HANGZHOU, China, Sept 4 (Reuters) - China hopes Australia
can provide a fair and transparent environment for foreign
investors, President Xi Jinping said on Sunday, as he met
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull for the first time
since Canberra blocked a major deal.
LAGOS, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Militant attacks on energy
facilities in Nigeria's southern Niger Delta threaten to cripple
the country's state oil company if allowed to go unchecked, it
said on Sunday.
DUBAI, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia led Gulf stocks
higher on Sunday as Riyadh eased restrictions on foreign
investment in its securities markets, while most other bourses
in the region were buoyed by strength in oil prices and global
equities at the end of last week.
HANGZHOU, China/BEIRUT, Sept 4 (Reuters) - U.S. President
Barack Obama said on Sunday that the United States and Russia
were struggling to reach a ceasefire agreement on Syria as the
two sides planned to meet again on Monday.
HANGZHOU, China/BEIRUT, Sept 4 (Reuters) - The United States
and Russia on Sunday tried to finalise a ceasefire deal for
Syria, a second this year after a first collapsed, but U.S.
President Barack Obama said "grave differences" remained and
fighting on the ground continued.
HANGZHOU, China, Sept 4 (Reuters) - British Prime Minister
Theresa May said on Sunday she wanted her security advisers to
help review a delayed nuclear power investment from China - a
source of diplomatic tension - as she arrived for a G20 summit.
BEIRUT/GENEVA, Sept 4 (Reuters) - A deal in Syria being
discussed by the United States and Russia, which would involve a
country-wide ceasefire and focus on delivering aid to embattled
Aleppo, could be announced soon, Washington's Syria envoy has
said.
HANGZHOU, China, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Russian President
Vladimir Putin, in a speech at the G20 summit in China, struck
an upbeat tone on the Russian economy, saying it had stabilised,
and pledged to cut the country's budget deficit as well as its
dependency on oil and gas exports.
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