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SAO PAULO, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Brazilian federal police arrested four people on Friday including the chief executive of engineering group OAS in a new probe of suspected price-fixing and kickbacks on a long-delayed project to divert water to the drought-prone Northeast.

BRASILIA, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Brazil's former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has been called in for questioning next week by federal police in a bribery investigation involving his son Luis Claudio, according to a summons document seen by Reuters on Friday.

SAO PAULO, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Brazilian federal police arrested four people on Friday in a new investigation into suspected price-fixing and kickbacks on a long-delayed project to divert water from Brazil's second-longest river to the drought-prone Northeast.

Renewables are beating fossil fuels on cost in island nations from the Pacific to the Caribbean, where governments are seeking to limit their exposure to volatile market prices.

PARIS, Dec 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As international climate talks headed into their final hours on Friday, the head of the United Nations' Green Climate Fund said the fund's future role in delivering tens of billions of dollars in climate aid after 2020 is unclear in the draft Paris deal.

Tidal energy developer Atlantis Resources remains on track to deliver power to the Scottish power grid from the MeyGen site in the coming year, according to an end-of-year statement issued by the company earlier this week.

* EU could open full probe if firm fails to allay concerns (Adds Halliburton declines comment)

Dec 11 (Reuters) - A band of powerful storms that hit the Pacific Northwest of the United States this week was expected to ease on Friday, though more wet weather was on the way and officials warned of renewed mudslides and flooding following the record rainfall.

BRASILIA, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has been called in for questioning next week by Brazil's federal police in a bribery investigation involving his son Luis Claudio, according to a summons document seen by Reuters on Friday.

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