By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) – Antigua and Barbuda asked the United States on Friday to settle a decade-old trade dispute to help the Caribbean country pay the $250 million cost of recovery from Hurricane Irma, which “completely decimated” the island of Barbuda. The WTO backed Antigua in 2005 in a dispute with the United […]
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DONJA LOKOSNICA, Serbia (Reuters) – The village of Donja Lokosnica has turned red, as the pepper harvest hanging out to dry on almost every wall brings a wash of intense color to this Serbian farming community. Most of the 1,300 inhabitants are involved in growing red peppers, which are air-dried before being ground into paprika, […]
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By Tom Daly BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese steel makers and aluminium smelters are closing some production starting next month to meet strict air quality standards for the winter. But, some analysts believe part of the reason for the October closures, which come before the major heating season begins in mid-November, is to clean the air […]
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HAMBURG (Reuters) – Volkswagen’s <VOWG_p.DE> fixes for diesel vehicles in Europe are running smoothly, a spokesman said after the company said its fixes in North America may cost 2.5 billion euros ($3 billion) more than expected. “We have to work more on the hardware,” he said. “Customers have to wait longer for their vehicles to […]
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LONDON (Reuters) – A British charity seeking to buy land abutting the White Cliffs of Dover to secure the landscape for the nation says it has hit its target to raise one million pounds ($1.3 million) in just three weeks. The chalk cliffs, seen as a symbol of Britain’s identity as a proud island nation, […]
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TUNIS (Reuters) – The Tunisian navy has arrested more than 550 Tunisian and African migrants trying to sail to Europe in September, nearly three times more than last month, official data showed. Human traffickers increasingly use Tunisia as a launch pad for migrants heading for Europe as Libya’s coast guard, aided by armed groups, has […]
Read More By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Genetic data from the skeletal remains of seven people who lived centuries ago in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal Province is offering intriguing new evidence that our species, Homo sapiens, is older than previously believed. Scientists said on Thursday they sequenced the genomes of the seven individuals including a boy who […]
Read More (Reuters) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Thursday it reached an agreement with the U.S. Marine Corps to bring water systems at Camp Pendleton near San Diego up to code after the remains of small animals were found in the drinking water. The agreement came three months after inspectors also found that the […]
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By Robin Respaut and Dave Graham SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Reuters) – The Pentagon named a senior general to command military relief operations in hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico on Thursday and the Trump administration sent a Cabinet emissary to the island as U.S. lawmakers called for a more robust response to the crisis. The U.S. territory […]
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By Gabriel Stargardter MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Spending cuts and a failure by Mexico’s president to upgrade an earthquake alert system hurt life-saving prevention programs and amplified recovery costs after two major temblors this month, current and former government officials said. Although President Enrique Pena Nieto is eager to show a prompt and competent response […]
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By Nyimas Laula KARANGASEM, Indonesia (Reuters) – Nearly 135,000 people on the Indonesian island of Bali have left their homes and taken shelter in makeshift evacuation centers after warnings the Mount Agung volcano could erupt at any time, officials said late on Thursday. Spewing white smoke and sending tremors through the area, Mount Agung’s alert […]
Read More SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Authorities in China’s northern province of Hebei found privately owned steelmaker Hebei Jingye Group lacked environmental protection facilities and had tampered with instruments monitoring discharges, the state-run China Daily newspaper reported on Friday. It quoted a senior environmental official threatening to prosecute the firm’s executives if they do not bring the steelmaker […]
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