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MOSCOW, Oct 3 (Reuters) - The chief executive of Russia's top oil company Rosneft, Igor Sechin, has called for finding alternative sources to help the Russian budget, other than raising taxes on the oil industry.

JUBA, Oct 3 (Reuters) - South Sudanese rebels said on Saturday government troops had attacked their positions over the last three days, casting further doubt on a fragile peace agreement in the world's youngest country.

WARSAW, Oct 3 (Reuters) - Poland has started to build a large fuel-energy group with its decision to transfer the European Union's largest coal miner to a state-controlled fund to avoid the miner's bankruptcy, Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz said.

SOCHI, Russia, Oct 3 (Reuters) - Russia would be ready to meet OPEC and non-OPEC oil producers to discuss the situation on global oil markets, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak told reporters on Saturday.

SOCHI, Russia, Oct 3 (Reuters) - Russia, the world's top oil producer, may see its oil production fall by 7-8 million tonnes next year if a previously agreed cut in taxation was not implemented, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak told reporters on Saturday.

PARIS/BRUSSELS, Oct 3 (Reuters) - Volkswagen's cheating on emissions tests has soured the European car industry's heavy bet on diesel, with Renault, Peugeot and Fiat Chrysler potentially facing bigger long-term setbacks than the company that sparked the crisis.

TARKWA, Ghana, Oct 2 (Reuters) - In the boom times when the price of gold was soaring, Ebenezer Sam-Onuawonto had a dream job and a dollar salary many times the national average in this mining town in southwestern Ghana.

SOCHI, Russia, Oct 3 (Reuters) - Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said on Saturday that the discounted price Ukraine would pay for Russian gas supplies in the fourth quarter would be around $230 per thousand cubic metres, plus or minus $2 or $3.

Davie, FLORIDA, Oct 2 (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said Friday that a bankruptcy plan proposed by Patriot Coal Corp. is "outrageous and must be stopped" because it diverts money intended for coal miners' retirement benefits.

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