Energy Update
BAGHDAD, April 17 (Reuters) - Hundreds rallied in central
Baghdad in support of powerful Shi'ite Muslim cleric Moqtada
al-Sadr who has threatened to call mass protests if the prime
minister fails to name a new cabinet to fight corruption by
Tuesday.
DUBAI, April 17 (Reuters) - Iran showed off parts of its new
Russian S-300 missile defence system during National Army Day on
Sunday, where President Hassan Rouhani said the country's armed
forces were no threat to neighbouring countries.
ROME, April 17 (Reuters) - Italy went to the polls on Sunday
for a referendum on off-shore oil and gas drilling rights, a
complex issue that the government hopes voters will shun.
GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador, April 17 (Reuters) - A powerful
earthquake killed at least 77 people, injured hundreds more,
ravaged coastal towns and sent residents fleeing for higher
ground in Ecuador on Saturday night.
ROME, April 17 (Reuters) - Italy went to the polls on Sunday
for a referendum on off-shore oil and gas drilling rights, a
complex issue that the government hopes voters will shun.
QUITO, April 16 (Reuters) - Ecuador's strongest earthquake
in decades, a 7.8 magnitude tremor, struck off the Pacific coast
on Saturday, killing at least 41 people and causing damage near
the epicenter as well as in the largest city of Guayaquil.
BRASILIA, April 17 (Reuters) - Brazil's lower house of
Congress will decide on Sunday whether to recommend impeaching
President Dilma Rousseff on charges of manipulating budgetary
accounts, in a vote that could hasten the end of 13 years of
leftist Workers Party rule.
QUITO, April 16 (Reuters) - Ecuador's 110,000 barrel-per-day
Esmeraldas refinery has been halted as a precautionary measure
after an earthquake, Pedro Merizalde, head of state oil company
Petroecuador told Reuters.
DUBAI, April 17 (Reuters) - Iran said it would boycott
Sunday's meeting between OPEC and non-OPEC member countries in
Qatar as it did not agree with a plan to freeze oil production
at the January level.
AL DHAFRA AIR BASE, United Arab Emirates, April 16 (Reuters)
- U .S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Saturday he would
ask Gulf states next week to contribute to efforts to rebuild
parts of Iraq devastated by the fight against Islamic State.
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