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• Pact sets limits on Iraqi prosecution of troops
BAGHDAD - Iraq would have the first crack at prosecuting American troops and Pentagon contractors accused of major, premeditated crimes committed outside U.S. bases and when they were off duty under a draft security pact governing military operations ...
• Cruise passengers increased in early 2008
NEW YORK - The cruise industry grew in 2007 and the first half of 2008, according to an industry report, but U.S. consumers' spending cuts and the global economic downturn are creating rougher seas ahead. The Cruise Lines International Association ...
• Great humanitarian trips around the world
But what amazes Donahue the most about his trips — which he took along with a U.S.-based humanitarian organization, Relief Workers International — is how much they changed him. “I’d done a lot of traveling before,” says Donahue, “but this ...
• Oil below $76 as OPEC cuts demand forecast
U.S. and European leaders this week announced plans to pump billions of dollars into the beleaguered banking system to jump start lending, though experts say the damage to the wider economy has already been done. Jim Ritterbusch, president of energy ...
• Financial crisis' victim No. 1: the world's poor
It's too soon to tell yet because we haven't heard back positively or negatively from our major donors," Greg Elder, deputy head of programming for U.S-based Catholic Relief Services, said by telephone from the battered southern port of Les Cayes. The ...