Current events of 13 May 2010 (2010-05-13) (Thursday) |
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- Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771 arriving from South Africa en route to London crashes at Tripoli airport, Libya, killing 104 people; a 10-year-old child is the sole survivor. (BBC) (AFP) (Al Jazeera)
- Airports in Morocco, Spain and Portugal reopen after days of Icelandic volcanic disruption. (BBC) (NEWS.com.au)
- The International Committee of the Red Cross confirms reports of a second, secret US prison at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan after new allegations of torture. (BBC)
- Russia and Turkey sign a $20 billion deal permitting Moscow to build and own a controlling stake in Ankara's first nuclear power plant. (Al Jazeera)
- Philippine general election, 2010
- In South Sudan there is violence for the third time in a week between the army and forces led by the former general George Athor. (BBC) (Reuters)
- 9 people, including 7 children, are killed at a school near Hanzhong city, Shaanxi, China. (Xinhua) (AP)
- A bomb planted inside a grocery store in a mainly Shi'ite area of Baghdad kills three people and wounds 23. (TVNZ)
- Irish authorities launch an investigation into last night's "violent incident" which saw protesters attempt to storm Dáil Éireann in a campaign against bank bail-outs. (The Irish Times) (TV3)
- Spain's Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero announces wage cuts for state employees and a reduction in investment in response to his country's budget deficit. (Al Jazeera)
- Pope Benedict XVI, accompanied by tens of thousands of pilgrims, visits the famous Catholic shrine to the Virgin Mary in Fatima, as part of his four-day visit to Portugal, and recalls the assassination attempt on his predecessor there. (BBC) (RTÉ) (France24) (The Sydney Morning Herald)
- North Korea says it has undertaken nuclear fusion, a claim disputed by international scientists. (BBC) (AP) (China Daily)
- A possible supermassive black hole is witnessed being hurled from its parent galaxy at high speed. (BBC)
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Current events of 11 May 2010 (2010-05-11) (Tuesday) |
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Current events of 10 May 2010 (2010-05-10) (Monday) |
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- Iraqi insurgents kill 102 and injure over 200 people, mostly Iraqi civilians, in a series of suicide bombings from Mosul to Basra in Iraq, the highest number in one day this year, and jeopardizing a planned US withdrawal. (The Times)
- Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Gordon Brown announces his intention to resign as Leader of the Labour Party, and calls for a leadership election to be completed by September. (BBC)
- Stock markets rise significantly and bond prices fall around the world after investors are reassured by the European Union and International Monetary Fund’s nearly $1 trillion plan to avoid a European debt crisis. (USA Today) (The Times)
- President Obama nominates Solicitor General Elena Kagan as the youngest Justice and third woman for the Supreme Court of the United States . (USA Today) (The Times)
- German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government loses its majority in the upper house of parliament in a state election marked by voter anger over the bailout to avoid the Greek debt crisis. (The Australian) (Los Angeles Times)
- BP sprays more chemicals into the main massive undersea oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico using a deep-sea robot in an attempt to thin the oil which is rushing up from the seabed at the rate of about 210,000 gallons (795,000 liters) per day. (USA Today)
- A mass grave containing the bodies of 250 ethnic Albanians from the Kosovo War is discovered in Serbia. (USA Today) (B92) (AFP)
- Presidential elections, legislative elections and local elections start today in the Philippines. (Philippine Inquirer) (BBC)
- The South Korean Defence Minister Kim Tae-Young announces that investigators have found traces of explosives in the wreck of the ROKS Cheonan that sank in March. (BBC) (Xinhua) (Kyodo)
- Rescue efforts continue in the aftermath of the May 2010 Siberia mine explosion. (RIA Novosti)
- A senior U.S. official, Kurt M. Campbell, meets with Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. (AP) (The New York Times) (Press TV)
- Severe rainstorms have killed at least 70 people since a powerful tornado hit Chongqing municipality in south-western China in Dianjiang and Liangping counties. Inclement weather in the next two days will affect Guangdong, Fujian, Hunan, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Guizhou and Yunnan provinces. (Sina)
- Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales gives up some of his site privileges following protests by contributors angered that he had deleted images without consultation. (BBC)
- Multiple tornadoes across Oklahoma and Kansas result in at least 5 deaths and 58 injuries. Twisters hit a truck stop near Midwest City and locations in Oklahoma City. (KTUL) (AP) (NWS Norman) (NewsOK)
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Current events of 9 May 2010 (2010-05-09) (Sunday) |
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- BP's containment chamber fails, prolonging the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. (Reuters)
- The regional coalition of Christian-Democrats (CDU) and Free Democrats (FDP) are voted out of office in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), which may lead to the federal government of Chancellor Angela Merkel losing its majority in the upper house. (BBC) (Financial Times) (The Guardian) (The Independent)
- Sandro Bondi, Italy's minister of culture, calls for a boycott of the 2010 Cannes Film Festival after a documentary on the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake was included in the programme. (AFP) (Reuters)
- An earthquake strikes Sumatra sparking fears of a tsunami. (BBC) (Bangkok Post) (France24) (IAfrica.com)
- A mine explosion in Mezhdurechensk (Kemerovo Oblast), Russia, kills at least 12 people and injures 24 others with 64 unaccounted for. (BBC) (TVNZ)
- U.S. missiles kill five people in North Waziristan, Pakistan. (AP)
- A Chinese man is freed from prison after 10 years after the man he had been convicted of killing is found alive. (BBC) (The Daily Telegraph) (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
- Somali pirates seize MS Marida Marguerite, a German-owned tanker, off the coast of Somalia. (Press TV)
- Dallas Braden of the Oakland Athletics throws the 19th perfect game in Major League Baseball history in a 4-0 win over the Tampa Bay Rays. (ESPN)
- The 26th annual Vancouver Sun Run happens today in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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Current events of 8 May 2010 (2010-05-08) (Saturday) |
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- 2010 Philippine general election
- United Kingdom general election, 2010:
- U.S. Senator Bob Bennett, Republican from Utah, is ousted from his party's primary ballot at the state's Republican convention, meaning he will not have a chance for a fourth term. (AP at Yahoo)
- Mudslides and floods have killed 16, and more that 40 are missing in some districts of the southern Khatlon region in Tajikistan. (ITAR)
- Icelandic volcanic disruption:
- Hundreds of people take part in a two-hour march, "For Equality", in Vilnius at Lithuania's first gay pride, with police shooting tear gas and arresting at least 12 people who threw stones and fireworks at marchers. (BBC) (The Washington Post) (iafrica.com)
- Naxalite rebels blow up a bullet-proof vehicle of the Central Reserve Police Force in the Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh, India, killing seven officers. (PTI)
- United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon discusses climate change with Bolivian president Evo Morales Ayma. (UN)
- Pope Benedict XVI accepts the resignation of Walter Mixa of Augsburg, a bishop who admitted physically abusing children after initially denying accusations. (BBC) (RTÉ) (The Washington Post)
- Former Venezuelan defence minister Raúl Baduel is sentenced to almost eight years in prison for corruption. (BBC)
- Italy's first divorce fair, Ex? Punto e a capo, opens in Milan. (BBC) (The Daily Telegraph) (The Times of India)
- London's Harrod's department store is sold to the Qatari royal family by Mohamed Al-Fayed who retires after 25 years as its chairman. (Al Jazeera) (CNN) (The Times) (RTÉ)
- In mixed martial arts, Mauricio "Shogun" Rua wins the UFC Light Heavyweight Championship from fellow Brazilian Lyoto Machida at UFC 113 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. (Sherdog)
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Current events of 7 May 2010 (2010-05-07) (Friday) |
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- United Kingdom general election, 2010:
- Caroline Lucas becomes the first ever Green Party MP, having won the Brighton Pavilion constituency with a majority of 1,252. (BBC)
- Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg describes the election as a "disappointing night" for his party, in his speech at the count for his Sheffield Hallam constituency.
- Two former Labour Home Secretaries,Charles Manisankart Clarke Charles Clarke (2004–2006) and Jacqui Smith (2007–2009, first woman in the post), lose their seats. (BBC) (BBC)
- Peter Robinson, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) Northern Ireland First Minister, loses the seat he has held for 31 years in Belfast East to Naomi Long of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland. (BBC) (The Irish Times) (RTÉ)
- Gloria De Piero, the former GMTV newsreader, wins the Ashfield constituency for the Labour party with a majority of just 192. (BBC)
- 4 policemen are killed and another seriously injured when militants open fire in Pakistan's Mansehra district of North-West Frontier Province. (PTI)
- Dubai police name five new suspects in connection with the assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in January, involving passports from Australia, Britain and France. An Israeli citizen, Zev Barkan, wanted by New Zealand since 2004 for passport fraud, may have used a New Zealand passport. (Al Jazeera) (The Guardian) (Xinhua)
- Dozens of people are reported dead or disappeared after a boat carrying 125 people capsizes in a river in Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Al Jazeera) (TVNZ) (AP)
- Thousands rally in Kathmandu and other cities against the six-day shut down of public transport, businesses and schools across Nepal by millions of the country's poor. (Al Jazeera) (The Hindu) (The New York Times)
- The death toll from Rift Valley Fever (RVF) in South Africa has risen to 17. (Xinhua)
- An appeals court in Lithuania overturns a ruling which had earlier, due to fears over homophobic violence, prevented the country's first gay pride parade going ahead in Vilnius tomorrow. (BBC)
- Lobbying for the role of Nigeria's new vice-president begins after Goodluck Jonathan's inauguration and Umaru Yar'Adua's death. (BBC)
- 5 insurgents and 2 soldiers die in a gunbattle between Islamic rebels and Indian security forces in Kashmir. (Arab News)
- 2 die and 2 are wounded in an attack on an aid vehicle near the village of Dembia in the Central African Republic. (IOL)
- 2 Egyptian peacekeepers are killed and 3 are injured by gunmen near Edd al-Fursan, South Darfur. (BBC) (IOL) (The Warpington Post) (UN)
- Confederation of African Football (CAF) president Issa Hayatou asks his executive committee to lift sanctions imposed on the Togo national football team following an attack on their team bus ahead of the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations in Angola. (BBC)
- A faction of the National League for Democracy in Burma forms its own political party to compete in elections, one day after the party disbanded. (Arab News)
- The head of Sierra Leone's Anti-Corruption Commission, Abdul Tejan-Cole, resigns. (BBC)
- Flights take to the skies again in Ireland following recent Icelandic volcanic disruption. (Al Jazeera) (RTÉ)
- The Supreme Court of the Philippines rejects several petitions calling for a presidential election to be postponed and asking for manual counting of votes to be maintained. (Arab News)
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