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LAUNCESTON, Australia, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Rio Tinto's
decision to quit the world's largest undeveloped iron ore
deposit in Guinea is essentially a bet on how quickly and
cheaply the new Chinese owners can develop the mine.

* Formosa to skip 50 ppm term for 2017 -source

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NEW YORK, Nov 3 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Indigenous
women and girls in northern Canada live in danger due to rampant
development that has brought crime, ratcheted up the cost of
living and destroyed traditional ways of life, Amnesty
International said on Thursday.

TOKYO, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Japan and Russia will focus on
about 30 items of economic cooperation ahead of a December
summit at which Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe hopes to make
progress in resolving a long-festering territorial row, said the
Nikkei business daily.

* Oil weighed down by surging inventory, slow demand

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FMC Technologies and Technip alliance has received an integrated engineering, procurement, construction, and installation (EPCI) contract from Statoil for its Trestakk field in the Norwegian Sea.

WASHINGTON, Nov 4 (Reuters) - The global accord to combat
climate change agreed in Paris last year officially entered into
force Friday, putting pressure on nearly 200 countries to start
executing plans to slash their greenhouse gas emissions.

Nov 3 (Reuters) - Chesapeake Energy Corp said on
Thursday it received a request from the U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission, seeking information on its accounting
methodology for the acquisition and classification of oil and
natural gas properties.

PARIS, Nov 3 (Reuters) - Italian utility Enel is well on
track to build 5,000 megawatts worth of renewables capacity in
Africa despite political unrest in North Africa and the lack of
electric power connections between countries, its chief
executive said on Thursday.

SAO PAULO, Nov 3 (Reuters) - A former Brazilian finance
minister and chief of staff for successive Workers Party (PT)
governments was ordered on Thursday to stand trial on corruption
and money laundering charges in an expanding graft probe around
state-run oil company Petrobras.

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