Chad oil tax row 'not asset grab'
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Chad softens demands for a stake in the country's oil consortium, but insists that two firms involved owe $500m in taxes.
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CANNES, France  - The leaders of Sudan, Chad and Central African Republic met on Thursday and declared they would not back rebels attacking each other's territory -- repeating a pledge that has failed to stop fighting in the past.
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WARSAW/DOHA  - Saudi Arabia and other OPEC members said on Wednesday they are not to blame for near-record oil prices, pointing the finger at a global shortage of refinery capacity and international political tension.
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India will not increase prices of diesel and petrol, Oil Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar said on Thursday, despite a surge in global oil prices which touched &#36;50 a barrel this week.
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Russia's chief prosecutor said Wednesday that his office was not investigating the Sibneft oil company, controlled by billionaire Roman Abramovich, even though it had been handed back tax assessments of nearly &#36;1.75 billion.
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The head of a French charity on trial with five colleagues in Chad denied on Friday kidnapping 103 children, saying he believed in good faith they were saving orphans from Darfur.
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Germany's finance ministry denied a report in the Welt am Sonntag newspaper that it plans to curb tax rebates for commuters and begin levying taxes on weekend and nighttime work in order to keep the 2005 budget ...
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This country does not look like a country in economic trouble.
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In an adaptation of âRichard III,â the prize for loyalty is not land, but oil-rich land.
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At meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund the French said non to the US proposal of writing off 90-95 per cent of Iraqâs $12bn of bilateral debt.
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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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Global oil prices are set to cool although not rapidly and not to levels seen in the 1990s, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) says.
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Business & money: Â· Oil firm says one thing and does another, says charityÂ· Blame government, not commerce - Livingstone
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Swiss company Cotecna Inspection SA, which is under investigation in connection with suspected corruption in the UN oil-for-food program in Iraq, on Thursday denied any wrongdoing in its payments to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan&#39;s son.
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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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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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Kofi Annan rejects claims that France and Russia might have been willing to ease sanctions on Iraq in return for oil.