Year-long negotiations ended Sunday night, said a government spokesman, indicating that tough talks had gone down to the wire.

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Participants on a 10-to-12 mile Tough Mudder course wade through waist-deep mud, crawl under barbed wire, submerge themselves in ice water and jump through fire.

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