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BY KEITH NUTHALL
A PAPER released to the United Nations’ 11th Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice has claimed that the overwhelming majority of reported fraud cases are in the developing world, not rich countries. Furthermore, it claimed that – looking at 1999-2002 figures, 51% of such cases are reported in Africa.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A FORMER American government veterinarian – scheduled to speak at Canada’s parliament this week – has claimed the US government is hiding cases of BSE in the United States. Speaking in Edmonton, Canada, Dr Lester Friedlander said United States Department of Agriculture ex-colleagues have told him of cases that the USDA has chosen not to announce.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
UNITED Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan has admitted “great relief” that the independent committee probing the Iraq Oil-for-Food programme scandal found no evidence of his wrongly influencing the award of a contract to a firm employing his son Kojo.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE CANADIAN government is to impose 15% additional duties on American oyster imports, because of Washington’s failure to follow a World Trade Organisation (WTO) ruling that it should scrap its Byrd Amendment law on protective tariffs. This grants US companies additional compensation for successfully pushing their federal government into erecting anti-dumping or countervailing duties on imports deemed subsidised or cut-priced.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL and MONICA DOBIE
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has sent a critical diplomatic note to the United States about its ban on air passengers carrying cigarette lighters onboard US planes. The EU Council of Ministers voted to tell the US state department of its concerns about “the effectiveness of such a provision, given that current technology does not allow the effective detection of the lighters”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THAT poor environmental standards harm people’s health is the raison d’etre of environmental health officers committed to improving living conditions across the board. And that the world’s environment is becoming ever dirtier and polluted is a universal assumption: but by how much?…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A FORMER American government packing plant veterinarian says the US government is hiding cases of BSE in the United States. During a speech in Edmonton, Canada, Dr Lester Friedlander stated ex-colleagues with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) have told him of cases the department has chosen not to announce.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations’ Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is sending veterinary experts to North Korea to help control an outbreak of bird flu. Pyongyang fears there have been outbreaks on between two and three poultry farms in one the country’s few growing sectors.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE YEAR 2007 will be a significant one for Romania. It is the year that the country is scheduled to join the European Union (EU); it is also the year that Romania’s second nuclear power unit is expected to come on line.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has launched an e-tourism initiative website, aimed at helping developing countries market their tourist industries and attractions. The project includes the development of online booking systems, enabling tourists to reserve local accommodation and transport services.…