By Rebecca Bream
Almost exactly a year ago, a deal was announced that shook up the well-established pecking order in the global aluminium industry.
Rusal, Russia's largest aluminium producer, unveiled the takeover of Sual, its smaller compatriot, and the aluminium assets of Glencore, the Swiss commodities trader.
MOSCOW (AP): Attackers dressed in dark clothes and wielding metal pipes raided a camp of environmentalists protesting nuclear waste processing at a Siberian chemicals plant early Saturday, killing one activist.
Witnesses say the attackers shouted nationalist slogans as they rampaged through the forest tent camp near the city of Angarsk, about 4,200 kilometers (2,600 miles) east of Moscow. But police rejected suggestions that extremist groups had masterminded the attack.
Paris, March 13, 2006 - Nuclear power will dominate the first G8 energy summit in Moscow next week.
The rising price of fossil fuels, combined with concerns about the greenhouse effect and the demands of the Kyoto agreement ha s meant industrialised nations are having to reconsider how they source their energy supplies. Most countries regard nuclear energy as the solution to environmental concerns and dwindling fossil fuel supplies.
A controversial shipment of US weapons-grade plutonium has reached a processing plant in southern France.
Several dozen anti-nuclear protesters met the convoy on arrival at the plant in Cadarache. They said the plutonium was vulnerable to terrorist attack.
