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BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL legal dispute between the United States and Iran over the destruction of Iranian oil platforms in the Gulf in 1987 and 1988 by US military forces is about to enter its 10th year, with International Court of Justice judges trying to decide whether the attack was a breach of a 1955 treaty.…

Keith Nuthall
BACKGROUND

IN traditional ‘old economy’ sectors the malpractice of ‘passing off’ is usually pretty tough to achieve. Setting up a shop or restaurant that looks similar to an established chain can entail a lot of expense and could end in a lawsuit preventing any trading going ahead, and maybe leading to a compensation order.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FINLAND is the world’s most technologically advanced country, according to a United Nations Development Programme, (UNDP), report, which puts the UK at number seven in its league table, also behind the USA, Sweden, Japan, South Korea and the Netherlands.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE UNITED Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has announced it will give Lebanon a US$3.4 million grant to finance a new initiative aimed at boosting renewable energy generation, as well as increasing energy efficiency and environmental protection in this eastern Mediterranean country.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
HEADS of government of the European Union taken unprecedented steps to crackdown on the financing of terrorist groups, following the attacks in the United States that have sparked the worldwide ongoing emergency military and financial response.

Notably, the public pressure resulting from the disasters have helped to break the political logjam stalling the agreement of long-debated reforms to the European money laundering directive.…

Keith Nuthall
DIPLOMATS will try this month to resolve a dispute over the authority of a planned global register of geographical indications for wine and spirits, such as Champagne or Scotch. Meeting at the Council for Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights at the World Trade Organisation on September 19-21, they will debate whether entries on register should merely be informative or whether they should entail legal protection.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal, Canada
FREDERICTON airport in New Brunswick, Canada has announced that it will undergo a CAN$2 million expansion and renovation project.

The 6,000 feet runway will be enlarged to 8,000 feet, enabling it to become an international airport, with larger passenger planes use the facility from the United States.…

Keith Nuthall
URGENT action to boost airport security in the wake of the destruction of New York’s World Trade Centre has been ordered by the European Union Council of Ministers for transport.

In an emergency session held days after the tragedy, EU Member States agreed to implement “all the key measures in Document 30 of the European Civil Aviation Conference and said that even “these measures should be reviewed in the light of recent events.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IN the years of the Cultural Revolution, when the bamboo curtain separated the world’s most populous country from the rest of the globe, the idea of sending bulk agricultural exports to China would have seemed laughable. Even today, Chinese export markets buy up a fraction of British farming produce, but in the future, this could change.…

Keith Nuthall
TIGHTER security measures are to be introduced in airports across the European Union in the wake of the terrorist destruction of New York’s World Trade Centre. The reforms were ordered by the European Union Council of Ministers for transport, sitting in emergency session, and will inevitably lead to some inconvenience and additional delays for business travellers.…