NEW YORK/MEXICO CITY, June 9 (Reuters) - Almost a year after Mexico opened its energy market to private investors, North American firms are rushing south to decide which pipeline or power plant to invest in.
BAGHDAD, June 9 (Reuters) - Iraq paid the autonomous Kurdistan region only around half its monthly share of the national budget in May as part of other spending cuts, the Iraqi finance minister said on Tuesday, potentially putting further strain on an oil exports deal.
KUALA LUMPUR, June 9 (Reuters) - Malaysia will protest against what it said was the intrusion of a Chinese coast guard ship into its waters north of Borneo, the Wall Street Journal reported, in another departure from the country's soft approach to the South China Sea dispute.
NUSA DUA, Indonesia, June 9 (Reuters) - Coal prices in Asia are already at levels that have forced some producers to curb supply and are unlikely to fall more than another $10, industry officials said on Tuesday.
KIEV, June 9 (Reuters) - A powerful explosion killed a number of firemen on Tuesday as they fought to control a blazing fuel depot which had burned through the night outside the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, the interior minister said.
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