Top stories from 7 November update

Trade/WTO:

• Unravelling of 'confidence-building'?
• Towards balanced aid relationships
• Recent Event: TWN Seminar on "Current Developments in the WTO" on 14-15 September 2000

Environment

• Critics blast spate of oil mergers
• Corporate giants begin greenhouse gas trading programme
• US: Thousands die annually from power-plant pollution

Other news

• Development agencies concerned over new merger
• Negotiations for tobacco controls to resume next April