BELFORT, France/PARIS, Oct 4 (Reuters) - The French
government on Tuesday announced orders for 21 high speed TGV
trains, mostly for tracks on which they cannot run fast, as part
of a pre-election bid to preserve jobs at an historic
locomotives factory.
BERLIN, Oct 4 (Reuters) - Wikileaks founder Julian Assange
said on Tuesday the organisation would publish around one
million documents related to three governments and the U.S.
election before the end of the year.
SINGAPORE, Oct 4 (Reuters) - The global shipping industry is
bracing for a key regulatory decision that could mark a
milestone in reducing maritime pollution, but which could nearly
double fuel costs in a sector already reeling from its worst
downturn in decades.
MELENDUGNO, Italy, Oct 4 (Reuters) - In the name of European
energy security, a private guard wearing a navy blue uniform,
aviator sunglasses and a baseball cap walks around a grove of
olive trees in southern Italy.
SYDNEY, Oct 4 (Reuters) - Mining giants Rio Tinto
and BHP Billiton on Tuesday rebuffed
proposals to replace one of the taxes they must pay on their
iron ore businesses in the state of Western Australia with
annual upfront payments.
MANILA, Oct 4 (Reuters) - The Philippines' Aboitiz Power
Corp said on Tuesday it will acquire stakes held by
funds managed by Blackstone Group LP in a local
coal-fired power plant and another power project under
construction for about $1.2 billion.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct. 4 (Reuters) - Petróleo Brasileiro SA
and Norway's Statoil ASA are expanding an existing partnership
to help the Brazilian state-controlled company arrest declining
production at aging wells in the offshore Campos Basin, two
people with direct knowledge of the plan said.
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