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BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADA’S largest producer of chrysotile asbestos fibres, LAB Chrysotile, has announced it will indefinitely shut one of its two mines near Thetford Mines, Quebec, this November. The company has blamed the closure of its Black Lake mine, which will result in 450 job losses, on a high Canadian dollar in comparison to the US dollar and tough international competition.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A HIGH-LEVEL group on travel industry security involving top officials and ministers from the United States and the European Union will meet twice a year, the European Commission has said, following a meeting with the US Department of Homeland Security.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has thrown down the gauntlet over the agreement between the European Union (EU) and the United States over transferring airline passenger data to US authorities, voting to challenge the deal at the European Court of Justice (ECJ).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NOBODY likes to be on a blacklist, especially one written by the American government. But every year, the US state department issues a comprehensive rogues gallery of countries involved in the narcotics trade and related criminal problems. One surprising entrant: the United States.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Health Organisation is to be named as the coordinator of a global plan to cut road deaths from their current level 1.2 million. The United Nations general assembly is discussing how it can work with the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), the World Bank and relevant national ministries to reduce the number of such tragedies.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
SCIENTISTS have discovered that proteins from a harmless microorganism can reduce the presence of campylobacter and other pathogenic bacteria in poultry intestines by 99.9 per cent. In small trials, the proteins, called bacteriocins, almost wiped out campylobacter, reducing their presence to a millionth when fed to chickens.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations officials have launched an “immediate and detailed probe” in allegations that a Ukrainian peacekeeper serving in Sierra Leone has used mining equipment “for unauthorised reasons” in a region rich in diamond deposits. The UN said it was acting on reports that the soldier “has been assisting the licensed Sierra Rus mining company to remove spoil material from a mining site” in Kenema district, Eastern Province.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations has unveiled a three-member panel charged with investigating allegations of substantial corruption within its now defunct Oil for Food Programme, under which Iraq’s deposed Baathist regime sold limited supplies of crude, supposedly to fund humanitarian supplies.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) and 16 Caribbean countries have launched negotiations to strike a trade deal by 2008, that should boost Jamaican bauxite exports into Europe. The mineral is already the eastern Caribbean’s largest non-food export to the EU, (eight per cent of all the region’s foreign sales being aluminium-related products – worth around Euro 223 million in 2003).…

BY MONICA DOBIE
NEW technology preventing drowsy drivers from crashing will be included in all Volvo cars and SUVs by the end of the decade, company officials have told the New York auto show.

The warnings include a vibrating steering wheel, the sound of a car driving over rumble strips being played to the driver and a visual warning being projected onto the windshield.…