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Caribbean tourism industry feeling pinch as prices riseSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Expensive jet fuel and a soft American economy are threatening to sink Caribbean tourism as airline ticket prices soar and flights are sharply reduced, choking the flow of the vacationers that many tiny islands depend upon. More » |
U.N. declares fair Zimbabwe presidential vote impossibleUNITED NATIONS - Outraged at the turmoil in Zimbabwe, the U.N. Security Council declared that a fair presidential vote is impossible because of the "campaign of violence" waged by President Robert Mugabe?s government. More » |
Fidel blasts 'hypocrisy'of EU vote on Cuba sanctionsHAVANA - Fidel Castro last Friday slammed a European Union (EU) decision lifting diplomatic sanctions against Cuba but imposing tough human rights conditions, calling it an "enormous hypocrisy" in light of Europe's new rules on illegal immigration. More » |
