Turkey top envoy goes to Niger in bid to secure uranium supplies
The trip comes after Niger’s military government withdrew mining rights from Canadian and French companies to develop uranium deposits.
Global commodities trader Trafigura posted a record net profit of about $7.4 billion for the financial year to the end of September, up 5% from a year earlier, even as windfall earnings in the wake of the war in Ukraine started to fade.
The Geneva-based private company made the bulk of its profit in the first half of the year.
Of the roughly $7.4 billion generated in the financial year ended Sept. 30, $5.5 billion was made in the first half, accounting for double the amount it earned for the same period of 2021-2022. The results mark a fourth year of record profits.
(By Natalie Grover and Pratima Desai; Editing by Veronica Brown and Mark Potter)
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