Events in May 2010
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May 1
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A major bomb scare rattles New York’s Times Square. |
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May 2
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The European Union and the IMF approve a $146 billion package to rescue debt-ridden Greece. |
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The Maoists launch an indefinite general strike in Nepal seeking the formation of a national government led by them. |
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May 3
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Sri Lankan journalist J. S. Tissainayagam is pardoned by the President Mahinda Rajapaksa. Court martial hearing against former General Sarath Fonseka is suspended. |
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Faisal Shahzad, a Pakistan-born U.S. citizen is arrested in connection with Times Square Car bomb incident, after authorities recall a flight soon after takeoff from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport. |
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May 5
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Mauritians cast ballots in general elections. |
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Three persons are killed in a fire at a bank as protests turn violent in Greece on a day of nationwide strike against the government’s austerity plan. |
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Nigerian President Umaru Yar’ Adua passes away after a long illness. |
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May 6
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Britons cast ballots in a closely contested general election in a generation. |
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Goodluck Jonathan is sworn in Nigerian President. |
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The three-party alliance of Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam wins 41 of the 60 seats in the Mauritius National Parliament. |
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Researchers announce sequencing of the genetic blueprint of Neander Poly from bones found in Vindija, Croatia. |
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May 7
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The British election throws up a hung parliament and the Labour Party handed down defeat after 13 years in Power. Shahabana Mahmood and Yasmin Qureshi become Britain’s first women Muslim MPs. |
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Myanmar’s National League for Democracy led by Aung San Suu Kyi ceases to exist. |
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World Wide Web launches Arabic URLs, Egypt begins registering names under the misr domain |
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A massive peace assembly is held in Nepal capital Kathmandu. Maoists withdraw indefinite general strike. |
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May 9
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Russia marks 65th anniversary of victory in World War II with a spectacular military parade in Moscow’s Red Square. |
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A strong earthquake of 7.2 magnitude strikes off Indonesia’s Aceh Province. |
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The European Union announces a €750 billion special European fund to bailout failing euro zone economics. |
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At least 52 coal miners are killed after methane blasts at a mine in Siberia, Russia. |
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May 10
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At least 66 people are killed and 146 wounded as terrorists unleash a wave of violence in Iraq. |
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Filipinos cast votes in general elections. |
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May 11
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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown resigns. |
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May 12
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Conservative leader David Cameron assumes office as Britain’s Prime Minister and Liberal Democrat Nick Clegg takes over as Deputy Prime Minister. William Hague is the new Foreign Secretary and George Osborne the Chancellor of the Exchequer. |
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At least 103 people among them 70 Dutch nationals are killed as a Libyan Airbus jet crashes while trying to land at Tripoli Airport. A Dutch boy Ruben Ven Assouw (9) alone survives. |
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Seven school children are hacked to death at a kindergarten in China’s Shaanxi province. |
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The Thailand Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva cancels a proposed November 14 election and calls off talks with anti-government protesters. |
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May 13
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The chief ministry advisor of Thailand’s anti-government protesters Khattiya Sawasdipol is shot at in Bangkok. |
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Social activist Ela Bhalt receives the Niwano Peace Prize for 2010 for her contribution to the uplift of poor women in India. |
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India and Venezuela sign a pact to develop a $20-billion oil project in Orinoco region. |
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The 63rd Cannes Film Festival opens with the premiere of Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood. |
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May 14
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Seven persons are killed and more than 100 injured in clashes between Thai troops and “Red Shirt” anti-government protesters in Bangkok. |
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Space Shuttle Atlantis begins its last mission to the International Space Station. |
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May 15
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Two days of clashes result in 17 deaths in Thailand. At least 140 are injured. |
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Australian schoolgirl sailor Jessica Watson sails into history becoming the youngest person to circumnavigate the globe solo, non-stop and without help. |
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May 16
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A number of major airports across the U.K. are closed due to renewed threat from Icelandic volcanic ash. |
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Rima Fakih, a Lebanese immigrant is crowned Miss USA in Los Vegas making her the first ever Arab-American to win the title. |
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May 17
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Iran signs nuclear fuel swap deal with Brazil and Turkey after 18 hours of negotiations in Tehran. |
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The Euro plunges to a four-year low in volatile Tokyo trade. |
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The U.S. President Barack Obama signs the Daniel Pearl Freedom of Press Act into law. |
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May 18
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The Obama administration announces deal with major powers to impose new sanctions on Iran. |
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Eighteen persons are killed and 47 injured after a suicide car bomber attacks a NATO convoy in Afghanistan capital Kabul. |
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A bicycle bomb kills 12 persons in the Dera Ismail Khan area of Khyber Pukhtoonkhwa (formerly North West Frontier Province) in Pakistan. |
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U.S. geneticist Craig Venter creates synthetic life by building the genome of a bacterium from scratch and incorporating it into a cell. |
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May 19
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Thailand’s security forces crush a two-month protest by Red Shirts after storming a barricaded campsite in Ratchaprasong in Bangkok’s commercial district. At least six persons, including a foreign journalist are killed. |
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The French Cabinet approves a draft law to ban burqa from public spaces. |
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A bill to reform Wall Street fails to clear the U.S. Senate. |
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Anglo-Irish writer J. G. Farrell is posthumously awarded a special one-off “lost” Booker Prize for his novel Troubles published in 1970. |
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May 21
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A Japanese rocket launches a Venus probe and a kite-shaped “space yacht” Ikaros from the Tanegashima space centre in southern Japan. |
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May 20
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U.S. Senate passes a filibuster-proof bill on financial reform “Volcker rule” to restrict banks’ investment in hedge funds. |
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May 22
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Arjun Vajpai (16), a schoolboy from New Delhi becomes the youngest Indian to successfully climb Mount Everest. Apa Sherpa climbs peak for a record 20th time. |
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Jordan Romero (13), from Big Bear, California becomes the youngest person in the world to conquer Mt. Everest. |
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May 23
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Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul wins the Palmed’Or at the Cannes film festival for a surreal reincarnation fala Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives. Javier Bardem and Elio Germano share best actor award. France’s Juliette Binoche is named best actress. |
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British screenwriter Simon Monjack, husband of late actor Brittany Murphy is found dead at his Hollywood Hills home in Los Angeles. |
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May 24
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South Korea announces “far-reaching trade restrictions” against North Korea. |
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May 25
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Argentina turns 200. |
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The Pakistan Supreme Court upholds Lahore High Court’s decision to free Jama’at-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed from house arrest. |
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May 26
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Shuttle Atlantis wraps up a 25-year career, including 32 missions covering 120 million miles and lands at NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre in Cape Canaveral, Florida. |
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May 27
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President Pratibha Patil seeks China’s backing ro a permanent UNSC seat for India during the summit meeting with President Hu Jintao. |
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North Korea scraps pact with South Korea on the Prevention of naval clashes between them. Seoul launches anti-submarine drills off its west coast. |
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Reducing Emissions for Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+), an international programme to protect forests, gets nod at a meeting in Oslo. |
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May 28
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Ninety-five people are killed and 70 injured in terrorist attacks on two mosques in Lahore, Pakistan. |
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Nepal parties agree to extend the term of the Constituent Assembly by a year. Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal to step down. |
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Ready for a “new starting point”, top Chinese leaders tell President Pratibha Patil. An Indian-style temple is dedicated to the people of China in Luoyang Henan province. |
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May 30
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David Laws, Britain’s Chief Secretary to the Treasury resigns over charges of abuse of parliamentary expenses rules. |
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Colombians cast ballots in presidential polls. |
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May 31
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Nine persons are killed after Israeli commandos attack a high-profile Gaza-bound six-ship aid flotilla, trying to break the naval blockade of the Gaza Strip by Tel Aviv since June 2007. |
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The German President Horst Koehler resigns following criticism of his comments about the nation’s mission in Afghanistan. |
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At least 179 people are killed as tropical storm Agatha batters Central America, with Guatemala bearing the brunt. |
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