Chad oil tax row 'not asset grab'
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Chad softens demands for a stake in the country's oil consortium, but says two of its firms owe $500m in tax.
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French Economy Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said late Wednesday that there was no need to lower the 2005 economic growth forecast for France because of surging oil prices, saying such a move would dent confidence.
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Sudan has rejected allegations that it is still involved in fighting in Darfur after it was accused of violating a UN arms embargo in the war-ravaged western region.
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Huge private equity profits should not be subject to tax breaks, the shadow chancellor says.
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Oil prices held firm on Friday,  shrugging off a U.S. government move to lend out some strategic  crude stocks as traders said the amounts were small and that  supply worries remained.
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The government will not tolerate rebel attacks on the country&#39;s vital interests, particularly oil-related ones, a senior Sudanese official said on Tuesday.
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Chad resolves a row with two foreign oil companies after they agree to pay millions in overdue taxes.
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The French Defense Ministry denied on  Friday a newspaper report that its special forces had supported  the Chadian government in fighting rebels who attacked the  capital last weekend.
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By Pascal Fletcher CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuela on Sunday slappedhigher taxes on foreign oil companies operating in its hugeOrinoco heavy crude belt in what President Hugo Chavez called adrive to tighten sovereign control over petroleum resources.
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Sanctions aimed at pressuring Sudan to take action in Darfur are likely to have limited effects on the countryâs oil production and exports.
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Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno has assured France a charity's bid to fly 100 children from the country will not hinder the deployment of an EU force on the Darfur border, a French minister said Monday.
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WASHINGTON Oct. 3, 2004 - Finance officials failed to resolve their differences over debt relief for the world&#39;s poorest countries and Iraq while expressing concern about the impact high oil prices would have on a strengthening global economy.
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Crude oil's record-breaking run is not hitting consumer demand in France, the fastest growing euro zone economy, says budget minister Dominique Bussereau.
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Some world leaders say they will not be pressured into following economic policies prescribed to them.
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Sudan on Wednesday denied U.N. accusations that Sudanese government forces attacked a U.N.-African Union supply convoy in Sudan's Darfur region this week, pointing the finger at Chadian-backed rebels instead.
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The Carlyle Group Wednesday said it was not part of a consortium that touted the Washington merchant bank's political ties in an attempt to win business collecting and managing billions of dollars owed to Kuwait by Iraq.
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Sudan's U.N. ambassador said on Wednesday an attack on a clearly marked U.N./African Union supply convoy in Sudan's Darfur region this week was carried out by Chadian-backed rebels, not Sudanese soldiers.