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SINGAPORE, July 19 (Reuters) – Singapore’s Keppel Corp posted a 44 percent rise in its second-quarter profit, citing stronger earnings from its

By Josh Smith SEOUL, July 19 (Reuters) – A company claiming to have found the wreck of a Russian warship with $130 billion in gold “treasure”

By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL, July 19 (Reuters) – A South Korean court on Thursday acknowledged for the first time the government’s liability for the 2014

By Lefteris Karagiannopoulos OSLO, July 19 (Reuters) – Owners of Norwegian oil rigs are considering imposing a lockout on workers as a high-stakes gamble

By Jolyn Rosa HONOLULU, July 17 (Reuters) – Hawaii lava tour boats faced tighter restrictions on Tuesday after 23 passengers were injured by a volcanic

By Stanley White TOKYO, July 17 (Reuters) – Japan and the European Union signed a wide-ranging free trade deal on Tuesday that both sides hope will act

By Kevin Yao and Fang Cheng BEIJING, July 16 (Reuters) – China’s economy expanded at a slower pace in the second quarter as Beijing’s

(Reuters) – An iceberg the size of a hill has drifted close to a tiny village on the western coast of Greenland, causing fear that it could swamp the

SINGAPORE, July 16 (Reuters) – Marine fuel services provider Pegasus Maritime (Singapore) Pte Ltd has lost its licence to operate bunker crafts in the

OSLO, July 15 (Reuters) – A Norwegian union for workers on offshore oil and gas drilling rigs stepped up a six-day strike on Monday that has slightly hit

By Lisa Baertlein LOS ANGELES, July 13 (Reuters) – Chinese imports to U.S. ports rose more than expected in June, suggesting that some retailers

BRASILIA, July 12 (Reuters) – Brazilian federal prosecutors on Thursday charged the former chief executive of U.S. oil services company Vantage Drilling

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS, July 12 (Reuters) – The United States accused North Korea on Thursday of breaching a U.N. sanctions cap on refined

By Yereth Rosen ANCHORAGE, Alaska, July 11 (Reuters) – Alaska officials on Wednesday said they remain confident that China will help the state achieve

By Jonathan Saul and Polina Devitt LONDON/MOSCOW, July 12 (Reuters) – At least two countries have struck cargo vessels off their registries in recent

ANKARA/LONDON, July 11 (Reuters) – The commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said last week that Tehran would block all exports through the

By Tony Munroe and Eric Beech BEIJING/WASHINGTON, July 11 (Reuters) – China accused the United States of bullying and warned it would hit back after the

By Vera Eckert FRANKFURT, July 10 (Reuters) – German shipping company Hapag-Lloyd is cutting costs to cope with a rise in fuel prices that led it to

By Gwladys Fouche and Lefteris Karagiannopoulos OSLO, July 10 (Reuters) – Hundreds of workers on Norwegian offshore oil and gas rigs went on strike

PANAMA CITY, July 9 (Reuters) – Panama and China opened free trade talks on Monday with the aim of crafting an agreement that could turn the Central