Monday, November 7, 2016

CORRECTED-FEATURE-As water dries up, West Bank village thirsts for a less precarious supply

AL JAB'A, West Bank, Nov 1 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A

mountainous Palestinian community in the Israeli-occupied West

Bank, Al Jab'a differs in many ways from surrounding Israeli

settlements but it shares one worry with its neighbours - a

shortage of water.

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UPDATE 1-As water dries up, West Bank village thirsts for a less precarious supply

AL JAB'A, West Bank, Nov 7 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A

mountainous Palestinian community in the Israeli-occupied West

Bank, Al Jab'a differs in many ways from surrounding Israeli

settlements but it shares one worry with its neighbours - a

shortage of water.

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UPDATE 2-Saudi oil shipments to Egypt halted indefinitely, Egyptian officials say

CAIRO/ABU DHABI, Nov 7 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has informed

Egypt that shipments of oil products expected under a $23

billion aid deal would be halted indefinitely, suggesting a

deepening rift between the Arab world's richest country and its

most populous.

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TPG's Alinta Energy IPO held up in Australia on U.S. election jitters - source

MELBOURNE, Nov 7 (Reuters) - A plan by TPG Capital

Management to launch Australia's biggest listing this year, a

sale that could value all of utility Alinta Energy at up to A$3

billion ($2.3 billion), has been delayed by at least a week, a

person familiar with the matter said, citing market jitters on

the outcome of the U.S. presidential election.

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Sunday, November 6, 2016

Vast Moroccan solar power plant is hard act for Africa to follow

OUARZAZATE, Morocco, Nov 5 (Reuters) - On the edge of the

Sahara desert, Morocco is building one of the world's biggest

solar power plants in a project largely funded by the European

Union.

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Exxon's bid for InterOil in doubt after Canadian court ruling

Nov 4 (Reuters) - InterOil Corp said on Friday an

appeals court in Canada had overturned approval of the natural

gas producer's $2.5 billion sale to Exxon Mobil Corp,

throwing the deal's viability in doubt.

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UPDATE 3-Woodfibre set to build Canada's first LNG export project

CALGARY, Alberta, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Woodfibre LNG will start

building British Columbia's first liquefied natural gas

processing and export terminal in 2017, it said on Friday, a

project that would grant Canada a long-awaited opportunity to

enter the global market.

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