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SAO PAULO, Sept 22 (Reuters) - Brazilian police arrested
former Finance Minister Guido Mantega on Thursday as a sweeping
corruption investigation further struck at the heart of the
Workers Party (PT) that ran the country for 13 years.

WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Sept 22 (Reuters) - Aboriginal tribes
from Canada and the northern United States signed a treaty on
Thursday to jointly fight proposals to build more pipelines to
carry crude from Alberta's oil sands, saying further development
would damage the environment.

MOSCOW, Sept 22 (Reuters) - The yield on a Russian sovereign
Eurobond top-up was 3.9 percent, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov
said on Thursday, as high demand allowed Russia to offer
investors a lower yield than initial guidance.

In New York, jetBlue announced a 10-year, 330 million gallon renewable jet fuel purchase agreement with SG Preston. This marks one of the largest renewable jet fuel purchase agreements in aviation history, and the largest, long-term, binding commitment by any airline globally for HEFA (hydro-processed esters and fatty acids) renewable jet fuel. The first deliveries are scheduled for 2019.

The rigorous monitoring of procedures for solar PV systems installation under South Africa’s Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Program (REIP) has ensured safety and high performance of the solar PV projects already connected to the country’s national grid.

The SunShot Initiative welcomes Dr. Charlie Gay, the program’s new director, a solar industry pioneer who has witnessed its rise from a niche technology that powered microwave repeaters on isolated mountaintops to the robust business it is today.

I interrupt the Justice Delayed series for something slightly different. The series has thus far focused on the challenge to EPA’s authority in the matter of the Clean Power Plan (CPP). Today, I want to shift the discussion to a law suit filed in the federal district court in Oregon.

Boosting our economy — both nationally and globally — and solving humanity’s shared climate change challenge are not mutually exclusive endeavors. In fact, many of today’s brightest minds say they go hand in hand, and even make the case that climate change can be turned into a trillion dollar wealth-creating opportunity.

* Euroclear, Russia's NSD to serve deal

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MOSCOW, Sept 22 (Reuters) - Demand for a top-up sovereign
Eurobond launched by Russia on Thursday exceeded $7.5 billion, a
financial market source told Interfax, adding the top-up was
priced at 106.75 percent of par.

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