The Federal Bureau of Investigation said that it had improperly obtained the phone records of reporters for The New York Times and The Washington Post in the newspapers’ Indonesia bureaus in 2004.

The Chevron Corporation said that second-quarter oil output fell to the lowest level since 2005 as record energy prices reduced the company’s share of output in countries like Nigeria and Indonesia.

Exxon Mobil was seeking to dismiss a lawsuit by 11 Indonesian villagers who accused the company’s security forces of human rights abuses at an Indonesian plant.