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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations (UN) ‘fourth committee’ (on special political affairs) has started debating atomic radiation, based on a report on the subject by the UN scientific committee. It warns that ill health is still being created worldwide by environmental ionizing radiation, notably in the Ukraine, Russia and Belarus because of the Chernobyl disaster.…

BY MARK ROWE
PEPSICO, which is marking 50 years of operations in the Middle East, finds itself at something of a crossroads. An all-American company, in a region where anti-Americanism has rarely been so widespread, it faces several challenges to ensure that it will continue to operate successfully in the Middle East for a further half a century.…

Keith Nuthall
THE UNITED States and Britain have formally withdrawn two cases brought against Libya at the International Court of Justice over its liability under the Montreal Convention because of its role in the Lockerbie disaster. The move follows Libya’s offer of compensation to victims’ families.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NEW SCALED-DOWN European Commission proposals to tighten controls on the EU chemical industry are unlikely to please the United States, according to Washington’s commerce secretary Don Evans. He told journalists in Brussels “I’m going to tell you that although I have not read the draft, I’m going to tell you that it’s not enough.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States and Canada have been asked to lift Euro 120 million of extra tariffs levied against European Union (EU) exporters following the imposition of a hormone treated beef directive that the European Commission claims satisfies a World Trade Organisation (WTO) ruling on the matter.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE 19th century saw imperial rivalry create the “Great Game”, when Russia and the British Empire tweaked one another’s tails in the region that following Russia’s Bolshevik revolution became known as Soviet Central Asia. The old Great Game was tied to control of India, and to gems and gold.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NEW SCALED-DOWN European Commission proposals to tighten controls on the EU chemical industry are unlikely to please the United States, according to Washington’s commerce secretary Don Evans. He told journalists in Brussels “I’m going to tell you that although I have not read the draft, I’m going to tell you that it’s not enough.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has given the European Commission two months to ban the transfer of sensitive passenger data to the United States or face possible legal action. In a near unanimous resolution, MEPs said that they were prepared to take the Commission to the European Court of Justice over alleged infringements of EU data legislation caused by the transfers.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON
WHAT price safety? Ports and shippers racing to comply with an extremely tight deadline to meet the new International Marine Organisation security requirements are still not sure what the final bill will be. However, with the newly added SOLAS (safety of life at sea convention) special measures and the also new International Ship and Port Facility Security (ISPS) code due to come into effect on 1 July 2004, those who are not already well down the line to meeting the requirements will find the costs rising sharply as demand for security services steps up.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE and KEITH NUTHALL
A SHORTLIST of seven designs for a planned 16.7 billion yuan (US$2 billion) third and international terminal at Beijing’s Capital Airport has been unveiled. Beijing Capital Airport Authority announced that the competing designers include the UK dominated NACO Foster ARUP consortium; the British Airports United Consultants Consortium; France’s Aeroports de Paris/Ingénierie consortium; China’s Beijing Municipal Architecture Design and Research Institute plus the USA’s Landrum & Brown & Yang Molen; Murphy/Jahn Inc; and Parsons & Fentress.…