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International News Brief: A city centre casino is the first drinking spot in Cardiff to apply to serve alcohol round-the-clock.

International News Brief: Portugal will probe online gaming company BetandWin.com Interactive Entertainment AG's sponsorship of the country's national soccer league.

International News Brief: The Sports Café chain is to enter the world of online gambling with the launch of a web casino in September.

The Patent Office in Russia has allowed Kenilworth's Patent Application for playing live, in-progress Casino Table Games from a casino to terminals in remote locations.

International News Brief: The Danish Gaming Service is considering introducing banning access to betting shops for children under 16.

International News Brief: Casino operator Aspinalls has teamed up with community leaders in Newcastle to launch a committee promoting responsible gambling ahead of the opening of its Aspers Casino at The Gate in October.

International News Brief: Singapore investment firm BIL International, subject of a takeover bid by Hong Kong's Guoco Group, said it planned to pay investors a higher dividend for 2005 and would apply for casino licences in Britain.

A selection of news and views from inside the industry this week.

International News Brief: It is an odds-on bet that Birmingham will submit a bid to the Government for permission to open a super-casino, according to the politician in charge of the city's regeneration portfolio.

International News Brief: Phone gambling and other games of chance air on Prima TV nightly after midnight and the offerings are on the rise in the Czech Republic.

International News Brief: In July, New York-based Steven Holl Architects won a competition to restore and expand the Albert Place Casino in Knokke-Heist, Belgium.

International News Brief: Russian internal republic of Ingushetia is having all of its gambling establishments closed, the republic’s president Murat Zyazikov said on Tuesday, less then a week after a similar decision was taken in neighboring Chechnya.

International News Brief: All casinos built in the United Kingdom will in future have the potential to host live stage entertainment, says one of Britain’s leading experts on gaming law.

The British Conservative Party has today demanded that all letters and correspondence between government officials and the American casino industry should be made public.

International News Brief: Tony Blair is facing calls for a promise he will not weaken money laundering laws to attract foreign casino operators to the UK.

GTECH Global Services Corporation has signed a five-year contract with Westdeutsche Lotterie GmbH & Co. OHG, the operator of online and instant-ticket lottery games in the German state of Nordrhein-Westfalen.

International News Brief: Backers of a Las Vegas-style super casino for the North East received a boost today after claims ministers now want at least six across the UK.

International News Brief: The first vice premier of the pro-Moscow Chechen government, Ramzan Kadyrov, has outlawed all gambling businesses in the republic, RIA Novosti reported Wednesday.

International News Brief: A banned casino gambler from Hendon has been sentenced under an ancient law, never used before in an English court, for his role in an elaborate roulette scam.

International News Brief: The Irish winner of the biggest win in European lottery history has still not come forward to claim her prize, lottery officials have confirmed.