UN lifts beluga caviar sales ban
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The United Nations lifts a ban on the sale of beluga caviar, the most expensive variety.
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The online auction house eBay Inc. said Tuesday it will ban cross-border trade of ivory products, following a study by a wildlife group that found nine out of 10 of the items sold on the Internet is probably illegal.
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A court in India on Friday lifted  a regional ban on Coca-Cola  and PepsiCo  drinks,  which had been imposed after an environmental group said they  contained unsafe levels of pesticides.
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MOSCOW, Dec 19 (IPS) - When Russia agreed to lift its ban on import of  Polish meat and dairy products, it was something of a diplomatic  breakthrough.
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Cuba announces a ban on commercial transactions in dollars in response to tighter US sanctions.
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The European Union will lift sanctions on US imports after President George W. Bush signed a law replacing an illegal export tax subsidy with a $145 billion package of new corporate tax cuts and a buyout for tobacco farmers.
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Fishing nations led by Iceland and Russia have blocked U.N. negotiators from imposing a full-fledged ban against destructive bottom trawling on the high seas. After weeks of talks in New York, a United Nations committee that oversees high seas fisheries failed to gain unanimous support this week for ending unregulated bottom trawling.
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The injunction stopping a BBC report on the cash-for-honours probe has been lifted.
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Uefa lifts the suspension on European and international games being played in Israel.
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Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is lifting a ban on Italian former settlers returning to Libya.
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BEIRUT -- Israel lifted its sea blockade of Lebanon yesterday, ending the country's two months of isolation as the task of preventing the entry of Hezbollah weapons falls to international warships patrolling offshore.
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Oct. 12, 2004 - The great white shark won a bid for protection Tuesday as parties to a global wildlife treaty determined the world&#39;s most ferocious deep-sea predator was under threat from excessive and unregulated trade.
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EU foreign ministers agreed to lift  an arms embargo on Libya on Monday, despite fears for Bulgarian  and Palestinian medical workers sentenced to death there, but  imposed a visa ban on senior officials from Myanmar.
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African countries agree to extend a ban on ivory exports, after a one-off sale of some ivory stocks.
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Online auction site eBay will ban all  international trade of elephant ivory on its sites, the company  said on Tuesday in a move welcomed by an animal welfare group  which found the bulk of the ivory was most likely illegal.
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UN nuclear watchdog says Iran has agreed to lift its ban on inspectors visiting a controversial facility.
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The UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon says Israel has lifted its sea blockade of the country.