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World Service,04 Sep 2009,55 mins

03/09/2009

Newshour

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We check the state of play in Mexico's drug wars, after gangsters kill 17 people in a rehabilitation clinic. Chelsea football club are banned from the transfer market for a year, for poaching a teenage star from a French club. Is it an attack on football's moneyed elite? The appointment of Iran's new defence minister causes ripples in Argentina, where Jewish leaders suspect he was connected to the bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish centre in 1994. And the model displaying more flesh than usual sparks controversy -- does a little fat mar her beauty?

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