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The offshore drilling firm responsible for running the Deepwater Horizon rig has given its top executives bonuses for its “best year” for safety. Transocean was blamed along with BP and Halliburton after last year’s massive spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Eleven workers, nine of whom worked for Transocean, died when the Deepwater Horizon exploded [...]
Fighting has resumed in Libya with rebel forces continuing to battle for control of the eastern oil town of Brega. Rebels have captured the university on the outskirts of the city, AFP says. Overnight, shelling resumed in Misrata, Libya’s third biggest city and the last big rebel stronghold in the west, which has been besieged [...]
A Mexican human rights organisation says thousands of people have disappeared in Mexico since 2006. Mexico’s human rights commission, CNDH, said 5,397 people had been reported missing since President Felipe Calderon declared war on the drug cartels. A United Nations study has suggested the security forces may have played a part in the disappearance of [...]