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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Some 2.5 tons of natural uranium stored in a site in war-torn Libya have gone missing, the United Nations nuclear watchdog said Thursday, raising safety and proliferation concerns. However, forces allied to a warlord battling the Libyan government based in the capital of Tripoli claimed on Thursday night that …

BEIJING — China’s environmental protection law stipulates that environmental protection taxes of 25 yuan ($3.8) per ton will be imposed on untreated steel slag. Steel plants in China produce around 1 billion tons of crude steel and about 300 million tons of slag annually. As of this year, there are about 2 billion tons of steel slag in …

Once it arrived, the ship never left Beirut’s port, according Lebanon’s Director of Customs, Badri Daher, despite repeated warnings by him and others that the cargo was the equivalent of “a floating bomb.” “Due to the extreme danger posed by this stored items in unsuitable climate conditions, we reiterate our request to the Port Authorities …

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Plastic litters Lake Erie beaches: bottles, cigar tips, straws and bits of boldly colored microplastic that used to be who knows what. But the mass of plastic on the surface is a sliver of the true size of plastic pollution in the lake. A new Rochester Institute of Technology study used 3D …

Danielle Nelson’s best monitor for the emissions billowing out of the oil refineries and chemical plants surrounding her home: The heaving chest of her 9-year-old asthmatic son. On some nights, the boy’s chest shudders as he fights for breath in his sleep. Nelson suspects the towering plants and refineries are to blame, rising like a …

HELSINKI, Finland — “Happy hour” at the S-market store in the working-class neighborhood of Vallila happens far from the liquor aisles and isn’t exactly convivial. Nobody is here for drinks or a good time. They’re looking for a steep discount on a slab of pork. Or a chicken, or a salmon fillet, or any of …

Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin The MSC Gayne was flying under the Liberian flag. (DOMINICK REUTER/AFP/Getty Images) AFP/Getty Images Topline: In one of the largest drug busts in U.S. history, federal authorities in Philadelphia seized nearly 20 tons of cocaine—worth about $1 billion— last month from a ship owned by JP …

India brushed aside the challenge posed by Sri Lanka with the confidence of a side that already knew their semi-final berth was secure. They won their last match in the qualifying process in the most dismissive manner, by seven wickets. Rohit Sharma, with KL Rahul cruising in his wake, struck his fifth century of the …