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STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

FISH farmers in southern Chile are being offered space technology to protect themselves from Harmful Algal Blooms that swarm off the country’s southern coasts, costing the region’s 360 fish farms millions of dollars in lost stocks. The blooms not only poison healthy seawater, they suck in oxygen, asphyxiating caged fish that cannot escape.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

NORWAY has unveiled the arguments it will use at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) when claiming that the European Union’s (EU) new anti-dumping regime on farmed Norwegian salmon breaks the WTO’s Anti-Dumping Agreement. Oslo is claiming that Brussels has broken four of this WTO agreement’s articles by imposing duties on farmed salmon as a single product, "whether or not the farmed salmon consists of whole fish or filleted portions of varying sizes and form".…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

RUSSIA has sent another threat to Europe over gas supplies, undermining its reputation as a potential reliable energy partner for its western neighbours. Semyon Vainshtok, the president of Russia pipeline monopoly Transneft has told the daily newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta that Russia has "overfed Europe with crude".…

BY DEIRDRE MASON

FROM the scorching heat of Kenya’s northern border with the Sudan to the unforgiving conditions of Afghanistan, International Red Cross nurse Jenny Hayward-Karlsson has seen it all during a varied and challenging 20-year career working in the world’s war zones.…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved the acquisition by Australia-based explosives and detonators business Orica Ltd of non-North American and Australian business owned by Norwegian competitor Dyno Nobel ASA. The positive ruling under Brussels’ competition regulation powers follows Orica’s pledge to sell subsidiary Orica Scandinavia Mining Services, which runs explosives services in Norway and Sweden.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

RUSSIA has sent another threat to Europe over gas supplies, undermining its reputation as a potential reliable energy partner for its western neighbours. Semyon Vainshtok, the president of Russia pipeline monopoly Transneft has told the daily newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta that Russia has "overfed Europe with crude".…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

NORWAY has unveiled the arguments it will use at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) when claiming that the European Union’s (EU) new anti-dumping regime on farmed Norwegian salmon breaks the WTO’s Anti-Dumping Agreement. Oslo is claiming that Brussels has broken four of this WTO agreement’s articles by imposing duties on farmed salmon as a single product, "whether or not the farmed salmon consists of whole fish or filleted portions of varying sizes and form".…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE NORWAY government is to launch a disputes case at the WTO over the EU’s decision to impose a minimum price of Euro 2.8 per kilogram of fresh and frozen Norwegian salmon exported to EU member states.

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BY STEVEN SWINDELLS, in Johannesburg

AFRICA’S tobacco leaf producers are facing troubled times.

Instead of capitalising on crop and currency woes in rival Brazil, too many producers across the world’s poorest continent are battling drought and low selling prices.

Brazil’s problems should have opened a door of opportunity for leading African producers to claim back at least part of the world leaf market lost to south American and other producers when Zimbabwe’s crop collapsed amid the violent seizure of white-owned farm land.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

NEW EFSA BOSS BUDGET ROW – LATEST ADVICE

THE FRENCHWOMAN appointed to take the vacant top executive director job at the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) will need all her political skills to solve a potential budget crisis facing the agency.…