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Aden oil refinery ablaze as Yemen rebels shell port

Fire erupted at Aden’s oil refinery Saturday when rebels shelled the nearby port to prevent a Qatari ship carrying aid for Yemen’s devastated second city from docking, officials told AFP. “The rebels fired artillery rounds at the area and one hit an oil tank at the refinery, sparking a fire,” said an official at the Aden Refinery Company. A government official told AFP the rebels had targeted a Qatari vessel

Fossil fuel divestment alone will not halt climate change: Gates

Fossil fuel divestment would be ineffective on its own as a means of halting global warming, software billionaire and philanthropist Bill Gates said Friday. Pulling money out of carbon-heavy industry must be coupled with large spending on alternative technologies to make any difference, said the Microsoft mogul who is under fire for his charitable Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s reported $1.4-billion (1.3-billion-euro) investment in carbon-spewing companies like BP. The Financial

Alamos and AuRico Merger Receives Court Approval

[PR Newswire] – TORONTO, June 26, 2015 /PRNewswire/ – Alamos Gold Inc. (“Alamos”) (TSX/NYSE:AGI) and AuRico Gold Inc. (“AuRico”) (TSX/NYSE: AUQ) are pleased to announce that they have been granted final court approval from the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (Commercial List) to combine the two companies by way of a plan of arrangement (“Arrangement”). The Arrangement is expected to close July 2, 2015, subject to applicable regulatory approvals and

Trump to Univision: Don't even think about golf at Doral

By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) – In the political equivalent of “get off my lawn,” Donald Trump on Friday declared his Miami golf course off limits to anyone from the Spanish-language broadcast company Univision over its decision to dump the Miss USA beauty pageant. Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric about Mexican immigrants as part of his campaign for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination prompted Univision on Thursday to bail out of airing