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Eike Batista, once the richest man in Brazil, has been fined around $134 million for insider trading, the securities commission said Monday, as the...
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As space agencies prepare to return humans to the Moon, top engineers are racing to design a tunnel boring machine capable of digging underground...
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Global mining giant BHP Billiton faced Wednesday a £5.0 billion ($6.5 billion, 5.8 billion euros) claim for damages over a Brazilian dam collapse that...
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A tiny finch flew into the centre of Australia’s bitter environmental politics Friday when local authorities blocked the construction of a contentious coal mine...
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Myanmar recovery teams battled treacherous conditions Wednesday to pull a fourth body from the sludge left by a mudslide that buried more than 50...
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Forget how many carats — how ethical is your gold? As high-end consumers demand to know the origin of their treasures, some jewellers are...
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Brazilian authorities have frozen more than $4 billion dollars’ worth of assets belonging to Vale over a deadly dam collapse, the mining giant said...
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Brazilian fisherman Jose Geraldo dos Santos uses a long pole to push his boat down the reddish-brown Paraopeba River, taking care not to splash...
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A “very destructive” category 4 cyclone slammed into Australia’s remote northern coast on Saturday, while a second, equally powerful storm bore down on the...