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Disasters Australian floods: Heavy rains in the Australian state of New South Wales leads to evacuations or warnings in the towns of Cooma, Goulburn, Queanbeyan and near the town of Kiama. (The Australian) (ABC News Australia) (Daily Telegraph) The Warragamba Dam, the primary water source for the city of Sydney, is expected to overflow within 24 hours causing nearby areas to flood as well as ...
List of United States tornadoes in March 2012; Tornado outbreak sequence of March 18–24, 2012; Tornado outbreak of March 2–3, 2012; V. Victory Road (2012) W.
The National Defense Resources Preparedness executive order (Executive Order 13603) is an order of the President of the United States, signed by President Barack Obama on March 16, 2012. [1] The purpose of this executive order is to delegate authority and address national defense resource policies and programs under the Defense Production Act ...
Business and economy Unemployment in the United Kingdom reaches 2.67 million, the most people since 1995. (Office for National Statistics) Disasters Tropical Cyclone Lua heads towards Western Australia's Pilbara region. (Bloomberg via Business Week) The death toll from the sinking of a ferry in Bangladesh rises to 110 with at least 61 others missing. (AP) A magnitude 6.8 earthquake occurs off ...
Disasters At least 13 people are killed at the San Pedro Sula prison in Honduras. (BBC) International relations The leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa meet in New Delhi, India, for the 2012 BRICS summit. (Reuters) Law and crime Two Italians set themselves on fire in Bologna and Verona. (BBC) (IOL) (Indian Express) Police in Ankara fire tear gas and water cannons on ...
Business and economy The Spanish government cuts 27 billion euros from the country's budget as part of one of the toughest austerity drives in its history. (BBC) (Al Jazeera) VISA and MasterCard warn banks across the United States about a "massive" breach of security with more than ten million credit card numbers potentially compromised. (Sydney Morning Herald) The Mega Millions jackpot in the ...
Disasters A new section of high-speed railway that had undergone test runs collapses near Qianjiang, China. (New York Times) Over 45 people are trapped by avalanches in the remote Afghan villages of Poshan and Ghadoor in Nuristan province. (AP via Wall Street Journal) International relations United States Census Bureau has estimated the world population up to 7 billion people. (USCB ...
February 2012 was more active than normal in terms of the number of tornadoes, with a total of 50 confirmed. While the first three weeks of the month were unusually quiet, the pattern changed abruptly with a major tornado outbreak, which struck the region less than 72 hours prior to this storm, killing 15 people, including 8 in Harrisburg, Illinois alone, the result of an EF4 tornado.