LONDON: Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox on Thursday sealed a $14.8 billion (14-billion-euro) cash deal for control of European pay-TV giant Sky, expanding the footprint of the media-entertainment powerhouse.

Fox said it had reached a formal agreement to buy the 61 percent stake in Sky that it does not already own.

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