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CORRECTED-Engineer Smiths posts smaller-than-expected drop in first-half profit

March 16 (Reuters) - British engineering conglomerate Smiths Group Plc posted a smaller-than-expected fall in first-half profit, as growth at its medical division offset poor performance at its John Crane unit.

UPDATE 1-Syrian Kurds set to announce federal system in northern Syria

BEIRUT, March 16 (Reuters) - Kurdish-controlled areas of northern Syria are expected to declare a federal system on Wednesday, a Syrian Kurdish official said, taking matters into their own hands after being excluded so far from political talks to resolve the Syrian war.

OPEC, non-OPEC producers to meet in Doha on April 17 - Qatari minister

March 16 (Reuters) - OPEC and non-OPEC producers will hold a meeting in the Qatari capital on April 17, the Qatari energy minister, who is also the current OPEC president, said on Wednesday.

Federal system to be announced in Kurdish-controlled northern Syria

BEIRUT, March 16 (Reuters) - Kurdish-controlled areas of northern Syria are expected to declare a federal system on Wednesday, a Syrian Kurdish official said.

UPDATE 1-April oil freeze meeting likely to go ahead without Iran

* Meeting set to take place in Doha on April 17 - sources (Adds date of meeting)

Iraq preparing to push Islamic State away from oil region - report

BAGHDAD, March 16 (Reuters) - Kurdish Peshmerga forces, an Iran-backed Shi'ite militia and Iraq's army will launch an offensive soon to push Islamic State fighters away from the northern oil region of Kirkuk, a state newspaper reported on Wednesday.

April oil freeze meeting may go ahead without Iran - sources

March 16 (Reuters) - Oil producers including Gulf OPEC members still support holding a meeting next month to discuss a deal to freeze output even without Iran, OPEC sources said, as political pressure to prop up prices increases.

REFILE-Japan ruling party considers international arbitration over China dispute

TOKYO, March 16 (Reuters) - Japan's ruling party urged Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government on Wednesday to consider seeking international arbitration over Beijing's drilling activities in the disputed East China Sea, mirroring similar action by the Philippines.

US crude refiners ask for more specifications as shale shifts oil at Cushing

US refiners are once again calling for a domestic crude benchmark that covers more than the standard specs offered by the existing NYMEX contract.

Fooled by oil's false bottom, most US shale firms skipped hedging in Q4

NEW YORK, March 16 (Reuters) - Last October, as U.S. oil prices seemed to be stabilizing around $45 a barrel, some bullish traders chuckled at the notion of U.S.

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