... said. - Advertisement - Of bigger concern than the violence, Obama said, is the lack of movement on laws to share oil revenues and other matters that keep Iraq deeply fractured along sectarian lines. He called on Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al ...

... part of life" and daunting problems include political instability, displaced citizens and the stress of declining oil revenues. Obama said U.S. must end the war, both for the future of Iraq and to allow the U.S. to refocus its attention ...

... an ironic turnaround from just months ago when U.S. lawmakers complained that Iraq was swimming in cash from high oil revenues and should do more to help itself, rather than spend U.S. taxpayer money to rebuild. Iraq is almost entirely dependent ...

... trying to ratify the current $64 billion budget proposal highlights the financial squeeze facing Iraq as declining oil revenues cut into reconstruction plans such as new roads and improved utilities which the Shiite-led government hopes to use ...

... originally had 24 satellites, but their number dwindled after the 1991 Soviet collapse. Thanks to Russia's booming oil revenues, the government has earmarked funds to revive the system to its full strength and offer it to global consumers. Ivanov ...

... Baghdad, which said any deals with foreign companies should not be signed until lawmakers agreed on how the nation's oil revenues would be divided. The issue remains unresolved and continues to be among the most contentious within the Iraqi Parliament ...

... to make the necessary consultations among OPEC members," he said. The Saudi economy is 70 percent dependent on oil revenues. Saudi officials fear they will be hurt in the long run if prices remain high.

... result of the economic restraints. His arguments are that Saddam is at fault and that only about 20 percent of Iraq's oil revenue is used to help the Iraqi people. From Kuwait, Powell took his case to Saudi Arabia with a visit to Syria later in ...

... 000 Alaskans awoke Wednesday flush with cash. The Alaska Permanent Fund distributed dividends from the state's oil revenue savings account into the bank accounts of eligible Alaskans -- 406,682 people got $1,850.28 each -- injecting ...

... their citizens as a unique form of public welfare that reinforced idleness and suppressed initiative. Now that their oil revenues are declining, many Islamic societies do not have viable entrepreneurial and wealth-creating economic systems needed ...