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BY KEITH NUTHALL, ALAN OSBORN, MJ DESCHAMPS, MARK ROWE, BRENDAN DE BEER and MAKKI MARSEILLES

IT has been a real slog – persuading the European Union’s (EU) 27 member states to implement detailed plans to manage their water resources on a river basin basis, rather than artificial political boundaries bearing little relation to hydrology.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE

Kurdish Iraq tobacco market is Middle East black market hub

International tobacco companies entered Kurdish Iraq after the US-led invasion. But political instability has made this a tough market to operate in. Black market trades thrive. And there are a wide variety of brands from around the world available.…

BY MAKKI MARSEILLES

Greek smoking ban prompts smokers and tavern owners to claim human rights violations

Already reeling from financial crisis, the September smoking ban in Greece has created financial losses to bar and pub owners. They claim the laws are not clear and create confusion.…

BY KEITN NUTHALL

RUSSIA is so corrupt, it is regarded as having more graft than earthquake-shattered Haiti, the 2010 corruption perceptions index of Transparency International has declared. It placed Russia at 154th out of 178 countries in its corruption rankings, level with failed narco-state Guinea-Bissau and worse than Haiti (146th) and Pakistan (143th).…

BY KEITN NUTHALL

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THE NORTH Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) is taking the threat of cyberattacks on business and government computing networks so seriously, it is staging cyberwarfare trials. The world’s strongest military alliance in November held the Cyber Coalition 2010 exercise near Mons, Belgium, and remote locations to test cyber-attack agencies and NATO strategic decision making.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

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A UNITED Nations campaign could – if successful – significantly increase worldwide demand for soap. Its Global Handwashing Day has highlighted how diarrhoeal and acute respiratory diseases kill 3.5 million children aged under five annually, and that washing their hands after using toilets and before handling food can reduce such deaths by 40% and 23% respectively.…

BY GERARD O’DWYER

Sweden’s cheap’n’chic fashion group Hennes & Mauritz (H&M) plans to use its strengthened financial position to roll-out new stores. However, construction hold-ups in southern Europe, with retail space shortages, will reduce the number of planned new openings worldwide in 2010 by around 20 to 220 stores

"We have had to curtail our new opening targets.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

NEW competitors for shipping gas to the European Union (EU) from the Caucasus are emerging, while Turkmenistan has announced a major new gas find. The Turkmen government is claiming guaranteed gas supplies to Europe, by quadrupling exports over the next 20 years, after unveiling a major new gas field.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

IT’S tough for motorists driving in the dark – especially on gloomy nights where there are no street lights. More accidents result. The development of intelligent transport equipment, including in-vehicle cameras, linked to automatic braking and stability systems, is making a difference.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission is threatening legal action at the European Court of Justice against Belgium, the Czech Republic and Greece, for not implementing European Union directive 2008/112/EC on the classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures. It mandates safety labelling and collating information to protect the environment and human health from chemical mixtures, including cosmetics, soaps and their ingredients.…