Fukushima workers still in murky labor contracts: Tepco survey
TOKYO (Reuters) – The number of workers at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant on false contracts has increased in the last year, the station operator said, highlighting murky labor conditions at the site despite a pledge to improve the work environment.
Toyota recalls more cars for dangerous Takata air bags
TOKYO (Reuters) – Toyota Motor Corp said on Thursday it would recall 57,000 vehicles globally to replace potentially deadly air bags made by Takata Corp, as a safety crisis around the Japanese auto parts maker looks far from being contained.
UK retailers embrace ‘Black Friday’ discounts
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s high streets, malls and online sites were awash with discounts on Friday as more retailers than ever embraced U.S.-style “Black Friday” promotions, seeking to kickstart trading in the key Christmas period.
Kinder Morgan loses bid to extend injunction against Canada protesters
VANCOUVER (Reuters) – Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP said on Thursday that it would clear its equipment and crews off a mountain in the Vancouver suburb of Burnaby by month-end, after it lost a bid to extend an injunction keeping protesters away from…
GlaxoSmithKline fires executive who raised race complaint in South Africa: Bloomberg
(Reuters) – Britain’s biggest drugmaker, GlaxoSmithKline Plc, fired an executive from its South African unit for refusing to appear for a performance review, which was called a week after he complained of racial discrimination in the workplace, Bloombe…
Saudis block OPEC output cut, sending oil price plunging
VIENNA (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia blocked calls on Thursday from poorer members of the OPEC oil exporter group for production cuts to arrest a slide in global prices, sending benchmark crude plunging to a fresh four-year low.
EU lawmakers urge regulators to break up Google
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union lawmakers overwhelmingly backed a motion on Thursday urging anti-trust regulators to break up Google, the latest setback for the world’s most popular Internet search engine.
Airbus could shed full Dassault stake by end of 2015: sources
PARIS (Reuters) – Airbus Group and Dassault Aviation aim to oversee the complete sale of Airbus’s 4.8 billion-euro stake in the French planemaker by the end of next year, two people familiar with the matter said.
Honda says defective Takata air bags in 2002 used different design
DETROIT (Reuters) – Honda Motor Co said it was aware of a ruptured Takata air bag inflator in a car that was covered by a 2002 recall but the inflator design was different from one that ruptured in a 2004 accident.
WTO clinches first global trade deal in its history
GENEVA (Reuters) – The World Trade Organization adopted the first worldwide trade reform in its history on Thursday, after years of stalemate, months of deadlock and a final day’s delay following an eleventh-hour objection.
