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UPDATE 1-Indian firms mock gender diversity as boardroom deadline passes - analysts - TRFN

NEW DELHI, April 1 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Corporate India has made a mockery of an order to appoint women directors by recruiting wives, daughters and even stepmothers, analysts said on Wednesday as the deadline set by regulators for boosting gender diversity in the boardroom passed.

UPDATE 2-Air strikes hit airport in Libyan town, military blames rival armed group

TRIPOLI, April 1 (Reuters) - An unidentified warplane carried out air strikes on the airport in Zintan, a town in western Libya allied with the internationally recognised government, and gunmen killed three guards at a checkpoint in a rival city, officials said.

A stark moment of truth for Europe’s power plants

Henry Edwardes-Evans looks at why European utilities are holding off building new thermal power plants and closing stations that seem to have just become operational.

UPDATE 7-Oil jumps on smaller-than-feared U.S. stock build; Iran on backburner

* Focus shifts from Iran as nuclear talks go beyond deadline (Recasts, updating market activity and comments to New York session; changes byline and dateline, previous LONDON)

UPDATE 5-Nigeria's Buhari says to "spare no effort" in squashing Boko Haram

* Lagos stock market soars, bonds also gain (Adds Buhari comments)

One dead, 16 injured in fire on Mexican oil platform -Pemex

MEXICO CITY, April 1 (Reuters) - At least one person, a contractor, was killed by a fire that broke out on an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday and 16 people were injured, according to a spokesperson for state oil company Pemex.

GLOBAL MARKETS-Wall St, dollar fall after private jobs data, oil up

* European shares push higher as Q2 gets under way * U.S. stocks, U.S. dollar dips after weak private sector job data * Oil rallies as talks on Iran continue By Sinead Carew NEW YORK, April 1 (Reuters) - U.S. stocks fell for a second day and the dollar dipped after a weaker-than-expected report on private sector employment spurred investor concerns that a highly anticipated monthly U.S. jobs report on Friday could also point to slowing economic growth.

UPDATE 1-U.S. crude inventories at record highs, gasoline supplies tumble - EIA

NEW YORK, April 1 (Reuters) - U.S. crude inventories rose last week to a record high for the 12th straight week, while gasoline stocks fell more than four times than expected as demand grew for the motor fuel, data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA) showed on Wednesday.

California energy tech firm pushing gas-to-liquids technology

HOUSTON, April 1 (Reuters) - A San Francisco company that has come up with a less expensive technology to convert natural gas to gasoline, diesel and other liquids is seeking to put it to use on a larger commercial scale.

Global Wind Growth Hits All-time High

Today the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) launched its flagship publication the Global Wind Report: Annual Market update. The report details wind power's remarkable growth in 2014, during which the industry installed more than 50 GW of wind power bringing the worldwide total installed capacity to just about 370 GW.

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