ConocoPhillips (COP.N) chairman said the company has signed contracts with the Syrian government and partners to resume gas-field production and boost electricity supply to Damascus as early as the start of next year.

Refinitiv sources say the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) will partially withdraw proposed derivatives-settlement rules, retain the closing call auction to set spot-market settlement prices, and use trading data from the final 30 minutes of the session to calculate derivatives settlement prices.

Israeli preliminary investigations indicate the co-pilot who attacked the captain aboard a Dubai airline flight acted alone, Channel 12 reported on April 4, citing sources. Security agencies opened an immediate probe that remains ongoing; investigators view the co-pilot as a "lone-wolf". Media identified him as 29-year-old Omani Hamam Hammami and reported he had planned to kill the captain and crash the aircraft into a skyscraper in Tel Aviv.