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BY KEITH NUTHALL
CALLS have been made a the United Nations to renegotiate the Kyoto Protocol to bind advanced developing countries by commitments to cut greenhouse gas emissions. The UN second committee (economic and financial) was warned that otherwise their economic growth would undermine developed world efforts to control emissions, with gases reaching “dangerous levels” by 2015.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Bank has called on emerging market eastern European and central Asian governments not to slavishly follow the priorities of United Nations’ (UN) millennium development goals for health in their region. A new report says these targets “do not address fully the main causes of poor health in Europe and Central Asia, where high burdens of heart disease, lung cancer and injuries reduce life expectancy in many countries”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States International Trade Commission (ITC) has been sharply criticised by a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) panel ruling on a sunset review of countervailing and anti-dumping duties on Canadian corrosion resistant steel exports. Washington’s conclusion that this American steel sub-sector required continued protection because it was in a “weakened state” considering its profits, “is unsupported by substantial evidence and not in accordance with law”, said the panel.…

Keith Nuthall
NORWAY, Iceland and Liechtenstein want the European Union (EU) to include their air carriers in any open skies deals struck, especially with the United States. If these rights are denied to them, these countries said it would “risk fragmentation of the European internal market”.…

Keith Nuthall
THE UNITED States and the European Union (EU) are making real progress towards concluding a comprehensive wine and spirits agreement, Brussels’ outgoing agriculture Commissioner Franz Fischler has told the EU Council of Ministers. The Austrian said that since talks in the long running negotiations had been resumed last month (on wine), the European Commission and the US government have been striving to secure a preliminary deal, upon which a final agreement could be built.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH, in Brussels
THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) incoming agriculture Commissioner signalled a tough approach to New World wine and spirit producers who exploit traditional European geographic names on wine products after she takes up her post on November 1.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States has confirmed its appeal against a World Trade Organisation (WTO) panel ruling that some of its cotton production and export subsidies break global commerce rules.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE LONG-AWAITED civil racketeering trial is under way in the United States, where the US federal government is seeking a record US$280 billion from the American tobacco industry for allegedly misleading the public about the dangers of smoking since the 1960’s.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
INTERSTATE Bakeries Corp. the manufacturers of Twinkies snack cakes and Wonderbread in the United States, has filed for bankruptcy protection. The company blames its financial woes in part to the low-carb craze.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
AMERICAN scientists have developed the first genetic map of a cow, a breakthrough they claim will help reduce animal disease and improve the nutrition and quality of beef products. The research, performed at the Baylor College of Medicine’s Human Genome Sequencing Centre in Houston, Texas, is part of a US$53 million global project to sequence the genome of different breeds of cattle.…