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Australia makes strides in cleaning up Great Barrier Reef – U.N. body

August 25, 2021 at 12:55 a.m.

By James Regan SYDNEY (Reuters) - The United Nations on Wednesday said Australia was making progress to preserve the Great Barrier Reef, a key tourist attraction that environmentalists say faces...

ECB’s Coeure: rates to diverge from UK, U.S. for years

August 25, 2021 at 12:35 a.m.

By James Regan and Yann Le Guernigou PARIS (Reuters) - Euro zone interest rates will diverge from those in the United States and Britain for a number of years, European...

France to send 400 more troops to Central African Republic

August 24, 2021 at 8:22 p.m.

PARIS/UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - France said on Friday it plans to send another 400 troops to help combat a crisis in the Central African Republic as U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon...

Iron ore miners wait to assess Australian cyclone damage

August 24, 2021 at 6:37 p.m.

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Iron ore miners were waiting for conditions to ease before assessing damage caused by a cyclone that ripped across northwest Australia on Tuesday, closing ports and threatening...

Betting on end to glut, miners hunt for new zinc deposits

August 24, 2021 at 5:04 p.m.

SYDNEY (Reuters) - A global hunt is on to find new deposits of zinc as China buys more of the metal to rust-proof new cars and coat steel used to...

BHP raises iron ore target as Australian expansions accelerate

August 24, 2021 at 4:35 p.m.

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Global miner BHP Billiton upgraded its iron ore production target for fiscal 2014 while petroleum output hit a quarterly record, as it ramps up output to capture...

Australian tycoon Rinehart wants to end family feud to focus on business

August 24, 2021 at 3:53 p.m.

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian mining magnate Gina Rinehart, one of the world's richest women, wants to relinquish control over a $4 billion family trust, after several years of legal wrangling...

Australian miners facing bust look to China’s Zijin

August 24, 2021 at 1:57 p.m.

KALGOORLIE, Australia (Reuters) - Gold miner Dianmin Chen - running Australia's Norton Gold Ltd for China's biggest gold producer Zijin Mining Group - says there's still money to be made...

Developing Australia’s ‘frontier’ north may be political pipedream

August 24, 2021 at 1:46 p.m.

SYDNEY (Reuters) - The frontrunner to become Australia's next prime minister, Tony Abbott, holds ambitious plans to develop the country's sparse and inhospitable north by 2030 to attract a new...

Schneider offer fuels talk of $5 billion Invensys bid battle

August 24, 2021 at 1:09 p.m.

LONDON/PARIS (Reuters) - The prospect of a bid battle powered Invensys shares to a ten-year high on Friday, after the British engineer said it had received a 3.3 billion pound...

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