It is also looking into complaints from Fulham over their Uefa Cup tie at Hajduk Split and Liverpool's treatment at Valencia in the Champions League.

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Though McCain has split with Bush on critical policy issues -- like campaign finance reform and the treatment of detainees -- the president said he would help McCain if he became the GOP presidential nominee.

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If a majority of the French people backed equality of treatment and therefore civil union for all, with its strings of fiscal advantages, they did however split on the second part of the bill, and the question of adoption rights and access to IVF for gays and lesbians.

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