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Feb 22 (Reuters) - When Sheikh Ali Khalifa al-Sabah of Kuwait thinks about today's plunging oil prices, his mind drifts back to the mid-1980s, when he was forced to sell some of his country's crude for as little as $5 a barrel.

FRANKFURT, Feb 22 (Reuters) - German industrial group Siemens is stepping up its efforts to win projects in Iran, after its chief executive met Iran's oil minister and other government representatives in Tehran on Monday.

HAMBURG, Feb 22 (Reuters) - U.S.

BRUSSELS, Feb 22 - European Union antitrust regulators have halted their scrutiny of U.S. oilfield services provider Halliburton Co's proposed takeover of Baker Hughes because the companies failed to provide some details of the $35 billion deal.

* Output could recover fast if unity government approved (Adds detail, quotes)

SAO PAULO/RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Brazil's federal police have launched another round of search and seizure operations in the nationwide corruption scandal known as "Operation Car Wash", the online version of O Globo newspaper said on Monday.

NIAMEY, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Voting in Niger's presidential and legislative elections stretched into a second day on Monday in areas where logistical problems prevented polling the previous day, delaying the preliminary election results.

* Closures to amount to 60 million tonnes of annual production

BEIJING, Feb 22 (Reuters) - China's South China Sea military deployments are no different from U.S.

TRIPOLI, Feb 22 (Reuters) - More attacks on Libya's oil facilities are likely unless a United Nations-backed unity government is approved, and militants hit one oilfield just last week, the head of the National Oil Corporation (NOC) said on Monday.

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