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BOGOTA, May 21 (Reuters) - Pacific Rubiales Energy Corp , the largest private oil producer in Colombia, has accepted a C$6.50-per-share takeover bid from Mexican conglomerate Alfa SAB de CV and investment firm Harbour Energy Ltd but said it might consider other offers.

Examining recent developments in the Nigerian gasoline market, where concerns arose over the quarter on payments of subsidies to gasoline suppliers.

Platts steel editors look at the economically challenging global landscape for metals, and explain how raw materials are impacting pricing and the outlook for finished steel goods.

BRUSSELS/LONDON, May 21 (Reuters) - New European Union rules to crack down on speculation in food and other commodity prices risk being watered down during final negotiations over detail, campaigners said on Thursday.

LONDON, May 21 (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell Chief Executive Ben van Beurden on Thursday slammed as a "red herring" calls for investors to divest from energy companies as part of the fight against climate change.

May 21 (Reuters) - Diamond miner De Beers Group said it was putting its Kimberley Mines in South Africa up for sale as the operation no longer fits the company's strategic plan.

MOSCOW, May 21 (Reuters) - Russia offered visiting Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi military and other aid on Thursday to help push back Islamic State militants who have made further sweeping gains in both Iraq and Syria this week.

SANTA BARBARA, May 21 (Reuters) - Cleanup teams labored on Thursday for a third day to remove patches of crude petroleum that stained a California beach and fouled offshore waters from a pipeline rupture that may rank as the biggest oil spill to hit the Santa Barbara coastline in more than four decades.

AMSTERDAM, May 21 (Reuters) - A Dutch court will rule on a request to restrict gas production at Eemskanaal, part of the large Groningen gas field, by June 1, Council of State spokeswoman Sabine Heijstek-van Leussen said.

MISRATA, Libya, May 21 (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber blew himself up at a checkpoint near Libya's western Misrata city on Thursday, killing two guards, state news agency LANA quoted a military source as saying.

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