Bailout package includes pension cuts

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PORTUGAL - The country's €78bn ($116bn) bailout package will include cuts to higher pension payments, but left many other pension provisions in place.

Details of the bailout deal agreed to between Portugal, the European Union, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund are due to be released later today. But in a statement yest...

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