Bibliography for World Events: 2007Q4      
                   
Date Published Date Published Date Posted Venue Country Author Article/URL* Media Listed Sources Contributors
1-Oct-07 1-Oct-07         Volcano erupts off Yemen coast Al Jazeera Agencies  
  1-Oct-07   Hodeidah Yemen   Four soldiers killed as volcano erupts off Yemen CNN Money Thomson Financial News delivered by Newstex  
  1-Oct-07         Nokia Buys Navteq In Bid To Broaden Web Data Offerings CNN Money Investor's Business Daily delivered by Newstex  
  1-Oct-07   Dubai UAE Massoud A. Derhally Yemeni Volcano Erupts, Leaving Several People Missing (Update2) Bloomberg AFP  
  1-Oct-07   Helsinki  Finland Juho Erkheikki Nokia to Buy Navteq for $8.1 Billion, Take on TomTom (Update7) Bloomberg    
  1-Oct-07   New York, NY U.S.   Citi Expects Substantial Decline in Third Quarter Net Income Citigroup Press Release  
  1-Oct-07       Xan Rice Rebels accused of killing Darfur peacekeepers Guardian Unlimited The Guardian
 
  1-Oct-07   Montreal, ON Canada   Canadian Hemophilia Society surprised and disappointed at tainted blood verdict Canadian Hemophilia Society Press Release  
  1-Oct-07   London U.K. Simon Kennedy UBS to report $3.4 billion subprime hit: First quarterly loss in nine years; exec changes, jobs cuts in the works MarketWatch    
  1-Oct-07   Chicago, IL U.S.   Nokia to acquire NAVTEQ: The combined entity would create a leading global player in the fast growing location based services market; NAVTEQ to support existing customers as before Navteq Press Release  
  1-Oct-07   Espoo Finland   Nokia to acquire NAVTEQ  Nokia Press Release  
  1-Oct-07   Hodeidah Yemen   Three found dead, volcanic eruptions ongoing on Jabal al-Tair Island SABA   NS
  1-Oct-07   Zurich; Basel Switzerland   UBS writes down positions, predicts an overall loss in third quarter, and reorganizes management UBS Press Release  
2-Oct-07 2-Oct-07   Toronto, ON; Cherry Hill, NJ Canada; U.S.   TD Bank Financial Group to Acquire Commerce Bancorp Inc. TD Bank Financial Group Press Release  
  2-Oct-07         Toronto-Dominion Agrees to Buy Commerce Bancorp (Update1) Bloomberg   Dickson (ed.)
  2-Oct-07   Dubai; New York, NY UAE; U.S. Will McSheehy; Bradley Keoun Alwaleed Backs Citigroup Chief After Profit `Hiccup' (Update3) Bloomberg    
  2-Oct-07   Toronto, ON Canada Shannon Kari Allegations of negligence 'disproved' National Post   Peter Brieger; Jack Aubry
  2-Oct-07 1-Oct-07 Frankfurt am Main Germany Mark Landler; Julia Werdigier Some Banks in Europe Suffer, Too NYT    
  2-Oct-07   Toronto, ON Canada André Picard Victims of HIV furious at acquittal of administrators in tainted-blood case Globe and Mail    
  2-Oct-07       TSC Staff Commerce Deal 'Turbocharges' TD
TheStreet.com    
  2-Oct-07   Denver, CO U.S.   UPDATE: Xcel Energy is responding to a chemical fire in the hydro penstock at Cabin Creek Station Xcel Energy Press Release  
  2-Oct-07   Denver, CO U.S.   UPDATE: Xcel Energy reacts to deaths at Cabin Creek Station Xcel Energy Press Release  
3-Oct-07 3-Oct-07   Frankfurt am Main Germany Matt Moore Deutsche Bank to Write Off About $3.12B AP    
  3-Oct-07   Frankfurt am Main Germany   Deutsche Bank expects third-quarter 2007 net profit to exceed EUR 1.4 billion Deutsche Bank Press Release  
  3-Oct-07   Nagpur, Maharashtra India   Vidarbha Farmers' Suicides Inspire Highway Blockade Across India  ENS    
  3-Oct-07   Georgetown, CO U.S. Judith Kohler 5 Workers Dead After Power Plant Fire Washington Post AP  
4-Oct-07 4-Oct-07   Elandsrand Mine South Africa James Macharia First of 3,200 trapped S.African miners rescued Reuters Africa    
  4-Oct-07         Plane crash in Congo kills 30 CNN International AP  
  4-Oct-07         Storm lashes central Vietnam Al Jazeera Agencies  
  4-Oct-07         Seventeen die in DR Congo crash BBC News    
  4-Oct-07   Bhopal India Pervez Bari Vidarbha cotton farmers to start indefinite national highway blockade stir from Oct. 11 TwoCircles.net    
  4-Oct-07   London U.K.   Bank of England Maintains Bank Rate at 5.75% BOE Press Release  
  4-Oct-07   Mnew York, NY; Melbourne  U.S.; Australia Stewart Bailey; Tan Hwee Ann Harmony Gold Starts Rescue of 3,200 Miners Trapped Underground Bloomberg    
  4-Oct-07   Frankfurt am Main Germany   Monetary policy decisions ECB Press Release  
  4-Oct-07   Johannesburg South Africa Chris McGreal Trapped a mile underground, 3,000 goldminers face grim wait for rescue Guardian Unlimited The Guardian
 
  4-Oct-07 3-Oct-07 Frankfurt Germany Mark Landler Less Harm Than Feared at Largest German Bank NYT    
  4-Oct-07         At Least 19 Killed in Congo Plane Crash VOA News AFP-AP-Reuters  
5-Oct-07 5-Oct-07         US Military Says Coalition Air Strike Kills 25 Militants near Baquba VOA News AFP-AP  
6-Oct-07 6-Oct-07   Islamabad Pakistan   Musharraf 'elected to third term' CNN International    
  6-Oct-07         Musharraf 'wins' Pakistan vote Al Jazeera Agencies  
  6-Oct-07         Musharraf Wins Pakistani Presidential Election VOA News AFP-AP-Reuters  
  6-Oct-07   Islamabad Pakistan Khalid Qayum; Farhan Sharif Musharraf Wins Majority in Pakistan Presidential Vote (Update1) Bloomberg    
  6-Oct-07 5-Oct-07 Baghdad Iraq Alissa J. Rubin Accounts Differ Sharply on U.S. Attack in Iraq NYT   Khalid al-Ansary; Qais Mizher; an Iraqi employee of NYT
7-Oct-07 7-Oct-07   Waldorf; Paris Germany; France   SAP to Acquire Business Objects in Friendly Takeover Business Objects Press Release  
  7-Oct-07   Waldorf Germany   SAP to Acquire Business Objects in Friendly Takeover; Combined Companies to Accelerate Leadership for Business User Applications SAP Press Release  
8-Oct-07 8-Oct-07   Santa Clara Cuba   Sympathizers mark 40th anniversary of Che Guevara's death AFP    
  8-Oct-07   Stockholm Sweden    US, UK Scientists Win Nobel in Medicine AP    
  8-Oct-07         Turkey weighs response over attack CNN International AP  
  8-Oct-07         Pakistan troops missing after clash Al Jazeera Agencies  
  8-Oct-07         Americas mark death of Che Guevara Al Jazeera Agencies  
  8-Oct-07         Powerful storm hits Chinese coast Al Jazeera Al Jazeera-Agencies  
  8-Oct-07         Turkey mulls response to PKK attack Al Jazeera Agencies  
  8-Oct-07   Havana Cuba Michael Voss Cubans honour Che as a hero BBC News    
  8-Oct-07         RBS secures takeover of ABN Amro BBC News    
  8-Oct-07         Iraq truck bomb kills at least 13 BBC News    
  8-Oct-07         Musharraf escort 'copter crashes BBC News    
  8-Oct-07   Islamabad Pakistan   4 Pak security officers killed in army helicopter crash China View Xinhua Du Guodong (ed.)
  8-Oct-07   Hangzhou China   Tropical Storm Krosa back to sea, but rains continue in east China China View Xinhua Yan Liang (ed.)
  8-Oct-07   Stockholm Sweden    The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2007 Nobelprize.org    
  8-Oct-07   Stockholm Sweden    The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2007 Nobelprize.org Press Release-Business Wire  
  8-Oct-07   Paris France   SAP defends price offered for Business Objects Reuters UK    
  8-Oct-07   London U.K. Jon Menon; Ben Livesey Royal Bank Pays `Big Price,' Takes Control at ABN (Update3) Bloomberg    
  8-Oct-07   Ankara; Istanbul Turkey Ben Holland; Mark Bentley Turkey Vows Crackdown on PKK After 15 Soldiers Killed (Update2) Bloomberg    
  8-Oct-07       Heather Havenstein SAP's Business Objects deal means big overlap in performance management apps ComputerWorld    
  8-Oct-07   Havana Cuba   Cuba Pays Tribute to Che Guevara Cuban News Agency    
  8-Oct-07 7-Oct-07     Fidel Castro Ruz Che, Reflections by Cuban President Fidel Castro Cuban News Agency    
  8-Oct-07   Baghdad Iraq Alexandra Zavis Car bomb explodes near Polish Embassy in Iraq Los Angeles Times   Special correspondents in Baghdad and Erbil 
  8-Oct-07   Edinburgh U.K.   Fortis, RBS and Santander - Update on Acceptances of ABN AMRO Ordinary Shares Royal Bank of Scotland Press Release  
  8-Oct-07         More than 175 Dead as Militants Clash With Troops in Northern Pakistan VOA News AFP-Reuters  
9-Oct-07 9-Oct-07         Bomb attacks target Iraqi officials Al Jazeera Agencies  
  9-Oct-07   Stockholm Sweden    The Nobel Prize in Physics 2007 Nobelprize.org    
  9-Oct-07   Stockholm Sweden    The Nobel Prize in Physics 2007 Nobelprize.org Press Release  
  9-Oct-07 8-Oct-07 Islamabad Pakistan Salman Masood Copter Escorting Musharraf Crashes NYT    
  9-Oct-07         Bombs Kill 19 People in Northern Iraq, 5 in Baghdad VOA News AFP-AP-Reuters  
10-Oct-07 10-Oct-07         Pakistan tribesmen bury dead Al Jazeera Al Jazeera-Agencies  
  10-Oct-07   Stockholm Sweden    The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2007 Nobelprize.org    
  10-Oct-07   Stockholm Sweden    The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2007 Nobelprize.org Press Release  
  10-Oct-07   Washington, DC U.S.   #VALUE! Library of Congress THOMAS  
  10-Oct-07   Southfield, MI U.S. Bill Koenig; John Lippert Chrysler Workers Strike as Talks Fail to Yield Accord (Update3)  Bloomberg    
  10-Oct-07   Southfield, MI U.S. John Lippert Chrysler Reaches UAW Agreement, Ends 6-Hour Strike (Update3) Bloomberg    
  10-Oct-07       David Kiley Why Chrysler, UAW Settled So Fast BusinessWeek    
  10-Oct-07   San Francisco, CA U.S. Shawn Langlois Chrysler workers walk out on the job MarketWatch    
  10-Oct-07         Expedition 16 Crew Launches from Baikonur NASA    
  10-Oct-07         Space Station NASA    
  10-Oct-07   Detroit, MI U.S. Micheline Maynard; Nick Bunkley Auto Union Workers Walk Out at Chrysler NYT   Ian Austen
  10-Oct-07         UAW reaches tentative agreement at Chrysler UAW    
  10-Oct-07   Washington, DC U.S. Margaret Besheer Analysts: US Congressional Resolution on Armenian Genocide is Symbolic VOA News    
11-Oct-07 11-Oct-07   Stockholm Sweden    The Nobel Prize in Literature 2007 Nobelprize.org    
  11-Oct-07         Terrorists and Civilians Killed in Coalition Raid in Iraq VOA News AP  
  11-Oct-07         Announcement of the Monetary Policy Meeting Decisions BOJ    
  11-Oct-07       Jeffrey Donovan  Armenia Hails Controversial U.S. Vote Recognizing Genocide  RFE/RL   Ruzanna Khachatrian; Ruzanna Stepanian; Arifa Kazimova
12-Oct-07 12-Oct-07         Indian's surprise at Nobel award BBC News    
  12-Oct-07   Stockholm Sweden    The Nobel Peace Prize 2007 Nobelprize.org    
  12-Oct-07   Oslo Norway   The Nobel Peace Prize 2007 Nobelprize.org Press Release  
  12-Oct-07   Stockholm Sweden Kevin Billinghurst Former US Vice President Gore, UN Panel, Win Nobel Peace Prize VOA News    
  12-Oct-07   Washington, DC   Ltg (Ret) Ricardo S. Sanchez Military Reporters and Editors Luncheon Address Military Reporters and Editors    
13-Oct-07 13-Oct-07   Washington, DC U.S. Demian McLean Iraq War Is `Nightmare' With No End, Sanchez Says (Update1) Bloomberg    
  13-Oct-07   Washington, DC; New York, NY U.S. Jesse Westbrook; Kevin Carmichael; Mark Pittman Citigroup, JPMorgan in Market Talks With Treasury (Update1) Bloomberg    
  13-Oct-07   New York, NY U.S. Neil Shah; Patrick Rucker Treasury officials seek to help battered SIVs Reuters   Chris Reiter
  13-Oct-07       Josh White Ex-Commander In Iraq Faults War Strategy: 'No End in Sight,' Says Retired General Sanchez Washington Post   Thomas E. Ricks; Peter Baker
14-Oct-07 14-Oct-07       Charlotte Hunt-Grubbe The elementary DNA of Dr Watson Times The Sunday Times  
15-Oct-07 15-Oct-07   Beijing China Joe Havely Hu outlines blueprint for China Al Jazeera    
  15-Oct-07         Hu Jintao delivers report to CPC congress China View Xinhua Yan Zhonghua (ed.)
  15-Oct-07   New York, NY U.S.   Global Banks Announce Plans for Major Liquidity Facility to Bolster Asset-Backed Commercial Paper Markets Bank of America PRNewswire  
  15-Oct-07   Beijing China Saibal Dasgupta  Top Chinese leadership to control inner-party democracy The Times of India TNN  
  15-Oct-07   Beijing China Allen T. Cheng China's Communist Party to Allow More Local Elections (Update2) Bloomberg    
  15-Oct-07       Jayshree Bajoria Deciding China’s Political Future  Council on Foreign Relations    
  15-Oct-07         17th CPC National Congress China View Xinhua  
  15-Oct-07       Paul Tharp; Roddy Boyd BAILOUT KINGS: BANKS SET $100B FUND IN SUBPRIME MESS New York Post    
  15-Oct-07   Beijing China Joseph Kahn China’s Leader Closes Door to Reform at Meeting NYT    
  15-Oct-07   New York, NY U.S. Dan Wilchins UPDATE 5-US banks plan fund to bail out investment vehicles Reuters   Dan Burns; Richard Leong; Neil Shah; Anna Driver
  15-Oct-07   Beijing China Mary-Anne Toy Party too corrupt, Hu tells Congress The Sydney Morning Herald    
  15-Oct-07       Heda Bayron Chinese President Promises Economic Growth, Political Reform VOA News    
  15-Oct-07   New York, NY U.S. Joe Bel Bruno 3 Largest Banks Team on Rescue Fund Washington Post AP Madlen Read (AP)
16-Oct-07 16-Oct-07   London U.K.   Oil trades near record on speculative buying fed by geopolitical, supply fears CNN Money Thomson Financial delivered by Newstex  
  16-Oct-07   New York, NY U.S. Stephen Foley Top Wall Street banks haggle over rescue plan for SIVs The Independent    
  16-Oct-07       Carrick Mollenkamp; Deborah Solomon; Craig Karmin Call to Brave for $100 Billion Rescue: Banks Seek Investors For Fund to Shore Up Commercial Paper WSJ    
  16-Oct-07   New York, NY U.S. Mark Shenk Crude Oil Rises to a Record on Concern Turkey May Attack Iraq Bloomberg    
  16-Oct-07         Oil Prices Hit Record High on Turkey-Northern Iraq Tensions VOA News AFP-AP-Reuters  
17-Oct-07 17-Oct-07         Turkey approves Iraq incursion Al Jazeera Al Jazeera-Agencies  
  17-Oct-07   Beijing China   25 million students at university in China  China View Xinhua Wang Hongjiang (ed.)
  17-Oct-07   Ankara Turkey   Turkish parliament approves motion for cross-border operation into Iraq China View Xinhua Mu Xuequan (ed.)
  17-Oct-07   Washington, DC U.S. Stephen Kaufman Dalai Lama Receives Congressional Gold Medal: Congressman says leader seeks Tibetan autonomy in China, not independence U.S. Department of State USINFO  
  17-Oct-07   Washington, DC U.S. Al Pessin Pentagon Urges Turkey Not to Move Against Kurdish Guerrillas in Iraq VOA News    
  17-Oct-07   Washington, DC U.S.   The Dalai Lama's Award Ceremony Broadcast Live to Tibet VOA News Press Release  
  17-Oct-07   Washington, DC U.S.   Press Conference by the President [World War III] White House News Release  
18-Oct-07 18-Oct-07 17-Oct-07 Istanbul Turkey Sebnem Arsu; Sabrina Tavernise Parliament in Turkey Approves Iraq Incursion  NYT    
19-Oct-07 19-Oct-07         Defiant Bhutto condemns bombings Al Jazeera Al Jazeera-Agencies  
  19-Oct-07       Paul Reynolds Bhutto attack highlights instability BBC News    
  19-Oct-07   Islamabad; Karachi Pakistan Khalid Qayum; Farhan Sharif Bhutto Says Suicide Bombing Won't Stop Election Bid (Update1)  Bloomberg    
  19-Oct-07   Karachi Pakistan Farhan Sharif Pakistan Explosions Kill at Least 125; Bhutto Unhurt (Update4) Bloomberg    
  19-Oct-07         Blasts confirm instability, polarization in Pakistan CNN   Syed Mohsin Naqvi 
  19-Oct-07         The Return of Benazir Bhutto NYT    
  19-Oct-07       Helen Nugent  Race row Nobel scientist James Watson scraps tour after being suspended Time Online    
  19-Oct-07         DNA Scientist Apologizes for Comments on Intelligence of Blacks VOA News AFP-AP-Reuters  
22-Oct-07 22-Oct-07         Bin Laden issues Iraq message Al Jazeera    
23-Oct-07 23-Oct-07         Translation of bin Laden's message Al Jazeera    
  23-Oct-07 23-Oct-07       Devastating California Wildfires WSJ AP-California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection-local fire agencies-newspaper reports-official and scholarly reports  
  23-Oct-07 23-Oct-07     Tony Perry; Garrett Therolf; Mitchell Landsberg Massive evacuations ordered as onslaught of fires spreads Los Angeles Times    
  23-Oct-07   Los Angeles, CA U.S. Mike O'Sullivan Nearly a Million People Evacuated in California Wildfires VOA News    
  23-Oct-07   Cairo Egypts Challiss McDonough New Bin Laden Tape Urges Iraqi Insurgents to Unite VOA News    
24-Oct-07 24-Oct-07   Beijing China   Chang'e-1 lunar probe to conduct 1st orbit transfer on Oct. 25  China View Xinhua Yan Liang (ed.)
  24-Oct-07   Beijing China Daniel Schearf China Launches First Moon Probe in Latest Space Exploration Effort VOA News    
  24-Oct-07   Los Angeles, CA; Washington, DC U.S. Demian McLean; Peter J. Brennan California Fires Rout Almost 1 Million People, Kill 5 (Update7) Bloomberg    
  24-Oct-07       Dan Murphy Bin Laden lambastes Iraqi insurgents Christian Science Monitor    
  24-Oct-07   Beijing China Ching-Ching Ni China launches its first lunar orbiter Los Angeles Times    
  24-Oct-07 23-Oct-07 Los Angeles, CA U.S. Jennifer Steinhauer California Fires Out of Control as More Than 500,000 Flee NYT   Ana Facio Contreras; Kirk Johnson; Marc Lacey; Jesse McKinley; Regan Morris
25-Oct-07 25-Oct-07     China   CNSA Website China National Space Administration    
28-Oct-07 28-Oct-07   Islamabad Pakistan Benjamin Sand US Military in Afghanistan Says 80 Taliban Fighters Killed Following Ambush VOA News    
  28-Oct-07   Seattle, WA U.S. Amy Bickers Thousands Protest In 11 US Cities Against Iraq War VOA News    
  28-Oct-07   Bangalore India Jay Shankar Coalition Forces Kill 80 Taliban in Six-Hour Afghanistan Battle Bloomberg    
  28-Oct-07   Washington, DC U.S. Joe Sobczyk; Lorraine Woellert ElBaradei Says Iran Is `a Few Years' From Atomic Bomb (Update1) Bloomberg    
  28-Oct-07   Kabul Afghanistan   80 Taliban reported killed in Afghanistan International Herald Tribune AP Noor Khan
  28-Oct-07         US claims 80 Taliban killed in battle Ireland.com The Irish Times  
29-Oct-07 29-Oct-07         US hands over Karbala to Iraqis BBC News    
  29-Oct-07         Suicide Bomber Kills 29 at Iraqi Police Base VOA News AP-Reuters  
  29-Oct-07         Trash Talking World War III NYT    
31-Oct-07 31-Oct-07   Washington, DC U.S.   FOMC statement and Board approval of discount rate requests of the Federal Reserve Banks of New York, Richmond, Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, and San Francisco Federal Reserve Board News Release  
  31-Oct-07   Islamabad Pakistan   Troops pound militants in northwest Pakistan, killing up to 70; suicide bomber targets airmen International Herald Tribune AP Mohammed Yousuf (APTN)
1-Nov-07 1-Nov-07 31-Oct-07 Santo Domingo Dominican Republic   Tropical Storm Noel kills at least 81 in Caribbean China View Xinhua An lu (ed.)
  1-Nov-07   New York, NY U.S. Emily Barrett Fed Injects $41 Billion in Liquidity WSJ    
  1-Nov-07   Auburn Hills, MI U.S.   Chrysler Announces Product and Plant Changes Chrysler News Release  
  1-Nov-07   Washington, DC U.S. Jeannine Aversa Fed injects $41 billion into financial system USA Today AP  
2-Nov-07 2-Nov-07         Nuclear plant employee stopped with explosive device CNN    
  2-Nov-07         Race to save Mexico flood victims BBC News    
  2-Nov-07   Beijing China   Chrysler slashes workforce by up to 12,000 China View Agencies Gareth Dodd (ed.)
  2-Nov-07 24-Jul-04       U.S. Nuclear Plants Energy Information Administration    
  2-Nov-07   Washington, DC U.S.   Order of assessment of a civil money penalty against Farmers and Merchants Bank of Long Beach  Federal Reserve Board News Release  
  2-Nov-07       Aaron Siegel Fed injects $41 billion into banks Investment News    
  2-Nov-07   Detroit, MI U.S. Rick Haglund More Michigan bad news: Chrysler cuts 12,000 jobs mlive.com Muskegon Chronicle  
  2-Nov-07   Phoenix, AZ U.S. David Schwartz Arizona nuclear plant normal after pipe bomb found Reuters    
  2-Nov-07         Violence Continues as Thousands Protest in Venezuela VOA News AFP-AP-Reuters  
3-Nov-07 3-Nov-07         Emergency rule imposed in Pakistan Al Jazeera Al Jazeera-Agencies  
  3-Nov-07         In pictures: Pakistan emergency BBC News    
  3-Nov-07 2-Nov-07 Mexico City Mexico   Heavy rains devastate Mexico, Central America and Caribbean China View Xinhua Bi Mingxin (ed.)
  3-Nov-07   Islamabad Pakistan Barry Newhouse Musharraf: Pakistan on 'Verge of Destabilization' VOA News    
  3-Nov-07   Mexico City Mexico Brendan Walsh; Patrick Harrington Mexico Floods Begin to Recede as Forecasters Predict More Rain Bloomberg    
  3-Nov-07   Mexico City Mexico Jo Tuckman Million people hit as Mexico flood waters continue to rise Guardian Unlimited The Guardian
 
  3-Nov-07 2-Nov-07 Mexico City Mexico Elisabeth Malkin Floodwaters Devastate Mexican State of Tabasco NYT    
  3-Nov-07         Venezuelans Protest Proposed Constitutional Reforms VOA News AFP-AP-Reuters  
4-Nov-07 4-Nov-07   Shanghai China   STOCK ALERT - PetroChina opens up 191 pct at 48.60 yuan in Shanghai debut CNN Money Thomson Financial (delivered by Newstex)  
  4-Nov-07         Exodus from Mexico's flood zone BBC News    
  4-Nov-07         Timeline: Pakistan emergency rule BBC News    
  4-Nov-07   Islamabad Pakistan Syed Shoaib Hasan General moves deeper into labyrinth BBC News    
  4-Nov-07         Eight Dead, One Million Homeless in Mexico Floods VOA News AP-Reuters-AFP  
  4-Nov-07         Musharraf Imposes Emergency Rule, Suspends Pakistan's Constitution VOA News    
  4-Nov-07   Islamabad Pakistan David Rohde Pakistani Sets Emergency Rule, Defying the U.S. NYT   Jane Perlez; Salman Masood; Helene Cooper
  4-Nov-07         Eight Dead, One Million Homeless in Mexico Floods VOA News AP-Reuters-AFP  
5-Nov-07 5-Nov-07         Chavez leads massive rally Al Jazeera Agencies  
  5-Nov-07   Cleveland, OH U.S. Steve Schifferes Foreclosure wave sweeps America BBC News    
  5-Nov-07   Shanghai China   PetroChina opens at 48.6 yuan per share in Shanghai debut, up 191% China View Xinhua Bi Mingxin (ed.)
  5-Nov-07   Shanghai China Ying Lou PetroChina's Value Tops $1 Trillion, Surpassing Exxon (Update6) Bloomberg    
  5-Nov-07   Washington, DC U.S. Mike Mount Air Force grounds F-15s in Afghanistan after Missouri crash CNN    
  5-Nov-07         Venezuela's Chavez Oversees Rally for Constitutional Reform VOA News AFP-Reuters  
6-Nov-07 6-Nov-07         Bomber targets Afghan MPs Al Jazeera Al Jazeera-Agencies  
  6-Nov-07   Detroit, MI U.S.   GM to Record Non-Cash Charge for a Deferred Tax Valuation Allowance in its Third Quarter Financial Results General Motors News Release  
  6-Nov-07   Seoul; Tokyo Korea; Japan Kyunghee Park; Masumi Suga Japan Grounds F-15 Jets After U.S. Crash, Suspension (Update1) Bloomberg    
  6-Nov-07   Southfield, MI U.S. Jeff Green GM May Say Third-Quarter Profit Fell on GMAC, Strike (Update4) Bloomberg    
  6-Nov-07 7-Nov-07 Kabul Afghanistan Abdul Waheed Wafa Toll Rises to 41 in Afghan Bombing NYT   Taimoor Shah
  6-Nov-07         Private security firms involved in new forms of mercenary activity – UN experts UN News Center    
  6-Nov-07       Josh White Air Force Grounds F-15s After Crash: Incident Raises Concern About Aging Jets' Safety Washington Post    
7-Nov-07 7-Nov-07   Kabul Afghanistan    Karzai: 41 killed in suicide blast CNN AP Farhad Piekar
  7-Nov-07         Afghanistan mourns bomb victims Al Jazeera Al Jazeera-Agencies  
  7-Nov-07   Detroit, MI U.S.   GM Reports Third Quarter Financial Results General Motors News Release  
  7-Nov-07         Afghanistan mourns bomb victims BBC News    
  7-Nov-07   Moscow Russia Peter Fedynsky Georgia Declares State of Emergency After Protests VOA News    
  7-Nov-07       Kimberly Hefling Study: 1 Out of 4 Homeless Are Veterans ABC News AP  
  7-Nov-07   Caracas Venezuela Matthew Walter; Steven Bodzin Venezuela Students Shot After Anti-Chavez Protest (Update1) Bloomberg    
  7-Nov-07       Nicolas Van Praet GM reports US$39B loss on massive charge Financial Post    
  7-Nov-07   Kabul Afghanistan Abdul Waheed Wafa Death Toll in Afghan Bombing at 52 NYT    
  7-Nov-07 8-Nov-07 Washington, DC U.S. Erik Eckholm Surge Seen in Number of Homeless Veterans NYT   Sean D. Hamill; Michael Parrish; J. Michael Kennedy from Seattle
  7-Nov-07       TSC Staff GM Skids to $39 Billion Loss TheStreet    
  7-Nov-07         Death Toll Rises From Floods in Vietnam as New Storm Nears VOA News AFP-AP-Reuters  
  7-Nov-07         Gunfire Erupts After Venezuelan Student Protest, At Least 4 Wounded VOA News AP-AFP-Reuters  
8-Nov-07 8-Nov-07         Gunmen fire on Venezuela protest BBC News    
  8-Nov-07         Georgia under state of emergency BBC News    
  8-Nov-07         Israel minister: Sack ElBaradei  BBC News    
  8-Nov-07       John D. Stoll; Andrew Morse  GM Turnaround Shown Off-Track WSJ    
  8-Nov-07       Jim Teeple Israeli Officials Express Alarm Over Iran's Nuclear Program VOA News    
  8-Nov-07   Washington, DC U.S. Barry Wood US Central Bank Chief Expects Economy to Slow VOA News    
  8-Nov-07   Washington, DC U.S. Craig Torres; Scott Lanman Bernanke Says Fed Sees Slower Growth, Inflation Risk (Update5) Bloomberg    
  8-Nov-07   Frankfurt am Main Germany   8 November 2007 - Monetary policy decisions ECB News Release  
  8-Nov-07   Washington, DC U.S.   Chairman Ben S. Bernanke: The economic outlook, Before the Joint Economic Committee, U.S. Congress Federal Reserve Board    
  8-Nov-07 9-Nov-07 Washington, DC U.S. Edmund L. Andrews Fed Chief Warns of Worse Times in the Economy  NYT    
  8-Nov-07         Afghans Bury Lawmakers Killed in Country's Deadliest Suicide Attack VOA News AFP-AP  
  8-Nov-07 7-Nov-07 Tiblisi Georgia Tara Bahrampour Pro-Western Georgia Declares State of Emergency Washington Post    
9-Nov-07 9-Nov-07         Fed chief warns of US slowdown Al Jazeera Agencies  
  9-Nov-07   Nairobi Kenya Alisha Ryu  More than 40 Killed in Heavy Fighting in Mogadishu VOA News    
  9-Nov-07   Washington, DC U.S. Yitzhak Benhorin Israel, US meet to discuss common Middle East strategy Ynet News    
10-Nov-07 10-Nov-07   Baghdad Iraq Lauren Frayer Clash in Iraq Kills 18 al-Qaida Members AP    
  10-Nov-07         Somalis flee Mogadishu fighting BBC News    
  10-Nov-07   Tikrit Iraq   Iraqi insurgent group kills 18 al-Qaida fighters north of Baghdad  China View Xinhua  
  10-Nov-07         Iraqi Police: Al-Qaida-Insurgent Fighting Leaves at Least 17 Dead VOA News    
  10-Nov-07   Hong Kong China Nipa Piboontanasawat China Orders Banks to Raise Reserves to Cool Economy (Update1) Bloomberg    
  10-Nov-07         59 children die in deadliest Afghan suicide attack Guardian Unlimited The Guardian
 
  10-Nov-07       Daniel M. Harrison China Raises Key Banking Benchmark TheStreet.com    
  10-Nov-07   Mogadishu Somalia   Violence in Somalia kills at least 80 UPI    
  10-Nov-07         About 60 Killed in Heavy Fighting in Mogadishu VOA News AP-AFP  
11-Nov-07 11-Nov-07   Toulouse France   Emirates Airline buys 70 Airbus A350s and 11 additional A380s Airbus News Release  
  11-Nov-07         Bank reserve ratio raised to cool economy China Daily Agencies-Xinhua  
  11-Nov-07   Moscow Russia   Fuel spill disaster reported in waters near Russia CNN   Arkady Irshenko
  11-Nov-07         Russian Oil Tanker Breaks Up in Black Sea, Experts Fear Environmental Disaster VOA News AFP-AP-Reuters  
12-Nov-07 12-Nov-07   Stratford U.K. Jackie Storer The black cloud over London  BBC News    
  12-Nov-07   Toulouse France   Air Arabia spreads its wings with 34 new Airbus A320s Airbus News Release  
  12-Nov-07   Toulouse France   New aircraft lessor DAE Capital buys 100 Airbus aircraft  Airbus News Release  
  12-Nov-07         Gulf Airlines Place Massive Orders with Airbus Spiegel smd/reuters/ap/afp/spiegel  
  12-Nov-07         Black Sea Storm Wrecks Five Ships, Three Sailors Die VOA News Reuters  
13-Nov-07 13-Nov-07         Bank of Japan Votes 8-1 to Hold Key Rate at 0.5% (Update1) Bloomberg    
  13-Nov-07   Tokyo Japan   Announcement of the Monetary Policy Meeting Decisions (unchanged) Bank of Japan News Release  
  13-Nov-07   Manila Philippines   Philippines lawmaker dies in bomb blast Dawn AFP  
  13-Nov-07   Brussels Belgium Yves Clarisse; Paul Taylor Enlargement backers defang Sarkozy's EU sages Guardian Unlimited Reuters  
  13-Nov-07       Matthew Taylor Huge blaze at Olympics site Guardian Unlimited The Guardian
 
  13-Nov-07 12-Nov-07 Moscow Russia Andrew E. Kramer Environmental Disaster Unfolding in Russia NYT    
14-Nov-07 14-Nov-07   Manila Philippines Cris Larano Philippine Blast May Send Shocks Through Markets WSJ    
  14-Nov-07   Manila Philippines Francisco Alcuaz Jr. Philippine Lawmaker May Have Been Target of Bombing, Police Say Bloomberg    
  14-Nov-07   Bangalore India Jay Shankar Sri Lankan Military Kills 20 Tamil Rebels Preparing Attacks  Bloomberg    
  14-Nov-07   Colombo Sri Lanka B. Muralidhar Reddy LTTE’s bunker line destroyed The Hindu    
  14-Nov-07   Strasbourg France Emre Demir Sarkozy to block decisions allowing Turkish entry Today's Zaman    
16-Nov-07 16-Nov-07   Sunnyvale, CA U.S.   AMD ANNOUNCES $622M INVESTMENT BY MUBADALA DEVELOPMENT COMPANY Mubadala Press Release  
17-Nov-07 17-Nov-07   Dhaka Bangladesh Anis Ahmed Bangladesh cyclone toll tops 1600 Reuters Canada    
  17-Nov-07         Bangladesh cyclone toll set to rise Al Jazeera Al Jazeera-Agencies  
  17-Nov-07       Dana Cimilluca Wall Street Taps Mideast Money: Abu Dhabi's AMD Deal Drives Work for Merrill, Lehman, Morgan Stanley WSJ    
  17-Nov-07   San Francisco, CA U.S.   Oil state buys 8% of AMD Los Angeles Times    
  17-Nov-07 16-Nov-07 San Francisco, CA U.S. Laurie J. Flynn Abu Dhabi Takes 8% Stake in Advanced Micro NYT    
  17-Nov-07         Bangladeshi Officials: Cyclone Death Toll Climbs to Over 1,700 VOA News AFP-AP-Reuters  
  17-Nov-07         US, Afghan Forces Kill 43 Taliban Fighters in Southern Afghanistan VOA News AFP-AP-Reuters  
  17-Nov-07         US, Afghan Forces Kill 43 Taliban Fighters in Southern Afghanistan VOA News AFP-AP-Reuters  
18-Nov-07 18-Nov-07       Oliver Klaus; Majdoline Hatoum Blast Near Saudi Gas Plant Kills 28 WSJ   AP
  18-Nov-07   Budapest Hungary Stefan Bos 100 Miners Dead or Missing in Ukraine Coal Mine Blast VOA News    
  18-Nov-07   Dhahran Saudi Arabia   Fire Incident on Haradh-'Uthmaniyah Gas Pipeline Saudi Aramco Press Release  
19-Nov-07 19-Nov-07   Moscow Russia Peter Fedynsky Ukraine Mourns Coal Miner Deaths VOA News    
  19-Nov-07   Los Angeles U.S. Eric Watkins Saudi gas pipeline fire kills at least 28 Oil & Gas Journal    
20-Nov-07 20-Nov-07   Baghdad Iraq   Two killed as military helicopter crashes in Iraq AFP    
  20-Nov-07   Washington, DC U.S. Craig Torres; Scott Lanman Fed Pares Growth Forecast, Calls October Cut `Close' (Update4) Bloomberg    
  20-Nov-07         Minutes of Federal Open Market Committee, October 30-31, 2007 Federal Reserve Board    
21-Nov-07 21-Nov-07         The US sub-prime crisis in graphics BBC News    
  21-Nov-07   Baghdad Iraq   Two U.S. soldiers killed in helicopter crash near Baghdad China View Xinhua Yan Liang (ed.)
  21-Nov-07   London U.K.   Minutes of Monetary Policy Committee Meeting 7 and 8 November 2007 BOE News Release  
  21-Nov-07         Minutes of Federal Open Market Committee, October 30-31, 2008 Federal Reserve Board Press Release  
  21-Nov-07 20-Nov-07 Washington, DC U.S. Edmund L. Andrews Fed Expects Slowdown to Deepen NYT    
24-Nov-07 24-Nov-07   Chicago, IL U.S.   Holiday Shopping Season Starts with a Bang: Black Friday Sales Total 10.3Billion, Up a Strong 8.3 Percent as Compared to 2006 ShopperTrak News Release  
26-Nov-07 26-Nov-07   Paris France   Paris calm as riot police deployed CNN International   Niki Cook
  26-Nov-07         Blasts rock India's Assam state Al Jazeera Agencies  
  26-Nov-07   New York, NY U.S.   Black Friday sales up, boosted by promotions International Council of Shopping Centers News Release  
27-Nov-07 27-Nov-07 28-Nov-07 Paris France Molly Moore Pall of Rioting Greets Sarkozy After China Trip: Critics Say Leader Has Failed To Improve Lives of Minorities Washington Post   Corinne Gavard
28-Nov-07 28-Nov-07   Chicago, IL U.S.   Black Friday Weelend Sales Rise 6.5 Percent Compared to Same Three-Day Period in 2006: Weekend Foot Traffic Increases 4.3 Percent ShopperTrak News Release  
29-Nov-07 29-Nov-07         Halt US aid, bin Laden urges Europe Al Jazeera Al Jazeera and Agencies  
  29-Nov-07         Students stage anti-Chavez rally BBC News    
  29-Nov-07         Olmert warns of 'end of Israel' BBC News    
  29-Nov-07   Caracas Venezuela   Venezuelans protest, as vote nears CNN    
  29-Nov-07   Paris France Geraldine Baum Sarkozy takes in hand crisis over teens Los Angeles Times    
  29-Nov-07   Islamabad Pakistan Ayaz Gul Pakistan's Musharraf Sworn In as Civilian President; Plans to Lift Emergency Rule VOA News    
  29-Nov-07         Thousands of Venezuelans Protest Proposed Constitutional Changes VOA News AFP-AP-Reuters  
  29-Nov-07         Bin Laden Urges Europeans to Stop Helping US in Afghanistan VOA News AP-Reuters  
30-Nov-07 30-Nov-07         Chavez supporters take to streets Al Jazeera Al Jazeera-Agencies  
  30-Nov-07         Hunt for clues in Turkish crash BBC News    
  30-Nov-07         Press Statement of Mr. Tuncay Doğaner, the CEO of Atlasjet Airlines Atlasjet Havacilik A.s.  News Release  
  30-Nov-07   Manila Philippines Francisco Alcuaz Jr. Philippines Lifts Curfew After Coup Attempt; Police on Alert Bloomberg    
  30-Nov-07   Istanbul Turkey Ben Holland; Ayla Jean Yackley Plane Crash in Southwest Turkey Kills All 57 on Board (Update7) Bloomberg    
  30-Nov-07   Frankfurt am Main Germany   30 November 2007 - The Eurosystem’s liquidity management measures related to the year-end 2007 ECB News Release  
  30-Nov-07 29-Nov-07 Manila Philippines Jim Gomez Philippine Forces Defeat Coup Attempt Washington Post AP  
1-Dec-07 1-Dec-07 30-Nov-07 Istanbul Turkey Sabrina Tavernise None Survive Turkish Plane Crash NYT   Mahmut Kaya
3-Dec-07 3-Dec-07   Caracas Venezuela Saul Hudson Chavez loses "president-for-life" vote Reuters   Hugh Bronstein; Brian Ellsworth; Patricia Rondon; Ana Isabel Martinez; Enrique Andres Pretel; Kieran Murray (ed.); Bill Trott (ed.)
  3-Dec-07         Russian election heavily criticised Al Jazeera Al Jazeera-Agencies  
  3-Dec-07         Press sees tainted Putin triumph BBC News    
  3-Dec-07   Nusa Dua, Bali  Indonesia    Welcome to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali [3-14-Dec-07] United Nations Climate Change Conference    
  3-Dec-07   Moscow Russia Peter Fedynsky Russia's Ruling Party Wins Majority in Disputed Parliamentary Election VOA News    
  3-Dec-07   Caracas Venezuela Brian Wagner Venezuela Rejects Constitutional Changes VOA News    
  3-Dec-07   Bogota Colombia Andrea Jaramillo Venezuelan Bonds Surge as Chavez's Constitution Plan Defeated Bloomberg    
  3-Dec-07 Nov-07       National Intelligence Estimate: Iran: Nuclear Intentions and Capabilities National Intelligence Council    
  3-Dec-07   Moscow Russia Peter Finn Putin's Push to Retain Power Washington Post    
4-Dec-07 4-Dec-07   Midland, MI U.S.   Dow Announces Further Moves to Bolster Competitiveness The Dow Chemical Company  News Release  
  4-Dec-07   Ottawa, ON Canada   Bank of Canada lowers overnight rate target by 1/4 percentage point to 4 1/4 per cent Bank of Canada News Release  
  4-Dec-07   Moscow Russia Fred Weir United Russia wins, Putin sees 'moral mandate' in vote Christian Science Monitor    
  4-Dec-07   Vienna Austria   Statement by IAEA Director General on New U.S. Intelligence Estimate on Iran IAEA News Release  
  4-Dec-07   New York, NY U.S. Andria Cheng November sales likely got a boost from Black Friday MarketWatch    
  4-Dec-07   New York, NY U.S. Francesco Guerrera Dow Chemical to cut 1,000 jobs MSNBC The Financial Times  
  4-Dec-07   Washington, DC U.S.   Bush Says Iran Still a Danger Despite Report on Weapons NYT    
  4-Dec-07 3-Dec-07 Moscow Russia Clifford J. Levy Party’s Triumph Raises Question of Putin’s Plans NYT    
  4-Dec-07 3-Dec-07 Washington, DC U.S.   U.S. Finds Iran Halted Its Nuclear Arms Effort in 2003 NYT    
  4-Dec-07       Sarina Penn Dow Chemical Plans Cuts TheStreet    
  4-Dec-07         Female Suicide Bomber Strikes in Pakistan VOA News AFP-AP-Reuters  
5-Dec-07 5-Dec-07   Sydney Australia   Statement by Glenn Stevens, Governor, Monetary Policy Reserve Bank of Australia News Release  
6-Dec-07 6-Dec-07   Washington, DC U.S. Jeannine Aversa US Home Foreclosures Hit Record High Yahoo!Finance AP  
  6-Dec-07   Kabul Afghanistan   Coalition force to launch major operation in S. Afghanistan RIA Novosti    
  6-Dec-07         CIA destroyed 'waterboarding' tapes Al Jazeera Al Jazeera-Agencies  
  6-Dec-07 5-Dec-07 Baghdad Iraq   Car bombings kill 23 in Iraq as U.S. defense chief visits Baghdad China View Xinhua Liu Dan (ed.)
  6-Dec-07   London U.K.   Bank of England Reduces Bank Rate by 0.25 Percentage Points to 5.5% Bank of England News Release  
  6-Dec-07   Washington, DC U.S.   Delinquencies and Foreclosures Increase in Latest MBA National Delinquency Survey Moertgage Bankers Association News Release  
  6-Dec-07   Omaha, NE U.S. Jeff Zeleny; Maria Newman Details of Omaha Shooting Emerge NYT   Ardy Friedberg; Monica Davey; Chris Burbach; Cate Doty; Catrin Einhorn; John Holusha
  6-Dec-07 5-Dec-07 Kabul Afghanistan Sangar Rahimi Suicide Blast Kills 13 in Afghanistan NYT   Taimoor Shah
7-Dec-07 7-Dec-07       Jaikumar Vijayan Phishers hook data on visitors to Oak Ridge Labs: Accessed database storing personal data on those visiting between 1990 and 2004 Computerworld    
  7-Dec-07         Toll rises in China mine accident Al Jazeera Agencies  
  7-Dec-07