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Keith Nuthall
BOOMING west African oil state Equatorial Guinea is to pump US$3.7 million into a four-year airport and air traffic control improvement project. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is helping prepare the plan, which will ensure airports meet international standards, restructure the civil aviation authority, strengthen ATC, improve documentation handling, assess staff and upgrade skills.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SITTING in a comfortable flybe. seat, maybe flying home from a colourful continental European destination, you will already know how Britain’s European Union (EU) membership improves your life.

Those simple passport control procedures at continental airports – if there were are any at all – are a direct result of the demolition of national borders by Brussels.…

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
AMERICAN scientists have developed technology that could help fight a major garden industry pest, detecting and identifying the presence of black vine weevils through the computerised interpretation of their bodily vibrations. James R. Fisher, entomologist from the USA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS), has developed a wand-like microphone that can be inserted onto a large nail placed at the root in nursery pots.…

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.…

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
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 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
THE UNITED Nations Food & Agricultural Organisation (FAO) has warned that the number of domesticated livestock breeds worldwide is declining sharply, with 1,350 of the roughly 6,300 FAO registered breeds threatened by extinction or already extinct. The problem has been discussed by a special FAO meeting of national coordinators on animal genetic resources, which is developing a global plan to halt their disappearance.…