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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation (IFC), of the World Bank Group, has launched an ‘HIV/AIDS Guide for the Mining Sector’, advising mine operators, especially in developing countries, on how to minimise the exposure of their workforce to the disease.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation (IFC), of the World Bank, has launched an ‘HIV/AIDS Guide for the Mining Sector’, which it says can be used by other industries, especially in developing countries, on minimising the exposure of their workforce to the disease.…

Keith Nuthall
INTERNATIONAL tourist travel has rebounded strongly this year from its September 11-attacks induced torpor, the World Tourism Organisation has claimed. Between January and August 2004, the number of international tourist arrivals grew 12% compared to the same months in 2003, said the UN agency.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AUSTRALIA has formally requested extended jurisdiction over its submarine continental shelf beyond the standard 200 nautical miles, granting exclusive rights over oil and gas deposits. The UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf requested extra control of the Great Australian Bight, Kerguelen Plateau, Lord Howe Rise, Exmouth/Wallaby Plateaux, Norfolk/Three Kings, South Tasman Rise and Macquarie Ridge.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A MEETING of the AFI GNSS implementation task force of the International Civil Aviation Organisation’s (ICAO) eastern and southern Africa office has been told of difficulties “establishing reliable communications” between the European satellite navigation system EGNOS and reference and integrity monitoring stations (RIMS) at Addis Ababa – Ethiopia, Bria – the Central African Republic and Nairobi – Kenya.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DIESEL vehicle owners are undermining the efforts of manufacturers to reduce road transport pollution in Europe, a European Environment Agency (EEA) report has claimed, by tuning engines to boost their power. The EEA thinks up to 50% of new diesel vehicles are being modified and that such changes can increase emissions, especially of harmful particles, by as much as three times.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) standing committee for the food chain and animal health has extended the existing ban on imports of South African ostrich meat until March 31, 2005, lengthening it by two months. The committee said it was waiting for official confirmation of an improvement in the bird flu infection of South African ostriches.…

Keith Nuthall
AN INTERNATIONAL organisation devoted to expanding aviation routes worldwide has signed an agreement with the World Tourism Organisation to create and promote new services. The World Route Development Forum and the UN agency will over the next year concentrate on creating new flights to Africa’s “poorest countries as a vital tool for export and investment”, looking at other continents in subsequent years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WANT to sell cigarettes? Go east, young man. That might be the advice that tobacco companies could glean from the latest set of World Health Organisation (WHO) smoking figures. Using 2003 or latest available data, the WHO has collated percentage rate proportions of smoking adults (18 and over), compared with total populations of all but 56 countries: the overwhelming majority of nations.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN ANTIMONY mine in Macedonia will be a focus of an international effort to prevent cross-border environmental threats in south-eastern Europe. The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) have agreed to cooperate on managing pollution risks from the Lojane Mine, which has also been a source of chromium.…