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Saudi always reacts to oil supply and demand, watching market - minister

RIYADH, July 17 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's energy minister
said on Sunday the kingdom always reacts to oil market supply
and demand and it would continue to monitor crude markets for
any developments.

FACTBOX-Turkey's huge and rising role in world trade of oil, gas, grains

July 17 (Reuters) - A failed Turkish military coup attempt
briefly closed the Bosphorus Strait to shipping traffic on
Saturday, reminding the world of Turkey's huge and growing
importance as a transit route for commodities between Russia,
Central Asia and Europe.

UPDATE 1-Quake of magnitude 5.0 hits Tokyo and eastern Japan, no major damage

TOKYO, July 17 (Reuters) - An earthquake with a magnitude of
5.0 struck eastern Japan on Sunday and shook buildings in Tokyo,
officials and witnesses said, but there was no danger of a
tsunami and no immediate report of injuries or major damage.

Earthquake measuring 5.0 rattles Tokyo and eastern Japan

TOKYO, July 17 (Reuters) - An earthquake with a magnitude of
5.0 struck eastern Japan on Sunday, Japan's Meteorological
Agency and the US Geological Survey (USGS) said, rattling
buildings in Tokyo.

Turkmenistan's first-half GDP growth slows to 6.1 pct

ASHGABAT, July 16 (Reuters) - Turkmenistan's gross domestic
product growth slowed to 6.1 percent in the first half of 2016
from 9.1 percent a year earlier, official newspaper Neutral
Turkmenistan reported on Saturday.

UPDATE 2-Turkey reopens key route for oil, grains transit after coup attempt

* Turkey also important transit route for Black Sea grain

(Updates with ban lifted, tankers queue)

Saudi Arabia welcomes end of coup attempt in Turkey - state media

DUBAI, July 16 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia welcomed Turkish
President Tayyip Erdogan's success in prevailing against a coup
attempt, state news agency SPA quoted a foreign ministry
official as saying on Saturday.

Authorities shut Istanbul's Bosphorus to tankers for "security reasons" - agent

ISTANBUL, July 16 (Reuters) - Maritime authorities shut
Istanbul's Bosphorus Strait to transiting tankers on Saturday
"for security and safety" reasons, shipping agent GAC said,
after what the government said was an attempted coup by a
faction in the military.

Fund-raising stalled, Republican convention asks Adelson for donation

CLEVELAND, July 15 (Reuters) - A handful of donors to the
Republican National Convention have withdrawn pledges and
fund-raising has stalled during Donald Trump's polarizing bid
for the presidency, leading organizers to ask casino mogul
Sheldon Adelson for an urgent donation.

UPDATE 1-SBM in leniency deal on Brazil corruption, Petrobras to get $328.2 mln

SAO PAULO, July 15 (Reuters) - Brazil's federal prosecutors
and state-controlled oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA said
they signed a leniency deal on Friday with Netherlands
shipleasing firm SBM Offshore NV aimed at obtaining
more evidence in the South American country's widest-ever
corruption probe.

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