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A couple of international snippets that may be of interest:

an article from Bloomberg on McCain’s woes, who looks completely out of it now – and when is Thompson going to formally declare?

and news that former French PM de Villepin faces investigation over the Clearstream affair (a bid to discredit Sarkozy) – do the French experts on pb.com think that Chirac will ever face prosecution now that he no longer has presidential immunity?

Paul Maggs “Double Carpet”

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