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BY KEITH NUTHALL
GHANDI would have approved. Peaceful protest has long been a political weapon, and rights of public assembly and demonstration protect its use. But on the Internet? Italian Radical Euro MP Marco Cappato wants the concept of cyber-civil-disobedience to be written into European law, allowing protesters to be naughty online, as long as it’s in a good cause.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE AERONAUTICAL Telecommunication Planning Task Force of the International Civil Aviation Organisation has concluded that many problems impeding air industry communications in Africa are down to “human factors in terms of lack of…resources and training,” as well as shortages of networks and equipment.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE LEGAL formalities for creating the Single European Sky are approaching completion. The initial proposal from the European Commission for integrating the EU’s national air traffic control authorities into a continental ATC system has now been approved by the EU member governments and, in slightly amended form, by the European Parliament.…

BY MARK ROWE
ENVIRONMENTAL organisations together with a local authority have issued a lawsuit against the American government for its alleged contribution to global warming. The suit filed in the US District Court in San Francisco claims that two American export credit agencies illegally provided US$32 billion in financing for oil fields, pipelines and coal-fired power plants over the past 10 years without assessing their contribution to global warming.…

Keith Nuthall
POLITICAL agreement has been reached at the European Union’s Council of Ministers over a proposed harmonisation of national accounting laws for businesses that do not yet have to apply International Accounting Standards. National governments are keen to see the proposal swiftly become law and have forwarded their common position to the European Parliament with a request that it approves the proposed directive “at the earliest possible opportunity.”…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE UNITED States Congress is to take a close look at an allegedly fraudulent and

secret 1993 purchase of a failed California life-insurance company, a deal that has led to criticism being levelled at the US Department of Justice.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
A DEAL over financing the construction of a proposed Bangalore international airport in southern India has been delayed beyond its original September deadline. A Siemens-led consortium has yet to sign a concession agreement and is waiting for amendments to Indian aviation legislation to pass through the national parliament.…

BY MATT WELLS, in New York
A NEW survey of business leaders in the United States carried out by the security professionals’ organisation ASIS International, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and the US Chamber of Commerce has indicated that around US$59 billion dollars-worth of intellectual property and information were stolen in America over the year to last June.…

BY MARK ROWE
ENVIRONMENTAL organisations and an American local authority have issued a lawsuit against the US government for its contribution to global warming, a move that may have important repercussions for the insurance industry.

A lawsuit filed in the US District Court in San Francisco claims that two American export credit agencies illegally provided US$32billion in financing for oil fields, pipelines and coal-fired power plants over the past 10 years without assessing their contribution to global warming.…

BY JONATHAN THOMSON
BRITISH investors have been given the opportunity to help produce the world’s first air powered car.

French inventor Guy Nègre and his company Moteur Development International (MDI) unveiled their concept to industry and Government officials in September (20th), hopeful of establishing manufacturing units in the UK.…