Berlin dampens summit hopes, banks under pressure
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Police Target New Crime Wave: Cooking Oil Thefts
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Detroit struggles to keep lights on
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Sean Penn: Tea Party the 'Get the N-Word Out of White House Party'
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Putting an end to the euro would be better than yet another bail-out
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Global economic outlook has worsened, says International Monetary Fund chief
Paris: Head of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, said on Saturday that the global economic outlook "is more likely to have worsened than improved in the last three weeks" and that emerging markets feared "contagion from advanced economies." "If anything, the situation is more likely to have worsened than to have improved over the last three weeks and if markets have straightened up a bit in the last few days, certainly the overall economic situation has not improved. We heard loud and clear that the emerging markets in...
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Anti-capitalist protests turn into global movement
AFP - Hundreds camped out in London, Frankfurt and Amsterdam Sunday, after clashes in New York and Rome, during protests some see as the start of a new global movement against corporate greed and budget cuts. Organisers said 250 people spent the night outside St Paul's Cathedral in London's financial district where a camp of 70 tents had sprung up. Some 200 people also camped in front of the European Central Bank building in Frankfurt, while in Amsterdam 50 tents were put up outside the stock exchange. There were rallies in...
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US worries over China's underground nuclear network
A leading US lawmaker who fears budget cuts could delay modernizing the US nuclear arsenal voiced concern Friday about an extensive tunnel complex designed to house Chinese nuclear missiles. "This network of tunnels could be in excess of 5,000 kilometers (3,110 miles), and is used to transport nuclear weapons and forces," said Michael Turner, who chairs a House Armed Services Committee panel focusing on strategic weapons and other security programs. "As we strive to make our nuclear forces more transparent, China is building this...
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Aftershocks threatened No. 4 fuel pool
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FBI hiding facts on "fast and furious" scandal
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Obama launches cultural warfare
President Barack Obama stands accused by conservatives of waging class warfare, seeking to galvanize his base and lure middle-class voters by pitting the rich against everyone else. But Obama’s reelection strategy is about more than the haves and have-nots. It appears he is seeking to stir up full-blown cultural warfare against a large and diverse segment of society known as Republicans. Having failed to lower the unemployment...
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Video: Communist Party U.S.A. Spokesman Gets Overwhelming Applause from Occupy Chicago
Last night during the tent city construction at Occupy Chicago on Michigan Ave, John Bachtell, a spokesperson from the national board of the Communist Party U.S.A., addressed the angry mob of nearly 3000. He claimed to “bring greetings and support” from the party, to the occupy movement. Bachtell received a very warm welcome...
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300,000 babies stolen from their parents - and sold for adoption: Haunting BBC documentary exposes 50-year scandal of baby trafficking by the Catholic church in Spain
Up to 300,000 Spanish babies were stolen from their parents and sold for adoption over a period of five decades, a new investigation reveals. The children were trafficked by a secret network of doctors, nurses, priests and nuns in a widespread practice that began during General...
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Sinkholes Form At Marion County Schools, Home
MARION COUNTY, Florida (WKMG) -- After a weekend of heavy rain, sinkholes formed at three Marion County schools and one home, where a sport utility vehicle was swallowed. The school board said the most serious is at the bus loop of Ward Highlands Elementary School. The other two are at Vanguard High School and Howard...
---Massive sinkhole opens in Lowell
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Denver Police in Riot Gear Move Into Wall Street Protest Area
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Strong earthquake strikes in South Pacific off Papua New Guinea, no tsunami
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Papua New Guinea, (M 6.3, depth 9.9km, 83000 people)
NEIC-Tuesday, October 18, 2011 5:05:00
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Monster-size haboob startles Lubbock residents
Lubbock has seen its share of dust storms over the years, but the gusty wall of dirt that blew into the city about 5:30 p.m. Monday was apparently beyond anything that had been seen here for decades. “My wife and I have lived in Lubbock for 49 years and in West Texas for 52 years, and I have never seen a dust storm like this,” City Councilman Paul Beane said. “I have seen pictures from the Dust Bowl Days in the 1930s, but I never thought I would see anything like this.” Beane said he was amazed to see the storm roll in as it did. “It looked like the end of the world.” Beane said. National Weather Service forecaster Matt Ziebell said employees at NWS had pulled out some pictures from the Dust Bowl era and compared them with some of the photographs taken Monday by local people. “They were dead ringers to some of...
----Lubbock Area Haboob Turns Skies Red
--------VIDEO: Sky turns red as dust cloud rolls over TX plains
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Underwater Volcano Eruption of El Hierro
The IGN says all three of its seismic stations on El Hierro in the Canary Islands have registered a volcanic tremor of low frequency in the south of the island at La Restinga, the southern-most village in the Canaries. The estimated 537 residents of the town were summoned to a local football field on Tuesday afternoon to be briefed on evacuation procedures. A Red Alert has since been issued by local authorities for the town. A notice posted on the Emergencia El Hierro website on Tuesday evening stated that the situation was in...
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Quartet to hold meetings with Israel, PA officials in Jerusalem in late October
The Quartet of Middle East envoys will meet separately with Israeli and Palestinian officials in Jerusalem later this month to try to lay the ground for fresh Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, U.S. State Department spokesman Mark Toner said on Monday. According to Toner's statement, the "Quartet envoys will be meeting with the parties in Jerusalem on October 26th and with the aim to begin preparations and develop an agenda for proceeding in the negotiations." “I think that we're making progress. This is an important step. It's not within the timetable,..
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Sinai gold that could bring Egypt billions
The fall of Hosni Mubarak could trigger an Egyptian gold boom as the government looks to carve up precious reserves in the Sinai desert which have remained untapped for decades. Officials have known about the potential for finding gold in Egypt's mountain wilderness for years, yet a combination of security concerns and the complicated mining process have so far hampered serious progress. Egyptian mining chiefs now plan to invite investors to carry out gold exploration in the Sinai – an area which was once occupied by the Israelis...
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Moody's warns France on its triple-A rating
AFP - Ratings agency Moody's warned France that it may place a negative outlook on its cherished top "Aaa" credit rating in the coming months as the government's financial strength "has weakened." The annual credit report is a shot across the bows for the second largest economy in the eurozone and came as Germany dampened expectations that an upcoming EU summit will finally provide a solution to the eurozone debt crisis. "The deterioration in debt metrics and the potential for further contingent liabilities to emerge are exerting...
----The Next Domino? - Top Economists Warn of France Downgrade
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Berlin experts fear euro break-up from bail-out escalation
Berlin’s DIW institute, one of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s five official advisers, said attempts to boost the €440bn (£384bn) EFSF bail-out fund – possibly to €2 trillion – with guarantees to shore up southern Europe would be “poisonous” for France’s credit worthiness. Dr Ansgar Belke, the group’s research chief, said the leverage proposal emerging as part of the EU’s “Grand Plan” to restore confidence is self-defeating. “It counteracts efforts made so far to stabilise the eurozone debt crisis, which are premised on the AAA rating of a...
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Putin to ‘consolidate political system’ as Russia’s new president
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Monday he is determined to return to the Kremlin to consolidate the foundations of the country’s political system and facilitate economic diversification. Putin spoke in an interview with three national TV channels seven weeks before parliamentary...
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Bacterium linked to bowel cancer
A type of bacterium known to cause dental decay and skin ulcers may also be linked to bowel cancer, scientists suspect. Two independent research teams have now found the bug Fusobacterium in colon tumours. It's not yet clear if the pathogen might cause cancerous changes or whether it is an incidental finding, they told...
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SPEECHLESS: OBAMA'S TELEPROMPTER STOLEN - Thieves steal truck with President's equipment
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Greek workers prepare 'Mother of All Strikes'
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SWAP: 1,027 PALESTINIANS FOR 1 ISRAELI
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Police Target New Crime Wave: Cooking Oil Thefts
/
Detroit struggles to keep lights on
/
Sean Penn: Tea Party the 'Get the N-Word Out of White House Party'
/
Putting an end to the euro would be better than yet another bail-out
/
Global economic outlook has worsened, says International Monetary Fund chief
Paris: Head of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, said on Saturday that the global economic outlook "is more likely to have worsened than improved in the last three weeks" and that emerging markets feared "contagion from advanced economies." "If anything, the situation is more likely to have worsened than to have improved over the last three weeks and if markets have straightened up a bit in the last few days, certainly the overall economic situation has not improved. We heard loud and clear that the emerging markets in...
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Anti-capitalist protests turn into global movement
AFP - Hundreds camped out in London, Frankfurt and Amsterdam Sunday, after clashes in New York and Rome, during protests some see as the start of a new global movement against corporate greed and budget cuts. Organisers said 250 people spent the night outside St Paul's Cathedral in London's financial district where a camp of 70 tents had sprung up. Some 200 people also camped in front of the European Central Bank building in Frankfurt, while in Amsterdam 50 tents were put up outside the stock exchange. There were rallies in...
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Europe Needs More Than Cash: Deutsche Bank CEO
/US worries over China's underground nuclear network
A leading US lawmaker who fears budget cuts could delay modernizing the US nuclear arsenal voiced concern Friday about an extensive tunnel complex designed to house Chinese nuclear missiles. "This network of tunnels could be in excess of 5,000 kilometers (3,110 miles), and is used to transport nuclear weapons and forces," said Michael Turner, who chairs a House Armed Services Committee panel focusing on strategic weapons and other security programs. "As we strive to make our nuclear forces more transparent, China is building this...
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Aftershocks threatened No. 4 fuel pool
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84 children injected with radioactive substance at Kofu hospital
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Chinese Jews feel more at home in Israel
/FBI hiding facts on "fast and furious" scandal
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Obama launches cultural warfare
President Barack Obama stands accused by conservatives of waging class warfare, seeking to galvanize his base and lure middle-class voters by pitting the rich against everyone else. But Obama’s reelection strategy is about more than the haves and have-nots. It appears he is seeking to stir up full-blown cultural warfare against a large and diverse segment of society known as Republicans. Having failed to lower the unemployment...
/
Video: Communist Party U.S.A. Spokesman Gets Overwhelming Applause from Occupy Chicago
Last night during the tent city construction at Occupy Chicago on Michigan Ave, John Bachtell, a spokesperson from the national board of the Communist Party U.S.A., addressed the angry mob of nearly 3000. He claimed to “bring greetings and support” from the party, to the occupy movement. Bachtell received a very warm welcome...
/
300,000 babies stolen from their parents - and sold for adoption: Haunting BBC documentary exposes 50-year scandal of baby trafficking by the Catholic church in Spain
Up to 300,000 Spanish babies were stolen from their parents and sold for adoption over a period of five decades, a new investigation reveals. The children were trafficked by a secret network of doctors, nurses, priests and nuns in a widespread practice that began during General...
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MARION COUNTY, Florida (WKMG) -- After a weekend of heavy rain, sinkholes formed at three Marion County schools and one home, where a sport utility vehicle was swallowed. The school board said the most serious is at the bus loop of Ward Highlands Elementary School. The other two are at Vanguard High School and Howard...
---Massive sinkhole opens in Lowell
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Strong earthquake strikes in South Pacific off Papua New Guinea, no tsunami
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Papua New Guinea, (M 6.3, depth 9.9km, 83000 people)
NEIC-Tuesday, October 18, 2011 5:05:00
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Lubbock has seen its share of dust storms over the years, but the gusty wall of dirt that blew into the city about 5:30 p.m. Monday was apparently beyond anything that had been seen here for decades. “My wife and I have lived in Lubbock for 49 years and in West Texas for 52 years, and I have never seen a dust storm like this,” City Councilman Paul Beane said. “I have seen pictures from the Dust Bowl Days in the 1930s, but I never thought I would see anything like this.” Beane said he was amazed to see the storm roll in as it did. “It looked like the end of the world.” Beane said. National Weather Service forecaster Matt Ziebell said employees at NWS had pulled out some pictures from the Dust Bowl era and compared them with some of the photographs taken Monday by local people. “They were dead ringers to some of...
----Lubbock Area Haboob Turns Skies Red
--------VIDEO: Sky turns red as dust cloud rolls over TX plains
/
Underwater Volcano Eruption of El Hierro
The IGN says all three of its seismic stations on El Hierro in the Canary Islands have registered a volcanic tremor of low frequency in the south of the island at La Restinga, the southern-most village in the Canaries. The estimated 537 residents of the town were summoned to a local football field on Tuesday afternoon to be briefed on evacuation procedures. A Red Alert has since been issued by local authorities for the town. A notice posted on the Emergencia El Hierro website on Tuesday evening stated that the situation was in...
/
Quartet to hold meetings with Israel, PA officials in Jerusalem in late October
The Quartet of Middle East envoys will meet separately with Israeli and Palestinian officials in Jerusalem later this month to try to lay the ground for fresh Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, U.S. State Department spokesman Mark Toner said on Monday. According to Toner's statement, the "Quartet envoys will be meeting with the parties in Jerusalem on October 26th and with the aim to begin preparations and develop an agenda for proceeding in the negotiations." “I think that we're making progress. This is an important step. It's not within the timetable,..
/
Sinai gold that could bring Egypt billions
The fall of Hosni Mubarak could trigger an Egyptian gold boom as the government looks to carve up precious reserves in the Sinai desert which have remained untapped for decades. Officials have known about the potential for finding gold in Egypt's mountain wilderness for years, yet a combination of security concerns and the complicated mining process have so far hampered serious progress. Egyptian mining chiefs now plan to invite investors to carry out gold exploration in the Sinai – an area which was once occupied by the Israelis...
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AFP - Ratings agency Moody's warned France that it may place a negative outlook on its cherished top "Aaa" credit rating in the coming months as the government's financial strength "has weakened." The annual credit report is a shot across the bows for the second largest economy in the eurozone and came as Germany dampened expectations that an upcoming EU summit will finally provide a solution to the eurozone debt crisis. "The deterioration in debt metrics and the potential for further contingent liabilities to emerge are exerting...
----The Next Domino? - Top Economists Warn of France Downgrade
/
Berlin experts fear euro break-up from bail-out escalation
Berlin’s DIW institute, one of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s five official advisers, said attempts to boost the €440bn (£384bn) EFSF bail-out fund – possibly to €2 trillion – with guarantees to shore up southern Europe would be “poisonous” for France’s credit worthiness. Dr Ansgar Belke, the group’s research chief, said the leverage proposal emerging as part of the EU’s “Grand Plan” to restore confidence is self-defeating. “It counteracts efforts made so far to stabilise the eurozone debt crisis, which are premised on the AAA rating of a...
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Putin to ‘consolidate political system’ as Russia’s new president
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Monday he is determined to return to the Kremlin to consolidate the foundations of the country’s political system and facilitate economic diversification. Putin spoke in an interview with three national TV channels seven weeks before parliamentary...
/
Bacterium linked to bowel cancer
A type of bacterium known to cause dental decay and skin ulcers may also be linked to bowel cancer, scientists suspect. Two independent research teams have now found the bug Fusobacterium in colon tumours. It's not yet clear if the pathogen might cause cancerous changes or whether it is an incidental finding, they told...
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SPEECHLESS: OBAMA'S TELEPROMPTER STOLEN - Thieves steal truck with President's equipment
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Greek workers prepare 'Mother of All Strikes'
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SWAP: 1,027 PALESTINIANS FOR 1 ISRAELI
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Spewing Volcano Forces Spain to Close Island Port
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El Hierro's Subsea Volcano Moves Closer to Land
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Scientists Believe El Hierro Volcano Has More Magma Than Teneguía
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New Volcanic Island Could Emerge by El Hierro within 2 Weeks
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4.0 Quake Strikes Near Mammoth Lakes, Calif
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Restless Katla Volcano Heightens Fears of Possible Eruption
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Buenos Aires Airport Halts Flights Due to Volcanic Ash
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10-Km-High Ash Column Rises from Russia’s Shiveluch Volcano
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Attacks on Ships Reach All-Time High
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Clashes as Occupy Protesters March on Wall Street
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OccupyChicago Joins ‘Destroy Israel’ Anti-war, Anti-America ‘Peace’ March
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