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RJW v Guardian News and Media Limited ([2009] EWHC 2540 (QB)), also known as Trafigura v Guardian News and Media Limited and the Trafigura case, was a 2009 legal action in which Trafigura attempted to use a super-injunction to prevent the press reporting details of toxic waste dumping in the Ivory Coast.
The 2006 Ivory Coast toxic waste dump was a health crisis in Ivory Coast in which a ship registered in Panama, the Probo Koala, chartered by the Singaporean-based oil and commodity shipping company Trafigura Beheer BV, offloaded toxic waste to an Ivorian waste handling company which disposed of it at the port of Abidjan.
Trafigura is the third-largest physical commodities trading group in the world behind Vitol and Glencore. [60] Trafigura sources, stores, blends and transports raw materials including oil, refined petroleum products and non-ferrous metals, iron ore, and coal. [15] [61] It more recently added a third division, focused on gas, [7] power, and ...
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He added, "Pakistan is both a Persian and Urdu word... It means the land of the Paks, the spiritually pure and clean." It means the land of the Paks, the spiritually pure and clean." [ 27 ] Etymologists note that پاک pāk , is 'pure' in Persian and Pashto and the Persian suffix ـستان -stan means 'land' or 'place of'.
Due to the location of Sabah in relation to Brunei, it has been suggested that Sabah was a Brunei Malay word meaning upstream or "in a northerly direction". [26] [30] [31] Another theory suggests that it came from the Malay word sabak which means a place where palm sugar is extracted. [32] Sabah (صباح) is also an Arabic word which means ...