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BY KEITH NUTHALL, EMMA JACKSON and MIRIAM ELDER

THE CANADIAN government has denied using its security forces to intimidate and terrorise a Russian immigrant, who later fled to Britain and committed suicide this week, jumping with his family from a Glasgow tower block.…

BY GARRY PIERRE-PIERRE

A CONTINUING flow of seriously injured people continue to provide deep challenges to nurses at the Port-au-Prince’s barely functioning hospitals, nearly two weeks after a massive earthquake overwhelmed medical staff.

We try to do the best we can," said Enid Paret, a nurse at the University Hospital, the Haitian capital’s largest, which was damaged by the quake but still operates.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

CANADA’S 1,197-kilometre Mackenzie Valley gas pipeline has taken a major step towards being built, with a Canadian government joint review panel concluding it would be economically beneficial and "avoid significant adverse environmental impacts". Its recommendations make it more likely Canada’s National Energy Board will approve the Northwest Territories to Alberta link.…

BY ALAN OSBORN,ANCA GURZU and KEITH NUTHALL

THE GLOBAL trade in illicit tobacco is huge and growing and a significant source of dirty money worldwide. Tobacco multinational British American Tobacco (BAT) estimates that 6.3% of cigarettes worldwide are illicit products (either counterfeit, smuggled or sold domestically on the black market), which makes 332 billion sticks, and that is a lot of cigarettes.…

BY MARK GODFREY

IT has not traditionally featured on prospectors’ radar but Mongolia is quickly emerging as an Asian oil exporter. Thanks to rising oil demand from China, the Petroleum Authority of Mongolia has inked production-sharing agreements on 12 oil fields with explorers from north America, Australia and China.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL, EMMA JACKSON and ERIC LYMAN

THE COPENHAGEN climate change conference ended on December 18 with an accord where key world economies promised to make binding agreements to cut carbon emissions. But detail on exactly how much will be settled at a later date, meaning its long term effects on the oil and gas industry are unclear.…

BY GEORGE STONE

GHANA, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are Africa’s latest upstream hotspots as major energy firms seek new provinces outside of regional heavyweight oil producers Nigeria and Angola. But jockeying for position has already led to friction between governments and the industry.…

BY CRAIG HOWIE

GERI Jenkins has seen more than most in her 32 years as a registered nurse in California.

Recently, she said, an uninsured patient was admitted to San Diego Medical Center suffering from acute respiratory failure. Rather than demand immediate care, the desperately ill patient requested that his treatment wait for a week – until he turned 65 – when it would be paid for by the government’s medicare programme for senior citizens.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA and KEITH NUTHALL

JUST two weeks after Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper visited India, he and Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh have announced that they have struck a civilian nuclear cooperation agreement. Strangely this revelation came outside both countries, in Trinidad & Tobago, where both men were participating in the 2009 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

TIME was when video games were simple pastimes, basic computer fun with classics such as ‘Space Invaders’ and ‘Asteroids’. But that is ‘so 1980s’. In the 21st century, the games of choice are interactive and involve spending money – the name is massively multiplayer online games (MMOG).…