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Stories for February 10th 2017
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Friday, February 10th 2017 - 18:49 UTC
Goldman Sachs hedge fund closing London operations and moving to New York
A Goldman Sachs hedge fund is closing its London operations and moving staff to New York, the firm has confirmed. About eight staff members who were part of the Goldman Sachs Investment Partners (GSIP) Team in London have been told to move. The decision follows the departure of the team's managing director, Nick Advani.
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Friday, February 10th 2017 - 18:38 UTC
Greenpeace calls on Mitsubishi not to move salmon farms to Magallanes region in Chilean Patagonia
Greenpeace has urged Japanese conglomerate Mitsubishi to stop expanding its salmon farming operations in Magallanes, as part of its new global campaign focused on protecting the seas of Chilean Patagonia. The launch of the campaign, “Save the seas at the end of the world,” brought together people and activists who gathered in lighthouses along Chile's nearly 4,000 kilometres coastline to claim protection for ecosystems of the southern seas.
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Friday, February 10th 2017 - 11:33 UTC
Strike at world's largest copper mine in Chile; long conflict forecasted
Workers at BHP Billiton's Escondida copper mine in Chile, the world's largest, walked off the job on Thursday in a strike that threatens to disrupt the international supply of the widely used metal. It said no miners arrived for morning work aboard buses that normally carry upwards of 1,200 workers per shift to the vast deposit, which accounted for about 6% of global production in 2015.
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Friday, February 10th 2017 - 11:28 UTC
Spain must act intelligently in its approach to Gibraltar, says foreign minister
Spain’s Foreign Minister, Alfonso Dastis, said that he believed Gibraltar should be Spanish, though he added Spain must be intelligent in its approach to the Rock. He was speaking during a wide-ranging interview on the morning politics show Los Desayunos, on state broadcaster TVE1.
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Friday, February 10th 2017 - 10:24 UTC
Appeals Court rejects Trump's reinstatement of travel ban
US appeals court has rejected President Donald Trump's attempt to reinstate his ban on visitors from seven mainly Muslim countries. The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals said it would not block a lower-court ruling that halted the order.
