Asiana flight delayed as oil leak discovered before take-off
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – An Asiana Airlines flight scheduled to leave Shanghai for Seoul on Thursday afternoon was delayed after the Airbus A330 aircraft was found to be leaking oil as it was taxiing toward the runway for take-off, local media reported.
Insight: Ecological risks may spell trouble for Batista’s Brazil port
SÃO JOÃO DA BARRA, Brazil (Reuters) – As Brazilian billionaire Eike Batista breaks up his crumbling EBX Group industrial empire to pay off debt, one of the few assets he’s expected to keep is port-development company LLX Logística SA.
Burn pit at U.S. Marine base in Afghanistan poses health risk -inspector
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Open-air burn pits at a U.S. Marine base in Afghanistan pose a health risk to the 13,500 military and civilian personnel there and are still in use despite the installation of four incinerators at a cost of $11.5 million, an insp…
Exiled dissidents claim Iran building new nuclear site
PARIS (Reuters) – An exiled opposition group said on Thursday it had obtained information about a secret underground nuclear site under construction in Iran, without specifying what kind of atomic activity it believed would be carried out there.
Angry Latin America wants answers on allegations of U.S. spying
BRASILIA/BOGOTA (Reuters) – Latin American governments urged the United States on Wednesday to be more forthcoming in answering allegations of U.S. spying programs there that have set off a wave of outrage that could damage its standing in the region.
Syria opposition denies Russian chemical attack allegation
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The opposition Syrian National Coalition on Wednesday denied a Russian charge that rebel fighters fired a projectile laden with the nerve agent sarin at a suburb of Aleppo in March, saying U.N. inspectors should be allowed to…
Mexican president says possible U.S. spying ‘totally unacceptable’
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto said on Wednesday that if allegations were proven that the United States had spied on its southern neighbor, it would be “totally unacceptable.”
Deadly Quebec train crash to be fertile ground for lawsuits
OTTAWA/NEW YORK (Reuters) – As investigators try to piece together how a parked oil freight train broke free and demolished the heart of a small Quebec town last weekend, a barrage of litigation could soon be hitting everyone from the U.S. rail company…
Insight: Quebec train set too few brakes, with deadly result
(Reuters) – The handbrake is the railroad industry’s ultimate fail-safe mechanism. It is supposed to help avert disasters like the one that engulfed a Canadian town on Saturday, when a runaway train loaded with oil hurtled downhill, derailed and explod…
U.S.-China talks cover cyber issues, currency, Chinese reform
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. officials appealed to China’s self-interest on Wednesday with calls for deeper economic reforms including changes to the exchange rate policy and a halt to cyber theft of trade secrets – actions they said would benefit both …
