Canada to close ports to Denmark over disputed shrimp: sources
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ST. JOHN'S, Nfld. (CP) - Canada will close its ports to Denmark on Thursday, an escalation in a dispute between the two countries over shrimp caught just outside Canadian jurisdiction, federal sources say.
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Canada on Thursday said it had found a  suspected new case of mad cow disease, although the United  States said it would not change plans to resume limited  Canadian cattle imports after a devastating 20-month ban.
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The European Commission has reportedly dropped its proposals to close depleted cod grounds in the North Sea, Irish Sea and the west of Scotland.
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About a fifth of cod fishing grounds in the North Sea would be closed for the whole of next year under draconian proposals by the European commission, published yesterday and designed to replenish seriously depleted stocks.
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Denmark's consumer affairs minister resigned Wednesday after a Parliamentary audit criticized his ministry for failing to carry out food safety inspections.Comment
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Canada and the United States  finalized a deal to end a long-standing trade dispute over  softwood lumber on Saturday after ironing out final details on  the sidelines of World Trade Organization talks in Geneva.
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Danish troops will be replaced by a small aerial surveillance unit Denmark will withdraw its troops from Iraq by August, Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen has said.Comment
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Denmark agreed to stop taking North Atlantic shrimp after Canada threatened to deny its boats port privileges for having exceeded quotas of the Organization of Northwest Atlantic Fisheries (OPANO).
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OTTAWA (CP) - Canada and the European Union want to move beyond their long-running argument about fishing off the Grand Banks to attack overfishing on a global basis.
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Many Canadian internet pharmacies supplying Amer-icans with cheap prescription drugs will be forced to close under new licensing restrictions proposed by regulators in the prairie province of Manitoba.
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The U.S. Coast Guard is withdrawing plans to periodically close 6,475 square kilometres of the Great Lakes for live machine-gun exercises, three congressmen said Monday.
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The Norwegian Shipowners Association threatened on Monday to lock out more oil and gas rig workers, a move analysts said could result in a near shutdown of the third-largest petroleum exporter&#39;s production and drive world oil prices even higher.
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia  - Canada will buy at least six patrol ships to assert its sovereignty claim in the Arctic, but Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Monday backed away from an election pledge for navy icebreakers that would ply the waters of the Northwest Passage all year round.
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British fishing grounds are to be remain open under a European deal agreed in Brussels . The areas in the North Sea , West of Scotland, and Irish Sea cod fishing grounds were threatened with closure to conserve stocks.
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Kuwait's Prime Minister says newspapers publishing scoops about anti-terror operations could be closed.
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The board of Russia&#39;s embattled oil giant Yukos will halt crude supplies to Baltic refinery Mazeikiu Nafta until the end of the year, the Interfax agency reported Monday - just hours after Yukos confirmed a similar move involving a Chinese company.
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ST. JOHN'S, Nfld. (CP) - Supporters braved blizzard conditions Thursday to see Newfoundland Premier Danny Williams off to Ottawa, where he and the prime minister will attempt to close a deal on offshore energy revenues.