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A 6.3 magnitude earthquake hit central Italy on Monday, killing 150 people and injuring about 1,500. The earthquake was centered in the town of L’Aquila, located about 60 miles east of Rome in the Abruzzo region....

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Zhou Xiaochuan, governor of the People’s Bank of China, called for a new global currency controlled by the International Monetary Fund on Monday. The plan calls for the creation of a new international currency reserve to replace the dollar. This wou...

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European leaders met Sunday in Brussels, Belgium for an emergency summit meeting to discuss the worldwide financial crisis....

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Recent reports revealed that two nuclear submarines, one French and one British, collided in the Atlantic Ocean in the beginning of this month. The HMS Vanguard of Britain and Le Triomphant of France were both carrying nuclear missiles on board when they ...

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President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan has lost his status as a White House darling, according to an article in The New York Times....

By: Wendy Fry, City Editor

Nazi war criminal, Aribert Ferdinand Heim, also known as “Dr. Death,” reportedly hid in Cairo, Egypt until his death in 1992....

By: Wendy Fry, City Editor

The alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, announced Monday that he wanted to plead guilty to murder and war crime charges in a military court in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba....

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Russian warships set sail yesterday for Venezuela in order to take part in unprecedented joint naval exercises with the Latin American country....

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With his country on the brink of economic collapse, President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe signed a deal on Monday with rival Morgan Tsvangirai, the leader of the main political opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change....

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The U.S. military has ordered a review of emerging evidence into the Aug. 22 American air strike on a village in Afghanistan during which more than 90 civilians, including women and children, were allegedly killed....

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No deaths have been reported in Cuba after the enormous Hurricane Gustav ripped through the Isla de la Juventud and Cuba's mainland causing the evacuation of approximately 250,000 people. A Category 4 hurricane with roaring 140 mph winds, the storm landed...

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Terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India left at least 183 people dead with bodies still being cleared Saturday after the three-day siege....

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Shots fired Sunday at a security checkpoint near the South Ossetia border were directed toward the president of Georgia and the president of Poland....

By: Wendy Fry, City Editor & Amanda Strouse, Editor In Chief

China announced Sunday an enormous $586 billion stimulus package in order to increase domestic spending for two years....

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An investigation in Mexico City last week revealed that many of those involved in narcotics trading were working in the upper levels of the Mexican government. According to The New York Times, it has been a well-known fact for years that drug gangs bribe ...

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U.S. officials confirmed that American special operations forces carried out a raid Sunday on Syria resulting in the death of an Iraqi militant, who allegedly brought weapons across the Iraq border....

By: Wendy Fry, City Editor

Leaders of the world will hold an emergency summit to deal with the current global financial crisis. French President Nicholas Sarkozy, European Commission President José Manuel Barroso and President George W. Bush met last weekend at Camp David, M...

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Vladimir V. Putin, prime minister of Russia, faces the global financial crisis as his nation — which months ago seemed at the peak of its economic success — recently lost $1 trillion dollars in the stock market. The government was forced to em...

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Thai protests leave hundreds injured Street battles in Thailand left nearly 400 people hurt after anti-government protesters trampled through roads surrounding the Parliament building on Tuesday, trapping hundreds of lawmakers inside. Members of Parliamen...

By: Wendy Fry, City Editor

More detained in milk recall Officials in China announced yesterday they have detained 22 people for allegedly contaminating milk with a dangerous industrial chemical called melamine, creating one of the nation's worst food safety crises in years. The con...