Chevron filed a motion with a court in Ecuador Monday seeking to reverse a ruling requiring it to pay $9.5 billion for pollution in the country's Amazon basin region. The US oil giant, which claims it was the victim of a trial riddled ...
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South Africa-based Kumba Iron Ore has announced that it expects its full-year earnings for 2013 to increase by 20 percent compared to the previous year, supported by an increase in export iron ore prices and a weaker exchange rate, ...
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According to South Africa-based Kumba Iron Ore, subsidiary of Anglo American, South Africa's constitutional court has ruled that only Kumba Iron Ore can apply for the remaining 21.4 percent mining right in Sishen iron ore mine. Kumba, ...
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The Court of Taranto has finally released the steel stocks of Italian steelmaker Ilva which had been seized by court order since November 26 last year. Taranto-based Ilva is now free to sell the steel products in question which consist of ...
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Taranto-based Italian steel producer Ilva has been granted the green light by local magistrates to ship 63,700 meters of steel pipes for an order worth $45 million totaling 136,200 meters placed by Iraq Oil Project Company. On April 24, ...
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High unemployment and the continued slowdown in economic growth in the Southern European crisis countries in particular is still hampering economic development in the European Union (EU). While the countries moving towards recovery are ...
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Despite the rejection this week by Italy's Constitutional Court of a bid by local prosecutors to shut down the Taranto facilities of Italian steel producer Ilva, the prosecutors have today, April 12, turned down a request by Ilva's lawyers ...
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Taranto-based Italian steel producer Ilva has demanded the immediate return of seized steel products from local prosecutors following the rejection by Italy's Constitutional Court of efforts by prosecutors to shut down the company's plant. ...
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Italy's Constitutional Court has rejected an appeal by Taranto-based prosecutors who sought to have production at local steel producer Ilva halted due to environmental concerns. The court stated that the so-called ‘Save Ilva' decree ...
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The Australian dollar was lower yesterday after worldwide confidence was dented by news on Friday of weaker than expected employment growth in the US last month. At 5pm, the dollar was buying $US1.0379, down US0.36c. The US jobs report ...
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The Australian dollar was lower today after world-wide confidence was dented by news on Friday of weaker-than-expected employment growth in the US in March. The Australian dollar was trading at $US1.0373 in late afternoon trading compared ...
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The finished and semi-finished products of Taranto-based Italian steelmaker Ilva which had been impounded by court order in late November last year are finally to be released for sale after investigating judge Patrizia Todisco gave her ...
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The newly appointed chairman of Indonesia's special taskforce for the upstream sector will focus on various issues during his tenure, among them increasing oil and gas production and boosting reserves, he told Platts Monday. Rudi ...
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The Taranto prosecutor's office filed a challenge against the Italian government for its so called "ILVA decree" in the Constitutional Court on Monday, according to court sources. The prosecutor's office of the southern Italian port city ...
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Residents of Estonia have the most freedom to do what they want on the Internet, with the U.S. ranking second among 47 countries examined by a group that pushes for democratic freedoms worldwide. However, residents of several countries ...
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