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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Parliament has supported proposals to allow Finland re-impose restrictions beer its citizens can import from Russia, because of fears about booming cross-border sales. Under European law, private travellers can normally import 200 litres of beer from third countries into Finland.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WITH the EU banning imports of poultry and poultry meat from Romania, Turkey and Croatia, because of outbreaks in these countries of bird flu, European and global health authorities are concerned about the disease moving to sub-Saharan Africa, where it would be almost impossible to stamp out.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Health Organisation (WHO) has welcomed the spread of programmes tackling violence as a public health priority instead of just a crime problem, with the WHO saying such an approach fosters effective holistic policies. A recent conference, the 2nd Milestones of a Global Campaign for Violence Prevention, in San Francisco, co-hosted by the WHO and the California Wellness Foundation, heard of many new national models.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN plastics companies paid together hundreds-of-thousands of dollars in kickbacks to the toppled Saddam Hussein regime, the Independent Inquiry Committee into the UN Iraq Oil for Food programme scandal has claimed. A report said they paid Iraq to secure humanitarian supply contracts under the scheme, out of 2,200 companies overall.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) is considering an application for the creation of three new civil aviation routes linking the Russian far east and South Korea, crossing North Korean air space over the Sea of Japan. An ICAO meeting concluded that the “extreme high cost of fuel has elevated this to an urgent request”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
OILS and fats companies paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in kickbacks to the toppled Saddam Hussein regime, the Independent Inquiry Committee into the UN Iraq Oil for Food programme scandal has claimed. More than 200 suppliers from countries including Jordan, India, Indonesia, Russia and Egypt paid Iraq to secure contracts to supply humanitarian supplies.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GLOBAL warming doomsayers regularly warn of a catastrophic meltdown of Greenland’s ice cap, switching off the North Atlantic Drift, plunging Britain into the nightmare of Siberia-style winters and turning southern Europe into a desert. But they should check the latest data from the European Space Agency (ESA): it says the Greenland ice cap is getting bigger.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SUGAR, honey and biscuit supply companies paid together hundreds-of-thousands of dollars in kickbacks to the toppled Saddam Hussein regime, the Independent Inquiry Committee into the UN Iraq Oil for Food programme scandal has claimed. There were 79 suppliers of these confectionary-related products (76 supplied sugar) named in a report, who paid Iraq to secure humanitarian supply contracts under the scheme, out of 2,200 companies overall.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FIRST-EVER multilateral treaty covering the Balkans has been signed in Athens, creating a European Energy Community, linking the gas (and electricity) policies of south-eastern Europe with those of the European Union (EU). Indeed, under the treaty, Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Albania, Romania, Bulgaria and Kosovo must apply EU energy legislation, including related environmental and competition laws.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A ROW between Russian gas monopoly Gazprom and the Ukraine over transit payment arrangements is threatening to disrupt vital gas deliveries to western Europe. Gazprom wants to end a barter system, where it supplies the Ukraine about 23 billion cubic metres of gas annually for transporting supplies westwards.…