Новости за 24.12.2015

POSO, Indonesia (Reuters) - Indonesian forces are mobilising for a manhunt in steamy jungles on the far-flung island of Sulawesi to flush the country's most-wanted man from his hideout and deal a pre-emptive blow to Islamic State. The real threat could be much closer to home.

WILMINGTON, Del, Dec 23 (Reuters) - Rising financial stress in the U.S. energy sector has prompted some suppliers and vendors to take unusual legal action to collect unpaid debts: forcing struggling companies with billions of dollars in debt into bankruptcy.

LAUNCESTON, Australia, Dec 24 (Reuters) - It's always tempting for commodity analysts to issue forecasts for the coming year, even though we intrinsically know that the future is inherently uncertain and even the most reasoned expectations can be easily confounded by events.

WILMINGTON, Del, Dec 23 (Reuters) - Rising financial stress in the U.S. energy sector has prompted some suppliers and vendors to take unusual legal action to collect unpaid debts: forcing struggling companies with billions of dollars in debt into bankruptcy.

Demand for entry-level homes for refugees, is adding to a cocktail of factors fuelling a revival of the German construction industry. Sonia Legg reports

Demand for entry-level homes for refugees, is adding to a cocktail of factors fuelling a revival of the German construction industry. Sonia Legg reports

* Brent reached 11-year low of $35.98 on Tuesday (Updates prices, adds quote, previous SINGAPORE)

MUMBAI (Reuters) - India has revised its list of essential medicines to add drugs for diseases ranging from cancer and HIV/AIDS to hepatitis C, in a move aimed at making them more affordable.

MUMBAI (Reuters) - India has revised its list of essential medicines to add drugs for diseases ranging from cancer and HIV/AIDS to hepatitis C, in a move aimed at making them more affordable.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli forces killed three Palestinian assailants in separate incidents in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, Israeli authorities said, as a 12-week surge in street violence showed no sign of abating.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli forces killed three Palestinian assailants in separate incidents in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, Israeli authorities said, as a 12-week surge in street violence showed no sign of abating.

Dealmakers celebrating a record year for mergers and acquisitions that was bolstered by mega deals are pinning their hopes on a larger number of smaller deals to fuel consolidation in 2016. David Pollard reports.

Dealmakers celebrating a record year for mergers and acquisitions that was bolstered by mega deals are pinning their hopes on a larger number of smaller deals to fuel consolidation in 2016. David Pollard reports.

Dealmakers celebrating a record year for mergers and acquisitions that was bolstered by mega deals are pinning their hopes on a larger number of smaller deals to fuel consolidation in 2016. David Pollard reports.

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu accused the head of Turkey's pro-Kurdish opposition party of treason on Friday for using a trip to Moscow to condemn Ankara's shooting down of a Russian warplane over Syria.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Alexander Bortnikov, the head of Russia's Federal Security Service, said on Thursday Russia had identified groups behind the explosion of a Russian plane in Egypt, which killed all 224 passengers on board in October, local news agencies reported.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A report by human rights watchdog Amnesty International that said Russia's bombings in Syria may amount to a war crime contains no clear facts, is "much politicised and fake", Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday.

BERLIN (Reuters) - A 14-year-old Palestinian girl who burst into tears when Chancellor Angela Merkel told her she might be deported has been granted a residency permit to stay in Germany until October 2017, mass-selling daily Bild reported on Thursday.

LONDON (Reuters) - Guus Hiddink has challenged his Chelsea players to break the negative cycle that has seen the champions lose touch with the top of the Premier League this season.

* Rulings a victory in Japan's slow move to resume atomic power

DUBAI (Reuters) - A fire at a hospital in Saudi Arabia killed 25 people and injured more than 100 others as it ripped through the intensive care unit and the maternity ward before dawn, the Saudi civil defence agency said.

TOKYO/SEOUL (Reuters) - Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida is heading to South Korea this month to seek a resolution on the "comfort women" issue, public broadcaster NHK reported on Thursday.

(Reuters) - Canadian gaming company Amaya Inc has been ordered by a Kentucky court to pay $870 million in penalties to cover alleged losses by the state's residents who played real-money poker on PokerStars' website between 2006 and 2011.

Dec 24 (Reuters) - Global mining giant Anglo American Plc said it would sell its majority interest in Dartbrook coal mine to Australian Pacific Coal Ltd in a deal worth up to A$50 million ($36.35 million).

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese authorities will prosecute a former senior official in the far western region of Xinjiang for corruption, involving faking the ethnicity of his wife and child, the government said on Thursday.