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Vatican revises its rules on clerical sex abuse (AP)

July 15th, 2010

Monsignor Charles Scicluna, the Vatican's sex crimes prosecutor, left, and Vatican spokesman Rev. Federico Lombardi talk to the media during a briefing to present a new set of norms The Vatican issued to respond to the worldwide clerical abuse scandal, cracking down on priests who rape and molest minors and the mentally disabled, at the Vatican, Thursday, July 15, 2010. The norms extend from 10 to 20 years the statute of limitations on priestly abuse and also codify for the first time that possessing or distributing child pornography is a canonical crime. But the document made no mention of the need for bishops to report abuse to police and doesn't include any 'one-strike and you're out' policy as demanded by some victims' groups. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)AP - The Vatican revised its in-house rules to deal with clerical sex abuse cases Thursday, targeting priests who molest the mentally disabled as well as children and doubling the…

Greek debt crisis worsens as EU revises figures (AP)

April 22nd, 2010

Protesters chat slogans during a rally in Athens on Thursday, April 22, 2010. About 4,000 protesters marched as civil servants staged a 24-hour strike Thursday against austerity measures and expected job cuts by Greece's crisis-plagued government, while the EU's statistics agency added to the financially stricken country's woes, revising its budget deficit upwards. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)AP - Markets hammered Greece on Thursday after the EU revised the debt-ridden country’s deficit and debt figures upward, sending Greece’s borrowing costs to unsustainably high levels and pushing Athens…

Greek debt crisis gets worse as EU revises figures (AP)

April 22nd, 2010

Protesters chat slogans during a rally in Athens on Thursday, April 22, 2010. About 4,000 protesters marched as civil servants staged a 24-hour strike Thursday against austerity measures and expected job cuts by Greece's crisis-plagued government, while the EU's statistics agency added to the financially stricken country's woes, revising its budget deficit upwards. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)AP - Civil servants staged a 24-hour strike Thursday against austerity measures and expected job cuts by Greece’s crisis-plagued government, and the EU’s statistics agency said the country’s budget was…