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BY KEITH NUTHALL
NEW SCALED-DOWN European Commission proposals to tighten controls on the EU chemical industry are unlikely to please the United States, according to Washington’s commerce secretary Don Evans. He told journalists in Brussels “I’m going to tell you that although I have not read the draft, I’m going to tell you that it’s not enough.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NEW SCALED-DOWN European Commission proposals to tighten controls on the EU chemical industry are unlikely to please the United States, according to Washington’s commerce secretary Don Evans. He told journalists in Brussels “I’m going to tell you that although I have not read the draft, I’m going to tell you that it’s not enough.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations (UN) ‘fourth committee’ (on special political affairs) has started debating atomic radiation, based on a report on the subject by the UN scientific committee. It warns that ill health is still being created worldwide by environmental ionizing radiation, notably in the Ukraine, Russia and Belarus because of the Chernobyl disaster.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A UNITED Nations (UN) Convention against Transnational Organised Crime has come into force, imposing a duty on ratifying countries to outlaw membership of an organised criminal group, which it defines legally. So far, said the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), 48 countries have ratified it, including Monaco, Nigeria, Serbia & Montenegro, Peru, Spain, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Canada, Philippines, Tajikistan, Albania, France, Argentina, Mexico, Turkey, China, Norway and Afghanistan.…

BY MARK ROWE
PEPSICO, which is marking 50 years of operations in the Middle East, finds itself at something of a crossroads. An all-American company, in a region where anti-Americanism has rarely been so widespread, it faces several challenges to ensure that it will continue to operate successfully in the Middle East for a further half a century.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A SUPERMARKET boom in sub-Saharan Africa is raising standards in food production and distribution, which many small producers struggle to meet, said the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). It says the growth of mass retail in South Africa, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Namibia, Botswana and Swaziland is having “a direct impact on the lives of millions of small farmers.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations is warning that without speedier action by the US-run Coalition Provisional Authority to assume the responsibilities of the UN Oil for Food Programme, a November 21 scheme closure deadline could be missed. UN Office of the Iraq Programme executive director Benon Sevan also blamed deteriorating security.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A UNITED Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Protocol on Heavy Metals will come into force on December 29 following its ratification by Germany. It is the 16th country to confirm the treaty, the minimum number required for it to be binding on all 35 signatory countries, covering western and eastern Europe.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States government has thrown doubt on whether the China has scrapped ‘temporary’ safeguard duties that were imposed by Beijing last May on nine steel products imported from the US, tariffs that were supposed to lapse by November 2002.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD anti-money laundering body, the Financial Action Task Force, has released best practice guidelines to help auditors, police and governments ensure seemingly innocent charities are not being used as fund-raising fronts by bloodthirsty international terrorists.

Indeed, in certain cases, its advice warns, charities have been “a mere sham that existed simply to funnel money to terrorists.”…