Earlier this year, two Paris-based organisations, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and the Financial Action Task Force, took aim at the Caribbean.

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French and British police have formed a joint task force comprising Surrey police, French police and French magistrates, with the aim of speeding up the flow of information between the two countries.

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Yayorin ( www.yayorin.org) is an Indonesian-based conservation project with the mammoth task of teaching its people about conserving the forest and its creatures, with the chief aim being saving existing populations of orangutans.

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The Peripheral Artery Disease Coalition of more than 50 organizations endorses ABI screening, and is lobbying the federal Preventive Services Task Force to review the test with the aim of getting it covered more widely by Medicare.

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In their absence, the Task Force suggested that officials attend games to identify discriminatory acts "with the aim of easing the pressure on referees and facilitating the availability of evidence, which is not always easy to obtain".

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