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By Stephanie Kelly NEW YORK (Reuters) – Oil futures were set to open for Asian trade on Sunday, after both Brent and U.S. crude benchmarks posted their biggest weekly falls in two years last week as the United States announced the largest ever release from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Both contracts settled down around 13% for the week. On Thursday, U.S. President Joe Biden announced a release of 1 million barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil for six months from May, which would amount to 180 million barrels. On Friday, member countries of the International Energy Agency committed to an…