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• EU wants to see PM's speech 'translated' into negotiations

  25-09-2017 23:45
  Michel Barnier tells reporters the EU wants to get on with Brexit negotiations, then David Davis says the UK wants to as well.
  
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• EU 'keen' to see how UK will 'translate' May's speech

  25-09-2017 23:41
  The EU's chief negotiator has said he was "keen and eager" to see how Theresa May's Florence speech last week would be turned into a negotiating strategy.Michel Barnier was speaking as the fourth round of talks resumed in Brussels."The European Union is keen and eager to understand better how the UK Government will translate the Prime Minister's speech into negotiating positions," he said.
  
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• Altrincham mosque stabbing suspect charged

  25-09-2017 23:41 via bbc.co.uk
  The 28-year-old man is due to appear before magistrates on Tuesday.
  
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• Sadio Mané returns in Moscow but Klopp puts Liverpool balance before art

  25-09-2017 23:30
  • Mané, Coutinho, Firmino and Salah all available for Spartak match
  • Klopp says Moscow fixture is not the place for ‘all the artists’Jürgen Klopp seemed genuinely excited by his first visit to Moscow and the formidable police presence that greeted Liverpool’s arrival at Sheremetyevo Airport. The prospect of finally unleashing his most talented attacking quartet provided another adrenalin-rush but Spartak Moscow away, he cautioned, might not be the place f
  
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• Harry Kane narrows the gap with Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo

  25-09-2017 23:30
  The Big Two may have rewritten the record books but the Spurs striker’s statistics show he is closing the gap and may even dream of winning the Ballon d’OrTo Harry Kane it is a numbers game and, like every football fan in Europe, the Tottenham Hotspur striker is in awe of those posted by two players in particular. You know who they are. There was a time when a goalscorer would be feted for getting 20 in a league season; for reaching a ratio of one in every two matches. That was in th
  
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• Homeless Shakhtar Donetsk ready for another Champions League upset | Barry Glendenning

  25-09-2017 23:26
  The Ukrainian side, who last played in their own stadium three years ago, shocked Napoli in the first round of games and now travel to Manchester CityShakhtar Donetsk took little time to hurl the cat among the pigeons in a Champions League group most observers expected to be dominated by Napoli and Manchester City, with the Ukrainian side and Feyenoord making up the numbers. While the Dutch champions duly crumbled at home against City in the last round of fixtures, the Ukrainian side’s 2-1
  
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• Velcro Brand begs the public to stop using its name in vain in an 80s-inspired video

  25-09-2017 23:18
  Velcro Brand wants you to start saying hook and loop.
  
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• Prince Harry makes first public appearance with girlfriend

  25-09-2017 23:09
  Britain's Prince Harry and American girlfriend Meghan Markle made their first formal public appearance together on Monday, with the couple holding hands and watching a wheelchair tennis match at the Invictus Games in Toronto.Markle, an actress who stars in the TV legal drama "Suits," has been dating Harry for more than a year.The Invictus Games are an international sports competition for wounded and sick military personnel founded in 2014 by Harry, younger brother of William, the second in line
  
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• Rellik recap: episode three – big frights and bad dads in the grimmest week yet

  25-09-2017 23:00
  A sleazy, uneasy tale of terrible parents, this was the creepiest outing so far for the reverse crime drama So the supremely creepy truth about Patrick Barker – the city type with the Kingsman glasses who we saw fleeing the country in episode one – emerges. He was having an affair with Sally, his wife Rebecca’s 20-year-old daughter from another marriage. When Rebecca caught the icky couple in bed, a distressed Sally brained her with a trophy Patrick had received for “thou
  
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• Stocks off after North Korea says U.S. declared war; euro slides

  25-09-2017 22:57
  By Rodrigo CamposNEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks fell on Wall Street and U.S. government bond yields dropped on Monday after North Korea accused the United States of having declared war on the isolated country, while the euro fell after German elections showed support for Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative party fell to its lowest since 1949.On Wall Street, a selloff in tech stocks drove major indexes lower and equities fell further after North Korea's foreign minister said in a statement at th
  
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• Labour MP shocked by anti-Semitism

  25-09-2017 22:45 via bbc.co.uk
  John Cryer says some material seen by the disciplinary panel "makes your hair stand up".
  
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• British bobsleigh driver attacks decision to cut funding for women’s team

  25-09-2017 22:45
  • Mica McNeill says decision to keep three men’s teams is ‘confusing’
  • UK Sport monitoring bobsleigh’s governing body after ‘overspend’The decision to continue funding all three men’s British bobsleigh teams while cutting financial backing for the only women’s crew has been branded “confusing” by the driver who started an online campaign to keep her Olympic dream afloat.Mica McNeill said she wants people at the British Bobsle
  
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• Mica McNeill says British bobsleighers 'powered by the people'

  25-09-2017 22:44 via bbc.co.uk
  Great Britain bobsleigher Mica McNeill says her team has been "powered by the people" as they reached their crowdfunding target.
  
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• Arsenal v West Bromwich Albion: Premier League – live!

  25-09-2017 22:38
  Premier League updates from the 8pm BST kick-offThe Dozen: our pick of the best images from the weekendFeel free to email [email protected] 9.38pm BST80 min: Dawson comes through the back of Sanchez. He gets a little of the ball, which is what probably saves him from getting a second yellow. That was taking liberties in his situation, though. He was really chancing his arm. He’s very lucky to still be on the pitch. 9.36pm BST78 min: More of that lull. And then Monreal turns on t
  
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• Cage international director guilty of terror offence for not unlocking iPhone

  25-09-2017 22:30
  The international director of Cage has been found guilty of a terror offence for refusing to unlock his iPhone and laptop while being detained at Heathrow Airport.Muhammad Rabbani was found guilty of wilfully obstructing a police search under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000.Rabbani told the court he had an obligation to protect confidential evidence on his iPhone and MacBook Air from a client of Cage's which regarded serious allegations of torture by "US agents".
  
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• The look of love? Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's first official outing together

  25-09-2017 22:29
  Prince Harry and his actress girlfriend Meghan Markle looked awash with love and happiness on their first official public appearance together.The couple laughed and smiled as they attended the wheelchair tennis at the Invictus Games in Toronto, Canada.
  
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• Venezuela says Trump is acting like 'the world's emperor'

  25-09-2017 22:27
  Foriegn minister Jorge Arreaza’s retaliates after US sanctions and a new travel ban against Venezuela, as well as harsh words from Trump Venezuela’s top diplomat has accused Donald Trump of acting like “the world’s emperor,” after the US president denounced the government of Nicolás Maduro on the global stage of the UN General Assembly. Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza’s speech at assembly came a day after Trump signed a travel ban affecting some Venezuel
  
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• Uber rival Lyft met London transport officials - documents show

  25-09-2017 22:24
  By Eric Auchard and Costas PitasFRANKFURT/LONDON (Reuters) - Lyft, Uber’s closest U.S. rival in the taxi-hailing business, met repeatedly with officials from London's transport regulator over the past year, a sign it may be targeting the city for international expansion.Transport for London (TfL), which oversees taxi and private hire car operators, published details of the meetings with Lyft executives in response to a UK government freedom of information request in July.If Lyft enters the
  
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• Oil hits highest since July 2015; producers say market rebalancing

  25-09-2017 22:18
  By Jessica Resnick-AultNEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil prices soared more than 3 percent on Monday, with Brent hitting its highest in more than two years, after major producers said the global market was on its way to rebalancing, while Turkey threatened to cut oil flows from Iraq's Kurdistan region toward its ports."It's all driven by the idea that the production cut is starting to work and the rebalance is underway," said Gene McGillian, director of market research at Tradition Energy in New York.Tur
  
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• Child 'was shown IS beheading video by Leicester man'

  25-09-2017 22:12 via bbc.co.uk
  Zameer Ghumra "brainwashed" two children, telling them not to have non-Muslim friends, a court hears.
  
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• Harry and Meghan step out publicly for first time

  25-09-2017 22:10
  In their first official public appearance together, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle walk along a concourse in Toronto.
  
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• Chelsea Manning says she has been barred from entering Canada

  25-09-2017 22:00
  Former US soldier and one of the most prominent whistleblowers of modern times posts letter to Twitter saying she is ‘not authorized to enter Canada’Chelsea Manning, the former US soldier who served seven years in military prison after instigating one of the biggest breaches of classified data in US history, has said she has been barred from entering Canada.Related: 'This is a police state': Chelsea Manning accuses Harvard of caving to CIAContinue reading...
  
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• Enable to be supplemented for Arc after Cracksman’s absence

  25-09-2017 21:46
  • Enable to be added to Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe field at cost of €120,000
  • Cracksman missing from entry list after first forfeit stageAny flickering hope among his backers that Cracksman might remain in the running for the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe at Chantilly on Sunday was extinguished on Monday morning, when the easy winner of the Prix Niel, one of the main Arc trials, was missing from a list of 20 contenders after the first forfeit stage. Enable, his stable comp
  
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• Man drives into teacher at school gate

  25-09-2017 21:35
  Surrey Police has released footage of a man who deliberately drove into a teacher at the school gates.
  
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• Long seasons are pushing players to their limit, says England’s Ben Youngs

  25-09-2017 21:34
  • England and Leicester scrum-half joins debate over early-season injuries
  • ‘Players have power to strike but I don’t think any player wants to get to that’
  Another senior England international has claimed leading players are “at the limit” of what their bodies can sustain amid rising concern over the number of injuries in the early weeks of the season. Leicester’s Ben Youngs says the players currently wish to avoid strike action but reveals there i
  
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• Dramatic footage of parent ramming car into teacher at school gate

  25-09-2017 21:33
  Footage has been released of a parent deliberately driving into a teacher at the school gates when he went to pick up his child.The teacher at Winston Churchill School was swept off his feet and carried on the car bonnet before being thrown to the ground by the VW which narrowly avoided hitting two schoolchildren.The driver, Rainer Schoeman, of The Goldings, Woking, Surrey, was jailed for 10 months at Guildford Crown Court on Friday.
  
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• Corbyn is a changed man – and he’s forging a path to power | Polly Toynbee

  25-09-2017 21:30
  This year’s conference shows Labour has been transformed by electoral success and Tory disarray over Brexit. Its leaders look more credible by the day“We are the grown-ups now.” So said several speakers. In the grotesque political playground of Brexit Britain, Labour has indeed become the nation’s adults, the sensibles, the party least likely to wreck the country’s future. How short a time ago Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell were regarded as delinquent adolescents
  
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• Charlottesville's white awakening: 'We were living in a bubble,' say residents

  25-09-2017 21:25
  On Sunday, Ariana Grande and Pharrell Williams helped the Virginia town recover from last month’s violence – which some white residents admitted had been a serious wake-up callInside the University of Virginia’s Scott Stadium, a succession of pop stars were telling local residents that “Love trumps hate” and “You will not dethrone love.” Dave Matthews, Pharrell Williams, Ariana Grande and Justin Timberlake were holding a free concert to help Charlottesvi
  
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• CCTV shows furious parent mowing down teacher in front of children on the school run

  25-09-2017 21:25
  Rainier Schoeman almost hit two children when he drove straight at teacher Gareth McCarthy who was furious that he could not use the staff car park at The Winston Churchill School, in Woking, Surrey.Trending: 'Melania really wanted to be with us': Did Donald Trump forget his wife was standing next to him?Schoeman was jailed following a hearing at Guildford Crown Court on Friday (22 September), after pleading guilty to causing actual bodily harm, dangerous driving, driving without insurance and h
  
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• Man found guilty under UK terrorism laws after refusing to reveal passwords

  25-09-2017 21:17
  A man who refused to provide passwords to his electronic devices when stopped by British police was found guilty under terrorism laws at a court in London on Monday, in a case that campaigners say threatens personal privacy.Muhammad Rabbani, 36, the international director of campaign group CAGE was found guilty of wilfully obstructing or seeking to frustrate an examination or search, and given a conditional 12-month discharge, and was ordered to pay a 620 pound ($830) fine.CAGE is an advocacy gr
  
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• HBOS compensation chief criticised by Noel Edmonds insists he is independent

  25-09-2017 21:16
  Russel Griggs, who has faced vitriol from fraud victims, on the review he is heading for Lloyds and why it is taking so longNoel Edmonds has a major problem with Prof Russel Griggs, the man appointed by Lloyds Banking Group to assess compensation claims for customers caught up in a £245m fraud.The Deal or No Deal host wants a £300m payout although Lloyds has set aside only £100m to cover claims from a total of 67 customers.Continue reading...
  
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• First appearance together for Harry and Meghan Markle

  25-09-2017 21:10 via bbc.co.uk
  The couple were attending the Invictus Games, the first official event they have attended together.
  
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• Strictly dances off with Saturday night viewing figures

  25-09-2017 21:09
  BBC competition attracts audience of 9.4 million compared to an all-time low of 4.8 million for its rival, ITV’s X FactorStrictly Come Dancing and the X Factor have been battling it out for Saturday night audiences for 13 years, but the BBC show struck an unprecedented blow against its ITV rival last weekend by attracting almost 5 million more viewers in a record victory.The contrasting performances of Strictly and the X Factor have raised questions about whether the ITV show has fallen in
  
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• Premier stalwart

  25-09-2017 21:09 via bbc.co.uk
  Gareth Barry made his 633rd Premier League appearance on Monday, breaking Ryan Giggs' record. But how much do you know about him?
  
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• FA board backs chief executive Martin Glenn over Sampson sacking

  25-09-2017 21:06
  • Key witnesses to alleged comment will finally give evidence
  • Barrister appointed by FA has already spoken to Drew SpenceKatharine Newton, the barrister in charge of the controversial inquiry into Mark Sampson’s conduct as England Women’s manager, has changed her position behind the scenes and intends to interview the three players who have been identified as key witnesses but were overlooked for her initial investigation.Newton has already spoken to Drew Spence as part o
  
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• Martin Rowson on global rise of nationalism and the far right – cartoon

  25-09-2017 21:05
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• Man cycles 'wrong Birmingham' race

  25-09-2017 21:04 via bbc.co.uk
  John Hoopingarner accidentally signed up for a race he thought was in Alabama, but came to the UK anyway.
  
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• Cage Director Muhammad Rabbani Convicted Of Offence Under Terrorism Act

  25-09-2017 20:56
  The director of controversial advocacy group Cage is said to be considering challenging his conviction today of an offence under the Terrorism Act.
  
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• Star Trek: Discovery review – a darker vision boldly goes into the future

  25-09-2017 20:55
  The latest addition to the Star Trek canon has found a bona fide star in Sonequa Martin-Green, but the world around her lacks the deep space to succeedStar Trek posits a future of feminism, political rapprochement between generations-old enemies and the pursuit of racial equality. But it’s also only as progressive as its writers think their audience is. Maybe that’s why the latest version, Star Trek: Discovery, is more depressing than it probably intends to be. Related: Star Trek&rsq
  
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• Merkel must strike a deal. Europe’s future depends on it | Natalie Nougayrède

  25-09-2017 20:52
  We obsess about the far right, but who ends up in Germany’s ruling coalition will have huge repercussions for the rest of EuropeThis German election matters greatly to the whole of Europe, not just to Germany alone. Its results, and what emerges now, will determine much of what can or cannot be accomplished to rejuvenate a 60-year-old European project that has, in recent years, often looked as if it was on crutches. The German far right’s entrance into the Bundestag is worrying, but
  
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• North Korea's foreign minister: Trump has declared war on our country

  25-09-2017 20:51
  Ri Yong-ho says in response to Donald Trump’s comments North Korea has ‘every right to make counter-measures’, including shooting down US bombersNorth Korea has threatened to shoot down US bombers in international airspace, claiming that, with a weekend tweet, Donald Trump had declared war. Related: Ri Yong-ho: the North Korean diplomat who could defuse the crisisContinue reading...
  
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• Uber faces serious charges – why is Khan offering an olive branch? | Nils Pratley

  25-09-2017 20:37
  The ride-hailing service has offered a vague ‘apology’ now its London licence is under threat, but it has failed to address the issuesDara Khosrowshahi became chief executive of Uber because his predecessor, Travis Kalanick, had become a liability. Uber’s private equity backers knew there was little hope of getting the taxi service firm’s shares listed on a stock market while Kalanick was at the helm, annoying regulators and inflaming every dispute that crossed his desk.
  
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• Tom Westley survives Ashes injury scare as England rivals forced to wait

  25-09-2017 20:29
  • Essex batsman only bruised after being struck on the hand by rising delivery
  • Gary Ballance and James Vince yet to bat following a day hit by rainThe ball had not even landed in second slip’s hands, but Tom Westley was shaking his right thumb in pain and then sprinting from the field, straight into the Chelmsford medical room with the vigour of a man whose Ashes hopes had been shattered. It was a brutish lifter from Yorkshire’s Steve Patterson, one of the least brutish b
  
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• Labour pledge to bring PFI contracts in-house alarms business leaders

  25-09-2017 20:27
  Britain’s business groups have reacted with alarm to a pledge by the shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, to bring billions of pounds’ worth of PFI projects and their staff back under government control.
  
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• Hopes and frustrations as Brexit talks resume after May speech

  25-09-2017 20:24
  By Alastair Macdonald and Jan StrupczewskiBRUSSELS (Reuters) - British and EU negotiators talked up hopes for progress on Brexit as a new round of talks began in Brussels on Monday, three days after Prime Minister Theresa May tried to revive the process and improve the mood.Brexit minister David Davis urged him to stop stalling talks on future trade relations if he wants London to settle its accounts.
  
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• Britain’s elite is bright white – but doesn’t brilliance come in all colours? | Simon Woolley

  25-09-2017 20:20
  Changing the colour of power in Britain is not just a moral imperative: opening up top jobs to black and minority ethnic talent is about national self-interestAn uncomfortable truth can, in time, become a great potential asset. But first we have to be brave enough to acknowledge it, and then bold enough to deal with it.That’s been the hope throughout, as Operation Black Vote, the Guardian and Green Park recruitment have worked on the groundbreaking research project, The Colour of Power. Co
  
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• Hospital bosses forced to chant 'we can do this' over A&E targets

  25-09-2017 20:17
  Trust leaders say they were left feeling ‘bullied and humiliated’ by the incident at a meeting to improve performanceHospital bosses were forced to chant “we can do this” by a senior NHS official in an effort to improve their accident and emergency performance in advance of what doctors have warned will be a tough winter for the NHS.Hospital trust chief executives say they were left feeling “bullied, patronised and humiliated” by the incident last week at a me
  
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• Hospital bosses forced to chant 'we can do this' over A&E targets

  25-09-2017 20:17
  Hospital trust chief executives say they were left feeling “bullied, patronised and humiliated” by the incident last week at a meeting attended by Jeremy Hunt, the health secretary, and Simon Stevens, the head of the NHS in England.The leaders of about 60 trusts which NHS national bodies deemed to have the worst record on meeting the politically important four-hour A&E treatment target were called into a meeting held in London on Monday 18 September.Chief executives present say t
  
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• Moped gang attacks prompt review of police pursuit rules

  25-09-2017 20:12
  The Home Office says there was no ban on pursuits where the rider is helmetless.A review of the law and practice regarding police pursuits is to be carried out to ensure officers feel they have the legal protection they need to go after moped and scooter gangs, the Home Office has announced.The policing minister, Nick Hurd, said the review was needed because officers needed to have “confidence to protect the public by pursuing offenders where it is safe to do so”.
  
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• Oil prices soar to highest for more than two years after output cuts

  25-09-2017 20:07
  Analysts say prices could rise further, in a move that would put upward pressure on UK inflationOil prices jumped to their highest for more than two years on Monday after major producers said output cuts were squeezing supplies.Brent crude leapt by 2.7% to $58.39 (£43.35) a barrel as analysts said prices could rise to levels not seen since 2014, in a move that would put further upward pressure on inflation in the UK. The oil price squeeze has been orchestrated by the Opec oil producers&rsq
  
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