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			<title>Qatar in rift with UK adviser</title>
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			<title>Sainsbury takeover collapses</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Qatar drops $22.1bn bid for UK supermarket, blaming credit crisis and cost of funding pension schemes.]]></description>
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			<title>Qatar gets Sainsbury bid deadline </title>
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			<description><![CDATA[UK takeover watchdog sets November 8 deadline for Delta Two to make a bid or walk away.]]></description>
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			<title>Qatar fund edges closer to Sainsbury deal</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Delta Two could make formal offer for British supermarket group as early as next week.]]></description>
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			<title>Pensions sticky issue in Sainsbury bid</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Sainsbury family may try to derail offer for UK supermarket if Qatar does not strike deal with pension trustees.]]></description>
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			<title>Qatar in talks with Sainsbury pension trustees</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[State fund Delta Two to begin negotiations with trustees in push to acquire supermarket. ]]></description>
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			<title>Qatar closes in on Sainsbury</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[UK supermarket giant opens books to Delta Two after fund offers more cash in $21.4bn takeover.]]></description>
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			<title>Improved Sainsbury offer expected</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Qatar-backed investment fund Delta Two to make revised offer in next seven days, banker says.]]></description>
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			<title>Qatar to raise equity in Sainsbury bid</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[State-owned Delta Two investment fund to inject up to $2bn of additional equity, reports say.]]></description>
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			<title>Sainsbury gives Delta more time</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Supermarket group gives Qatari fund more time to boost the equity part of its $20bn takeover bid.]]></description>
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			<title>Union opposition to Sainsbury deal</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Britain's largest union urges board to block Qatar's bid, plans to take case to the competition regulator.]]></description>
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			<title>Banks seek Sainsbury finance extension</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Banks behind the Qatar bid for J. Sainsbury are looking to extend their commitments as takeover talks drag on.]]></description>
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			<title>Qatar ready to improve Sainsbury bid</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Delta Two prepared to reduce proportion of debt in $21.4bn bid for UK supermarket giant, report says.]]></description>
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			<title>Banks could pull Qatar Sainsbury bid</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Banks are considering pulling the plug on the $21bn deal due to market turmoil, according to a UK newspaper.]]></description>
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			<title>Delta Two unlikely to raise Sainsbury bid</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Qatari fund refusing to change takeover structure, despite concerns over level of debt in deal, source says.]]></description>
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			<title>Sainsbury urges Qatar to up offer</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[UK supermarket giant will this week ask state-owned Delta Two to raise takeover bid by $2bn, sources say.]]></description>
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			<title>Delta fund buys UK healthcare firm</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The Qatar-backed investment fund has bought specialist provider Care Principles from 3i in a $547 million deal.]]></description>
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			<title>UK to allow state funds greater market access</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Chancellor Alistair Darling to welcome acquistion of more UK firms by foreign sovereign funds.]]></description>
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			<title>Delta Two faces union blues over J Sainsbury bid </title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Qatari investment fund faces opposition over its planned takeover of the UK 'national icon' supermarket chain.]]></description>
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			<title>Qatar mulls $21bn Sainsbury bid </title>
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			<description><![CDATA[UPDATE: Delta Two's bid is pitched at $21.3bn, plans to invest $6.1bn in the supermarket giant as talks continue.   ]]></description>
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			<title>Qatar in $25bn bid for Sainsbury</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[  British supermarket giant has confirmed $24.5 billion bid approach from Qatar's Delta Two investment firm.        ]]></description>
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			<title>Qatar takeover of Sainsbury nears checkout</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[British supermarket giant on 'full bid alert' as a UK investor dramatically doubles his stake.]]></description>
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			<title>Qatar talk feeds Sainsbury share rise</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Reports of a takeover by Qatar's Delta investment group boost shares in the UK supermarket chain.]]></description>
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			<title>Qatar ups Sainsbury stake to 25%</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Delta investment is now the UK supermarket group's biggest shareholder, fuelling takeover speculation.]]></description>
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