The Labwani verdict comes a week after a ground-breaking meeting between Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem and US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at a summit in Egypt - the first time the two countries held such high-level talks since the death of Mr Hariri in 2005.

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Two tries apiece saw the sides level at 12-12 at half-time, before Tom Briscoe edged the visitors in front.

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The company has since fallen back to earth, and last year its share price was trading below the 1, 000-yen level for the first time in over two decades.

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Thus, from an end-September 2008 level of 21 percent dependence on government financing, in two years time the dependence increased by 3 percent points to 24 percent.

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Barnes's introduction in place of the injured Will Chambers seemed to raise the Barbarians' game, and his two penalties in the last six minutes of the first half ensured they went in at half-time on level terms.

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Ponting has not put a team into bat since Edgbaston 2005, when England scored 407 on the opening day of the second Test, a match the hosts won by just two runs to level the series at 1-1 before clinching the Ashes for the first time in almost 18 years.

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This happens when two exams - perhaps an A-level and an AS-level re-take - are timetabled for the same time.

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Such was their dominance it felt like only a matter of time before they equalised and shortly after the half-hour mark, two of the Brazilians combined to haul the holders level.

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