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US-Canada war over gas market share will heat up in 2017

BLOOMBERG U.S. gas drillers battered by the lowest prices in 17 years have found another release valve for their output: Canada. Over the past five years, the shale boom that unlocked vast supplies of natural gas across North America has tripled pipeline shipments from the U.S. to Mexico, and spurred the first seaborne exports from the lower 48 states. Now, ...

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5 years after the spark, Syria war at a critical juncture

BEIRUT / AP After five years of bloodshed — after a quarter of a million deaths, and the flight of millions of refugees — Syria has arrived at a critical juncture: A diplomatic framework is in place to end the carnage, a two-week-old partial ceasefire is holding, and peace talks are set to resume in coming days. “The indicators from ...

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Greece to fix refugee camp overflow ‘within week’

Athens / AFP Greece aims to deal swiftly with the migrant overflow at the Idomeni refugee camp on the Greek-Macedonian border where some 12,000 people are camping in miserable conditions waiting to cross. “I hope the situation at Idomeni is resolved within a week without recourse to force,” Mega television on Saturday quoted Dimitris Vitsas, the minister charged with coordinating ...

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