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INSIGHT-Islamic State in Libya fights to emulate Iraq, Syria success

MISRATA, Libya, Nov 13 (Reuters) - The attack bore all the traits of Islamic State in Iraq. A small unit of militants, armed with Kalashnikov rifles and suicide belts, hit the Tripoli prison just before sunrise.

UK's oil capital Aberdeen reels from global price slump

ABERDEEN, Scotland, Nov 13 (Reuters) - In the bars, boardrooms, hotels and high streets of the Scottish city of Aberdeen, there is one question on most people's lips: how do you survive a global oil price slump?

Oxfam slams fossil fuel subsidies, tells rich nations to help poor

TORONTO, Nov 13 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Rich nations should take advantage of low oil prices to cut fossil fuel subsidies and channel some of the savings into climate change support for the world's poorest, the aid agency Oxfam said on Friday.

New York AG mulls widening effect from Peabody climate settlement

NEW YORK/WASHINGTON, Nov 13 (Reuters) - The New York state attorney general's office, which told Peabody Energy this week to give investors more details about how its sales would suffer from measures to curb global warming, is now mulling whether the tactic it used with the coal firm could be applied to companies beyond the energy sector.

UPDATE 1-Surge in options shows bet on further oil price falls into 2016

* Analysts say strong dollar, Asian slowdown weighing on prices (Adds quotes, chart)

North Dakota natural gas flaring targets challenged by rapid production growth

(Fri, 13 Nov 2015) Increases in North Dakota's crude oil production have resulted in increased associated natural gas production from oil reservoirs. Because of insufficient infrastructure to collect, gather, and transport this natural gas, about one-fifth of North Dakota's natural gas production is flared rather than marketed.

UPDATE 1-Investors flee Toshiba as hopes fade for quick scandal closure

* Says Westinghouse operations profitable overall (Updates share move; adds comments from analysts)

UPDATE 2-Brazil oil strikers say Petrobras offer lacking, seek meeting

RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Leaders of Brazil's main oilworkers' union said on Thursday that a contract offer from Petrobras falls short of their demands and sought a meeting with the company's chief executive officer to discuss their requests.

Eletrobras posts 3rd-quarter loss on Angra 3 nuclear plant impairment

SAO PAULO/RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Brazil's state-run Eletrobras, Latin America's largest electricity utility, posted late on Thursday a 4.01 billion real ($1.06 billion) third-quarter loss due to weaker hydropower generation and a massive impairment charge on its Angra 3 nuclear plant.

UN wants clarification of report UAE broke Libya arms embargo

UNITED NATIONS, Nov 12 (Reuters) - The outgoing United Nations envoy to Libya, Bernardino Leon of Spain, on Thursday said he would seek a "full clarification" of a newspaper report that the United Arab Emirates was shipping arms to Libyan factions in violation of a U.N.

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