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KEITH NUTHALL
THE NEWLY re-named international Aquatic Animal Heath Standards Commission (formerly the Fish Diseases Commission) has warned of an outbreak of infectious haematopoietic necrosis amongst farmed trout in Austria. So far 3,500 fish have died or been culled at a farm in Salzburg province, with the commission saying 8,400 fish are vulnerable to exposure, it said.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MASSACRES in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) civil war and the murky business dealings that have fuelled the conflict are to be the first focus of the International Criminal Court (ICC), its chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo has said.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
SIGNIFICANT resistance has been expressed by leading industrial groups to proposed European Union legislation forcing telecommunications utilities to retain significant amounts of detailed electronic customer data for use by law enforcement agencies. Under current regulations, only data for billing purposes and fixing faults must be retained but the EU is reported to be heading towards retention of lists of dialled telephone numbers, logs on the location of active mobile phones, URLs of visited web sites and records of e-mail recipients, on the grounds that this will help in the fight against organised crime.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
NOBODY likes nuclear waste but nobody has yet thought up a universally-acceptable way of disposing of it. This is as true in Europe as anywhere else. It may be fair to say, however, that some European countries have gone further than the rest of the world in drawing conclusions about the future of nuclear energy as a result of the problems caused by radioactive waste.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
PROPOSALS from the European Commission to exploit the oncoming imposition of International Accounting Standards (IAS) on all multi-nationals operating in the European Union (EU) to simplify tax returns have been attacked by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC).…

BY MARK ROWE
IT would be inappropriate to liken such an obviously gentle man as Omara Khan Massoudi, director of the Kabul National Museum in Afghanistan, to Indiana Jones. Yet while he is certainly no swashbuckling Hollywood figure, there is no doubt that his experiences have far exceeded the traditional remit of the museum curator’s job description.…

BY MARK ROWE
UNESCO has pledged to make greater attempts to bolster Afghanistan’s archaeological sites and historic treasures against decay and the threat of organised international smuggling. A task force of specialists is to set out a budget for developing the Kabul National Museum, preparing proper architectural plans and a timetable for all work to the museum, while progressing wider reconstruction and security work across the country.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
SIGNIFICANT resistance has been expressed by leading industrial groups to proposed European Union legislation forcing telecommunications utilities to retain significant amounts of detailed electronic customer data for use by law enforcement agencies. Under current regulations, only data for billing purposes and fixing faults must be retained but the EU is reported to be heading towards retention of lists of dialled telephone numbers, logs on the location of active mobile phones, URLs of visited web sites and records of e-mail recipients, on the grounds that this will help in the fight against organised crime.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WITH the World Health Organisation securing approval for its long debated Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, attention is now turning to ratifications by member countries: 40 are needed for it to come into force, Last minute concessions were made at the WHO to bring dissenters such as Germany and the United States on board, who had objected to the convention’s insistence on signatory governments banning tobacco advertising; both countries said this broke constitutional guarantees of free speech.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A WORLD Trade Organisation disputes settlement panel has dismissed claims made by India that American textile rules of origin regulations are illegal under international law. New Delhi had claimed that changes to the USA’s 1996 Uruguay Round Agreements Act broke commitments within the WTO Rules of Origin Agreement that member countries do not discriminate in favour of one trading partner.…