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A story that RenewableEnergyWorld.com covered in 2012 was featured in the popular news program 60 Minutes on Sunday January 17. The program covered the plight of Massachusetts-based American Superconductor (AMSC) whose Intellectual Property (IP) was stolen by Chinese company Sinovel.  Dejan Karabasevic, an employee of AMSC who was based on Austria, helped perpetrate the IP theft. Karabasevic was arrested and served time in jail in Austria for the crime.

SANTIAGO, Jan 18 (Reuters) - A Chilean ministerial committee upheld on Monday the environmental permit for Energia Austral's Cuervo hydroelectric dams, dismissing nearly a dozen complaints filed against the controversial project by environmental and citizens' groups.

BRASILIA, Jan 18 (Reuters) - President Dilma Rousseff's opponents within her main coalition partner, the fractious Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB), are losing hope that they can impeach the leftist leader and replace her with their man, Vice President Michel Temer.

MADRID/BRUSSELS, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Iran and Spain are discussing the construction of an Iranian-owned oil refinery at the Gibraltar strait, the Spanish foreign minister said on Monday, a day after sanctions against the economically isolated Islamic republic were lifted.

* Bank executives say direct exposure to energy patch is minimal

Jan 18 (Reuters) - The chief executive of Freeport-McMoRan's Indonesian unit, Maroef Sjamsuddin, has resigned for personal reasons, a spokesman at the mining company's head office in the United States said on Monday.

Scientists at NREL say it may be possible for defects in silicon solar cells to improve cell performance.

QUBA, Azerbaijan, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Oil money and well-equipped security forces have long ensured public loyalty to President Ilham Aliyev in the Azeri town of Quba, but after months of rising prices people turned out on the streets last week to protest.

PARIS, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Cuban President Raul Castro next month will make the first visit to France by a Cuban head of state since his brother in 1995 as he tries to carve out a larger role for the Communist-run nation since improving ties with the United States.

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