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UPDATE 2-Japan, Uzbekistan sign deals worth more than $8.5 bln

TASHKENT, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Japan and Uzbekistan signed deals worth more than $8.5 billion on Sunday, including investment to explore new hydrocarbon reserves in the central Asian nation, Uzbek President Islam Karimov said after meeting visiting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

REFILE-Voting starts slowly in Congo Republic referendum

BRAZZAVILLE, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Voting started slowly in a referendum in Congo Republic to determine whether 71-year-old President Denis Sassou Nguesso can legally stand for a third consecutive term in next year's election.

REUTERS SUMMIT-Green incentives seen as key to lifting U.S. oil export ban

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UPDATE 1-Ruling party seen fending off challenger as Tanzanians vote

DAR ES SALAAM, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Tanzania's ruling party is expected to prevail in presidential and parliamentary elections on Sunday against a challenge led by former Prime Minister Edward Lowassa, who has tapped into mounting anger over corruption and the slow pace of change.

China's Yantai Xinchao to buy U.S. oilfields for $1.3 bln

BEIJING, Oct 25 (Reuters) - China's Yantai Xinchao Industry Co Ltd has agreed to spend about 8.3 billion yuan ($1.31 billion) to buy oilfields in the U.S. state of Texas, the company said in a corporate filing late on Saturday.

Patricia weakens further to low pressure area over Mexico -NHC

WASHINGTON, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Patricia, one of the strongest ever hurricanes, has weakened further into a remnant low pressure area over northeastern Mexico, the U.S.

Nigerian court annuls state governor vote in southern oil hub

ABUJA, Oct 24 (Reuters) - A Nigerian court on Saturday annulled the governor's election in the country's oil hub Rivers State due to irregularities and ordered a fresh vote within three months in a ruling likely to add to tensions in the sensitive region.

UPDATE 2-Germany to start shift to coal power reserve in winter 2016

BERLIN, Oct 24 (Reuters) - German utilities RWE, Vattenfall and Mibrag will start reducing their coal-fired power output at the start of winter 2016, shifting this capacity instead to the country's power reserve as part of a plan to cut carbon emissions, the government said.

UPDATE 3-Petrobras fetches $490 mln with gas unit stake to Mitsui

RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 23 (Reuters) - State-controlled Petróleo Brasileiro SA's board approved selling a minority stake in a natural gas distribution unit to Japan's Mitsui & Co Ltd for 1.9 billion reais ($490 million) in a key step toward disposing of non-essential assets to repay debt.

UPDATE 2-Nine killed after mortars hit protest in Libya's Benghazi

BENGHAZI, Libya Oct 23 (Reuters) - At least nine people were killed and dozens more injured in Libya's second city Benghazi on Friday when mortar shells hit a protest against a United Nations proposal for a unity government to end a political crisis, medical sources said.

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