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Disasters At least 6 people are killed and dozens injured when a 6.0-magnitude earthquake strikes northern Italy. (BBC) (Los Angeles Times) International relations Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells his cabinet that hundreds of thousands of iIllegal immigrants from Africa would threaten Israel's identity. (The Guardian) (The Jerusalem Post) Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the former Libyan ...
Disasters and accidents A tour bus hits a bridge at Miami International Airport, United States, killing at least two people and injuring many more. (NBC News) (BBC) (The Miami Herald) [permanent dead link ] At least 8 people are killed and 36 injured when a passenger bus overturns on the highway between the cities of Sucre and Potosí in southern Bolivia. (RIA Novosti) International ...
Disasters The death toll from floods in the Philippines over the past ten days rises to 70. (CNN) Hurricane Ernesto makes landfall in the Mexican state of Veracruz causing at least three deaths. (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Law and crime The trial of Gu Kailai, wife of former Communist powerbroker Bo Xilai, for the alleged murder of British businessman Neil Haywood begins in the Chinese city of ...
Disasters and accidents Costa Concordia disaster: The cruise ship Costa Concordia runs aground at Isola del Giglio in the Mediterranean Sea, with 32 passengers dead, 2 missing and presumed dead, and 64 injured. (Sky News) (CNN) Politics and elections Kiribati President Anote Tong is re-elected to a third (and final) term in the 2012 presidential election. (Radio Australia News) Reforms in ...
Business and economy Teachers in Chicago go on strike. Around 350,000 students are affected. (CBS News) (Reuters) (Chicago Tribune) Around 10,000 South African miners demonstrate at the Lonmin mines in Marikana (Rooikoppies), Rustenburg, Bojanala Platinum district, North West province. Fifteen thousand miners strike at the Gold Fields KDC West Driefontein mine. (Reuters via Yahoo! News ...
Disasters Three Boston University students are killed and another five are injured in a minivan crash during a trip to New Zealand. (Boston Herald) International relations China denies that its military has been placed on a war footing amid an ongoing dispute with the Philippines over territorial claims in the South China Sea. (BBC) Two Palestinians held in Israeli prisons are reportedly close ...
Official GDP figures indicate the 2012 Summer Olympics helped the UK economy emerge from recession in the three months from July to September, with growth of 1.0%.; Costa Coffee—the world's second-largest coffeehouse chain—pulls out of Totnes, the Devon town that prides itself on having independent shops.
Politics and elections Protests against unemployment and austerity measures take place across several European countries. The largest protests reportedly take place in Spain and Portugal, with smaller protests in Greece, Italy, and Belgium. (BBC) (Al Jazeera) (The Guardian) Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda announces he will dissolve the House of Representatives of the Diet on Friday ...