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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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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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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Cairn Energy Plc, which plans to produce 80,000-1,00,000 barrel of crude oil per day from its Mangala and Aishwariya fields in Rajasthan, is disputing a tax that has been imposed on production.
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Chad's government denies the capital is under threat from a rebel advance, as troops deploy outside the capital.
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Venezuela's state-run oil firm denies that Exxon Mobil has won a court order to freeze up to $12bn of its assets.
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ChevronTexaco says its Tengizchevroil venture has not been sent a $2.5bn back-tax bill from the Kazakh government.
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EL-FASHER, Sudan  - The Darfur rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) said on Wednesday it had attacked the Defra oil field in Block 4, one of Sudan's largest sources of crude, and kidnapped two foreign oil workers.
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COALITION allies yesterday flatly rejected the assertion by Kofi Annan, the United Nations secretary general, that the war in Iraq was illegal.
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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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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast, Dec. 7 -- Rebels holding the north of war-divided Ivory Coast denied dealing illicitly in diamonds despite allegations by U.N. experts that they have reaped millions of dollars from illegal gem sales.
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MOSCOW, October 11 (Itar-Tass) -- Moscowâs Arbitration Court on Monday rejected the oil major YUKOSâ statement challenging the judge who is hearing the Tax Ministryâs 40.
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India News, New Delhi, Ending the suspense of the past few days, the government Friday decided not to increase prices of petroleum products, even as oil prices continued to rule at high levels in global markets.
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Senate Democrats are calling the White House's bluff on a threatened veto of an energy bill by refusing to take out language that would remove tax breaks for big oil and gas companies.
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France did not repel this weekend's coup attempt on its former colony as it has in the past, but the UN Monday approved unilateral French action to support Chad's government.
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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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Nigeria may not hand over the oil-rich Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroon by Wednesday, local leaders told reporters as they have dragged the federal government to court to prevent it from going ahead.