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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