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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE NEED to help developing countries acquire the software and technical know-how to interpret space imagery that boosts the environmental management of their territories has been examined at an international conference in the Sudanese capital Khartoum. This regional workshop on the use of space technology for natural resources management, environmental monitoring and disaster management, staged by the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, the European Space Agency and the Sudanese government, heard an appeal from Tanzania for assistance.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GROUNDBREAKING legal watchdog has started its first investigations into whether governments are abiding by the international Aarhus Convention on environmental decision-making and information dissemination. This convention compliance committee can rule on breaches, telling governments they need to release information or consult more widely on proposals.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN ATTACK has been made on the United States, European Union (EU), and other textile importing jurisdictions for waiting until the last minute to abolish most restrictive quotas under the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Agreement on Textile and Clothing.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A TRAINING programme for Croatian judges and prosecutors has been launched involving the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), to enable some of its war crimes cases to be heard in Croatia. The move will help ease the workload of the United Nations-backed tribunal which has been given until 2010 to wind up, preferably by 2008.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MULTINATIONAL paper corporation Stora Enso has agreed to contribute US$500,000 annually for the next five years to a US$2.5 million United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) project to extend basic education in developing countries. Half this money will come from corporate funds and the rest from staff fundraising and in-kind gifts.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A HIGH-LEVEL group on travel industry security involving top officials and ministers from the United States and the European Union will meet twice a year, the European Commission has said, following a meeting with the US Department of Homeland Security.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
NEW technology preventing drowsy drivers from crashing will be included in all Volvo cars and SUVs by the end of the decade, company officials have told the New York auto show.

The warnings include a vibrating steering wheel, the sound of a car driving over rumble strips being played to the driver and a visual warning being projected onto the windshield.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations officials have launched an “immediate and detailed probe” in allegations that a Ukrainian peacekeeper serving in Sierra Leone has used mining equipment “for unauthorised reasons” in a region rich in diamond deposits. The UN said it was acting on reports that the soldier “has been assisting the licensed Sierra Rus mining company to remove spoil material from a mining site” in Kenema district, Eastern Province.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NOBODY likes to be on a blacklist, especially one written by the American government. But every year, the US state department issues a comprehensive rogues gallery of countries involved in the narcotics trade and related criminal problems. One surprising entrant: the United States.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations has unveiled a three-member panel charged with investigating allegations of substantial corruption within its now defunct Oil for Food Programme, under which Iraq’s deposed Baathist regime sold limited supplies of crude, supposedly to fund humanitarian supplies.…