Energy Update
ANKARA/BEIRUT, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Turkish-backed forces will
press on to the Islamic State-held town of al-Bab in Syria,
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday, emphasising
Ankara's drive to sweep militants and Syrian Kurdish fighters
from territory near its border.
ANKARA, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Turkish-backed forces will press
on to the Islamic State-held town of al Bab in Syria, Turkish
President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday, emphasising Ankara's
drive to sweep militants and Syrian Kurdish fighters from
territory near its border.
TRIPOLI, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Libyan pro-government forces
fighting Islamic State in Sirte have freed 11 Eritrean female
captives, a Turk and an Egyptian after a battle to recapture a
part of the city held by Islamic State, a spokesman for the
forces said on Saturday.
SYDNEY, Oct 22 (Reuters) - An Australia court overturned on
Saturday government approval of a A$130 million fuel depot and
port at Port Melville, off the country's north coast, handing a
major victory to environmental activists.
BAGHDAD, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Security forces overcame a big
assault by Islamic State militants in Kirkuk and regained full
control of the northern Iraqi oil city on Saturday, Iraqi state
TV said.
CARACAS, Oct 21 (Reuters) - A half-dozen hooded gunmen tried
to break into the offices of the comptroller commission at the
Venezuelan National Assembly on Friday, according to the
president of the opposition-led commission, who said the
incident was likely politically motivated.
CARACAS, Oct 21 (Reuters) - Venezuela's state oil company
PDVSA will make an
announcement on its debt swap operation on Monday, a source
close to the operation told Reuters on Friday night.
QUITO, Oct 21 (Reuters) - A local judge in Ecuador on Friday
ordered preventive prison for a former oil minister on grounds
of bribery amid an investigation into a $12 million corruption
scandal in the Andean country's state oil company.
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