<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060117/bs_nm/markets_oil_dc"><img src="http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/rids/20060117/i/r857181491.jpg?x=130&amp;y=83&amp;sig=EDFDbMsb1kdu OJQRHxHoKw--" align="left" height="83" width="130" alt="A Nigerian woman walks past the flames from a Shell oil flowstation near Otu-Jerenvwi in the volatile Niger-Delta region January 17, 2006. World oil prices hit a three and half-month high on Tuesday after militants said they would broaden attacks on the country's oil industry. The country's biggest foreign operator, Royal Dutch Shell, has already evacuated staff from some facilities and scaled back output as violence escalated over the past week, but said that it has no plans to pull out of the delta. REUTERS/George Esiri" border="0" /></a>Reuters - World oil prices surged nearly 4
percent on Tuesday after militants said they would broaden
attacks on Nigeria's oil industry, threatening to cut deeper
into supplies from the world's eighth-biggest exporter.</p><br clear=all>

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