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Hey,thanks for taking the time to get up to speed oncurrent events.
This is CNN STUDENT NEWS. I'm Carl Azuz.
First up this Thursday, we're headed to northwestPakistan.
A group of four terrorists targeted a university thereyesterday.
They killed at least 19 people according to Pakistani officials before soldiers killed the fourgunmen.
Officials don't know for sure what organization the terrorists were with.
A spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban, a Muslim militant group in the country, said the attackswere revenged for military operations against the Pakistani Taliban.
But another spokesman for the same group denounced the attack, saying it went againstSharia or Islamic law.
International analysts say it does look like the tactics of the Pakistani Taliban.
So, who are the Pakistani Taliban or the Tehrik-I-Taliban, TTP as they're known in Pakistan?
For one, they're not the Afghan Taliban.
They're separate.
Afghan Taliban focused principally on attacking international security forces there,including U.S.forces and driving them out of the country.
The Pakistani Taliban focused on attacking the Pakistani government, bringing it down andestablishing Sharia law in the country.
To that end, they've been responsible for some of the most horrific terror attacks in Pakistan:
attack on a market in 2009 that killed more than 100 people, an attack on a Protestant churchin 2013 that killed more than 80 people,the assassination of the former Prime Minister BenazhirBhutto,as well as the shooting of the recent Nobel Prize winner Malala Yousafzai.
The Pakistani Taliban has also attacked Americans and American interests.
In 2009, a suicide bombing that killed seven CIA officers in eastern Afghanistan.
In 2010, the failed bombing inside Times Square in New York City traced back to the PakistaniTaliban.
And following the killing of Osama bin Laden by U.S. forces in Pakistan, the TPP leader, thePakistani Taliban leader, called for attacks on Americans inside America.
And the U.S. has attacked back.
Drone strikes inside Pakistan's tribal areas in 2009 and 2013 killed the leaders of the PakistaniTaliban.
We mentioned yesterday that Iran with many international sanctions now lifted plans to increaseits oil production, at a time when experts say the world is drowning in oil.
There's a huge surplus of it worldwide, and that's taking a massive tool on the U.S. stockmarket.
The average of 30 U.S. stocks known as the Dow Jones Industrial Average has dropped morethan 1,600 points this year.
That includes a loss of 249 points yesterday.
Investors are worried that the continuing drop in oil prices could signal bad news for the globaleconomy.
It's hurting corporate profits.
Dozens of oil companies are filing for bankruptcy.
The silver lining for drivers is that gas prices also continued to drop.
All right. Let's see who's watching and requesting a "Roll Call" mention atCNNStudentNews.com.
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Last January, we reported that NASA said 2014 was Earth's warmest year since 1880, whenscientist begun keeping records on global temperatures.
This January, NASA is saying the same thing about 2015, specifically that it was 2,300th of 1degree than the 2014 record.
Scientists say carbon dioxide emissions factor in as one reason why, but that most of theblame this time is on El Nino.
It's that natural warming of Pacific Ocean waters we've told you about that can affecttemperatures worldwide.
NASA says 2015 was the warmest year with 94 percent certainty.
There was more doubt about the 2014 record.
NASA was 38 percent certain on that one.
Part of the reason being that the temperature increase over the previous record was withinits margin of error.
There's also a margin of error in forecasters' predictions for the U.S. Northeast this weekend.
But no matter how it turns out, warm is not how folks are going to describe it.
Meteorologists say there is a storm brewing, a big one, that could bring two feet or more ofsnow to Washington, D.C., a foot in New York, a foot in Boston, or nothing at all.
Scientists say it's just too early to know for sure if this thing will materialize and affect as many50 million people by the weekend.
Because they think it's possible, though, folks in the region are stocking up on groceries, gas,shovels and sleds.
They're bracing for a nor'easter.
A nor'easter occurs within the most crowded coast line of the United States, the Northeast, andthey can occur any time of year but are most common between the months of September andApril.
That's when weather conditions are primed for a nor'easter.
You start with a low.
It's going to travel from the Southeast to the Northeast and intensify.
Nor'easters are strongest around New England as well as the Canadian Maritime Provinces.
Now, we have very warm water in the Gulf of Mexico and all around the coast of Florida, it'sgoing to warm the air above it and that warm air is going to clash with very cold air comingfrom the north.
Now, nor'easters carry winds out of the Northeast at about 58 miles per hour or more.
And keep in mind, the win direction out of the Northeast is what defines a nor'easter.
It's also going to cause beach erosion, as well as coastal flooding and very, very rough oceanconditions.
Now, not all nor'easter have snow, but some of the most memorable ones have dumped lotsof it.
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