Moscow / AFP Russia has accused Ukraine of abducting two Russian servicemen on the annexed Crimea peninsula, but Kiev said it had merely detained two Ukrainian army deserters. In a statement carried late Monday by local news agencies, the Russian defence ministry said servicemen Maxim Odintsov and Alexander Baranov were “illegally detained and removed from Crimea by Ukrainian security ...

  Bloomberg Oil traded near $48 a barrel as OPEC members sought to reach an agreement on output cuts. January crude fluctuated in New York, rising as much as 2 percent after dipping 1.1 percent. The details of a deal will be finalized Tuesday and “everybody is on board,” Nigerian OPEC delegate Ibrahim Waya said in Vienna, where the group ...

  BENGHAZI / Reuters Libya’s Waha Oil Co says its production has reached more than 75,000 barrels per day (bpd) through the Waha and Samah fields and it expects that to increase when crude from the Jalu field comes online. Production at the Waha field, one of the main contributors to Libya’s Es Sider export grade, resumed last month after ...