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Sean O'Grady: These cuts may well cost more than they save - and hurried exercises can leave lucrative opportunities for beady-eyed City types.

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My country Chile, reborn from the ashes

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Donald Macintyre: Why Ahmadinejad's enemies refused to dignify his antics with a response

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