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New class action pursues mining group and project partner BHP over one of Brazil’s worst environmental disasters
Group is hunting for lithium assets in the country with aim of assembling an integrated supply chain
A venture jointly owned by the miner and Vale faces alleged liabilities in the tens of billions of dollars
...Caribbean nations are pursuing Lloyd’s and others for reparative payments, the Telegraph reported last month....
Britain’s biggest asset manager buys $250mn of bonds in a sign of growing investor interest in debt-for-nature swaps
...Virgin Atlantic expects to report an annual profit for the first time since the pandemic, as strong demand for winter breaks in the Caribbean fuels a recovery that has lagged that of rivals....
Claimants hope to bolster their case that managers were incentivised to push for cost cuts that contributed to the tragedy
Breaking USMCA would be ‘lose-lose’ scenario after Trump talks of blocking Chinese vehicles crossing border
Lima reverses course on right to operate controversial Chancay project
Exploring Burford’s prospects of extracting that $16bn judgement out of Buenos Aires
US’s biggest supermajor and China’s Cnooc highlight right of first refusal in Guyana project stake central to acquisition
Top US supermajor says it wants to protect rights to 30% Hess stake in valuable offshore field
Plaintiffs on collision course with country’s pro-market president despite Milei’s professed ‘willingness to pay’
Disaster at Samarco iron ore mine in 2015 killed 19 people and ranks among country’s worst environmental catastrophes
First Quantum Minerals’ contract to operate facility struck down amid protests
Spirits makers seek to secure supply of base ingredient as Mexican farmers consider new crops
Tysers and HW Wood paid bribes via Florida bank accounts, say authorities
...About half of the company’s 750,000 tonnes of annual production comes from the flagship Cobre Panama mine in a rural, little-populated area near the Caribbean coast....
...pledged by Lloyd’s will be channelled to places directly affected by slavery, and administered by the African Development Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank, which serves Latin America and the Caribbean...
Easing of sanctions hands windfall to hedge funds that bought Caracas’s debt at knockdown prices
US court win isn’t the end of the saga for litigation funder and Latin American country in dispute over YPF nationalisation
...In the Bahamas, where FTX was based, Prime Minister Philip Davis championed the company as a marquee acquisition as the Caribbean country’s economy sought its next economic boost....
...In the exchange’s final days late last year, Salame informed Bahamian regulators that FTX customer funds had been used to cover losses at Alameda Research, according to court records in the Caribbean country...
...But is the Caribbean nation really about to put a serious dent in the US’s most eye-catching crypto enforcement case?...
...He has been in bands other than Big Audio Dynamite, including a shortlived stint in the reggae outfit Basement 5, the support act at Public Image Ltd’s inaugural gig in 1978....
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