Shell wins legal case over Nigeria oil spill ...Middle East

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LONDON: Britain’s highest court ruled Wednesday it was too late for people in Nigeria’s Niger delta region to lodge pollution claims against energy giant Shell after a huge oil spill more than one decade ago.The Supreme Court said in a statement that its five judges “unanimously” rejected an appeal over the 2011 spill, upholding prior rulings that claims were not made before a legal deadline.Nigerian claimants say their shoreline faced a “devastating impact” from a leak at the Bonga oilfield which unleashed 40,000 barrels of crude into the Gulf of Guinea.Shell said the spill was swiftly contained.The claimants had sought Wednesday to overturn rulings from two lower courts, arguing that the o

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