MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's gas export monopoly Gazprom (GAZP.MM) will buy control of oil major TNK-BP TNBPI.MM, which is half owned by BP (BP.L), for $20 billion by the end of the year, the Vedomosti daily reported on Thursday.
The report cited unidentified sources close to the management of both companies.
(Reporting by Simon Shuster, Editing by Guy Faulconbridge)
KABUL (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed eight American civilians in an attack at a military base in southeastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, one of the highest foreign civilian death tolls in an insurgent strike in the eight-year war.
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