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BY MARK ROWE
AT the start of the 21st century, technology appears set to revolutionise health care in the same way as the discovery of anaesthesia, antiseptics and penicillin. And this is about far more than computer systems that make waiting lists more efficient or advances in keyhole surgery.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WITH United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan facing unprecedented pressure for his resignation over the involvement of his son in the brewing Iraq oil for food scandal, the spotlight has again fallen on the finances of his global body.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE AGREEMENT struck between the European Commission and the United States over the transfer of passenger data to American law enforcement authorities is expected to be approved, having been accepted by an EU data protection committee – the ‘Article 31 Group’.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) is sending legal and accounting specialists to Nigeria and Kenya, to help them trace and recover money stolen by previous corrupt governments. The Vienna-based agency says it will “conduct in-depth assessments of the institutional and legal frameworks” in these countries, making detailed proposals to “overcome obstacles to asset recovery”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States has demanded at the World Trade Organisation that the European Union (EU) hands over an unpublished political agreement between its member government to impose quotas on imports of natural and enriched uranium. Washington claims that this 1994 ‘Corfu Declaration’ effectively blocks imports for 80% of the European enriched uranium market.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GLOBAL tea production in 2003 reached a record high of 3.15 million tonnes, 75,000 tonnes more than in 2002, and although traded tea fell by 2.6% to 1.4 million tonnes, prices remained stable, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) appellate body has dismissed an appeal brought by the United States claiming that a WTO disputes erred when it ruled against Washington’s renewal of anti-dumping duties against Argentine exports of oil country tubular goods (OCTG).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has lost patience with the United States and Canada’s refusal to lift retaliatory tariffs targeting meat products, in place since 1999 because of Brussels’ import ban on certain beef treated with growth hormones. It has launched a World Trade Organisation (WTO) case claiming that Ottawa and Washington are breaking WTO rules by refusing to lift the duties on foodstuffs including Danish premium-quality hams French hams and goose liver pate, and German pork.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) has predicted western European life expectancy is being reduced by two years on average because of fine particulate matter air pollution. These are created when fossils fuels (especially in cars) and wood are burnt, staying in the air for a long time and travelling far from their source.…

Keith Nuthall
THE JAPANESE government has come under pressure from the United States Trade Representative (USTR) office to cut landing and user fees at its major international airports. The call came in advice from USTR deputy Josette Sheeran Shiner, handed over to Japan foreign minister Ichiro Fujisaki, in Washington.…