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BY ALAN OSBORN
IT is probably true, as some anti-tobacco campaigners claim, that if the European Union (EU) had had the statutory authority to act in the public health area in recent years, then the legal crackdown on smokers would have been far tougher than it has been.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE RELEASE of the main report of the Volcker inquiry into the United Nations’ oil for food scandal could strengthen reformers within the global body seeking tougher auditing controls and greater independence for its secretariat. New controversial US ambassador to the UN John Bolton said the report underlined the need for greater auditing and management controls, including by an independent audit board.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union is being pressed to fund France’s plan to establish a European Digital Library as a rival to US-based Internet search engines such as Google, which wants to scan 15 million books. A second meeting of the library’s advisory council also heard that Germany, Spain, Poland, Hungary and Italy have formally agreed to be involved in the project.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
EXPOSURE to pesticides kills farmers so why are we still using them?

In Britain, farmers, most of them without knowing and unaware that their symptoms are linked to insecticide use, have poisoned their bodies by repeatedly being exposed to these dangerous chemicals.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE RELEASE of the main report of the Volcker inquiry into the United Nations’ oil for food scandal could strengthen reformers within the global body seeking tougher auditing controls and greater independence for its secretariat. It blamed administrative complexity involving shared powers over the Oil for Food Programme by the UN Security Council and its secretariat for creating a power vacuum, readily filled by Iraq’s former Saddam Hussein regime.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice has ruled that European Union (EU) institutions have the legal authority to freeze the funds of private individuals “in connection with the fight against international terrorism”, if such action is sanctioned by the UN Security Council.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A MARINE litter clean-up campaign involving Scottish fishermen has received a global United Nations award. Glasgow PR firm Weber Shandwick picked up the 2005 UN Grand Award for outstanding achievement in public relations for its Save the North Sea campaign.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE RELEASE of the main report of the Volcker inquiry into the United Nations’ oil for food scandal should strengthen reformers within the global body seeking tougher auditing controls. Controversial US ambassador John Bolton called for an expanded independent UN audit board role.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has warned major international donors have given only 20% of the money needed to control bird flu in poultry and animals before the epidemic spreads again this winter. The FAO wants mass vaccination campaigns in east Asian countries such as Indonesia and Vietnam, where the disease is most entrenched and from where a global epidemic is most likely to spring.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A WORLD Health Organisation (WHO) report has called for public health teams in malarial zones to ensure new anti-malarial drugs are used in combination with other medicines, to weaken the ability of the disease’s parasite to become immune.…