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Urgent: Oil prices rally amid geopolitical worries

Xinhua, April 24, 2015 Adjust font size:

Oil prices rose Thursday amid geopolitical tensions in the Middle East.

Light, sweet crude for June delivery gained 1.58 U.S. dollars to settle at 57.74 dollars a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Endite