SAN SALVADOR: A giant Australian-Canadian gold mining group, OceanaGold, has been ordered to pay interest on $8 million in legal costs awarded to El Salvador over a lawsuit it lost, Salvadoran officials said Tuesday.

The World Bank’s arbitration arm, the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), handed down the order against OceanaGold, El Salvador’s prosecutor’s office said in a statement.

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