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French companies win $22.8B in deals with China (AP)

November 4th, 2010

Airbus CEO Tom Enders, right, and China Air Leasing Compagny CASC CEO Li Hai, left, exchange documents as Chinese President Hu Jintao, left, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, right look on in the back during the signature of agreements at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Thursday Nov. 4, 2010. The three-day state visit by Hu Jintao marks a dramatic turnaround from the tense ties of two years ago, when Sarkozy threatened to boycott the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics out of anger about China's treatment of Tibet. (AP Photo/ Thibault Camus, Pool)AP - France won euro16 billion ($22.8 billion) in deals Thursday to sell uranium and Airbus planes to China during the pomp-filled visit of the Asian country’s president.


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Germany, Russia to ink multibillion deals (AP)

July 15th, 2010

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, left, greets German Chancellor Angela Merkel before dinner at the restaurant Troyekurov in Yekaterinburg, about 1500 kilometers (900 miles) east of Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, July 14, 2010. Angela Merkel arrived in Yekaterinburg to take part in Russian-German talks. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Vladimir Rodionov, Presidential Press Service)AP - German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev met Thursday for talks and are expected to oversee the signing of an array of deals between German and…

Iraq’s oil deals dominate PM election campaign (AP)

March 2nd, 2010

AP - Backed by armed bodyguards, international oil executives have flocked to this southern Iraqi city to survey their potentially lucrative prizes: the fields that it is hoped will one day…