| Bibliography for World Events: 2008Q1 | |||||||||
| Date Published | Date Published | Date Posted | Venue | Country | Author | Article/URL* | Media | Listed Sources | Contributors |
| 1-Jan-08 | 1-Jan-08 | Nairobi | Kenya | Mob burns Kenyans seeking refuge in church | CNN International | ||||
| 1-Jan-08 | Mob torches Kenyan church | Al Jazeera | Al Jazeera-Agencies | ||||||
| 1-Jan-08 | Colombo | Sri Lanka | 25 rebels killed in northern Sri Lanka | China View | Xinhua | Song Shutao (ed.) | |||
| 1-Jan-08 | Colombo | Sri Lanka | Muralidhar Reddy | LTTE training camp destroyed | The Hindu | ||||
| 1-Jan-08 | Fears Mount as Death Toll Rises From Post-Election Violence in Kenya | VOA News | AFP-Reuters | ||||||
| 2-Jan-08 | 2-Jan-08 | Baghdad suicide attack kills dozens | Al Jazeera | Agencies | |||||
| 2-Jan-08 | Colombo | Sri Lanka | Siddique Islam | 27 Tamil Rebels, Three Solders Killed In Sri Lanka | AHN | ||||
| 2-Jan-08 | Nairobi | Kenya | Jeffrey Gettleman | Mob Sets Kenya Church on Fire, Killing Dozens | NYT | Kennedy Abwao; Matthew L. Wald | |||
| 4-Jan-08 | 4-Jan-08 | Turkish police hold four over blast | Al Jazeera | Agencies | |||||
| 4-Jan-08 | Washington, DC | U.S. | Federal Reserve will conduct two auctions of 28-day credit through its term auction facility in January | Federal Reserve Board | News Release | ||||
| 5-Jan-08 | 5-Jan-08 | US poll race moves to New Hampshire | Al Jazeera | Al Jazeera-Agencies | |||||
| 5-Jan-08 | Merrymack, NH | U.S. | Monica Langley | Iowa Touches Off a Free-for-All | WSJ | ||||
| 5-Jan-08 | Manchester, NH | U.S. | Jackie Calmes; Amy Chozick | Clinton Camp's Challenge: How Hard to Hit Obama? | WSJ | ||||
| 5-Jan-08 | Bangkok | Thailand | Simon Montlake | Powerful car bomb in Turkey kills five and injures dozens with outlawed Kurdish Workers Party or PKK suspected | The Christian Science Monitor | ||||
| 5-Jan-08 | Portsmouth, NH | U.S. | Maria L. La Ganga; Seema Mehta; Cathleen Decker | Campaigns turn attention to New Hampshire | Los Angeles Times | Michael Finnegan; Dan Morain; Peter Nicholas; Maeve Reston | |||
| 5-Jan-08 | Manchester, NH | U.S. | Adam Nagourney; Carl Hulse | McCain May Benefit From Huckabee’s Jolt to G.O.P. | NYT | David D. Kirkpatrick; Marc Santora | |||
| 8-Jan-08 | 8-Jan-08 | Baghdad | Iraq | Elena Becatoros | Baghdad Bombings Kill al-Qaida Opponent | AP | Mazin Yahya (AP) | ||
| 8-Jan-08 | Baghdad | Iraq | Mohammed Tawfeeq | Iraqi Awakening Council members kidnapped, killed | CNN International | AP | Mohammed Tawfeeq (CNN) | ||
| 8-Jan-08 | Washington, DC; Manchester. NH | U.S. | Nicholas Johnston; Indira Lakshmanan | Clinton Claims Victory in New Hampshire Over Obama (Update1) | Bloomberg | ||||
| 8-Jan-08 | Baghdad | Iraq | Richard A, Oppel Jr; Mudhafer Al-Husaini | Suicide Bomber Kills Key Sunni Leader | NYT | Khalid al-Ansary; Karim Hilmi; Abeer Mohammed; Qais Mizher | |||
| 8-Jan-08 | Manchester. NH | U.S. | David D. Kirkpatrick; Megan Thee | Women Backed Clinton, Exit Polls Show | NYT | ||||
| 8-Jan-08 | David von Drehle | The Comeback Kids: Clinton, McCain | TIME | ||||||
| 9-Jan-08 | 9-Jan-08 | Geneva | Switzerland | 2008: Highest levels of political and economic uncertainty for a decade | World Economic Forum | News Release | |||
| 9-Jan-08 | Geneva | Switzerland | Global Risks 2008: A Global Risk Network Report | World Economic Forum | Citigroup; Marsh & McLennan Companies (MMC); Swiss Re; Wharton School Risk Center; Zurich Financial Services | ||||
| 10-Jan-08 | 10-Jan-08 | Suicide bomber hits Pakistan court | Al Jazeera | Al Jazeera-Agencies | |||||
| 10-Jan-08 | Mumbai | India | The making of the Nano | Tata Group | |||||
| 10-Jan-08 | Mumbai | India | Tata Motors unveils the People's Car | Tata Group | News Release | ||||
| 10-Jan-08 | New Delhi | India | Steve Herman | World's Cheapest Car Unveiled in India | VOA News | ||||
| 10-Jan-08 | Baghdad | Iraq | Joshua Partlow | U.S. Planes Pound Area South of Baghdad: Huge Strike Aimed At Weapons Caches | Washington Post | Zaid Sabah | |||
| 10-Jan-08 | London | U.K. | Bank of England Maintains Bank Rate at 5.50% | Bank of England | News Release | ||||
| 11-Jan-08 | 11-Jan-08 | Baghdad | Iraq | 21 Qaeda fighters killed in US air blitz: Iraq sheikh | AFP | ||||
| 11-Jan-08 | China trade surplus surges in 07 | Al Jazeera | Agencies | ||||||
| 11-Jan-08 | Beijing | China | China's 2007 trade surplus hits record | China View | Xinhua | Sun Yunlong (ed.) | |||
| 11-Jan-08 | Beijing | China | China's forex reserve tops $1.53 trillion | China View | Xinhua | Wang Hongjiang (ed.) | |||
| 11-Jan-08 | Charlotte, NC | U.S. | Bank of America Agrees to Purchase Countrywide Financial Corp.: Creates Largest U.S. Mortgage Lender and Servicer | Bank of America | PRNewswire | ||||
| 11-Jan-08 | Damian Paletta; Valerie Bauerlein; James R. Hagerty | Countrywide Gets Rescue Deal | WSJ | Ann Carrns in Atlanta; Greg Ip; Dow Jones Newswires | |||||
| 11-Jan-08 | Washington, DC | U.S. | Chidanand Rajghatta | US gives a grudging thumbs-up to Tata's Nano | The Times of India | TNN | |||
| 11-Jan-08 | Seattle, WA | U.S. | Pham-Duy Nguyen | Gold Futures Rise to Record $900.10 on Interest-Rate Outlook | Bloomberg | ||||
| 11-Jan-08 | San Francisco, CA | U.S. | Gold futures top $900 an ounce | MarketWatch | |||||
| 11-Jan-08 | Jonathan Skillings | Fiery protest over Tata's Nano | CNET | ||||||
| 11-Jan-08 | Islamabad | Pakistan | Salman Masood | Bomb Kills at Least 23 in Pakistan | NYT | ||||
| 11-Jan-08 | 10-Jan-08 | Lahore | Pakistan | Travis Fox; John Ward Anderson | Suicide Bomber Kills 23 Outside Pakistani Courthouse | Washington Post | |||
| 11-Jan-08 | Howard Schneider; Tomoeh Murakami Tse; Dina ElBoghdady | Bank of America to Buy Countrywide for $4B in Stock | Washington Post | ||||||
| 12-Jan-08 | 12-Jan-08 | 11-Jan-08 | New York, NY | U.S. | Gold futures set record high above $900 | China View | Xinhua | Mu Xuequan (ed.) | |
| 13-Jan-08 | 13-Jan-08 | Dutch and Afghan Troops Die in Friendly Fire Incidents | VOA News | AP | |||||
| 13-Jan-08 | Thousands March in Hong Kong Against Delay in Full Democracy | VOA News | AFP-AP | ||||||
| 14-Jan-08 | 14-Jan-08 | Bangkok | Thailand | Luis Ramirez | At Least 8 Soldiers Killed in Thailand Separatist Violence | VOA News | |||
| 14-Jan-08 | Seven Troops, 23 Militants Killed in Pakistan Clash | VOA News | AFP-AP-Reuters | ||||||
| 15-Jan-08 | 15-Jan-08 | France to get military base in UAE | Al Jazeera | Al Jazeera-Agencies | |||||
| 15-Jan-08 | Citigroup announces $10bn loss | Al Jazeera | Agencies | ||||||
| 15-Jan-08 | Fatal car bomb blast hits Beirut | Al Jazeera | Agencies | ||||||
| 15-Jan-08 | Timeline: Sub-prime losses: How did the sub-prime crisis unfold? | BBC News | |||||||
| 15-Jan-08 | New York, NY | U.S. | Citi Reports Fourth Quarter Net Loss of $9.83 Billion, Loss Per Share of $1.99; Full Year 2007 Revenues of $81.7 Billion, Net Income of $3.62 Billion | Citigroup | News Release | ||||
| 15-Jan-08 | New York, NY | U.S. | Citi Announces Key Actions to Enhance Capital Base | Citigroup | News Release | ||||
| 15-Jan-08 | Rockville, MD | U.S. | FDA Issues Documents on the Safety of Food from Animal Clones: Agency Concludes that Meat and Milk from Clones of Cattle, Swine, and Goats, and the Offspring of All Clones, are as Safe to Eat as Food from Conventionally Bred Animals | FDA | News Release | ||||
| 15-Jan-08 | Rockville, MD | U.S. | CVM and Animal Cloning | FDA | |||||
| 15-Jan-08 | Karen Kaplan | FDA declares cloned meat and milk safe | Los Angeles Times | ||||||
| 15-Jan-08 | Kabul | Afghanistan | M. Karim Faiez; Laura King | Assault on Kabul hotel kills at least 6 | Los Angeles Times | Paul Richter | |||
| 15-Jan-08 | New York, NY | U.S. | Greg Morcroft | Citigroup swings to loss on $18 billion write-down | MarketWatch | ||||
| 15-Jan-08 | London | U.K. | Aude Lagorce | Merrill lines up fresh $6.6 billion capital injection | MarketWatch | ||||
| 15-Jan-08 | New York, NY | U.S. | Merrill Lynch Enhances Its Capital Position With Agreement to Issue $6.6 Billion in Preferred Stock to Long-Term Investors | Merrill Lynch | News Release | ||||
| 15-Jan-08 | Kabul | Afghanistan | Abdul Waheed Wafa | Blast at Kabul Hotel Kills 6 | NYT | Graham Bowley | |||
| 15-Jan-08 | Jerusalem | Israel | Jim Teeple | At Least 18 Dead in Gaza Border Violence | VOA News | ||||
| 15-Jan-08 | 14-Jan-08 | Baghdad | Iraq | Amit R. Paley | U.S.: 60 Insurgents Killed in Offensive | Washington Post | Zaid Sabah; K.I. Ibrahim; Saad al-Izzi; other Washington Post staff | ||
| 15-Jan-08 | Rick Weiss | FDA Says Clones Are Safe For Food | Washington Post | ||||||
| 16-Jan-08 | 16-Jan-08 | Woman bomber kills 11 in Iraq | BBC News | ||||||
| 16-Jan-08 | Rome | Italy | John Hooper | Pope pulls out of visit to Rome university after outrage at his views on Galileo and science | Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | |||
| 16-Jan-08 | Rome | Italy | Tracy Wilkinson | Protest leads pope to cancel speech | Los Angeles Times | ||||
| 16-Jan-08 | New York, NY; London | U.S.; U.K | Fears of Global Recession Take Hold, Prompting Changes in Allocations: Merrill Lynch Survey Shows Investors Moving Out of Equities and Into Cash | Merrill Lynch | News Release | ||||
| 16-Jan-08 | Rome | Italy | Ian Fisher | Pope Cancels Speech After Protest at University | NYT | ||||
| 16-Jan-08 | Islamabad | Pakistan | Nancy-Amelia Collins | Islamic Militants Capture Military Base in NW Pakistan | VOA News | ||||
| 16-Jan-08 | Geneva | Switzerland | World Economic Forum Annual Meeting Davos 2008: World leaders consider “The Power Of Collaborative Innovation” | World Economic Forum | News Release | ||||
| 17-Jan-08 | 17-Jan-08 | Merrill Lynch posts $7.8bn loss [Main Sub-Prime Losses So Far] | BBC News | ||||||
| 17-Jan-08 | Recession fears unsettle markets | BBC News | |||||||
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