SAO PAULO, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Brazil's second-highest court voted on Tuesday to keep the former chief executive of Latin America's largest engineering group Odebrecht SA in jail, extending nearly six months of pre-trial detention in the southern city of Curitiba
* Dollar advances after inflation data (Adds close of U.S.
(Adds latest prices) Dec 15 (Reuters) - U.S. natural gas futures fell nearly 3.8 percent to a 14-year low on Tuesday on forecasts for continued unseasonably mild weather that is expected to curb heating demand through late December. Front-month gas futures on the New York Mercantile Exchange declined for a fifth straight trading day, closing down 7.2 cents, or 3.8 percent, at $1.822 per million British thermal units.
Dec 15 (Reuters) - Halliburton Co and Baker Hughes Inc said U.S.
BRUSSELS/MILAN, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Russia's divide-and-rule strategy threatens to sour summit talks in Brussels this week after Italy linked the extension of sanctions on Moscow to a debate of a Gazprom gas pipeline project, diplomats said.
MEXICO CITY, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Mexico's oil regulator awarded the first onshore contract up for grabs at Tuesday's auction, a tender aimed at boosting start-up oil companies following a historic sector reform finalized last year.
VIENNA, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Iran is hurrying to implement its side of a deal with world powers so as to bring about the lifting of international sanctions as quickly as possible, Tehran's envoy to the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Tuesday.
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