Bibliography for World Events: 2007Q3      
                   
Date Published Date Published Date Posted Venue Country Author Article/URL* Media Listed Sources Contributors
1-Jul-07 1-Jul-07       David Plouffe The State of the Race BarackObama.com    
  1-Jul-07   Kabul Afghanistan   NATO, Afghan officials probe report of civilian deaths CNN    
  1-Jul-07 30-Jun-07 Ottawa, ON Canada Ian Austen Bell Canada’s Board Agrees to $49 Billion Offer to Go Private NYT    
2-Jul-07 2-Jul-07         Boris Berezovsky Wikipedia    
  2-Jul-07         Putin offers Bush new missile plan Al Jazeera Agencies  
  2-Jul-07         Deadly blast at Yemeni tourist site Al Jazeera Agencies  
  2-Jul-07         Russian exile 'faces coup charge' BBC News    
  2-Jul-07         Yemen bomb kills Spanish tourists BBC News    
  2-Jul-07   Washington, DC U.S.   Paul Wolfowitz Joins AEI AEI Press Release  
  2-Jul-07   Moscow Russia Henry Meyer Russia Charges Berezovsky With Plot, Fraud Trial (Update3) Bloomberg    
  2-Jul-07       Dan Morain Obama raises record $32.5 million Los Angeles Times    
  2-Jul-07   Washington, DC U.S. Jim Malone Obama Fundraising Suggests Close Race For Party Nomination VOA News    
  2-Jul-07   San'a Yemen Ahmed Al-Hajj Suicide Attacker Kills 9 at Yemen Temple Washington Post AP Harold Heckle (AP)
  2-Jul-07   Kennebunkport, ME U.S.   President Bush Meets with President Putin of Russian Federation White House    
3-Jul-07 3-Jul-07         Bomb hits Baghdad market Al Jazeera Agencies  
  3-Jul-07   Beverly Hills, CA U.S.   Hilton Hotels Corporation to Be Acquired by Blackstone Investment Funds Hilton Hotels Press Release  
  3-Jul-07   Kabul Afghanistan   32 Taliban militants killed in S Afghanistan China View Xinhua Song Shutao (ed.)
  3-Jul-07   Moscow Russia Luke Harding Berezovsky charged with coup plot over Guardian interview Guardian Unlimited The Guardian  
  3-Jul-07       Andrei Kolesnikov Vladimir Putin's Hand Kommersant    
  3-Jul-07 2-Jul-07 Kennebunkport, ME U.S. Jim Rutenberg Putin Expands on His Missile Defense Plan NYT   Nicholas Kulish
  3-Jul-07         Car Bomb Rips Through Baghdad Market, Killing 18 VOA News AFP-AP-Reuters  
  3-Jul-07   Kandahar Afghanistan Noor Khan 33 Militants Killed in Afghanistan Washington Post AP Amir Shah (AP)
4-Jul-07 4-Jul-07   London U.K.   European stocks hit 2-week highs CNN Money Reuters  
  4-Jul-07         Afghan bomb kills six Canadians BBC News    
  4-Jul-07   Islamabad Pakistan Syed Shoaib Hasan Anguish of Pakistan mosque parents BBC News    
  4-Jul-07   Islamabad Pakistan Salman Masood; Carlotta Gall Leader in Mosque Siege is Captured NYT   Jane Perlez; Graham Bowley
  4-Jul-07   Islamabad Pakistan Mubashir Zaidi; Laura King 9 die in shootout at mosque; Radicals, police clash after 6-month standoff in Pakistan San Francisco Chronicle Los Angeles Times  
  4-Jul-07   Los Angeles, CA U.S.   Blackstone Group Buying Hilton Hotels Washington Post AP  
5-Jul-07 5-Jul-07         U.S. Military: American Soldier Killed in Helicopter Crash in Iraq Chosun Ilbo VOA News-AP-AFP-Reuters  
  5-Jul-07   Islamabad Pakistan Aamer Ahmed Khan Mosque raid boosts Musharraf image BBC News BBC Urdu Service  
  5-Jul-07         Bank of England Raises Bank Rate by 0.25 Percentage Points to 5.75% BOE    
  5-Jul-07   London U.K. Svenja O'Donnell European Economies: Bank of England Raises Key Rate to 5.75% Bloomberg    
  5-Jul-07         U.S. soldier killed in helicopter crash in northern Iraq China Daily Xinhua  
  5-Jul-07   Islamabad Pakistan   Operation launched against Lal Mosque administration Pak Tribune    
  5-Jul-07   Islamabad Pakistan   27 female students killed in mortar bombing on Jamia Hafsa Pak Tribune    
  5-Jul-07   Islamabad Pakistan   9 killed in Pakistani mosque battle Tehran Times AP  
  5-Jul-07         Car Bomb Blast Near Wedding Party in Baghdad Kills 17 VOA News AP-Reuters  
  5-Jul-07         Karaoke Parlor Explosion in Northeastern China Kills 25 VOA News AP  
  5-Jul-07   Islamabad Pakistan Griff Witte Radical Cleric in Pakistan Standoff Captured Washington Post    
  5-Jul-07   Beijing China Chris Buckley China nightclub blast kills 25: report Washington Post Reuters  
6-Jul-07 6-Jul-07   New York, NY U.S. Katy Byron Goldman Sachs targeted with death threats CNN Money    
  6-Jul-07   New York, NY U.S. Christine Harper; David Glovin Goldman Says Threats Aren't Believed to Be Credible (Update2) Bloomberg    
  6-Jul-07         Credibility of Threats Against Goldman Sachs Questioned VOA News Reuters  
  6-Jul-07   Washington, DC U.S. Barry Wood Economists: China's Stock Market Bubble Poses Financial Risk VOA News    
7-Jul-07 7-Jul-07   Vatican City Holy See   Motu Proprio "Summorum Pontificum" VIS    
  7-Jul-07   Vatican City Holy See   Letter from Pope to Bishops on "Summorum Pontificum" VIS    
  7-Jul-07   Vatican City Holy See   Explanatory Note on Motu Proprio "Summorum Pontificum" VIS    
  7-Jul-07         More than 150' dead in Iraq blast Al Jazeera Agencies  
  7-Jul-07         More than 100 killed in flurry of Iraq violence CTV AP  
  7-Jul-07   Colombo Sri Lanka   Sri Lankan warplanes bomb Tamil rebel mortar locations in the east, military says International Herald Tribune AP  
  7-Jul-07   Irbil Iraq Margaret Besheer Truck Bomb Devastates Iraqi Village VOA News    
8-Jul-07 8-Jul-07   Colombo Sri Lanka   28 killed in Sri Lanka sea battle CNN International AP  
  8-Jul-07   Baghdad Iraq   27 killed in Baghdad area attacks CNN International    
  8-Jul-07         Deadly blasts hit Iraq Al Jazeera Al Jazeera-Agencies  
  8-Jul-07         Iraqi PM slams 'heinous' bombers BBC News    
  8-Jul-07   Everett, WA U.S.   787 Dreamliner Boeing    
  8-Jul-07   Everett, WA U.S.   Boeing Celebrates the Premiere of the 787 Dreamliner Boeing Press Release  
  8-Jul-07   Lisbon; Los Angeles, CA Spain; U.S. Tracy Wilkinson; Rebecca Trounson Pope elevates Latin Mass Los Angeles Times    
  8-Jul-07 7-Jul-07 Rome Italy Ian Fisher Pope Eases Restrictions on Latin Mass NYT    
9-Jul-07 9-Jul-07 8-Jul-07 Baghdad Iraq Sudarsan Raghavan In Iraqi Hamlet, 'A Funeral Service In Every House' Washington Post   A special correspondent; K.I. Ibrahim 
10-Jul-07 10-Jul-07         Pakistan's Red Mosque leader killed Al Jazeera Al Jazeera-Agencies  
  10-Jul-07   Islamabad Pakistan Benjamin Sand Militant Cleric, 60 Others Killed at Pakistan's Besieged Red Mosque VOA News    
  10-Jul-07   London U.K. Robin Stringer; Camilla Hall Al-Qaeda's Zawahiri Warns U.K. Over Rushdie Honor in Audiotape Bloomberg    
  10-Jul-07   Vatican City Vatican Phil Stewart Vatican Reaffirms Catholic Primary: Document Cities 'Wound' in Orthodox, Protestant Churches Washington Post Reuters  
11-Jul-07 11-Jul-07         Pakistan mosque siege ends Al Jazeera Agencies  
  11-Jul-07         Many dead in Algeria suicide blast Al Jazeera Agencies  
  11-Jul-07         Troops beheaded in Philippines Al Jazeera Agencies  
  11-Jul-07         Soldiers killed in Algerian bomb BBC News    
  11-Jul-07         360 killed in China rainy season BBC News    
  11-Jul-07         Al-Qaeda issues Pakistan threat BBC News    
  11-Jul-07         “The Aggression Against Lal Masjid [Red Mosque]” – An Audio Speech by Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri Produced by as-Sahab Media SITE Institute    
  11-Jul-07   Islamabad Pakistan Benjamin Sand Pakistani Authorities Searching for Explosives Left Behind in Red Mosque VOA News    
  11-Jul-07   Geneva; Moscow Italy; Russia   Protestants criticize, Orthodox welcome Vatican document CWNews.com    
  11-Jul-07   Cairo Egypt   Al Qaeda claims responsibility for bombing that killed 10 in Algeria International Herald Tribune AP  
  11-Jul-07   Washington, DC U.S.   New intelligence report: Al-Qaida renewing efforts to sneak terror plotters into U.S. International Herald Tribune AP Matthew Lee; Lara Jakes Jordan; Barry Schweid; Deb Riechmann 
  11-Jul-07 10-Jul-07 Rome Italy Ian Fisher Pope, Restating 2000 Document, Cites ‘Defects’ of Other Faiths NYT    
  11-Jul-07         Ayman Al-Zawahiri Threatens to Renew Terror Attacks in Britain, Calls On Jihad Fighters Worldwide To Adhere to Jihad and Islam MEMRI    
  11-Jul-07         Al-Qaida Deputy Leader Calls for Revenge Over Raid at Pakistan Mosque VOA News AFP-AP-Reuters  
12-Jul-07 12-Jul-07       Luke O'Brien Anyone Can Build a Dirty Bomb Wired    
  12-Jul-07         Thousands homeless in Sudan floods Al Jazeera Agencies  
  12-Jul-07   Montréal, PQ; Melbourne; London  Canada; Australia; U.K.   Rio Tinto makes a recommended all cash offer for Alcan Alcan Press Release  
  12-Jul-07   Chicago, IL; Melbourne U.S.; Australia Dale Crofts; Tan Hwee Ann Rio Tinto Bids $38.1 Billion for Alcan; Alcoa Quits (Update10) Bloomberg    
  12-Jul-07   Karachi Pakistan Naween A. Mangi Pakistan Siege May Fuel Rift With Religious Parties (Update2) Bloomberg    
  12-Jul-07   Washington, DC U.S. Katherine Shrader Al-Qaida Works to Plant US Operatives Forbes AP  
  12-Jul-07   Washington, DC U.S. Ewen MacAskill US report says al-Qaida regaining strength Guardian Unlimited    
  12-Jul-07   London U.K. Hasan Suroor Al-Qaeda threat to U.K. over Rushdie The Hindu    
  12-Jul-07   Montréal, PQ; Melbourne; London  Canada; Australia; U.K.   Rio Tinto makes a recommended all cash offer for Alcan Rio Tinto Press Release  
  12-Jul-07   Washington, DC U.S. Deborah Tate US Nuclear Agency Faulted for Security Gaps VOA News    
13-Jul-07 13-Jul-07         Ex-media mogul guilty of fraud Al Jazeera Agencies  
  13-Jul-07         Senate doubles Bin Laden reward BBC News    
  13-Jul-07         Conrad Black convicted of fraud BBC News    
  13-Jul-07   Islamabad Pakistan Aamer Ahmed Khan Can Musharraf contain the militant threat? BBC News BBC Urdu Service  
  13-Jul-07   Washington, DC U.S.   #VALUE! Library of Congress THOMAS  
  13-Jul-07   Washington, DC U.S.   S.AMDT.2135  Library of Congress THOMAS  
  13-Jul-07   Chicago, IL U.S. Andrew Harris; Joe Schneider Conrad Black, Three Codefendants Convicted of Fraud (Update8) Bloomberg    
  13-Jul-07   Chicago, IL U.S.   U.S. v. Black et al, 1:05-cr-727 U.S. District Court Northern District of Illinois (Chicago)
   
  13-Jul-07   Sydney Australia James Regan Rio's Alcan deal spotlights alumina, bauxite Washington Post Reuters  
  13-Jul-07   Islamabad Pakistan Zarar Khan Scant Info on Missing From Mosque Siege Washington Post AP  
14-Jul-07 14-Jul-07   Chicago, IL U.S. Andrew Clark Private jets, parties and a $4,000 towel warmer Guardian Unlimited The Guardian  
  14-Jul-07   Brussels Belgium   Wrap: NATO, West regret Moscow's decision to pull out of CFE treaty Ria Novosti    
  14-Jul-07         Battle rages at Lebanon camp Al Jazeera Agencies  
  14-Jul-07         N Korea 'shuts down' reactor Al Jazeera Agencies  
  14-Jul-07         N Korea 'closes nuclear reactor' BBC News    
  14-Jul-07         Deadly attack on Pakistani troops BBC News    
  14-Jul-07   Moscow Russia   Russia will not unilaterally observe adapted CFE Treaty - Kremlin source (Part 2) Interfax    
  14-Jul-07         Effigies burnt as Pakistan tensions rage NEWS.com.au    
  14-Jul-07       Richard Siklos Conrad Black, Ex-Press Baron, Guilty of Fraud NYT   Eric Ferkenhoff
  14-Jul-07       Louis Uchitelle Age of Riches: The Richest of the Rich, Proud of a New Gilded Age NYT   Amanda Cox
  14-Jul-07   Islamabad Pakistan   Thousands rally against Red Mosque attack Taipei Times AFP  
  14-Jul-07   Washington, DC U.S. Deb Riechmann U.S. Upset by Russia's Pullout of Treaty Washington Post AP  
15-Jul-07 15-Jul-07         Battle rages at Lebanon camp Al Jazeera Agencies  
  15-Jul-07   Moscow Russia Luke Harding Kremlin tears up arms pact with Nato Guardian Unlimited The Observer  
  15-Jul-07       David E. Sanger North Koreans Say They’ve Shut Nuclear Reactor      
  15-Jul-07         UN Inspectors Ready to Verify Shutdown of North Korea's Reactor VOA News AP-AFP-Reuters  
  15-Jul-07         Catholic Church to Pay $660 Million Settlement in Abuse Cases VOA News AP-Reuters  
  15-Jul-07   Islamabad Pakistan Griff Witte; Imtiaz Ali Attacks Kill 37 Pakistani Soldiers in Northwest Washington Post    
16-Jul-07 16-Jul-07         Magnitude 6.7 - Near the West Coast of Honshu, Japan USGS    
  16-Jul-07         Magnitude 6.8 - Sea of Japan USGS    
  16-Jul-07         Quake rocks northwestern Japan Al Jazeera Agencies  
  16-Jul-07         Violence spreads in Pakistan Al Jazeera Al Jazeera-Agencies  
  16-Jul-07         Army advances into Nahr al-Bared Al Jazeera Agencies  
  16-Jul-07         LA cardinal offers abuse apology BBC News    
  16-Jul-07         US backs Pakistan military drive BBC News    
  16-Jul-07         Suicide Bombers Kill 80 in Northern Iraqi City of Kirkuk VOA News AFP-AP-Reuters  
  16-Jul-07         Powerful Quake Strikes Northwestern Japan; 6 Dead, 700 Injured VOA News AFP-AP  
  16-Jul-07   Tokyo Japan Mariko Yasu; Drew Gibson Earthquake Hits Central Japan; Five Killed, NHK Says (Update4) Bloomberg    
  16-Jul-07   Jersusalem; Cairo Israel; Egypt Dan Murphy; Jill Carroll Al Qaeda ramps up its propaganda Christian Science Monitor AP  
  16-Jul-07   Kirkuk Iraq Yahya Barzanji Twin Car Bombings in Iraqi City Kill 71 Guardian Unlimited AP  
  16-Jul-07       Laurie Goodstein Cardinal Gives Apology for Abuse Cases in Los Angeles NYT   Michael Parrish
  16-Jul-07   Peshawar Pakistan Riaz Khan Truce Over, Pakistan Militants Kill 70 Washington Post AP  
  16-Jul-07   Baghdad Iraq   At Least 80 Killed in Kirkuk Blast Washington Post Reuters  
17-Jul-07 17-Jul-07         Suicide blast hits Pakistan rally Al Jazeera Al Jazeera-Agencies  
  17-Jul-07         Many dead' in Brazil plane crash BBC News    
  17-Jul-07   Brasilia; Sao Paolo Brazil Andrew J. Barden; Romina Nicaretta Brazilian Jet With 176 Aboard Crashes in Sao Paulo (Update3) Bloomberg    
  17-Jul-07   Sao Paolo Brazil   Fiery plane crash at Sao Paulo airport kills at least 200 CNN    
  17-Jul-07         National Intelligence Estimates: The Terrorist Threat to the US Homeland DNI    
  17-Jul-07   San Francisco, CA U.S. Alistair Barr Bear credit hedge funds almost wiped out: sources: Leveraged fund worth nothing; larger fund reportedly loses 91% of its value MarketWatch    
  17-Jul-07   New York, NY U.S.   Statement by News Corporation Regarding Dow Jones & Company News Corp. Press Release  
  17-Jul-07         2 Bear Stearns Funds Are Almost Worthless NYT Reuters  
  17-Jul-07       Fred Kaplan Read It and Weep: Even Bush's intelligence report says the war in Iraq is making us less safe at home Slate    
  17-Jul-07   Washington, DC U.S. Gary Thomas Intelligence Estimate Says al-Qaida Intends to Attack US VOA News    
  17-Jul-07   Islamabad Pakistan Benjamin Sand Suicide Bomb Attack Kills 13 in Pakistan Capital VOA News    
  17-Jul-07         Passenger Plane Crashes in Sao Paulo, Brazil VOA News AFP-AP-Reuters  
  17-Jul-07   Washington, DC U.S. Katherine Shrader Al-Qaida Plots New Attacks on U.S. Soil Washington Post AP  
18-Jul-07 18-Jul-07   New York, NY U.S. Yalman Onaran Bear Stearns Tells Hedge Fund Investors There's `No Value Left' Bloomberg    
  18-Jul-07   Washington, DC U.S.   Monetary Policy Report submitted to the Congress; Section 1: Monetary Policy and the Economic Outlook Federal Reserve board    
  18-Jul-07   Washington, DC U.S.   Monetary Policy Report submitted to the Congress; Section 2: Economic and Financial Developments in 2007 Federal Reserve board    
  18-Jul-07   Washington, DC U.S.   Testimony of Chairman Ben S. Bernanke; Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress, Before the Committee on Financial Services, U.S. House of Representatives Federal Reserve board    
  18-Jul-07       Mark Carlson; Gretchen C. Weinbach Profits and Balance Sheet Developments at U.S. Commercial Banks in 2006 Federal Reserve board   Thomas C. Allard; Isaac L. Laughlin
  18-Jul-07   Geneva Switzerland   International Federation launches emergency appeal as Sudan faces worst floods in 20 years International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies    
19-Jul-07 19-Jul-07         Police academy bombed in Pakistan Al Jazeera Agencies  
  19-Jul-07         Sudan suffers worst-ever flooding Al Jazeera Al Jazeera-Agencies  
  19-Jul-07         Third suicide bombing hits Pakistan Al Jazeera Agencies  
  19-Jul-07         Bernanke: Subprime hit could top $100B CNN Money Staff; Wire Reports  
  19-Jul-07   New York, NY U.S.   Market Spotlight: Junk bond rout CNN Money AP  
  19-Jul-07   Islamabad Pakistan Khalid Qayum Pakistan Suicide Bombers Kill at Least 33 People in Two Attacks Bloomberg    
  19-Jul-07   Islamabad Pakistan Somini Sengupta; Jon Else Suicide Bombs Kill Dozens in Pakistan NYT   Salman Masood; Ismail Khan
  19-Jul-07         Terrorism Ruled Out in Steam Pipe Explosion VOA News AFP-AP-Reuters  
  19-Jul-07   Geneva Switzerland Lisa Schlein Sudan Faces Worst Floods in 20 Years VOA News    
  19-Jul-07   Washington, DC U.S. Barry Wood US Central Bank Chief Faces Senate Questions on Housing Foreclosures VOA News    
  19-Jul-07       Emily Kaiser Subprime losses could hit $100 billion: Bernanke Washington Post Reuters David Lawder; Rachel Breitman
20-Jul-07 20-Jul-07   New York, NY U.S. Tom Bawden Bernanke says sub-prime defaults may hit $100bn Times Online The Times  
  20-Jul-07   New York, NY U.S. Les Christie Most ruthless foreclosure states: Laws vary widely from state to state. Do you know what kind of mortgage you have? CNN Money    
  20-Jul-07         Landslides kill at least 50 in Pakistan CBC News    
21-Jul-07 21-Jul-07   Beijing China   Deadly China floods show no let-up CNN International Reuters  
  21-Jul-07   Karachi Pakistan   At least 56 killed in floods, lightning in Pakistan The Times of India    
  21-Jul-07   Baghdad Iraq Kim Gamel U.S. Airstrikes Hit Shiite Stronghold ABC News AP  
  21-Jul-07         Loan fears trigger junk bond sell-off Los Angeles Times Times Wire Services  
  21-Jul-07   Baghdad Iraq Molly Hennessy-Fiske Helicopter attack kills 6 Iraqi insurgents, U.S. says Los Angeles Times   Raheem Salman; Wail Alhafith; Said Rifai; Correspondents 
  21-Jul-07         Afghan Police Report 25 Taleban, Four Guards Killed in Gun Battle VOA News AFP-Reuters  
  21-Jul-07         Celebratory Gunfire Kills 3 in Iraq After Football Game VOA News AFP-AP-Reuters  
  21-Jul-07   Beijing China   Floods kill at least 100 across China Washington Post Reuters  
22-Jul-07 22-Jul-07         China storms kill more than 100 BBC News    
  22-Jul-07   Ankara Turkey   News Analysis: Turkey's re-elect ruling party faces multiple tests China View Xinhua Mu Xuequan (ed.)
  22-Jul-07   Istanbul Turkey Dorian Jones Turkey's Ruling Islamic Party Wins Parliamentary Majority VOA News    
  22-Jul-07         French Bus Crash Kills 20 Polish Pilgrims VOA News AFP-AP-Reuters  
  22-Jul-07   Grenoble, Isere France   L'accident en Isère ne sera pas sans conséquences, dit Sarkozy Le Monde Reuters  
  22-Jul-07 21-Jul-07 Peshawar Pakistan   Deadly Storms in Pakistan NYT AP  
23-Jul-07 23-Jul-07         Deaths in northwest Pakistan clash Al Jazeera Agencies  
  23-Jul-07         Three car bombs hit Iraqi capital Al Jazeera Agencies  
  23-Jul-07   Grenoble, Isere France   Accident de car: "douleur" et "compassion" pour le recteur de la Salette France 3 AP  
  23-Jul-07         17 Killed in String of Baghdad Car Bombings VOA News AFP-AP-Reuters  
  23-Jul-07         US, Afghan Soldiers Kill 50 Suspected Taleban VOA News    
  23-Jul-07   Geneva Switzerland   Inaugural Annual Meeting of the New Champions: From Davos to Dalian World Economic Forum    
24-Jul-07 24-Jul-07   Calabasas, CA U.S.   Countrywide Reports 2007 Second Quarter Results Countrywide Financial Press Release (PRNewswire-FirstCall)  
  24-Jul-07         Dozens killed in Iraq Hilla blast Al Jazeera Agencies  
  24-Jul-07   Charlotte,NC U.S. Will Edwards Countrywide's Net Declines 33 Percent on Home Equity (Update7) Bloomberg    
  24-Jul-07       Greg Morcroft Countrywide quarterly profit tumbles; shares off 7%: Subprime problems spread to top-rated mortgages, lender says  MarketWatch    
  24-Jul-07   Washington, DC U.S. Rex Nutting The other shoe drops at Countrywide MarketWatch    
  24-Jul-07   Beijing China Daniel Schearf FBI, Chinese Police Seize Counterfeit Software VOA News    
25-Jul-07 25-Jul-07   Shenzhen China   China, FBI make $500M piracy bust CNN International Reuters  
  25-Jul-07   Budapest Hungary   Deadly heat wave grips Europe CNN International Reuters  
  25-Jul-07         Bombs kill Iraqi football fans Al Jazeera    
  25-Jul-07         Europe bakes in summer heatwave BBC News    
  25-Jul-07   Beijing China   Top auditor calls for laws to bring embezzlers to account China View Xinhua Sun Yunlong (ed.)
  25-Jul-07   Bucharest; Budapest Hungary Adam Brown; Alex Kuli Southeast European Heat Eases, Leaving Hundreds Dead (Update1) Bloomberg    
  25-Jul-07         Suicide bombers strike Iraqi soccer fans, killing 50 CBC News AP  
  25-Jul-07   Dallas, TX U.S. Paul J. Weber Blasts near downtown Dallas injure at least 3 Houston Chronicle AP  
  25-Jul-07   Dallas, TX U.S.   Gas tanks explode in Dallas CNN AP  
  25-Jul-07 24-Jul-07 Beijing China David Barboza; Steve Lohr F.B.I. and Chinese Seize $500 Million of Counterfeit Software NYT    
  25-Jul-07         Europe Reeling from Extreme Weather VOA News AFP-AP-Reuters  
  25-Jul-07   Dallas, TX U.S. Paul J. Weber Gas Tanks Explode at Dallas Facility Washington Post AP Anabelle Garay
26-Jul-07 26-Jul-07         Dozens killed in Baghdad blast Al Jazeera Agencies  
  26-Jul-07         Space computer 'sabotage' probed BBC News    
  26-Jul-07         World stocks fall on rate concern BBC News    
  26-Jul-07         Baghdad market car bomb kills 25 BBC News    
  26-Jul-07         Stock markets, loonie lose ground CBC News    
  26-Jul-07   Baghdad Iraq Kim Gamel Attacks Rip Through Baghdad District Guardian Unlimited AP AP News Research Center in New York; Sameer N. Yacoub (AP)
  26-Jul-07         Car Bomb Blast Kills 25 in Central Baghdad VOA News    
  26-Jul-07   Washington, DC U.S. Barry Wood Dow Jones Plunges on Oil, Housing Concerns VOA News    
27-Jul-07 27-Jul-07       Floyd Norris; Vikas Bajaj Global Stock Markets Tumble Amid Deepening Credit Fears NYT   Julia Werdigier
  27-Jul-07   Washington, DC U.S. Jessica Berman NASA Finds Evidence of Sabotaged Computer Bound for Space Station VOA News    
29-Jul-07 29-Jul-07   Jerusalem Israel Jim Teeple Israel Says No Objections to US Gulf Arms Deal VOA News    
30-Jul-07 30-Jul-07   Tokyo Japan   Japan's ruling bloc suffers defeat in parliamentary election China View Xinhua Luan Shanglin (ed.)
  30-Jul-07   Washington, DC U.S. Pete Kasperowicz (Thomson) Paulson asks Congress to raise debt ceiling again in October Forbes Thomson Financial; AFX News  
  30-Jul-07   Washington, DC U.S. Robert Schroeder Treasury asks Congress to raise U.S. debt limit MarketWatch    
  30-Jul-07   Washington, DC U.S.   Assistance Agreements with Gulf States, Israel and Egypt: Statement by Secretary Condoleezza Rice U.S. Department of State    
  30-Jul-07   Washington, DC U.S.   Treasury Announces Market Financing Estimates U.S. Department of the Treasury Press Release HP-513  
  30-Jul-07         Rice Announces Proposed Arms Deals with Egypt, Israel VOA News AFP-Reuters  
  30-Jul-07   Washington, DC U.S. Al Pessin US Increases Military Aid to Israel 25 Percent, Plans to Sell Arms to Gulf States VOA News    
  30-Jul-07   Tokyo Japan Hiroko Tabuchi Japan's Opposition Demands Premier Quit Washington Post AP  
  30-Jul-07       Jeannine Aversa Paulson: US Should Boost Debt Limit Washington Post AP  
31-Jul-07 31-Jul-07   Washington, DC U.S.   Rice: U.S. military deals with Mideast promote stability CNN International    
  31-Jul-07       Toshiyuki Ito (Yomiuri) Poll revealed prime minister's political naivete Yomiuri Shimbun AP  
  31-Jul-07 30-Jul-07 Shannon Ireland Robin Wright Iran Is Critical as U.S. Unveils Arms Sales in the Middle East Washington Post Josh White  
1-Aug-07 1-Aug-07   New York, NY U.S.   Dow Jones & Company and News Corporation Enter Into Definitive Merger Agreement Dow Jones Press Release  
  1-Aug-07   Washington, DC U.S.   Treasury Assistant Secretary for Financial Markets Anthony Ryan: August 2007 Quarterly Refunding Statement U.S. Department of the Treasury Press Release HP-515  
  1-Aug-07         Blasts Kill 70 in Baghdad As Sunni Political Bloc Quits Government VOA News AP-Reuters  
3-Aug-07 3-Aug-07         Civilians dead' in Nato air raids Al Jazeera Agencies  
  3-Aug-07   New York, NY U.S. Chris Isidore Chrysler is American again CNN Money    
  3-Aug-07   Southfield, MI U.S. Jeff Bennett DaimlerChrysler Closes Sale of Chrysler to Cerberus (Update6) Bloomberg    
  3-Aug-07         Divers work in a dark, dangerous world CNN    
  3-Aug-07   Minneapolis, MN U.S.   Bridge collapse probe focuses on unexplained shift CNN    
  3-Aug-07   Stuttgart Germany   DaimlerChrysler Closes Transaction on Transfer of Majority Interest in Chrysler to Cerberus DaimlerChrysler Press Release  
  3-Aug-07   London U.K.   Statistics on mortgage and landlord possession actions in the county courts second quarter 2007 U.K. Ministry of Justice    
  3-Aug-07   Minneapolis, MN U.S.   States Across the Country Race to Inspect Bridges NYT   Brenda Goodman; Jim Orso; Griff Palmer; Julia Preston; Libby Sander
  3-Aug-07   Washington, DC U.S. Eric Lightblau; Mark Mazzetti Broader Spying Authority Advances in Congress NYT   Carl Hulse; Jeff Zeleny 
  3-Aug-07         Afghan Officials Probe Reported Civilian Deaths in US Strikes VOA News AFP-AP-Reuters  
  3-Aug-07   New Delhi India Anjana Pasricha 20 Million Affected by Floods in South Asia VOA News    
  3-Aug-07       Lawrence Rudnick; Shea Brown; Liliya R. Williams Extragalactic Radio Sources and the WMAP Cold spot (to be published in Astrophysical Journal) Astrophysical Journal    
4-Aug-07 4-Aug-07   Washington, DC U.S.   U.S. Congress approves foreign wiretap bill China View Xinhua Song Shutao (ed.)
  4-Aug-07   Washington, DC U.S.   S. 1927: Protect America Act of 2007 Library of Congress THOMAS  
  4-Aug-07   Washington, DC U.S. Dan Robinson Anti-Terror Surveillance Changes Fail in House VOA News    
  4-Aug-07         US Senate Endorses Bush-Backed Anti-Terror Wiretapping Bills VOA News AP-AFP-Reuters  
  4-Aug-07         New Driver at Chrysler as Daimler Shifts Gears Deutsche Welle News Reports (sms)  
  4-Aug-07   Washington, DC U.S. Greg Miller Senate votes to expand spy authority Los Angeles Times    
  4-Aug-07   London U.K. Tom Rivers Britain Hit by Another Foot-and-Mouth Disease Scare VOA News    
5-Aug-07 5-Aug-07         Al Qaeda member: U.S. embassies prime targets CNN    
  5-Aug-07   Washington, DC U.S. Dan Robinson US Congress Approves Anti-Terror Bill to Intercept Phone Calls, Emails VOA News    
  5-Aug-07   New Delhi India   Flood scene improves in Assam, Bihar, UP; rains lash Goa, Raj The Hindu PTI  
  5-Aug-07         No surprises here: Adam Gaddahn in new Al Qaeda tape says “We shall continue to target you, at home and abroad” Laura Mansfield    
  5-Aug-07         Adam Gaddahn in new Al Qaeda tape Laura Mansfield Video  
  5-Aug-07       Ellen Nakashima; Joby Warrick House Approves Wiretap Measure: White House Bill Boosts Warrantless Surveillance Washington Post    
  5-Aug-07   Cairo Egypt Paul Schemm U.S. al-Qaida Member Threatens Embassies Washington Post AP Maamoun Youssef (AP)
  5-Aug-07   Washington, DC U.S.   President Bush Commends Congress on Passage of Intelligence Legislation White House Press Release  
6-Aug-07 6-Aug-07         Bush signs expanded wiretap law BBC News    
  6-Aug-07         US lender on brink of bankruptcy BBC News    
  6-Aug-07   Melville,NY U.S.   American Home Mortgage Investment Corp. Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy American Home Mortgage Investment Corporation Press Release (Business Wire)  
  6-Aug-07   Wilmington, DE U,S, Steven Church American Home Says Top Creditors Forced Bankruptcy (Update1) Bloomberg    
  6-Aug-07         At Least 33 Killed in Violence Across Iraq VOA News AP-AFP-Reuters  
  6-Aug-07   Barabanki India Biswajeet Banerjee Sun Shines in South Asia, Misery Lingers Washington Post AP AP: Parveen Ahmed; Wasbir Hussain; Rajesh Singh
7-Aug-07 7-Aug-07   Huntington, UT U.S.   Utah mine rescue will take three days, operator says CNN   AP
  7-Aug-07       Tom A. Peter Warrantless wiretaps expanded Christian Science Monitor    
  7-Aug-07       Jim Garamone Artificial Spike' Leads to Highest Troop Level in Iraq U.S. DOD American Forces Press Service  
  7-Aug-07   Washington, DC U.S.   Federal Open Market Committee Statement Federal Reserve Board    
  7-Aug-07   Huntington, UT U.S. Paul Foy Utah Mine Owner: Rescue Will Take 3 Days Guardian Unlimited AP Garance Burke; Brock Vergakis; Seth Borenstein
  7-Aug-07         American Home Mortgage Seeks Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection NYT AP  
  7-Aug-07 6-Aug-07 Huntington, UT U.S. Martin Stolz Six Trapped After Collapse in a Utah Coal Mine  NYT    
  7-Aug-07         Number of US Troops in Iraq Reaches All-Time High VOA News AP-AFP-Reuters  
  7-Aug-07       Walter Pincus Same Agencies to Run, Oversee Surveillance Program Washington Post   Joby Warrick
8-Aug-07 8-Aug-07   Baghdad Iraq Mohammed Tawfeeq Sadr City fighting kills about 30 CNN International    
  8-Aug-07         Dutch MP calls for ban on Quran Al Jazeera Agencies  
  8-Aug-07   Phoenix, AZ U.S. Faye Bowers Utah collapse brings closer scrutiny of mine safety reform Christian Science Monitor    
  8-Aug-07   Baghdad Iraq Damien Cave 32 Killed in U.S. Raid in Iraq Shiite Stronghold NYT   Qais Mizher; Wisam A. Habeeb; Karim Hilmi 
  8-Aug-07     Netherlands Nicolien den Boer Qur'an should be banned' - Wilders strikes again Radio Netherlands   RNW translation (fs)
  8-Aug-07       Ambrose Evans-Pritchard China threatens 'nuclear option' of dollar sales Telegraph    
  8-Aug-07       Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Dow crashes 387 as contagion spreads Telegraph    
  8-Aug-07         US Kills 30 in Raid on Baghdad Bomb Smuggling Network VOA News    
9-Aug-07 9-Aug-07   Paris France   BNP Paribas Investment Partners temporaly suspends the calculation of the Net Asset Value of the following funds : Parvest Dynamic ABS, BNP Paribas ABS EURIBOR and BNP Paribas ABS EONIA BNP Paribas Press Release  
  9-Aug-07       Jack Ewing Europe: Homegrown Mortgages are Sound BusinessWeek   Mark Scott; Cassidy Flanagan
  9-Aug-07   Amsterdam Netherlands   Dutch politician for ban on Holy Quran Daily Times Reuters  
  9-Aug-07       Howard Schneide; Tomoeh Murakami Tse Stocks Drop on New Credit Concerns Washington Post    
10-Aug-07 10-Aug-07         Market Snapshot: Stocks End Week Higher As Fed Acts To Soothe Markets CNN Money Dow Jones Newswires  
  10-Aug-07   Washington,DC U.S.   U.S. Fed injects another $38 bln into financial market China View Xinhua Song Shutao (ed.)
  10-Aug-07         The Federal Reserve is providing liquidity to facilitate the orderly functioning of financial markets Federal Reserve Board Press Release  
  10-Aug-07       Jeremy W. Peters Stocks Tumble as French Bank Reacts to Home Loan Worries NYT   James Kanter; Julia Werdigier 
  10-Aug-07         Canada Takes on Russia in Race for North Pole Spiegel International msm/ap  
  10-Aug-07         Canada steps up fight for the Arctic Globe & Mail Canadian Press  
  10-Aug-07         Presidents of Venezuela, Bolivia, and Argentina Meet on Energy Issues VOA News AP  
11-Aug-07 11-Aug-07         Chavez tour ends in energy deals BBC News    
  11-Aug-07   Toronto, ON Canada Lee Carter Arctic neighbours draw up battle lines BBC News    
  11-Aug-07 10-Aug-07 Lima Peru   Venezuela boosts energy ties with other nations China View Xinhua Song Shutao (ed.)
  11-Aug-07         Harper announces northern deep-sea port, training site CBC News Canadian Press  
  11-Aug-07       Scott J. Wilson A primer on the Federal Reserve Los Angeles Times    
  11-Aug-07   Ottawa, ON Canada Ian Austen Canada Announces Plans for 2 New Bases in Its Far North NYT    
12-Aug-07 12-Aug-07   Beijing China   Central bank: China a responsible investor in int'l financial market China View Xinhua Yan Liang (ed.)
  12-Aug-07   Beijing China Zhao Yidi China's Central Bank Says Dollar Assets Are Important Reserves Bloomberg    
  12-Aug-07   New York, NY U.S.   China expresses confidence in U.S. dollar MarketWatch    
13-Aug-07 13-Aug-07   Baghdad Iraq Afif Sarhan Sex for survival Al Jazeera    
  13-Aug-07   Beijing China   PBC Official Interview with Xinhua News Agency on Western Media Report of "China Threatening to Sell Dollar" People's Bank of China    
  13-Aug-07       Katherine Griffiths Markets fear there is more to come Telegraph    
  13-Aug-07       Liz Rappaport Goldman's Spin Eases Market Jitters TheStreet    
  13-Aug-07   New York, NY U.S.   Goldman Sachs and Various Investors Including C.V. Starr & Co., Inc., Perry Capital LLC and Eli Broad Invest $3 Billion in Global Equity Opportunities Fund Goldman Sachs Press Release  
14-Aug-07 14-Aug-07   New York, NY U.S. Andrew Clark Goldman Sachs bails out hedge fund with $3bn Guardian Unlimited The Guardian  
  14-Aug-07         Deadly blasts target Iraqi sect Al Jazeera Agencies  
  14-Aug-07         Deadly blast damages Iraq bridge Al Jazeera Agencies  
  14-Aug-07         N Korea floods 'kill hundreds' Al Jazeera Agencies  
  14-Aug-07         Hundreds dead' in N Korea floods BBC News    
  14-Aug-07         Russian train derailed by 'bomb' BBC News    
  14-Aug-07         Scores die' in Iraq bomb attacks BBC News    
  14-Aug-07   Fenghuang, Hunan China   Death toll in central China bridge collapse rises to 29 China View Xinhua Jiang Yuxia (ed.)
  14-Aug-07         Good for Goldman WSJ    
  14-Aug-07         10 Killed in Suicide Truck Bombing on Bridge Near Baghdad VOA News    
  14-Aug-07   Hong Kong China Greg Ahlstrand; Ying Lou China Bridge Death Toll Rises Amid Safety Concerns (Update1) Bloomberg    
  14-Aug-07   Beijing China Jonathan Watts 22 dead as Chinese bridge collapses Guardian Unlimited    
  14-Aug-07       Jung Sung-ki South to Help North Recover From Floods The Korea Times    
  14-Aug-07   New York, NY U.S. Walter Hamilton; Tom Petruno Wall Street humbled by hedge funds Los Angeles Times    
  14-Aug-07   Moscow Russia C.J. Chivers Bomb Derails Train in Russia NYT   Michael Schwirtz
  14-Aug-07   Baghdad Iraq   Iraqi Military Says 175 Killed, 200 Wounded in 4 Bombings NYT AP  
15-Aug-07 15-Aug-07   Denver, CO U.S.   Magnitude 8.0 - Near the Coast of Central Peru USGS    
  15-Aug-07         Three Germans killed in Afghanistan Al Jazeera Agencies  
  15-Aug-07       Paul Reynolds US turns heat up on Iran BBC News    
  15-Aug-07         Iran Guards 'join US terror list' BBC News    
  15-Aug-07   Fenghuang, Hunan China   Death toll rises to 36 from central China bridge collapse, at least 23 missing China View Xinhua Pan Letian (ed.)
  15-Aug-07         Suicide Car Bombing in Southern Iraq Kills 2, Toll from Tuesday's Attacks in Northeast Rises to 200 VOA News AFP-AP  
  15-Aug-07   London U.K. Robin Stringer; Camilla Hall Iraq Toll Exceeds 200 as Suicide Bombers Target Sect (Update1) Bloomberg    
  15-Aug-07   Washington, DC U.S.   CAIR: NYPD Terror Report Casts Suspicion on All U.S. Muslims The Council on American-Islamic Relations Press Release  
  15-Aug-07   Washington, DC U.S.   Suicides up among U.S. soldiers CNN   Barbara Starr
  15-Aug-07   Kabul Afghanistan   US-Afghan offensive on Tora Bora Dawn AFP  
  15-Aug-07       Mitchell D. Silber; Arvin Bhatt Radicalization in the West: The Homegrown Threat NYPD    
  15-Aug-07 14-Aug-07 Washington, DC U.S. Helene Cooper U.S. Weighing Terrorist Label for Iran Guards NYT   Thom Shanker; David Rohde
  15-Aug-07         US Considering Terrorist Label for Iran's Revolutionary Guards VOA News AP  
  15-Aug-07       Robin Wright Iranian Unit to Be Labeled 'Terrorist' Washington Post   Madonna Lebling
16-Aug-07 16-Aug-07       Dave Hogarty NYPD Warns of Potential Enemies Within Gothamist    
  16-Aug-07         Heavy losses' in Afghan fighting BBC News    
  16-Aug-07   Kabul Afghanistan