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SACHA Baron Cohen was banned from shooting scenes for his new film The Dictator at the United Nations because it might upset real-life despots, the comic has claimed.
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IT is two years since Greece agreed to its first bail-out, yet the crisis that its debt burden triggered across Europe shows no sign of abating. If anything, the situation has worsened.
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