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Italy hosts top world leaders this week for the G-8 summit of major industrialized nations. These meetings are held every year, but this year's site is somewhat unusual in that the summit takes place in a part of central Italy that was …
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MEXICO CITY (Dow Jones)–A 5.6 magnitude earthquake shook Mexico City early Monday afternoon, sending frightened residents into the streets and saturating phone lines, but causing no apparent significant damage.
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Pope Benedict XVI is to visit the Abruzzo earthquake zone on 1 May, a week before his trip to the Holy Land, according to rescue workers in the L'Aquila area.
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Los Angeles Times
The US Interior secretary pledges $260 million in stimulus money for California's water infrastructure and part of $29 million for earthquake monitoring systems.
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By Steve Scherer and Flavia Krause-Jackson April 8 (Bloomberg) — A week ago, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was lampooned in the press after Queen Elizabeth II publicly questioned why he shouted out the name of President Barack Obama during …
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Rescue workers search for trapped people on a damaged building in Onna, Italy. Photograph: Massimo Di Nonno/Getty Images There were 12 of them.
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BBC News
A powerful earthquake has struck the central Italian city of L'Aquila, killing at least 27 people. Local journalist Vittorio Perfetto told his newspaper, Il Centro, what happened.
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The cat ran under the bed." The quake, whose epicenter was located in remote oak woodlands of the Diablo Range, has been attributed to an unnamed — and until Monday, unknown — fault that runs parallel, and due east, to the Calaveras Fault, …
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By Pacific correspondent Campbell Cooney Experts say there is no link between an underwater earthquake - which triggered a tsunami warning this morning - and a week of eruptions off the coast of Tonga.
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by Xinhua writer Huang Xingwei WELLINGTON, March 20 (Xinhua) — A major earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale struck the South Pacific island country of Tonga on Friday morning.
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