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A fire at an Iranian defense ministry's car battery factory has been extinguished, report says
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A fire in a storage area of an Iranian defense ministry's car battery factory north of the capital has been extinguished, state TV reported Friday. The fire happened around midnight in a 2-square-kilometer (about 500-acre) storage area of plastic items in the...
Germany went from envy of the world to the worst-performing major developed economy. What happened?
ESSEN, Germany (AP) — For most of this century, Germany racked up one economic success after another, dominating global markets for high-end products like luxury cars and industrial machinery, selling so much to the rest of the world that half the economy ran on exports. Jobs were...
Federal investigators subpoena Pennsylvania agency for records related to chocolate plant explosion
Federal safety investigators issued a subpoena to Pennsylvania’s public utility regulator on Monday for documents related to a fatal explosion at a chocolate factory, escalating a months-long legal dispute over the state agency's authority to share the sensitive information. The...
Explosion and fire injures 8 workers at Illinois soybean processing plant
DECATUR, Ill. (AP) — An explosion and fire at a soybean processing facility in Illinois injured eight employees over the weekend and sent a tower of smoke into the air, officials said Monday. The explosion occurred at the east plant in the Archer Daniels Midland processing complex...
Japan announces emergency relief for seafood exporters hit by China's ban over Fukushima water
TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced on Monday a 20.7 billion yen ($141 million) emergency fund to help exporters hit by China's ban on Japanese seafood over the release of treated radioactive wastewater from the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant. The...
Metal factory explosion in Brazil kills 4 and injures at least 30
SAO PAULO (AP) — An explosion Friday at a metal factory in the countryside of Brazil's most populous state killed four people and seriously injured at least 30 others, officials said. Dozens of firefighters and rescue teams were sent to the site of the explosion in the city of...
Orsted delays 1st New Jersey wind farm until 2026; not ready to 'walk away' from project
OCEAN CITY, N.J. (AP) — Orsted, the global wind energy developer, says its first offshore wind farm in New Jersey will be delayed until 2026 due to supply chain issues, higher interest rates, and a failure so far to garner enough tax credits from the federal government. The Danish...
Rain and a wrong address delayed firefighters reaching a Philippine factory blaze. 15 people died
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A fire killed 15 people Thursday in a small apparel factory in a Philippine residential area, where firefighters were delayed by flooding, traffic and a wrong address, a fire protection official. Most of the victims appeared to be factory workers and...
2 dead in a Russian attack on a Ukrainian city while a blast near Moscow kills 1 and wounds dozens
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A Russian rocket attack on Wednesday killed two people and wounded at least seven others in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, which is near Europe's largest nuclear power plant, Ukrainian officials said. Although regional governor Yuriy Malashko initially...
Worker injured as explosion at Texas paint plant sends fireballs into sky
GARLAND, Texas (AP) — A worker was injured early Monday when an explosion set a paint manufacturing plant in the Dallas suburbs ablaze and shot a series of fireballs into the night sky. A company spokesperson said the blast at the Sherwin-Williams plant in Garland happened around...
