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WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Ammonium nitrate, which Lebanese authorities have said was the cause of the Beirut blast, is an odorless crystalline substance commonly used as a fertilizer that has been the cause of numerous industrial explosions over the decades. These include notably at a Texas fertilizer plant in 2013 that killed 15 and was ruled deliberate, and another at a chemical plant in Toulouse, France in 2001 that killed 31 people but was […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japanese industrial production dived in May for the first time in three months, official data showed Thursday, in a worrying sign for the already fragile economy. Factory output dropped 2.3 percent in May from a month earlier, much worse than the average 0.2 percent drop expected by economists, according to Bloomberg News. The weak figures come after Japan logged a trade deficit in May, its first since January, while retail sales […]
