leaders put on a show of unity on Saturday after their damning accusations against disgraced politician Bo Xilai, whose expulsion from the Communist Party drew an outcry from leftist supporters in a sign of the rifts his prosecution could inflame. ... Full Story Top Holiday gifts take wraps off China graft challenge Sat,29 Sep 2012 07:18 PM PDT Reuters - SHANGHAI (Reuters) - The pre-holiday procession of Chinese entrepreneurs bearing gifts for the officials who hold sway over their businesses highlights the ubiquity of corruption in China and the difficulty the government will have in stamping it out. For the past few weeks, business people across the country have been preoccupied not with their companies' operations, but with delivering thinly veiled bribes to the officials who grant them permits, sign off on the quality of their products or validate their tax bills. ... Full Story Top Egyptian leftist leader eyes parliament majority Sat,29 Sep 2012 06:15 PM PDT Reuters - CAIRO (Reuters) - Popular Egyptian leftist politician and former presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabahy said on Saturday he is confident a coalition of leftist groups he is working to unite will be strong enough to defeat Islamists and win a parliament majority. Sabahy, in an unexpected outcome, came in third place in the first round of the presidential vote last May, behind well-known army commander and politician Ahmed Shafik and current president Mohamed Mursi, who was the candidate of the state's most organized Muslim Brotherhood group. ... Full Story Top Woods missing out on U.S. Ryder Cup party Sat,29 Sep 2012 05:57 PM PDT Reuters - MEDINAH, Illinois (Reuters) - The United States Ryder Cup team put smiles on millions of American golf fans on Saturday but Tiger Woods was not among them. The biennial U.S.-Europe showdown has never brought out the best in Woods but the 14-time major winner slumped to new lows at Medinah Country Club, losing all three of his matches and being benched for the first time in his Ryder Cup career. After being relegated to the sidelines by captain Davis Love III for Saturday's morning foursomes, Woods and partner Steve Stricker returned to duty in the afternoon fourballs. ... Full Story Top Venezuela opposition party says 2 leaders shot dead Sat,29 Sep 2012 05:13 PM PDT Reuters - CARACAS (Reuters) - The political party of Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles said on Saturday that two of its local leaders where shot to death during a rally in the state of Barinas a week before the nation's presidential election. Primero Justicia (First Justice) said the gunmen fired from a van that witnesses identified as belonging to state oil company PDVSA or the local mayor's office - but there was no immediate confirmation of the incident or reaction from Venezuelan authorities. Venezuela is awash with guns, and violent crime is frequently cited as voters' No. 1 concern. ... Full Story Top As Obama and Romney prep for debates, VP candidates seek votes Sat,29 Sep 2012 04:12 PM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vice President Joe Biden and Republican rival Paul Ryan sought votes in political battleground states on Saturday while their running mates took a day off the campaign trail ahead of a potentially make-or-break debate next week. President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney face off on Wednesday in Denver, Colorado, for the first of three televised debates that could be crucial for the trajectory of the November 6 election. Obama, who holds a small lead in national and many statewide polls, spent the day at the White House with no public events. ... Full Story Top Ancient market burns as fighting rages in Syria's Aleppo Sat,29 Sep 2012 03:54 PM PDT Reuters - BEIRUT (Reuters) - Hundreds of shops were burning in the ancient covered market in Aleppo on Saturday as fighting between rebels and state forces in Syria's largest city threatened to destroy a UNESCO world heritage site. The uprising-turned-civil war that is now raging across Syria has killed more than 30,000 people, according to activist groups such as the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. But beyond the dramatic human cost, many of Syria's historic treasures have also fallen victim to an 18-month-old conflict that has reduced parts of some cities to ruins. ... Full Story Top Fox News blames live airing of suicide on "severe human error" Sat,29 Sep 2012 03:33 PM PDT Reuters - PHOENIX (Reuters) - Fox News apologized for a "severe human error" that resulted in viewers seeing a suspected carjacker fatally shoot himself after a police chase. The coverage of the Friday incident, which sparked outrage on social media and a quick on-air apology by anchor Shepard Smith, showed a man stumbling from an allegedly stolen car into the desert near Phoenix on Friday. As a camera in a helicopter provided live coverage, the man s topped a short distance away, pulled the trigger of a gun pointed to the right side of his head and crumpled face-forward into the ground. ... Full Story Top Egypt's Copts to return to Sinai homes, says government Sat,29 Sep 2012 03:31 PM PDT Reuters - CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's presidency and prime minister said on Saturday security forces in North Sinai were working to return Coptic Christians living near Egypt's border with Israel to their homes after they fled in fear of attack from Islamist militants. Nine Christian families living in Rafah near Egypt's border with Israel left their homes on Friday after Islamist militants made death threats and gunmen attacked a Coptic-owned shop. ... Full Story Top Israel PM tells coalition partners to back budget or face poll Sat,29 Sep 2012 01:52 PM PDT Reuters - JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told his coalition partners he will have to call an early election if they do not back a "responsible" budget he must present by the end of the year. Netanyahu said he would start meeting coalition partners after he returns home from New York on Sunday. Failure to pass the budget by December 31 would mean bringing forward a national ballot currently scheduled for October 2013. ... Full Story Top Libyans hand over their weapons in arms collection drive Sat,29 Sep 2012 01:37 PM PDT Reuters - TRIPOLI/BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Hundreds of Libyans handed in weapons left over from last year's war on Saturday, part of a drive by the North African country to rid its streets of arms and crack down on rogue militia groups. As the day went on, a trickle of people turned into longer lines in Tripoli and in the eastern city of Benghazi, where tents were set up in squares for military officials to collect arms, explosives and even rocket propelled grenade launchers. ... Full Story Top Northern Irish parade passes peacefully amid tight security Sat,29 Sep 2012 01:06 PM PDT Reuters - BELFAST (Reuters) - A major parade that Northern Irish politicians and security forces feared could spark fighting between Catholics and Protestant passed peacefully on Saturday after police mounted their biggest security operation in 20 years. Some 30,000 Protestants marked the centenary of one of the most historic events in a province scarred by decades of sectarian violence, the signing of a pact by half a million of their ancestors opposing the introduction of devolved government in Ireland. ... Full Story Top Egypt's top military commander promises army overhaul Sat,29 Sep 2012 01:04 PM PDT Reuters - CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's most senior military commander has promised better training and more modern weaponry for the army in an apparent effort to satisfy officers' demands for change, which have multiplied after an uprising last year. Commander-in-Chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who is also the defense minister, was appointed by the country's first Islamist president Mohamed Mursi only last month and is under pressure to shake up a military which until recently had held the balance of power in Egypt for decades. ... Full Story Top Bradley and Mickelson become Ryder Cup rock stars Sat,29 Sep 2012 01:03 PM PDT Reuters - MEDINAH, Illinois (Reuters) - The Ryder Cup has seen many great partnerships but never one quite like Phil Mickelson and Keegan Bradley, who have turned a May-September bromance into golf's dynamic duo. Bradley, a fiery rookie and Mickelson, the most experienced member of the American brigade making his ninth appearance at the biennial competition, have developed the type of chemistry rarely seen on a U.S. Ryder Cup team. ... Full Story Top FACTBOX-Soccer-Host cities for the 2018 World Cup in Russia Sat,29 Sep 2012 12:35 PM PDT Reuters - MOSCOW, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Factbox on the Russian cities chosen to host the 2018 soccer World Cup which were announced by the organisers on Saturday: MOSCOW Population: Officially listed as 11.5 million but actual population is closer to 25 million, with millions of unregistered migrant workers living in the city. ... Full Story Top Guantanamo's last Western detainee returned to Canada Sat,29 Sep 2012 12:27 PM PDT Reuters - WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - The youngest prisoner and last Westerner held in the Guantanamo military base, Omar Khadr, was sent to finish his sentence in his native Canada on Saturday, the Canadian government said. Canadian Public Safety Minister Vic Toews said that Khadr, who was a 15-year-old fighting in Afghanistan when captured in 2002, had been flown from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to a military base in Trenton, Ontario and transferred to the province's Millhaven maximum-security prison. ... Full Story Top Sudan tells United Nations its debts must be canceled Sat,29 Sep 2012 11:39 AM PDT Reuters - UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Sudan told the United Nations General Assembly on Saturday that its debts must be canceled and its economy supported as it struggles to recover from losing three-quarters of its critical oil revenue to South Sudan when it seceded a year ago. The International Monetary Fund this week urged Sudan to meet donors to discuss debt relief and some IMF board members called for "exceptional efforts" from the IMF and the global community to help Sudan reduce its debt of about $40 billion. ... Full Story Top Slowdown galvanizes Polish opposition protesters Sat,29 Sep 2012 10:55 AM PDT Reuters - WARSAW (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of protesters marched through the Polish capital on Saturday, the start of an opposition drive to capitalize on the spluttering economy and try to loosen Prime Minister Donald Tusk's grip on power. Poland's economy, the biggest in central Europe, has grown robustly even while its neighbors slipped into recession, handing Tusk high levels of support and leaving his opponents struggling to win credibility with voters. Economic growth is expected to slow to just above 2 percent next year. ... Full Story Top Nuclear site ends security contract following nun's break-in Sat,29 Sep 2012 10:47 AM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The government's "Fort Knox" of weapons-grade uranium storage has ended a contract with a unit of an international security firm two months after an 82-year-old nun and other nuclear activists broke into the site. The managing contractor at the Oak Ridge, Tennessee, site, B&W Y-12, a unit of Babcock & Wilcox Co, said late on Friday it will terminate the contract with WSI Oak Ridge on October 1. WSI is owned by security firm G4S, which was at the center of a dispute over security at this year's London Olympic Games. ... Full Story Top Billionaire Georgia opposition leader says vote win hours away Sat,29 Sep 2012 10:11 AM PDT Reuters - TBILISI (Reuters) - The billionaire leader of the opposition in Georgia on Saturday told tens of thousands of his supporters that the current government loyal to President Mikheil Saakashvili had only hours left in power before it was voted out in an election on Monday. Addressing crowds in a central square in the capital Tbilisi after days of protests against prison brutality, Bidzina Ivanishvili was making his final pitch before the vote which his six-party "Georgian Dream" coalition hopes to win. "This regime cannot be the leadership of our country ... This system should collapse ... ... Full Story Top Portuguese protest against austerity, await more measures Sat,29 Sep 2012 10:03 AM PDT Reuters - LISBON (Reuters) - Thousands of Portuguese protested on Saturday against austerity, stepping up their opposition to the country's 78-billion-euro bailout ahead of new spending cuts and tax hikes to be announced in the government's 2013 draft budget. The peaceful protest organized by the CGTP union came after the center-right government ignited widespread anger this month with a hike in social security taxes that threatened to end Portugal's so far high social acceptance for austerity. ... Full Story Top U.N. chief urges careful handling of Myanmar Rohingyas issue Sat,29 Sep 2012 09:56 AM PDT Reuters - UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged the world's largest Islamic body on Saturday to "treat carefully" the issue of the stateless Muslim Rohingyas in Myanmar because it could affect the reform process underway in the country, also known as Burma. Over the past year, Myanmar has introduced the most sweeping reforms in the former British colony since a 1962 military coup. A semi-civilian government, stacked with former generals, has allowed elections, eased rules on protests and freed dissidents. ... Full Story Top Mexico's lower house gives final approval to labor reform Sat,29 Sep 2012 09:47 AM PDT Reuters - MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's lower house of Congress gave final approval on Saturday to a bill that would mark the biggest shake-up of the country's labor market in 42 years. The final vote took place just before 4 a.m. following a raucous 14-hour debate that was led from a congressional balcony after leftist lawmakers stormed the chamber's rostrum and snatched the microphone from the speaker leading the session. The bill was approved on a vote of 346-60 with one abstention and now moves to the Mexican Senate, which will have 30 days to approve or reject it. ... Full Story Top Somalia's al Shabaab rebels pull out of Kismayu bastion Sat,29 Sep 2012 09:31 AM PDT Reuters - MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's al Shabaab rebels retreated from the southern port of Kismayu overnight, abandoning the last major bastion of their five-year revolt to an offensive by African Union and Somali government troops. The loss of Kismayu a day after it was attacked by Kenyan and Somali soldiers backed by air strikes is a major blow to the al Qaeda-linked rebels, weakening morale and depriving them of revenue from taxing local businesses and shipping. "We moved out our fighters ... ... Full Story Top North Ireland police mount major security operation for key parade Sat,29 Sep 2012 09:29 AM PDT Reuters - BELFAST (Reuters) - Police in Northern Ireland mounted their biggest security operation in 20 years on Saturday when 30,000 Protestants marked the centenary of one of the most historic events in a province scarred by decades of sectarian violence. Eight Protestant Unionist organizations, including members of the Orange Order, marched through Belfast to celebrate the signing of the Ulster Covenant by half a million of their ancestors, a pact opposing the introduction of devolved government in Ireland. ... Full Story Top Palestinian man dies of wounds after being shot by Israel troops Sat,29 Sep 2012 09:09 AM PDT Reuters - GAZA (Reuters) - A Palestinian man died on Saturday after he was shot by Israeli troops while fishing on the beach in the Gaza Strip, said Hamas officials, while an Israeli military spokeswoman said the man was shot when he approached the border fence. Israeli army patrols deem the Gaza border area off limits because militants try to attack them by planting explosive devices or shooting at them. Officials from Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, which rules the coastal enclave, said the 22-year-old man was fishing with his brother on Friday when he was shot. ... Full Story Top Factbox: Last Western prisoner from Guantanamo returns to Canada Sat,29 Sep 2012 08:52 AM PDT Reuters - (Reuters) - Omar Khadr was a Canadian teenager when he was captured in Afghanistan, fighting for al Qaeda. He was repatriated to Canada on Saturday after being held by the United States for 10 years at the detention camp at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba. Here are some facts about him: * Omar Ahmed Khadr was born in Toronto on September 19, 1986, and was the last citizen of a Western nation among the 167 foreign captives held by the U.S. military at Guantanamo. ... Full Story Top Iran's rial currency dives to historic low Sat,29 Sep 2012 08:28 AM PDT Reuters - DUBAI (Reuters) - The Iranian rial slumped on Saturday to a historic low against the U.S. dollar, according to Iranian media and currency tracking websites. The rial fell by 5 percent and was trading at about 28,400 per dollar, compared with about 26,920 on Thursday and about 26,400 on Wednesday, according to Persian-language currency tracking website Mazanex. There was no clear reason for the latest slide in the value of the rial, which is traded in an informal market of money changers, where ordinary Iranians go to access hard currencies. ... Full Story Top Obama, Netanyahu seek to get past Iran differences Sat,29 Sep 2012 08:28 AM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented a show of unity on Friday on preventing a nuclear-armed Iran, seeking to tone down the acrimony between the two leaders that has become an issue in the final stretch of the U.S. presidential race. Obama, widely seen as having snubbed Netanyahu by not meeting face to face with him during his U.S. visit, spoke instead by phone to the Israeli prime minister amid signs of movement toward a truce in their war of words over how to confront Tehran. Netanyahu used his U.N. ... Full Story Top Syria's Assad to win, victory to be Tehran's too: Iran official Sat,29 Sep 2012 08:17 AM PDT Reuters - DUBAI (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will defeat an uprising against him, scoring a victory over the United States and its allies in a move that will also represent a triumph for Iran, an advisor to Iran's supreme leader was quoted as saying on Saturday. Tehran has backed Assad's efforts to suppress a rebellion that has drawn in regional players, with the Islamic state accusing Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey of arming rebels fighting to topple the Syrian leader. Shi'ite-ruled Iran has tried to counter a perceived drive by Western and U.S. ... Full Story Top Islamists smash Sufi saint's tomb in northern Mali Sat,29 Sep 2012 08:07 AM PDT Reuters - BAMAKO (Reuters) - Heavily armed Islamist fighters in Mali destroyed the tomb of a local Sufi saint near Timbuktu on Saturday, witnesses said, the latest attack on traditional shrines in the rebel-occupied north. The destruction of the tomb of Almirou Mahamane Assidiki in Goundam came just months after a number of other shrines in the UNESCO-listed city of Timbuktu, 90 km (55 miles) to the south, were reduced to rubble, underscoring the threat to the region's ancient heritage from the rebels' extremist ideology. ... Full Story Top Germany's Steinbrueck urges SPD unity to oust Merkel Sat,29 Sep 2012 07:36 AM PDT Reuters - MUENSTER, Germany (Reuters) - Peer Steinbrueck, the man chosen to lead Germany's opposition Social Democrats into an election next year as its candidate for chancellor, called for party unity on Saturday, saying it would otherwise be difficult to unseat Chancellor Angela Merkel. Steinbrueck, a feisty former finance minister distrusted by Social Democrat (SPD) leftwingers for his centrist economic views, also repeated his opposition to serving under Merkel, a conservative, in a future coalition government. "This federal election can only be won with the mobilization of our supporters ... ... Full Story Top Tymoshenko calls on Ukraine to rise up against "mafia-rule" Sat,29 Sep 2012 07:25 AM PDT Reuters - KIEV (Reuters) - Jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko called on Ukrainians on Saturday to "rise up" at a parliamentary election next month and end President Viktor Yanukovich's "criminal rule". In a shaky two-minute video filmed at the hospital where she is being held, the former prime minister said she was enduring "a hell", created by Yanukovich, as she serves a seven-year sentence for abuse of office. ... Full Story Top With charts and charm, Paul Ryan aims to steady a shaken ticket Sat,29 Sep 2012 07:06 AM PDT Reuters - VANDALIA, Ohio (Reuters) - Trailing in the must-win state of Ohio, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney asked his running mate Paul Ryan to meet him here this week. After 24 days apart, Romney and Ryan reunited on an airport tarmac on Tuesday amid grumbling from some Republicans that the campaign has grown complacent, leaving Ryan, its strongest advocate, off the national stage. "Wow, that's quite a guy, Paul Ryan," Romney shouted to the crowd. "Isn't that something?" Romney's many conservative critics share that assessment. ... Full Story Top Two killed in suicide bomb attack on Yemeni official Sat,29 Sep 2012 07:02 AM PDT Reuters - ADEN (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed himself and a bystander in south Yemen on Saturday in an attempt to assassinate a government official who had targeted al Qaeda militants, a security source said. The attacker walked up to the parked car of Mohammed Aidarous, head of a "popular committee" of tribal volunteers who helped the army oust militants from the town of Lawdar in Abyan province this year. Aidarous, the local government official in charge of Lawdar, was not in the vehicle, but a bystander was also killed in the blast, the source said. ... Full Story Top Guantanamo's last Western detainee, Khadr, returned to Canada Sat,29 Sep 2012 06:55 AM PDT Reuters - WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - The youngest prisoner and last Westerner held in the Guantanamo military base, Omar Khadr, was sent to finish his sentence in his native Canada on Saturday, the Canadian government confirmed. Canadian Public Safety Minister Vic Toews said that Khadr, who was a 15-year-old fighting in Afghanistan when captured in 2002, had been flown to a military base in Trenton, Ontario and transferred to the province's Millhaven prison. (Reporting by Rod Nickel; Writing by Jeffrey Hodgson in Toronto; Editing by Bill Trott) Full Story Top Bahraini teenager killed in Friday's protest Sat,29 Sep 2012 06:27 AM PDT Reuters - DUBAI (Reuters) - Bahraini riot police killed a teenager when they fired shotgun pellets during clashes with protesters following a demonstration on Friday, the country's opposition said on Saturday, the second young protester to die in six weeks. Thousands rallied on Friday in an officially authorized protest called by the main opposition group al-Wefaq, but as the event ended around 100 demonstrators clashed with police. ... Full Story Top Youngest Guantanamo prisoner Khadr returning to Canada: reports Sat,29 Sep 2012 06:17 AM PDT Reuters - TORONTO (Reuters) - The youngest Guantanamo prisoner, Omar Khadr, who was a 15-year-old fighting in Afghanistan when captured in 2002, was sent to finish his sentence in his native Canada on Saturday, Canadian media reported. A military plane carrying Khadr, who pleaded guilty to killing a U.S. soldier and admitted links to al Qaeda, left the U.S. naval base on Saturday morning, the Toronto Star newspaper and Canadian Broadcasting Corp said, citing unnamed sources. Canadian government officials did not immediately return emails seeking comment. ... Full Story Top

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