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RPT-North Dakota's new oil train safety checks seen missing risks

WASHINGTON, March 31 (Reuters) - New regulations to cap vapor pressure of North Dakota crude fail to account for how it behaves in transit, according to industry experts, raising doubts about whether the state's much-anticipated rules will make oil train shipments safer.

RPT-FEATURE-Modern treaties smooth development for some Canadian aboriginals

PORT ALBERNI, British Columbia, March 31 (Reuters) - In Sarita Bay, a remote cove on Canada's Vancouver Island, aboriginal-owned land used for decades by loggers is slowly being reimagined as a multibillion-dollar export terminal to ship liquefied natural gas to Asia.

Slovenian nuclear plant to shut down for maintenance on April 11

LJUBLJANA, March 31 (Reuters) - Slovenia's sole nuclear power plant, Krsko (NEK), will shut down for maintenance on April 11, a spokeswoman for the plant told Reuters on Tuesday.

EU to ban owners from scrapping ships on South Asian beaches

BRUSSELS, March 31 (Reuters) - European, Turkish and Chinese recyclers are set to benefit from strict new EU rules on breaking up old ships, but the practice of dismantling them on beaches in South Asia - at great human and environmental cost - will still be hard to stop.

India skips Iran oil imports in March under U.S. pressure

NEW DELHI, March 31 (Reuters) - India halted oil imports from Iran for the first time in at least a decade in March as New Delhi responded to U.S. pressure to keep its shipments from Tehran within sanction limits during the last month of negotiations on a preliminary nuclear deal.

UPDATE 2-China Baosteel executive under investigation for corruption

SHANGHAI, March 31 (Reuters) - A top executive of China's Baosteel Group, the parent of Baoshan Iron & Steel, is being investigated for "serious disciplinary violations", China's corruption watchdog said on Tuesday, as Beijing intensifies its war on deep-seated graft.

Nigeria opposition's Buhari ahead as vote count resumes

ABUJA, March 31 (Reuters) - Nigeria's opposition contender Muhammadu Buhari held a sizeable lead as counting in the country's election resumed on Tuesday, raising the prospect of a stunning ballot box victory for a man who first came to power three decades ago via a military coup.

UPDATE 1-Gulf Keystone places 85.9 mln shares at 21 pct discount

March 31 (Reuters) - Oil producer Gulf Keystone Petroleum said it raised about $40.7 million through a share placement at a discount of 21 percent to the stock's Monday close.

Fortum's Polish arm to spend 200 mln euro on new heat plant

WARSAW, March 31 (Reuters) - Finland's Fortum plans to spend around 200 million euros ($215 million) to build a 220 megawatt (MW) co-generation heating plant in the south of Poland, it said on Tuesday.

BUZZ-Ithaca Energy: increases hedging to mitigate oil weakness

** The London and Toronto-listed Ithaca Energy jumps as much as 14 pct

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