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GTECH Corporation has signed a product sale agreement with the operator of the French National Lottery, La Francaise Des Jeux.

GTECH Holdings Corp. formed a joint venture with Veikkaus Oy, operator of Finland's national lottery, to develop and sell games and technology, with an emphasis on sports betting.

International News Brief: European restrictions to cross-border gambling over the Internet will face a growing number of legal challenges and could fall away within the next three years, according to a lawyer who specialises in gambling.

International News Brief: A gambler who stole £14,000 from his optician employers has been sentenced to 180 hours community punishment after he paid all the money back.

News Brief: Online-poker company PartyGaming has warned investors that the U.S. government could interfere with its operations, but observers say that's about as likely as drawing four aces in a game of five-card stud.

International News Brief: The Tank Museum in Dorset has been awarded £344,000 by the Heritage Lottery Fund for a Supporting Collections Study Centre.

News Brief: The Russian authorities, mayors, parliamentarians, high-ranking politicians, are launching a campaign against the gambling industry.

International News Brief: A parliamentary majority now supports the idea of forbidding Norwegian citizens from participating in gambling operations based on foreign-based web sites.

International News Brief: The public will soon be able to vote on where £65.5 million of National Lottery good cause money goes through People’s Millions, an initiative launched by the Department of Culture, Media and Sport on 3 June.

International News Brief: Tessa Jowell, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, announced plans for a new National Lottery game to help fund the Olympic Games should London win the bid.

International News Brief: Partygaming may be forced to pull its £5.5 billion London float as fears grow about the legality of internet gambling in the U.S.

News Brief: Two technology entrepreneurs from India set to realise fortunes from floating the world's biggest online poker site are friends who met at university and took a risk on a new gambling venture.

International News Brief: Analysts estimate that revenues from the industry globally have doubled over the past three years to $9 billion. Some predict that within a decade it could be worth $125 billion.

International News Brief: The Hungarian government wants to help an investment group build a ‘small Hungarian Las Vegas’ in Bezenye.

Lottery & Wagering Solutions Inc. reports that it had consummated an agreement disposing of its remaining interests in a project which it had entered into in October, 1997 to develop a hotel/casino in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk City, Russia.

International News Brief: Camelot, a once-reviled company, could beat the odds and get the U.K. lottery contract a third time.

International News Brief: U.K. gambling bosses are trying to take advantage of a loophole which could result in a huge number of gambling dens opening on Britain's high streets before the new Gambling Act comes into force.

International News Brief: London is facing a battle with Manchester to be the home of a Las Vegas-style super-casino.

International News Brief: The public could be set to get a say on where the remainder of the National Lottery's money goes.

News Brief: The National Football League have admitted Manchester United's plans to build a casino next to Old Trafford is a ‘potential issue’ for new owner Malcolm Glazer.