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KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States has confirmed its appeal against a World Trade Organisation (WTO) panel ruling that some of its cotton production and export subsidies break global commerce rules.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
TINY, mountainous and very very friendly to rich people with plenty of cash to stash away, Andorra ought to be a money launderer’s paradise. On balance, anti money laundering people say that it is not, though the relentless culture of secrecy about financial matters makes this impossible to say with certainty.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A USA government study has admitted that global warming will cause hurricanes to become even more powerful and destructive that they have shown themselves to be during this year’s turbulent tropical storm season. In the most comprehensive study on hurricanes performed to date, experts from the USA Department of Commerce’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton, New Jersey, have predicted hurricanes could intensify an extra half step on the established five-step scale for their destructive power by the 2080s, drawing more energy from warmer seas.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EU has appealed against a WTO ruling that its sugar exporters are getting more subsidies that they should under global trade rules. However, the ruling, now confirmed by the WTO, could help the European Commission push its reforms of the EU sugar common market organisation onto unwilling member states.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) citizens can expect to suffer from more insect-born diseases as global warming creates climatic conditions favouring the breeding of mosquitoes, fleas, ticks and other pests, a European Environment Agency (EEA) report has warned. It added that heat-related conditions such as heatstroke were also likely to increase, as well as diseases sparked by pollution after flooding generated by climate change inspired increased rainfall.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH
THE INCOMNG European Commissioner for Fisheries and Maritime Policy has held out little hope that the industry could be given any state-aided relief on diesel fuel.

Joe Borg, former Foreign Affairs Minister of Malta, told a European Parliament hearing this week (5-10) that he had every sympathy about the problems the ever rising fuel price was causing but doubted that the crisis could be tackled at a European Union (EU) level.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
FOR a group of office workers in Sydney, Australia, moving into their new building was – surprisingly – a thrill. And it was not because of fancy cappuccino coffee machines or top line computers but because it was the country’s first office building with a five star Australian Building Greenhouse Rating (ABGR).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have asked the European Commission to provide them with information about the cost of going it alone with building an ITER prototype in France, should there be no global consensus on where this should be sited.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE AMERICAN government is going into overdrive to challenge a World Trade Organisation (WTO) panel ruling that some of its cotton production subsidies and export subsidies illegally break global commerce rules. Washington has already announced an appeal against the decision on a complaint from Brazil that US subsidies have depressed global prices and enabled American exporters to unfairly elbow out competitors.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has voiced concerns that the global tightening in nuclear material transport security is hampering the treatment of hospital patients with potentially lifesaving isotopes. These are used in nuclear medicine for diagnosis and therapy, treating cancer, diagnosing heart attacks or sterilising medical equipment.…