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AL Gore, the US Vice-President under Bill Clinton and climate change crusader, has sold the TV station he founded to Al Jazeera for $500m (€383m).
The price tag represents an eightfold increase from the $60m (€46m) Mr Gore and his partners paid in 2004 for the channel, Current TV.
The deal gives Al-Jazeera access to tens of millions of US homes, a development that has caused some disquiet.
The nation's second-largest TV operator, Time Warner Cable, dropped Current after the deal was confirmed.
Irish Independent
