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Sept 11 (Reuters) - U.S. energy firms cut oil rigs for a second week in a row, data showed on Friday, a sign the latest price declines may be causing some drillers to put on hold their recently announced plans to return to the well pad.

VIENNA, Sept 11 (Reuters) - Russia and the European Commission have made progress towards ensuring stable gas supplies to Ukraine and via that country to the European Union this winter, the EU executive said on Friday.

WASHINGTON, Sept 11 (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives defeated a resolution backing the nuclear agreement with Iran on Friday, in a symbolic vote engineered by congressional Republicans who object to the deal.

VIENNA, Sept 11 (Reuters) - The European Commission said it had "constructive" talks about gas transfers via Ukraine with Russia's Energy Minister Alexander Novak and Gazprom's Chief Executive Alexei Miller on Friday.

ERBIL, Iraq, Sept 11 (Reuters) - Kurdish forces backed by air strikes from a U.S-led coalition drove Islamic State militants out of nine villages in northern Iraq on Friday, Kurdish authorities said.

PORTLAND, Maine Sept 11 (Reuters) - Spanish energy giant Repsol has received approval from Canadian regulators to begin exporting liquefied natural gas from its under-utilized Canaport import facility in Saint John, New Brunswick.

BAGHDAD, Sept 11 (Reuters) - Iraq's most influential Shi'ite Muslim cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, on Friday praised government reforms but said they should be sped up and warned against the process being derailed.

BAKU, Sept 11 (Reuters) - Azerbaijan cancelled a European Commission delegation visit on Friday and said it might review relations with the EU after the bloc's parliament called on it to free an investigative journalist and several human rights figures.

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