Kazakhstan says Exxon stalling Kashagan talks
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Kazakhstan and an Eni-led  consortium of oil majors have set January 15 as the new deadline for talks over the fate of the giant Kashagan oilfield, Kazakh energy minister Sauat Mynbayev said on Monday.
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Exxon Mobil Corp.  said Tuesday it had not yet decided whether it will appeal a decision by Alaska's natural resources commissioner that could wrest control of a Alaska North Slope oilfield from the company.
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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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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President   Mahmoud Abbas has frozen talks on forming a unity government   after Hamas said it would not accept interim peace deals with   Israel, two of his aides said on Sunday.
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Analysts say Russiaâs pipeline deal with Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan could strengthen its monopoly on Central Asiaâs energy exports.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met Monday with Kazakhstan's foreign minister as the U.S. sought closer ties to the oil-rich country despite what critics call its disturbing backslide toward autocracy.
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Russian natural gas giant Gazprom and the 100 percent state-owned Rosneft oil company issued a joint denial Tuesday of a reported dispute over their proposed merger.
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Kazakhstan has blocked access to a number of opposition Web sites in a move Internet users condemned on Wednesday as a crackdown on freedom of speech.
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Efforts at freeing hostages held by Colombian rebels stalled over the weekend after a guerrilla leader said he would not attend talks in neighboring Venezuela aimed at clinching a prisoner exchange.
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The states of central Asia are negotiating to solve their disagreement over water, a senior Uzbek official says.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 31 -- Negotiations on a power-sharing arrangement between Pakistan's president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, and former prime minister Benazir Bhutto appeared to stall on Friday, with officials expressing doubt that a deal could be reached.
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Greenland's plan to expand its whale hunt causes deadlock at an annual whaling conference in Alaska.
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Text of report by Kazakh Channel 31 TV on 31 January  [Presenter] KazakhOil Aktobe, a subsidiary of the KazMunayGaz [state oil company], has been ordered to pay 4.1bn tenge [about 32m dollars] for an unsanctioned discharge of associate gas.
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The chief executive of Exxon Mobil Corp.   said on Thursday he is "disappointed" by a recent  decision by Alaska to revoke some of the company's leases in  the North Slope region and said the world's largest oil company  is deciding its next move.
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Venezuela's state petroleum company PDVSA said Tuesday it suspended oil supplies to ExxonMobil in retaliation for the US energy giant's effort to freeze billions of dollars in global PDVSA assets.
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ALMATY, Jan 7  A ban on one of Kazakhstan's main opposition parties is part of a new clampdown on dissent in the authoritarian oil-rich Central Asian state to prevent a Ukrainian-style ''orange ...
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LONDON: Russian President Vladimir Putin has forcefully ruled out any negotiations with Chechen separatists following the deaths of more than 350 people in a hostage-taking crisis in southern Russia, The Guardian newspaper reported on Tuesday.