ITALY - Italy was struck by its fourth earthquake in three months on Sunday morning, a 6.6-magnitude tremor which injured twenty people and leveled a historic basilica. Why has this part of Italy been struck so many times by disastrous quakes? Is this country witnessing a steady increasing in tectonic activity? Here is what seismologists had to say.

ITALY - A powerful earthquake struck Italy on Sunday in the same central regions that have been rocked by repeated tremors over the past two months, with more homes and churches brought down but no deaths reported. The quake, which measured 6.6 according to the US Geological Survey, was bigger than one on August 24 that killed almost 300 people. Many people have fled the area since then, helping to avoid a new devastating death toll. With thousands already made homeless, a leading seismologist warned that the earthquakes could go on for weeks in a domino effect along the central Apennine fault system.

ITALY - Strong tremor in central Italy days after the region was hit by two earthquakes. Dozens of historic buildings have been destroyed or seriously damaged by the 6.6 magnitude quake, with around a dozen people reported to be injured. There are currently no reports of deaths following the shock on Sunday morning. The epicentre of the quake was about 40 miles (68km) south-west of Perugia and close to the town of Norcia, which was already reeling from a series of large quakes. Many of the town’s residents had been evacuated after quakes on Wednesday, meaning they avoided the worst of the damage on Sunday.

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GERMANY - Pupils at a primary school were forced to chant "Allahu Akhbar" and “there is no God but Allah", an appalled father has claimed. The father of the pupil at the girl's primary school in German ski resort Garmisch-Partenkirchen discovered that his daughter had been forced to learn the Islamic prayer when he discovered a handout she had been given. He claimed she had been "forced" by teachers to memorise the Islamic chants and forwarded the handout to Austrian news service unsertirol24. The handout read: "Oh Allah, how perfect you are and praise be to you. Blessed is your name, and exalted is your majesty. There is no God but you." It had been given to the girl during a lesson in "ethics" at the Bavarian school.

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EUROPE - Europe's biggest banks are vulnerable and pose a huge risk to financial stability, according to some of Wall Street's top bankers. Financial heavyweights from the US and Switzerland joined forces to sound the alarm over Deutsche Bank and its peers.

ITALY - Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz predicts Italy will be the first of a slew of countries leaving the eurozone in the next few years as he blames the financial crisis on the EU, the euro and Germany. The European Union (EU) lacks the decisiveness to undertake needed reforms such as the creation of a banking union involving joint bank deposit guarantees, he told Die Welt newspaper. Mr Stiglitz, the World Bank's former chief economist, accused the bloc of lacking solidarity across national boundaries. He said: "There will still be a euro zone in 10 years, but the question is, what will it look like? It's very unlikely that it will still have 19 members. It's difficult to say who will still belong. The people in Italy are increasingly disappointed in the euro. Italians are starting to realise that Italy doesn't work in the euro."

SWITZERLAND - The Chairman of banking giant UBS has issued a stinging rebuke at the EU and Europe. Axel Weber, a former policymaker at the European Central Bank (ECB), also criticised central banks for veering away from what he said was their main purpose. Speaking to CNBC at a meeting of the International Fund and World Bank in the US, Mr Weber said European banks are still struggling to balance profitability while dealing with past financial settlements. He said: “What I usually say when asked about European banks is that we at UBS are not a European bank, we are a Swiss bank and Switzerland is not part of the EU. Switzerland is not part of the Union… we have a totally different relationship here [in the US].”

RUSSIA - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Sunday he had detected increasing US hostility towards Moscow and complained about what he said was a series of aggressive US steps that threatened Russia's national security. In an interview with Russian state TV likely to worsen already poor relations with Washington, Lavrov made it clear he blamed the Obama administration for what he described as a sharp deterioration in US-Russia ties. "We have witnessed a fundamental change of circumstances when it comes to the aggressive Russophobia that now lies at the heart of US policy towards Russia," Lavrov told Russian state TV's First Channel. "It's not just a rhetorical Russophobia, but aggressive steps that really hurt our national interests and pose a threat to our security."

GERMANY - The current policy of “saber rattling” should not continue, Erwin Sellering, the prime minister of the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, told Germany’s weekly Welt am Sonntag newspaper, as he called for lifting anti-Russian sanctions. “The tit-for-tat sanctions have brought nothing. They should be lifted as soon as possible,” Sellering, who represents the Social Democrats, told Welt am Sonntag, adding that Russia and Western countries should “move closer” again. His words were partly echoed by Thorsten Schaefer-Guembel, vice chairman of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD), which now forms the ruling coalition with German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU). “The SPD should now breathe new life into the policy of détente right now, in the times of crisis,” he said, stressing that Germany should “hold all negotiation channels open” and rely on diplomacy and bringing “change through rapprochement,” particularly in its relations with Russia.

CHINA - China is edging towards "financial calamity" and must wean itself off its debt addiction and reform if it is to avoid a crisis, the International Monetary Fund has warned. Markus Rodlauer, deputy director of the IMF's Asia-Pacific department, said the world's second largest economy was approaching a tipping point where its rapidly growing financial sector and surge in shadow credit could undermine the state's ability to contain the fallout from a crash. "The level of financial and corporate debt and the complexity of the financial system and rapid growth in shadow banking is on an unsustainable path," he said. "The longer it lasts ... the more serious the disturbance and the disruption might be.

CHINA - The Chinese Foreign Ministry has publicly backed Russia’s positions on “the most important” global issues, including Moscow’s take on the Syrian and Afghan conflicts. It stressed that the two keep close contact as fellow UN Security Council permanent members. "China and Russia hold similar positions on the most important international and regional issues, including on Syria and Afghanistan. The sides, being permanent members of the UN Security Council, continue close cooperation on international and regional issues," Li Baodong said. Being the only non-western member of the UN Security Council besides Russia, China has been taking Moscow’s side on heated and highly debatable issues.