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Iraqi President Jalal Talabani on Wednesday promised major deals - including large oil contracts - to French business chiefs keen to restore their place as Iraq's top business partners. To warm applause, the Iraqi leader gave Baghdad's strongest hint yet that it would grant French energy giant Total development contracts for two of its major oil fields at a rights auction next month.

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