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Germany, the euro zone's largest economy, is on track for a recovery thanks to a pick-up in demand for its products from abroad, the Bundesbank said on Tuesday.
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*New licence round "depends on situation in Libya". TRIPOLI, Dec 9- Libya could proceed with a new round of oil exploration and production agreements in the current transitional period but the priority for now is to maintain pre-war output levels and future targets, the OPEC member's new oil minister told Reuters.
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WASHINGTON, Dec 8- The U.S. needs a balanced, comprehensive approach to tackle its fiscal woes that should include a mix of spending cuts and revenue increases, the head of the International Monetary Fund said on Sunday.
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BUCHAREST, Dec 9- Romania's prime minister was headed for victory in parliamentary elections on Sunday that could set off another round of a power struggle with the rightist president and complicate talks for a new IMF deal. Victor Ponta's leftist Social Liberal Union will win the most votes and possibly a clear majority, opinion polls showed.
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ECUEILLE, France, Dec 9- Shirt manufacturer Marc Roudeillac was delighted when 48 of the 49 staff in his factory in central France voted to adapt their strict 35- hour week contracts to meet the up-and-down demand of the fashion trade.
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TOKYO, Dec 9- Japan says it has halted beef imports from Brazil after the South American nation notified the World Animal Health Organization of the discovery of the protein believed to cause bovine spongiform encephalopathy in a cow.
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Athens plans to buy back bonds with a face value of about 30 billion euros at deeply discounted prices to lower its debt load. A Greek government official said on Saturday that Athens had received offers of about that sum.
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China's largest maker of auto parts won a politically sensitive auction for A123 Systems, a bankrupt maker of batteries for electric cars that was funded partly with U.S. government money, the investment banker for A123 said on Saturday.
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WILMINGTON, Del., Dec 8- China's largest maker of auto parts won a politically sensitive auction for A123 Systems Inc, a bankrupt maker of batteries for electric cars that was funded partly with U.S. government money, the investment banker for A123 said on Saturday.
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BERLIN, Dec 9- Bundesbank chief Jens Weidmann has criticised a new debt deal for Greece agreed to by the country's international creditors at the end of last month.
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*U.S. urges Russia to suspend meat import restrictions. MOSCOW, Dec 8- The U.S. Senate's passage of legislation to punish Russians who violate human rights is the first big test of the resolve of Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama to improve relations since their election victories.
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WILMINGTON, Del., Dec 8- China's largest maker of auto parts won a politically sensitive auction for A123 Systems Inc, a bankrupt maker of batteries for electric cars that was funded partly with U.S. government money, the investment banker for A123 said on Saturday.
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*Russia to test shipments during transition period. MOSCOW, Dec 8- Meat imports to Russia from producers using ractopamine must be tested and certified free of the feed additive, the country's veterinary regulator said, denying on Saturday the requirement is a political retaliation.
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DOHA, Dec 8- Ecuador believes it has the support of Iran and Qatar for its proposal for OPEC members to pay a small levy on their oil sales to help poor countries fight global warming, the chief climate negotiator from OPEC's smallest producer said. OPEC collectively exports more than 30 million barrels a day at over $100.
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Greek and foreign bondholders offered the targeted 30 billion euros in a debt buyback that is key to the country's international bailout, a Greek government official said on Saturday, suggesting the plan had broadly succeeded.
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ATHENS, Dec 8- Greek and foreign bondholders offered the targeted 30 billion euros in a debt buyback that is key to the country's international bailout, a Greek government official said on Saturday, suggesting the plan had broadly succeeded.
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ZURICH, Dec 8- Swiss pharma group Roche's drug Perjeta significantly extended the lives of women with an aggressive and incurable form of breast cancer compared to a placebo, according to new data from a late-stage study presented on Saturday.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 7- A landmark attempt to set global rules for overseeing the Internet threatened to fall apart on Friday as a rift pitting the United States and some Western countries against the rest of the world widened, participants in the talks said.
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MEXICO CITY, Dec 7- Mexico's new government on Friday forecast a slight economic slowdown in 2013, flagging risks to growth stemming from Europe's debt crisis and the battle in the U.S. Congress to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff.
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WASHINGTON, Dec 7- At least seven companies from China, India, South Korea and South Africa continued to have investments in Iran's oil and gas sectors in 2012 even as Tehran came under international scrutiny for its nuclear ambitions, a U.S. government watchdog said on Friday.
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SANTIAGO, Dec 7- Spain could miss its budget deficit target this year, Bank of Spain governor Luis Maria Linde said on Friday, just a week after the government announced it would hold pension payments flat to curb outlays. "The objective is 6.3 but it could be," Linde told Reuters on the sidelines of a seminar in Santiago, Chile. "