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Presentation Two articles about : - Mexico oil disaster - The conflict in Afghanistan

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A cartoon (Boyling point)

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Scottish national daily newspaper, published in Edinburgh. The Scotsman was launched in 1817 as a liberal weekly newspaper by lawyer William Ritchie. As of July 2010 it had an audited circulation of 45,352. Since 16 August 2004 it has been printed in compact format (= tabloid format) Its sister Sunday publication, which remains broadsheet, is titled Scotland on Sunday. Its political alignment is Centrism. Since 1998, the Scotsman has had an internet portal : www.scotsman.com

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Two articles
- « Profits return for BP but costs of spill rise £4.8bn » by Martin Flanagan - « Imposter took part in Taleban peace talks » by Dexter Filkins & Carlotta Gall

« Profits return for BP but costs of spill rise £4.8bn » by Martin Flanagan
Dateline : 03 November 2010 Topic : consequences for BP of the oil disaster in Mexico. Vocabulary: precise, specialized (economical) Article complete, economical point of view particularly. Long article, many figures, quite a lot of quotations...

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« New BP chief executive Bob Dudley revealed that the extra provision helped drive third-quarter profits down 63 per cent to $1.85bn (£1.15bn) from $4.98bn in the same period last year. But it was a sharp rebound from the $16.97bn loss in the second quarter of this year triggered by the initial $32.2bn charge for the clean-up and compensation for the biggest oil spill in history. »

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« Like rivals such as Exxon and Shell recently, BP's performance was helped by the high oil price, with E&P profit up $1.4bn to $8.4bn, and refining and marketing profits nearly doubling to $1.79bn. »

« Imposter took part in Taleban peace talks » by Dexter Filkins & Carlotta Gall
Dateline : 24 November 2010 Topic : an imposter took part in Taleban peace talks : M.