Top stories Financial Times: BP will pay a higher than expected $20.8 billion to settle civil claims with US federal and state authorities over the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster, with $8.1bn of the funds designated for coastal wetlands and marine mammals as part of a 15-year Gulf of Mexico restoration plan. Financial Times: The US, Japan and 10 other Pacific Rim nations have struck the largest trade pact in two decades, in a huge strategic and political victory for US President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. The Guardian: Cut-price shares in Lloyds Banking Group are to be sold to the public next year in a move that will complete the sale of the taxpayer’s stake in the...
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