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Sasol has obtained approval from the Mozambique Council of Ministers for its field development plan (FDP) that will see further hydrocarbon resources developed to support Southern Africa growth.

PARIS, Jan 31 (Reuters) - French pipe maker Vallourec is preparing a capital increase potentially worth up to 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion), backed by the French state and Japan's Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp, business daily Les Echos said.

PARIS, Jan 31 (Reuters) - Struggling French pipe maker Vallourec is preparing a capital increase potentially worth up to 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion), backed by the French state and Japan's Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp, business daily Les Echos said.

BAGHDAD, Jan 31 (Reuters) - A delegation from Iraq's cash-strapped Kurdistan region agreed on Sunday with the government in Baghdad to cooperate on reforms aimed at dealing with an acute economic crisis afflicting them both.

DUBAI, Jan 31 (Reuters) - Kuwait's National Petroleum Company (KNPC) said on Sunday it will set up a new company to run its planned al-Zour refinery and petrochemical complex which, when built, will be the biggest in the Middle East.

ERBIL, Iraq, Jan 31 (Reuters) - A senior delegation from Iraq's Kurdish north held talks in Baghdad with the government on Sunday, a spokesman said, after weeks of warnings from officials in the autonomous region that it faced an economic collapse.

BANGKOK, Jan 29 (Reuters) - It took just 30 minutes for Leicester City's Thai billionaire owner to decide to buy the English soccer club in 2010.

* Tasmania fires burn through 72,000 hectares, floods threaten communities (Adds reports of flooding in Queensland, fires in Tasmania, mini-tornado in New South Wales)

PERTH, Jan 31 (Reuters) - A tropical cyclone that crossed Australia's northwest coast early on Sunday was weakening, although several small inland communities were on red alert as it moved inland and the risk of heavy swells and storm surges remained.

Jan 30 (Reuters) - Berkshire Hathaway Inc, the conglomerate run by Warren Buffett, has resumed its purchases of Phillips 66 stock, and spent roughly $832 million in January to boost its stake even as the oil refiner's profit margins narrowed.

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