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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - An Indian panel has violated guidelines for ship-breaking laid down by India's Supreme Court by approving the scrapping of a controversial Norwegian cruise liner this week, an environmental alliance said on Thursday. The panel said the 46,000-metirc ton cruise ship Blue Lady, which environmentalists say contains hundreds of metric tons of asbestos and other toxic materials, could be broken down safely in the western Indian shipyard of Alang in Gujarat state. "With...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's Supreme Court refused on Friday to stop a former cruise liner that environmental activists say has hundreds of tonnes of toxic material on board from entering Indian waters. Greenpeace and other groups say the 46,000-tonne Blue Lady contains more than 900 tonnes of asbestos and is sailing for Alang in the western state of Gujarat to be scrapped. Indian yards lack the modern technology to safely handle such waste, putting the health of workers at risk,...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. safety investigators issued an urgent recommendation on Friday for new rudder inspections on certain Airbus jetliners. The recommendation to the Federal Aviation Administration covers A300-600 aircraft, a wide body jet used in passenger and cargo service. The National Transportation Safety Board estimates 400 A300-600 models are in service worldwide. The recommendation for checks of the rudder's composite skin stemmed from an inspection of a FedEx Corp....

PARIS (Reuters) - France said on Tuesday it had taken legal steps to shed light on the amount of asbestos aboard a French warship whose planned dismantling in India has sparked a legal battle and embarrassed the French government. The Defense Ministry said at the weekend it only had documents to account for 85 tonnes of the 115 tonnes of asbestos that was already supposed to have been removed from its decommissioned aircraft carrier Clemenceau. French Defense Minister Michele...

ALANG SHIPYARD, India (Reuters) - France would be ready to take back toxic waste removed from a decommissioned carrier if India's top court allowed the ship to be scrapped in an Indian shipyard, the French envoy said on Wednesday.Environmental groups like Greenpeace have opposed the entry of the French carrier, Clemenceau, to the Alang scrapping yard in the western state of Gujarat, saying it contains hundreds of tonnes of toxic materials which pose a risk to workers.The French government...

By Kamil Zaheer NEW DELHI (Reuters) - An Indian environmental panel is divided on whether to allow a decommissioned French warship to be scrapped in India, and has not made a firm recommendation to the nation's Supreme Court, a member said on Tuesday. The Supreme Court's Monitoring Committee on Hazardous Wastes had been asked to prepare a report for the top court, which will take a decision on February 13 on whether to allow the decommissioned aircraft carrier, Clemenceau, to be broken...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's Supreme Court on Monday barred a decommissioned French warship, due for scrapping in the western state of Gujarat, from entering the country's waters until a report by a team of environment experts. The aircraft carrier Clemenceau left France in December for the massive Alang ship-breaking yard amid protests from the environmental group Greenpeace. The group says the 27,000-tonne ship contains hundreds of tonnes of hazardous material, including 500 tonnes...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Police detained around a dozen Greenpeace activists in New Delhi on Tuesday during a protest over the planned scrapping in an Indian yard of a French aircraft carrier they said contains tonnes of highly toxic material. The environmental group, which organized the protest outside the French embassy, urged Paris and New Delhi not to allow the Clemenceau to reach a scrapyard in the western state of Gujarat without first being decontaminated in France. Greenpeace...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Police detained around a dozen Greenpeace activists in New Delhi on Tuesday during a protest over the planned scrapping in an Indian yard of a French aircraft carrier they said contains tonnes of highly toxic material.The environmental group, which organized the protest outside the French embassy, urged Paris and New Delhi not to allow the Clemenceau to reach a scrapyard in the western state of Gujarat without first being decontaminated in France.Greenpeace says that...

NEW DELHI -- Police detained around a dozen Greenpeace activists in New Delhi on Tuesday during a protest over the planned scrapping in an Indian yard of a French aircraft carrier they said contains tonnes of highly toxic material.The environmental group, which organized the protest outside the French embassy, urged Paris and New Delhi not to allow the Clemenceau to reach a scrapyard in the western state of Gujarat without first being decontaminated in France.Greenpeace says that vulnerable...