EghtesadOnline: ExxonMobil Corp has made a bid worth at least $2.2 billion for InterOil Corp and its stake in a rich Papua New Guinea gas field, winning the support of its target and topping an offer from Australia’s Oil Search Ltd.

EghtesadOnline: Australia and Papua New Guinea on Wednesday said they had agreed to close a controversial Australian-funded asylum seeker detention centre on Manus Island, although the ultimate fate of 800 refugees held in the camp remained unclear.