RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 20 (Reuters) - Brazilian prosecutors
said on Thursday they charged 26 people, 21 of them for
qualified homicide, for their roles in the collapse of a
tailings dam at the Samarco iron ore mine last November that
killed 19 people.
VERONA, Italy, Oct 20 (Reuters) - Russia's Nord Stream-2
pipeline project, led by Gazprom, is hoping to attract
new financing options, Communications Director Ulrich Lissek
said on Thursday.
NEW YORK, Oct 20 (Reuters) - Mauricio Macri's presidential
election victory in November was a clear signal to Diego Saez
Gil that it was time to move back to Argentina and take his
growing "connected luggage" startup with him.
DUBAI/LONDON, Oct 20 (Reuters) - The cost of insuring Saudi
Arabia's debt against default fell to its lowest this year and
Saudi bank shares jumped on Thursday in a sign that a mammoth
$17.5 billion bond issue has partly eased doubts about the
kingdom's ability to cope with cheap oil.
WASHINGTON, Oct 20 (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury moved to
disrupt the fundraising and operation of the Iranian-backed
Hezbollah group on Thursday, imposing sanctions on four
operatives and a firm that have assisted the organization, long
seen as a terrorist outfit by Washington.
TORONTO, Oct 20 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index
steadied on Thursday after hitting a near 16-month high the
previous day as gains in financial stocks helped offset mining
stocks weighed by a pullback in gold prices.
WASHINGTON, Oct 20 (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury Department
took action on Thursday to disrupt the operations and
fundraising of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah organization,
imposing sanctions on four people believed to be Hezbollah
financiers and one firm, Global Cleaners SARL.
WASHINGTON, Oct 20 (Reuters) - A deal by a state-owned
Russian oil company Rosneft and others to buy India's Essar Oil
for $12.9 billion does not run afoul of U.S. sanctions on
Russia, the State Department said.
ABU DHABI, Oct 20 (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates'
nuclear energy project has completed a $24.4 billion financing
for its first plant with most of the cash coming from state
sources, the developers said on Thursday.
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