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NEW YORK, April 28 (Reuters) - Oil companies and speculators
have piled into complex, high-risk spread options, betting that
oil prices will extend their recent rally on tightening supplies
and resurgent exports, the latest sign of growing optimism in
the world's top energy market.

LONDON, April 28 (Reuters) - An Indian-flagged oil tanker is
returning to Libya, the North African country's rival oil
corporation said on Thursday, after its failed first attempt to
export crude oil led to the ship being blacklisted by the United
Nations Security Council.

BENGHAZI, Libya, April 28 (Reuters) - The head of a parallel
National Oil Corporation (NOC) set up by Libya's eastern
government said on Thursday that a tanker carrying its first
intended oil export shipment was being diverted to the western
port of Zawiya, but the company would continue to fight for its
right to sell crude.

ERBIL, Iraq, April 28 (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Joe
Biden made an unannounced visit on Thursday to Erbil, the
capital of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region, to show support for
the Kurdish government.

DAKAR, April 28 (Reuters) - Equatorial Guinea's President
Teodoro Obiang Nguema has won re-election, securing 93.7 percent
of votes cast in an April 24 poll to extend his 37-year rule
over the Central African oil producer, a government statement
said on Thursday.

DAKAR, April 28 (Reuters) - Equatorial Guinea's President
Teodoro Obiang Nguema has won re-election, securing 93.7 percent
of votes cast in an April 24 poll to extend his 37-year rule
over the Central African oil producer, a government statement
said on Thursday.

* Government says armed groups targeting universities

(Adds UN expert comment, updates clashes, fixes dateline)

CURITIBA, Brazil, April 28 (Reuters) - Brazilian prosecutors
have filed unspecified charges against political strategist Joao
Santana, the architect of President Dilma Rousseff's 2010 and
2014 campaigns, according to a statement delivered before a news
conference on Thursday.

PARIS, April 28 (Reuters) - French state-controlled nuclear
group Areva said first-quarter sales from its nuclear
fuel and uranium unit fell 0.8 percent to 826 million euros
($936 million) as uranium deliveries slowed.

The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) on April 25 said that its researchers have discovered that single-walled carbon nanotube semiconductors could be favorable for solar PV systems because they can potentially convert sunlight to electricity or fuels without losing much energy.

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