UN probes sugar industry claims
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A UN agency is investigating claims a key consultation on sugar consumption was funded by the sugar industry.
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The European Union head office on Monday reassured African, Caribbean and Pacific sugar exporters it would set up a new support system to help compensate for the loss of preferential treatment under upcoming reforms in the EU sugar sector.
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The World Trade Organization (WTO)   launched a probe on Thursday into whether the United States has   dismantled cotton subsidies already ruled illegal.
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BRUSSELS, Mar 9 (IPS) - The European Union (EU) has imported sugar at  preferential prices from African, Caribbean and Pacific countries  since the 1970s; but, failed sugar reform within the union and  the prospect of unlimited imports from Least Developed Countries  (LDCs) in the near future have put a question mark over this  arrangement.
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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said yesterday corruption allegations in the Iraqi oil-for-food program had cast a shadow over the United Nations but said again he would not resign as the world's top diplomat. To meet criticism in the Republican-dominated US Congress that the United Nations was withholding documents, Annan said a UN probe led by Paul Volcker, the former ...
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EU agriculture ministers are to discuss urgent reforms to Europe's heavily subsidised sugar industry.
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The United Nations needs greater  investigative powers to probe its own activities and root out  fraud, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Monday.
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BRUSSELS, Jan 25 (IPS) - An EU âaction planâ to soften the blow from  proposed sugar reforms is not good enough, some of the poorest  developing countries say.
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The United Nations' world food body outlined steps on Monday meant to help the world's poorest nations combat soaring food prices, including a new voucher program for farmers and a review of food-guzzling biofuels.
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The U.N. inquiry into  allegations of corruption in the now-defunct Iraqi oil-for-food  program on Thursday released the names of some 4,500 firms that  did business with Baghdad but did not rule on their guilt or  innocence.
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The UN sends a team to investigate Israeli claims that militants in Gaza used a UN ambulance to transport rockets.
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The NZ Herald has the story.  More coverage can be found by performing a Google News search for "un congo sex abuse".    Details of the story include the fact that over 150 counts by at least 30 staff members are being investigated, and that this isn't the first time that the U.N. has been so accused.
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SEOUL -- The United Nations nuclear watchdog is investigating a secret uranium-enrichment experiment that South Korean scientists conducted four years ago, UN and South Korean officials said yesterday.
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The United Nations is  investigating about 150 allegations of sexual abuse by U.N.  civilian staff and soldiers in the Congo, some of them recorded  on videotape, a senior U.N. official said on Monday.
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Our position is: United Nations must be more open about mistakes made in oil-for-food scandal. When the United Nations in 1996 began allowing Iraq to sell oil to raise money to buy food and medicine, the program
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African sugar farmers and other developing countries stand to benefit from a new ruling by the World Trading Organisation (WTO) declaring some European sugar exports as illegal.
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Get INQ7 breaking news on your Smart mobile phone in the Philippines. Send INQ7 BREAKING to 386. UNITED NATIONS -- Secretary General Kofi Annan on Tuesday admitted allegations about the UN&#39;s oil-for-food program