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Business and economy The combined economy of the 17 eurozone nations narrowly avoids a recession, largely due to relatively high economic growth in Germany. However, overall growth in the eurozone was zero in the first quarter of 2012. (The Daily Telegraph) A customer of American multinational retail corporation Wal-Mart is bitten by a rattlesnake on the premises of the Clarkston, Washington ...
21 May Suicide bombing 120+ 350+ Sana'a, Yemen: 2012 Sanaa bombing: A suicide bomber dressed as a soldier blew himself up during a rehearsal for the annual Unity Day parade. [26] [27] Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula: 13 June Car bombings, shootings 93 312 Baghdad and six other cities, Iraq: 13 June 2012 Iraq attacks: A wave of attacks across ...
International relations U.S. President Barack Obama visits Afghanistan on an unannounced visit coinciding with the first anniversary of Osama Bin Laden's assassination by the U.S. Special Forces in Pakistan, signing an agreement with Afghan President Hamid Karzai outlining a continuing U.S. role in Afghanistan after 2014. (BBC) Five European presidents and the President of the European ...
August 15, 2012 Shooting 0 1 Washington, D.C. On August 15, 2012, Floyd Lee Corkins II, wielding a 9mm pistol along with two magazines and 50 rounds of ammunition, entered the lobby of Family Research Council's Washington, D.C. headquarters. [109] Corkins shot an employee, 46-year-old Leonardo Johnson, in the left arm.
The Amerika-Gedenkbibliothek (AGB; English: America Memorial Library) is one of the largest public libraries in Berlin, Germany. It was co-financed by a donation from the United States. The building was designed by American and German architects, including Fritz Bornemann and Willy Kreuer. It was opened on September 17, 1954, and was originally ...
About 100 workers were in the Los Angeles Times building at 1:07 a.m. Oct. 1, 1910. Then 16 sticks of dynamite exploded at the anti-union newspaper, and people began dying.
A memorial called Reflecting Absence honors the victims of the September 11 attacks and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. [90] The memorial, designed by Peter Walker and Israeli-American architect Michael Arad, consists of a field of trees interrupted by the footprints of the twin towers. Pools of water fill the footprints, underneath which ...
Earlier this year a more than 200-year-old time capsule buried by Paul Revere and Samuel Adams was opened. The contents were in surprisingly good condition — but then again, 200 years isn't much ...