Language skills and culture background are the aspects President Bush instructed the nation’s new spy chief to focus on when finding more recruits to collect information on al-Qaida and other terrorist groups.
Shares of Kraft Foods Inc. fell Tuesday as the company’s CEO announced a new phase of the company’s turnaround plan that she hopes will help the world’s second-largest food and beverage maker revive its slumping sales.
Three American women were briefly kidnapped Tuesday in the West Bank city of Nablus and were released later in the evening, Palestinian security officials said. At one point, a man calling himself Hadi Saud contacted The Associated Press in Nablus and said he was the kidnapper.
European Union environment ministers said Tuesday they would cut overall carbon dioxide emissions 20 percent from 1990 levels by the year 2020, adding that they were ready to go to 30 percent if other industrialized nations matched their efforts.
