Richey's parents Graham and Sherry Edwards were granted a similar court order but Ms Elias said it was a struggle as they had to convince a judge there was overwhelming evidence he would not be coming back - a difficult task in the absence of a body.

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The recent warning by the Financial Action Task Force, the world's premier standard-setting body for countering terrorist financing and money laundering, confirms the extraordinary risks that accompany doing business with Iran.

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He talks with a Brooklyn bluster and he tends to act out his sentences, so that when he describes the marshmallow task he takes on the body language of an impatient four-year-old.

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Ideally, says a report prepared for an upcoming meeting on charities and terrorism under the auspices of the Financial Action Task Force, the world's main anti-money-laundering body, charities should document employees, projects and possible donors, as well as running field audits to ensure that money has not gone astray.

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The body given the task of controlling slots at London's airports is a company called Airport Co-ordination Ltd, which represents the interests of the major airlines.

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Where money changes hands, there are issues of security, and because a thriving marketplace creates its own jobs and supports other industries, it is usually in the interest of some official body to make sure that the trading that goes on is fair--not always an easy task (see story, p. 45).

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