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Floods, Crimes and Disasters: Is Your Home in a Danger Zone?

Filed under: News, Buying AFP/Getty ImagesA local resident in Charleston, S.C., surveys the water surrounding a home during the October floods. By Blake Miller With the recent news of catastrophic flooding in South Carolina to other stories of homes blowing up because of broken gas lines or vanishing into a massive sinkhole, you might be ready to Google your address to find out if your little abode is all that

South Africa seen green energy model for the continent

By Peroshni Govender CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – Africa should learn from South Africa’s renewable energy drive, which has led to a sharp drop in green power prices thanks to benign regulation and infrastructure investment, industry players said on Tuesday. Four years since President Jacob Zuma’s government launched its renewable energy plan, it has fed over 1,000 MW of power into its strained system, which regularly plunges millions of homes into

CHORUS Clean Energy flat in Frankfurt debut

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Shares in German wind and solar park operator CHORUS Clean Energy opened flat in their stock market debut on Wednesday. CHORUS started trading at the offer price of 9.75 euros a share, which had been set at the low end of a 9.75-12.50 euro range in the 119 million euro ($133.71 million) deal, including an over allotment option. Wind park operators such as CHORUS and larger peer

Ex-U.N. General Assembly head, five others face U.S. bribery case

By Nate Raymond and Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. authorities charged a former president of the United Nations General Assembly, a billionaire Macau real estate developer and four others on Tuesday for engaging in a wide-ranging corruption scheme. John Ashe, a former U.N. ambassador from Antigua and Barbuda who was general assembly president from 2013 to 2014, was accused in a complaint filed in federal court in New