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Real slump bites Brazil's CSN, others despite debt hedging efforts

SAO PAULO, Aug 26 (Reuters) - While many of Brazil's largest companies have grown savvy about hedging their debt against big currency swings, an increasing number could feel the heat from the real's plunge to a more than 12-year low due to poor planning and rising debt, bankers said.

UPDATE 2-Brazil near deal on firms hit by Petrobras probe -source

BRASILIA, Aug 26 (Reuters) - Brazil's government is working on a deal to allow construction companies implicated in a massive corruption scandal to resume doing business with state-run oil company Petrobras in exchange for paying fines and damages, a government official briefed on the matter said on Wednesday.

UPDATE 1-EU watchdog says pesticides harmful to bees, industry disagrees

* Environmental group challenges UK over use of pesticides (Adds industry reaction in paragraphs 5-6)

Pesticides harmful to bees, says EU watchdog

BRUSSELS, Aug 26 (Reuters) - Widely-used pesticides made by Bayer CropScience and Syngenta pose a risk to bees, the European Union's food safety watchdog said on Wednesday, reinforcing previous research that led to EU restrictions.

UPDATE 3-Monsanto drops pursuit of Swiss agribusiness rival Syngenta

Aug 26 (Reuters) - U.S. agribusiness leader Monsanto Co.

U.N. chief urges world leaders to speed up climate talks

PARIS, Aug 26 (Reuters) - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged world leaders on Wednesday to look beyond their national interests and make sure a global deal to fight climate change is agreed at talks in Paris this year.

Leading Tripoli negotiator quits a day before new Libya peace talks

TRIPOLI, Aug 26 (Reuters) - A senior negotiator from one of Libya's two parliaments on Wednesday quit U.N.-sponsored talks on forming a unity government a day before a new round of negotiations.

UPDATE 3-Maersk seeks to shut UK North Sea Janice

COPENHAGEN/LONDON, Aug 26 (Reuters) - Maersk Oil said on Wednesday it would seek regulatory permission to shut its Janice installation, which produces around 7,000 barrels per day (bpd) from three UK North Sea oilfields, as the Danish firm reviews its operations due to falling oil prices.

Hecate, ViZn to Deploy North America's Largest Redox Flow Battery System

ViZn Energy Systems on Aug. 18 announced that it has won a contract from renewable energy project developer Hecate Energy to deliver a 2MW/6MWh zinc-iron redox flow battery system that is to be used to provide ancillary services for Ontario's Independent Electricity System Operator (OIESO).
 
 

UPDATE 1-U.S. fuel stocks rise, driving prices lower despite big crude build

NEW YORK, Aug 26 (Reuters) - U.S. crude oil stockpiles fell sharply last week as imports tumbled, while gasoline and distillate inventories rose despite a reduction in refinery runs, data from the Energy Information Administration showed on Wednesday.

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