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* Italian banks surge on likely state support (ADVISORY- Reuters plans to replace intra-day European and UK stock market reports with a Live Markets blog on Eikon (see cpurl://apps.cp./cms/?pageId=livemarkets for site in development).

CAIRO, April 8 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's financial support for strategic ally Egypt will no longer involve "free money" and Riyadh will focus on soft loans and a return on investment as it diversifies sources of revenue, a Saudi businessman familiar with the matter said.

LONDON, April 8 (Reuters) - Oil refineries are shifting into high gear to produce as much gasoline as possible for the world's fuel-hungry drivers - kicking the problem of a worsening diesel glut further down the road.

BAKU/YEREVAN, April 8 (Reuters) - Azerbaijan and Armenian-backed separatists said on Friday they had struck a temporary deal to allow each side to safely search for the bodies of their soldiers killed in clashes over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh.

BARCELONA, April 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The World Bank Group plans to invest more of its funds to help developing countries adapt to the impacts of climate change, in an effort to stop extreme weather and rising seas from making poverty worse.

* Macquarie, Czech Coal have dropped out -sources (Adds background, details)

MANILA, April 8 (Reuters) - The United States has allocated more than $120 million in military aid to the Philippines this year, the biggest in about 15 years, a senior Filipino diplomat said on Friday, amid rising tension with China over the disputed South China Sea.

BEIJING, April 8 (Reuters) - China's Foreign Ministry on Friday rebuffed Vietnam's second demand this year to move a controversial oil rig and drop plans to drill in South China Sea waters where jurisdiction is unclear, saying it was engaging in normal exploration activity.

DUBAI/CAIRO, April 8 (Reuters) - Once driven to near irrelevance by the rise of Islamic State abroad and security crackdowns at home, al Qaeda in Yemen now openly rules a mini-state with a war chest swollen by an estimated $100 million in looted bank deposits and revenue from running the country's third largest port.

PRAGUE/FRANKFURT, April 8 (Reuters) - Czech investor EPH is set to acquire Vattenfall's loss-making German lignite coal mines and associated power plants in Germany, three people familiar with the matter said on Friday.

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