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UPDATE 2-Japan faces dilemma over plutonium stored in France

TOKYO, June 18 (Reuters) - Still dealing with the huge clean up after the Fukushima crisis and debating its future use of atomic energy, Japan now faces another nuclear conundrum - what to do with 16 tonnes of its plutonium sitting in France after being reprocessed there.

Emissions trading can undermine climate efforts - Pope

RPT-Weeks after biofuel quotas furor, EPA faces U.S. Senate grilling

WASHINGTON, June 18 (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers will grill the nation's environmental regulator over its handling of a controversial renewable fuels program at a hearing on Thursday, the first since new biofuels targets provoked a furor among corn farmers and oil refiners.

RPT - INSIGHT-Small U.S. frackers face extinction amid drilling drought

WEATHERFORD, Texas, June 18 (Reuters) - Oil field work was coming in fast when GoFrac doubled its workforce and equipment fleet at the beginning of last year, just one of hundreds of small oil service companies thriving on the revival of U.S.

Activists, U.N. celebrate pope's call to arms on climate change

June 18 (Reuters) - Pope Francis' appeal to save the planet won praise from climate change activists, scientists and the United Nations on Thursday as a moral imperative to governments to make 2015 a turning point in efforts to slow global warming.

UPDATE 2-Russia's VTB says Mechel agrees to debt restructuring terms

ST PETERSBURG, Russia, June 18 (Reuters) - Russian steel and coal producer Mechel has agreed to the terms for restructuring its debt with VTB, the country's second-largest bank said on Thursday.

UPDATE 1-Russia, Saudi Arabia to discuss broad oil cooperation agreement

ST PETERSBURG, Russia, June 18 (Reuters) - The oil ministers of Russia and Saudi Arabia plan to discuss a broad cooperation agreement on Thursday at an economic forum in St Petersburg, two sources told Reuters.

UPDATE 1-Indonesian president allows staple food prices to be capped

JAKARTA, June 18 (Reuters) - Indonesia's president has signed a decree allowing the government to cap prices of staple foods, cement and other basic goods during peak demand periods, a presidential spokesman said as the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan began on Thursday.

Excerpts from Pope Francis encyclical on the environment

VATICAN CITY, June 18 (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Thursday issued a major encyclical on the environment, called "Laudato Si (Praise Be), On the Care of Our Common Home".

Support seen for nickel as deficit looms, but demand poses uncertainty

Platts editors Yuen Cheng Mok and Vivian Teo share market expectations on nickel prices, the signs pointing to a deficit in the market, and the challenges that could pose demand-side risks.

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