Category Archives: World News

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  Iran says it will not return US drone

  Posted on December 11, 2011 by B and O in Featured, World News

  Related Content This photo released on Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011, by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, … This photo released on Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011, by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, … TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran will not return a U.S. surveillance drone captured by its armed forces, a senior commander of the country’s elite Revolutionary Guard said [...]

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  Strong quake shakes from Mexico City to Acapulco

  Posted on December 11, 2011 by B and O in Featured, World News

  MEXICO CITY (AP) — A magnitude-6.5 earthquake struck in Mexico’s western Guerrero state, shaking buildings and causing panic in the nation’s capital and the Pacific resort of Acapulco. Officials said at least three people died, but there were no reports of widespread damage. The U.S. Geological Service initially estimated the quake at magnitude at 6.8, [...]

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  6.7 earthquake rattles Mexico

  Posted on December 11, 2011 by B and O in World News

  An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.7 rocked the state of Guerrero at 7:47 p.m., the BBC has reported. According to the news website, the earthquake was felt in Mexico City and at least three people have died in the state. The BBC noted that reports suggest Mexico did not suffer major damage and districts [...]

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  Worker dies after being sucked into plane engine

  Posted on August 8, 2011 by B and O in World News

  WELLINGTON, New Zealand — An engineer working at an airplane testing facility has been sucked into an engine and killed.   Domestic carrier Air New Zealand confirmed the man was performing routine maintenance on a Lockheed C-130 Hercules airplane engine just after 8 a.m. Monday (4 p.m. ET Sunday) at the Woodbourne air field in [...]

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  London police promise crackdown on rioters

  Posted on August 8, 2011 by B and O in World News

  LONDON — British police on Monday promised a “momentous operation” to arrest rioters after a weekend of vandalism and looting that erupted in a disadvantaged London neighborhood just miles from the site of next year’s Olympic Games. Groups of masked and hooded young people looted shops, attacked police officers and set fire to vehicles in [...]

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  Dow falls more than 300 in panic selling

  Posted on August 8, 2011 by B and O in World News

  The Great Selloff of 2011 became the Great Panic of 2011 as worries about European debt problems and the impact of Standard & Poor’s downgrade of U.S. debt on domestic and global growth combined to push stocks to their lowest levels since October. The Dow Jones industrials ($INDU) slumped at the open and fell as [...]

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