<div id="subtitle">Venezuela buys ConocoPhillips' stake in offshore natural gas project</div><div><p>Venezuela's state oil company has purchased ConocoPhillips' 40 percent stake in a joint natural gas venture with Chevron Corp.</p><p>Terms ...

<div><p>A Russian consortium has paid one billion dollars to Venezuela to assure participation in exploiting the Orinoco oil fields, among the world's largest, officials said Sunday.</p><p>The group of five Russian firms -- Rosneft, Lukoil, Gazprom, TNK-BP and ...

<div><p>MIAMI (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Erika weakened as it edged over the Leeward Islands of the northeast Caribbean on Wednesday but it threatened to douse them with heavy rainfall, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.</p><p>The fifth tropical ...