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BY MATTHEW BRACE
FIGHTING money laundering is about getting your hands dirty. The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) may pronounce global standards that it would like jurisdictions to follow, but all governments need help, and often regional bodies are better placed to do the detailed work than more remote global organisations.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
LUNG cancer, blamed on smoking by most health professionals, is declining throughout the European Union (EU) amongst men, but not women, according to a new British Medical Journal report. The UK performs well, with lung cancer mortality rates for both men and women falling.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States will have to review countervailing measures it has imposed on privatised British and Spanish steel-makers after a World Trade Organisation (WTO) disputes panel ruled they were partly imposed in breach of WTO rules. The panel however rejected claims that the US had erred in a sunset review of measures imposed against France’s Usinor regarding certain corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products, which should be allowed to stand.…

BY MARK ROWE
IT’S summer, so in southern Europe there are, once again, forest fires. Villagers and firefighters in Spain and Portugal have been battling wildfires in recent days that have destroyed thousands of hectares of forest and scrubland, while French firefighters have also fought blazes in Provence, the Var department in the Côte d’Azur, and Greoux-les-Bains, near the French Alps.…

BY MARK ROWE
INTRODUCTION

WEATHER forecasting has evolved somewhat beyond the reliance of medieval truisms such as rain on St Swithin’s Day meant 40 more days of showers. But better weather forecasts are only any use if we are able to respond to such information accordingly and effectively.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has agreed to acquire equity of up to US$30 million in Russian and Ukrainian subsidiaries of France’s Lesaffre & Cie, the world’s leading producer of yeast and the fifth largest producer of malt.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON
IT may never equal the four-fold rise in the price of a barrel of crude oil that took place between 1973 and 1974, but this year’s hike to more than US$60 a barrel has given all those industries dependent on the stability of fuel prices a severe shock, and the aviation industry is one of those reeling from the increases.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IMPORTERS of pullovers from China worried about the exhaustion of a new quota designed to limit Chinese clothing exports to the European Union (EU) may be offered a legal solution for ensuring their lines can enter the EU.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ITALY has become the fourth European Union (EU) country this year to press the European Commission to allow crisis distillation to deal with a major wine grape surplus, warning the situation is so serious, riots could erupt in wine-growing areas.…

BY MARK ROWE
CAN insurers help reduce risk by funding initiatives for the emergency services? Companies are increasingly looking at how they can support emergency services and, thereby, lessen the impact of insurance claims. The thinking is by helping to improve the efficiency of emergency services, the impact of natural and manmade disasters, including terrorism, can be mitigated in terms of people making insurance claims.…