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Cassez case: France and Mexico in a fierce spat

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Relations between France and Mexico take a turn for the worse over the Mexican government's refusal's to repatriate Florence Cassez. one year on after that devastating earthquake, Chile's wine industry is still in recovery mode. And finally why "to go where no man has gone been before" will no longer apply to the US space shuttle

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