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 internal U.N. watchdog will look into allegations that a U.N. office steered millions of dollars in contributions from the Italian government to projects benefiting Italian nationals and interests, the United Nations said on Wednesday.
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A U.N. procurement official has   been referred to U.S. prosecutors over allegations he steered   U.N. contracts to an Indian government firm, the United Nations   and diplomatic sources said on Friday.
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Brussels said on Wednesday it was weighing an appeal after the World Trade Organization again declared a big part of the European Union&#39;s multi-million-dollar sugar exports illegal.
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The internal U.N. watchdog will  look into allegations that a U.N. office steered millions of  dollars in contributions from the Italian government to  projects benefiting Italian nationals and interests, the United  Nations said on Wednesday.
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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 WTO probes US support for soya, wheat, corn, rice and other crops, after complaints from Canada and Brazil.
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Internal audits conducted by the United Nations of its oil-for-food program revealed lapses in U.N. oversight that allowed contractors to overcharge by hundreds of thousands of dollars, according to copies obtained by The Associated Press.
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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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The World Trade Organization opened an investigation Monday into whether the United States was violating international commerce rules that limited subsidies to American farmers.
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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
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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan says the investigation into abuses of the oil-for-food program in Iraq has &quot;cast a shadow&quot; over the United Nations.
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SAVANNAH, Mauritius  - Boiler-suited builders scramble along girders as a heavy crane lifts equipment for new construction at a sugar mill in Mauritius, even as the Indian Ocean island grapples with a sharp fall in sugar prices.
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A suspicious package with white  powder found near media offices at United Nations headquarters  on Friday turned out to be flour, according to preliminary  tests, a U.N. spokesman said.
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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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The restoration of special trade concessions means that Serbian sugar producers will now be able to export sugar at around 600 euros (US$724) per tonne, up from 200 euros (US$241) per tonne.
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United Nations officials are investigating reports that Hutu extremists have attacked Rwandan villages from bases in eastern Congo.