Official Google Webmaster Central Blog:
They make it fairly clear that the result of duplicate content is filtering, not penalization.

They also chime in with some info on international sites:

“Though we do offer a handy translation utility, our algorithms won’t view the same article written in English and Spanish as duplicate content.”

“Use TLDs: To help us serve the most appropriate version of a document, use top level domains whenever possible to handle country-specific content. We’re more likely to know that .de indicates Germany-focused content, for instance, than /de or de.example.com.”

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