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Williams Cos to buy affiliate Williams Partners for $13.8 bln

May 13 (Reuters) - Pipeline operator Williams Cos said it would buy affiliate Williams Partners LP for about $13.8 billion in stock to simplify its corporate structure.

Ghana power blackouts add to nation's economic woes

ACCRA, May 13 (Reuters) - Joseph Nyame was doing very well as senior plant operator at the Sha-Sha Natural Fruit Juice company near Ghana's capital Accra until a wave of power cuts forced the firm out of business.

Brazil's Levy says sees temporary slowdown, fiscal discipline essential

LONDON, May 13 (Reuters) - Brazilian Finance Minister Joaquim Levy said on Wednesday that he expected the country's economic slowdown to be temporary and that fiscal discipline remained central to ensuring the recovery as a commodity price boom waned.

New border power flows to shake up West Europe's prices

FRANKFURT, May 13 (Reuters) - New ways of handling cross border electricity flows are set to shake up the prices West European utilities and grids pay in power markets from May 20, with Germany facing a possible 4 percent rise.

India attracts spot LNG cargoes as demand from Northeast Asian buyers slumps

LNG sellers have been forced to look for alternative markets for spot cargoes, and the focus is shifting outside traditional Asian markets.

COLUMN-U.S. set to get more accurate oil production data: Kemp

LONDON, May 13 (Reuters) - Figures on U.S.

Yemen truce broadly holds, but reports of violations

CAIRO, May 13 (Reuters) - A five-day humanitarian truce in Yemen appeared to be broadly holding on Wednesday, despite reports of some air strikes overnight by Saudi-led forces and continued actions by the country's dominant Houthi group in the east.

UPDATE 3-Oil extends gains after U.S. stockpiles drop for second week

* Coming up: EIA oil inventory data at 1430 GMT (Updates throughout, changes dateline, previous SINGAPORE)

BHP, Rio Tinto face political heat in Australia over strategies

SYDNEY, May 13 (Reuters) - BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto face mounting political pressure in Australia over taxes and flooding the global iron ore market while the price of the steel-making commodity plummeted.

UPDATE 1-Seattle activist tries to block Shell's fuel-transfer station

SEATTLE, May 12 (Reuters) - An activist perched herself on a 15-foot tripod to try to block the entrance of a Royal Dutch Shell fuel-transfer station on Tuesday, in a harbinger of expected protests over the company's plan to store Arctic drilling rigs in Seattle.

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