TRIPOLI, Dec 15 (Reuters) - A military faction has reopened
the valve on a pipeline leading to the major western Libyan oil
fields of Sharara and El Feel after two years of blockades, a
spokesman said on Thursday.
DUBAI, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Most major Middle Eastern stock
markets fell on Thursday after the U.S. central bank raised
interest rates but buying by local retail investors lifted Saudi
Arabia.
LONDON, Dec 15 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Energy has
become a lightning rod for criticism in parts of the Republican
Party and the fossil fuels industry unhappy about the Obama
administration's energy and climate policies.
JAKARTA, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Indonesia needs to revise its
mining law to ease a ban on mineral ore exports and is unlikely
to meet a deadline of early next year for the change, senior
politicians warned on Thursday.
ESSEN, Germany, Dec 15 (Reuters) - A regional court in
Germany on Thursday dismissed damage claims brought against RWE
by a Peruvian farmer, in which he accused the German
utility of emitting carbon dioxide and helping raise global
temperatures.
CHARLOTTETOWN, Prince Edward Island, Dec 15 (Reuters) - For
years, heavy equipment operator Ashley Underhill has tried to
defy the notion that one could only make a good living in
Canada's poorer east coast by spending most of the time away
from the family in the nation's western oil patch.
SINGAPORE, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Traders are temporarily
storing gasoil on vessels in the waters off Singapore as they
anticipate demand for the fuel to go up in the coming months,
industry sources said on Thursday.
GENEVA, Dec 15 (Reuters) - U.N. humanitarian adviser for
Syria Jan Egeland said on Thursday that he was hopeful about the
evacuation of thousands of civilians from eastern Aleppo but
that Russia had only just asked for U.N. involvement, which was
very late.
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