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BY ANDREW CAVE
THE UNITED Kingdom and Irish Republic governments had anti-terror finance frameworks long before this issue climbed global agendas in the wake of the September 11 attacks in the USA. The fight against terrorism in Northern Ireland over the past 40 years saw to that.…

BY ANDREW CAVE
THE THOUGHT of burying millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide underground is not for the risk-averse. If carbon dioxide is injected into pores in the earth’s crust that previously held oil and gas for thousands of years, will it stay there as long?…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRENCH and Dutch researchers are warning that the health of oysters and mussels are being risked by CO2 emissions’ making the world’s seas significantly more acidic. The Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO) and the Oceanographic laboratory of the French National Scientific Research Centre (CNRS) warn the 25 million tonnes of CO2 absorbed by the sea daily has lowered global oceans’ average pH by 0.1 units since the industrial revolution, (making it more acidic), and they have noted projections this pH will fall a further 0.4 units by 2100.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

WITH the accession of Cardinal Josef Ratzinger to the papal throne in 2005, some Vatican watchers have predicted a tightening of administrative procedures in the world’s smallest sovereign state. The Vatican clearly has a global punch through the Roman Catholic Church, and this has raised concerns about the state’s control of its banks amongst its detractors.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Dubai
CURBING the counterfeiting and smuggling of established companies’ goods has become a pressing concern for international businesses wanting to protect their brands in the growing economies of the Middle East.

Although certain sectors are suffering more than others, the issue has been deemed serious enough for leading multinationals to team together last year to create a Brand Owners’ Protection Group (BPG) in the Middle East to tackle the region’s part in generating the US$500 billion global counterfeit trade.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE MANAGING director of Unilever has warned of a looming clash over raw material supplies between a food industry serving a growing global population and a biofuel sector fighting global warming.

Guenther Buck told a European Parliament green group hearing: “Land availability for both food and fuel is very questionable.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN honey producers want more European Union-(EU)-funded research into their sector and better coordination of member states’ national honey promotion programmes. The call from FEEDM – the European Federation of Honey Packers and Distributors – and EU general food producers association COPA-COGECA comes in an assessment of the EU’s 2005 regulation funding honey data collection and marketing.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SPECIAL training programmes are being launched by the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) to spread Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) procedures in Bangladesh’s food manufacturing sector. These formal food health check systems are not widespread in many developing countries, lessening the appeal of their food exports to high value rich county markets.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has presented Inventors of the Year 2007 awards to two pharmaceutical research teams, for developing new and successful medicines with a global impact. Professor Marc Feldmann, of Britain’s Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Imperial College, London, received a lifetime achievement award for identifying the role of cytokines in the treatment of autoimmune disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis and finding a treatment, “which has helped millions of people all over the world”, said a Brussels statement.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) transport Commissioner Jacques Barrot has acted to shore up the shaky future of EU global positioning satellite network Galileo, which has been designed to offer hauliers reliable high-tech navigation services from 2010. Squabbles amongst the consortium chosen to build Galileo’s network and satellites over allocation of work have been highlighted in a report to the EU Council of Ministers from Barrot, who voiced “concern” over “the status of concession negotiations.”…