Current events of May 1, 2013 (2013-05-01) (Wednesday) |
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- Flash floods leave 16 people dead and 3 others missing in Saudi Arabia, with authorities urging citizens to avoid low-lying wadis. At least two others were killed in neighboring Oman in some of the heaviest rainfall in more than 25 years. (Al Arabiya)
- Heavy rain and a whirlwind sweeps over eights districts and towns in Lào Cai Province, northern Vietnam, destroying 52 houses and 2 schools, ripping roofs off of 1600 houses, and damaging crops of local people. (Talkvietnam)
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Current events of May 2, 2013 (2013-05-02) (Thursday) |
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- The Chad government announces that it foiled a coup attempt that "had been in preparation for several months." (Reuters)
- Iraqi insurgency (post-U.S. withdrawal):
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Current events of May 3, 2013 (2013-05-03) (Friday) |
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- An international team of scientists announce the discovery in China of a new meat-eating Theropod dinosaur, Aorun zhaoi, dating from 161 million years ago. It is the oldest Coelurosaur known to date. (Design & Trend)
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Current events of May 4, 2013 (2013-05-04) (Saturday) |
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- War in Afghanistan (2001-present)
- Syrian civil war:
- Israeli forces, in a second attack in as many days, bomb a weapons shipment of sophisticated missiles suspected as being transported from Syria to Hezbollah in Lebanon. (The Washington Post)
- Activists claim that 77 people are massacred in the Syrian city of Baniyas by government forces; the government claims it was fighting against "terrorist groups." (BBC)
- 39 people are killed during religiously motivated clashes at a funeral in Wukari, Nigeria. (Bloomberg)
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- Business and economy
- Hundreds of protestors gather in Chinese cities to rally against planned large-scale industrial projects. (Bloomberg)
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- A train carrying toxic flammable chemicals derails and causes a major fire near the Belgian town of Wetteren, killing two and wounding forty-nine. (BBC)
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Current events of May 5, 2013 (2013-05-05) (Sunday) |
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Current events of May 6, 2013 (2013-05-06) (Monday) |
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- Germany arrests a 93-year-old, alleged former Auschwitz guard, Hans Lipschis, on charges of murder. (AFP via Google News), (BBC)
- According to the FBI, a terror attack is disrupted when US authorities raid a mobile home in Montevideo, Minnesota, United States. (AP via News24)
- U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Jeff Krusinski, who was in charge of the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office, is arrested on charges of sexual assault. (ABC News)
- A stolen dinosaur skeleton is returned to Mongolia. (Los Angeles Times)
- Three women missing for more than a decade are found alive in the U.S. city of Cleveland, Ohio, while a 52-year-old man, Ariel Castro, is taken into custody. (The Guardian), (News Limited)
- American singer Lauryn Hill is sentenced to prison for three months after being convicted of tax evasion. (Huffington Post)
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Current events of May 7, 2013 (2013-05-07) (Tuesday) |
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- A Pentagon study finds a sharp rise in sexual assaults among U.S. military personnel. (The New York Times)
- Paperwork filled on behalf of Aurora shooting suspect James E. Holmes states that he plans to plead not guilty by reason of insanity. (The New York Times)
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Current events of May 8, 2013 (2013-05-08) (Wednesday) |
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Current events of May 9, 2013 (2013-05-09) (Thursday) |
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Current events of May 10, 2013 (2013-05-10) (Friday) |
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Current events of May 11, 2013 (2013-05-11) (Saturday) |
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Current events of May 12, 2013 (2013-05-12) (Sunday) |
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- The first group of what is an expected to be more than a trillion 17-year cicadas to emerge in the eastern United States is spotted in North Carolina. (Design & Trend)
- WHO says that it appears likely the novel coronavirus can be transmitted from close person-to-person contact. (BBC)
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Current events of May 13, 2013 (2013-05-13) (Monday) |
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- Kevyn Orr, a state-appointed emergency manager of the finances of the city of Detroit, Michigan, issues a report describing the city as "clearly insolvent on a cash flow basis." (BBC)
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- Myanmar state television announces that President Thein Sein will make the first official visit to the United States, the first by a leader of that country in nearly fifty years. (ABC News)
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- Attorney General Eric Holder, acting for the Obama Administration, testifies before the House Judiciary Committee that he was not party to the U.S. Justice Department's secret seizure of telephone records of the news agency the Associated Press. The Justice Department seized two months worth of telephone records from AP offices and reporters. (Fox News),(CBS News)(AP)
- In Mexico City, Mexico, two men are arrested in connection with the May 9 murder of 28-year-old American Malcolm Shabazz, the grandson and first male descendant of Malcolm X. (NPR)
- Iranian man Azim Aghajani is convicted in Nigeria of attempting to smuggle weapons to The Gambia. He is sentenced to five years imprisonment. (BBC)
- Kermit Gosnell, a U.S. abortion physician, is found guilty in Pennsylvania of three counts of murder of newborn infants, one count of involuntary manslaughter, and various other charges. (The Washington Post)(BBC)
- The U.S. Department of Treasury may probe why Bloomberg News reporters were monitoring how investment bank employees searched their site for financial information, including U.S. Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. (The New York Times),(BBC)
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Current events of May 14, 2013 (2013-05-14) (Tuesday) |
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- Greek civil servants hold a 24-hour strike after the government proposes to use emergency powers to stop striking teachers from disrupting university exams. (AP via ABC)
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Current events of May 15, 2013 (2013-05-15) (Wednesday) |
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- Iraqi insurgency (post-U.S. withdrawal):
- Gunmen using silenced weapons attack at least nine alcohol stores in western Baghdad, killing twelve people. (Al Jazeera)
- Thirty-five people, including three police officers, are killed in bomb attacks in Shi'ite sections of Baghdad and parts of northern Iraq. (Reuters)
- Syrian civil war:
- Rebel fighters launch a massive assault on a prison in Syria's northern city of Aleppo. (BBC)
- A rebel attack on army positions in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo town of Beni leaves at least 31 people dead, including 23 Mai Mai and three FARDC troops. (Reuters)
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- The jury in the U.S. state of Arizona that convicted Jodi Arias of first-degree murder last week quickly decide that she should either face the death penalty or life in prison without parole during the penalty phase of trial. (NBC)
- According to the U.S. ATF, no evidence has yet been found that a bomb blast was responsible for the April West Fertilizer Company explosion that killed fifteen people in West, Texas. (NBC)
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- Politics and elections
- Steven Miller, the acting commissioner of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, resigns amidst pressure from the fallout surrounding the agency's targeting of Tea Party groups. (Los Angeles Times)
- In the United Kingdom House of Commons, an amendment to last Wednesday's Queen's Speech expressing regret that it did not contain legislation for a referendum on EU membership is defeated 277–131. (BBC)
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Current events of May 16, 2013 (2013-05-16) (Thursday) |
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Current events of May 17, 2013 (2013-05-17) (Friday) |
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- The United States government paves the way for expanded exportation of natural gas by approving a US$10 billion facility in Texas. (Reuters)
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Current events of May 18, 2013 (2013-05-18) (Saturday) |
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- One hundred thousand people march in Rome, the capital of Italy, to protest the austerity measures of the new government, demanding a new policy focus on the creation of jobs. (BBC)
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- US Airways Express Flight 4560, with 34 people aboard is forced to make a belly landing at Newark International Airport after experiencing landing gear trouble. No injuries are reported (AP via News24) (CNN)
- A Boeing 737 carrying more than 130 people catches fire while landing in Moscow. No injuries are reported. (AP via News24)
- A car drives into a crowd at a parade in Damascus, Virginia, injuring at least 50 people. (CNN)
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Current events of May 19, 2013 (2013-05-19) (Sunday) |
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- Syrian civil war:
- Heavy fighting is reported in Qusair, Syria, as the Syrian army launches a major counter-offensive against rebel forces. (BBC)
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Current events of May 20, 2013 (2013-05-20) (Monday) |
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Current events of May 21, 2013 (2013-05-21) (Tuesday) |
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- Criminal investigation of Saab Automobile:
- Carl Pistorius, the brother of Paralympian athlete Oscar Pistorius, is acquitted of culpable homicide over the death of a motorcyclist in South Africa. (BBC)
- U.S. Army Brigadier General Bryan T. Roberts, the Commanding General of the U.S. Army Training Center and Fort Jackson in Fort Jackson, South Carolina, is suspended from his duties because of an investigation into alleged adultery (which is treated as a criminal violation, not just a civil matter, in the U.S. military), and for allegedly being in a physical altercation. (NBC)
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Current events of May 22, 2013 (2013-05-22) (Wednesday) |
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- Eric Holder, the Attorney-General of the United States, confirms that four US citizens have been killed in drone aircraft attacks since 2011 including radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki killed in 2011. (CBS News)
- Disasters and accidents
- One fourth-grade child is fatally injured, one is missing, and two others (from a St. Louis Park, Minnesota elementary school) were rescued by firefighters, after a gravel slide at St. Paul, Minnesota's Lilydale Regional Park, near the Mississippi River. The rescue effort was suspended for the night, after conditions got worse. (NBC)
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- Documents are secured as Dutch authorities execute a tax raid on Spyker Cars' headquarters on behalf of the Swedish tax authorities. (Dagens industri)
- Australian politician Craig Thomson is charged with an additional 19 charges including 15 of fraud and 4 of theft. (ABC News)
- In Orlando, Florida, Ibragim Todashev, a suspect under FBI questioning with ties to the April 2013 Boston Marathon bombings suspects, after initially being cooperative, goes on to attack an agent (in the course of the questioning) and is shot dead as a result. (NBC)
- In London, a uniformed soldier is murdered in the street. Two men carrying knives and a meat cleaver are subsequently shot and apprehended by police. The UK government is treating it as a terrorist incident. (Metro) (BBC)
- A decorated combat veteran of the Iraq War and United States Military Academy (West Point) U.S. Army staff member, Sgt. 1st Class Michael McClendon, is relieved of his duties for allegedly planting cameras to spy on female cadets. (NBC)
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Current events of May 23, 2013 (2013-05-23) (Thursday) |
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- Most of the population in Montreal, Canada, is advised to boil water before drinking after sediments are found in the reservoir of a major water treatment plant. (CBC)
- A cluster of mysterious and serious respiratory illnesses that affected Southeast Alabama and killed 2 people was nothing more than the ordinary common cold, mostly rhinovirus, and seasonal influenza A. (NBC)
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- The victim of yesterday's attack in London is confirmed to have been a serving British soldier, and named as Drummer Lee Rigby of the 2nd Battalion the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers. (BBC)
- Abdul-Baki Todashev, the father of Ibragim Todashev (the man who had confessed to the FBI the day before in Orlando, Florida, to working with Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the deceased older brother in the April 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, in a previously unsolved 2011 triple homicide, and subsequently while being questioned attacked an agent with a knife and was killed) claims that his son is innocent and that federal investigators are biased against Chechens and made up their case against him. (NBC)
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Current events of May 24, 2013 (2013-05-24) (Friday) |
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- A collision between a hotel shuttle bus and a tractor-trailer occurs near the Atlanta airport, injuring eighteen people. (AP via News24)
- An 8.3 magnitude earthquake in East Russia leads to widespread evacuations, but no casualties. (New York Times)
- Five mountain climbers are missing and feared dead on Kanchenjunga. (AP via USA Today)
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Current events of May 25, 2013 (2013-05-25) (Saturday) |
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- British counter-terrorism police arrest a man who was a childhood friend of the terrorist Michael Adebolajo after he gives an interview to the BBC in which he claims that the MI5 had contacted him in the past. (CNN)
- A French anti-terror soldier is stabbed in the neck in a suspected copycat of the 2013 Woolwich attack. (Sky News), (Daily Mail)
- A Spring Ford High School (Royersford, PA) senior, Julianne Siller, 17, is allegedly stabbed to death by her boyfriend, 16-year-old Tristan Stahley after a fight during a breakup. (NBC)
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Current events of May 26, 2013 (2013-05-26) (Sunday) |
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Current events of May 27, 2013 (2013-05-27) (Monday) |
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- Seventeen people die during an H1N1 outbreak in Venezuela, and a further 250 are infected. (Reuters)
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- 400-year-old bryophyte specimens left behind by retreating glaciers in Canada are brought back to life in the laboratory. (BBC)(PNAS)
- Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History announces the discovery of nearly 5,000 cave paintings near Burgos, Tamaulipas. (io9)
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Current events of May 28, 2013 (2013-05-28) (Tuesday) |
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Current events of May 29, 2013 (2013-05-29) (Wednesday) |
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- At least 13 people are dead and at least 20 injured following a collision between a bus and a tanker near the Indian town of Dahanu in Maharashtra state. (IBN)
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Current events of May 30, 2013 (2013-05-30) (Thursday) |
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- Syrian civil war:
- Iraqi insurgency (post-U.S. withdrawal):
- A series of bombings across Iraq kills at least eleven people. (BBC)
- Abdul-Baki Todashev, father of Ibragim Todashev who was killed by the FBI last week, describes U.S. agents as "bandits" who killed his son "execution-style". (The Guardian) (Al Jazeera)
- Arts and culture
- Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine makes an "unpatriotic" comment on television, prompting calls for him to be removed to a "Communist country" or pursued by secretive anti-terrorism hit squads. Levine responds by tweeting dictionary definitions of words such as "joke", "humourless" and "lighthearted" but is later forced to apologise for his indiscretion. (The Guardian)
- It is announced that Internet sensation Grumpy Cat will star in a feature-length movie. (Reuters)
- Health and environment
- There is no added benefit obtained from a double dose of Tamiflu according to a new study. (Reuters)
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Current events of May 31, 2013 (2013-05-31) (Friday) |
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- Turkish protestors are removed from Gezi Park in Taksim Square, Istanbul, in a violent crackdown by police after days of anti-government unrest. (Reuters)
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- Near-Earth asteroid 1998 QE2 and its moon pass within 3.6 million miles (5.8 mil km) of the Earth. (BBC)
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Recently concluded
- Canada: Michael Rafferty
- Croatia: Ivo Sanader
- Egypt: Hosni Mubarak, Alaa Mubarak, Gamal Mubarak
- Germany: Breno Borges
- Indonesia: Abu Bakar Bashir
- Netherlands: Ante Gotovina (ICTY), Mladen Markač (ICTY), Momčilo Perišić (ICTY)
- Norway: Anders Behring Breivik
- Russia: Leonid Khabarov, Vladimir Kvachkov, Pussy Riot
- Sierra Leone: Charles Taylor (SCFSL)
- South Africa: Chris Mahlangu
- Ukraine: Yulia Tymoshenko
- United Kingdom: Levi Bellfield, Robert Black, Vincent Tabak, Ali Dizaei, Antoni Imiela, Brian Regan, Donna Air, Ched Evans, Clayton McDonald, Titus Bramble, Dan Penteado, John Terry, Iftikhar and Farzana Ahmed, Asil Nadir, Justin Lee Collins, Kweku Adoboli, Tony McCluskie, Kevin Hutchinson-Foster, Chris Huhne, Nicola Edgington, Vicky Pryce, Derek Rose, Mick Philpott, Mairead Philpott, Paul Mosley, Kevin Liverpool, Junior Bradshaw, Aggro Santos, Stuart Hall, Stuart Hazell, Mark Bridger
- United States: Noshir Gowadia, Buju Banton, Barry Bonds, Raj Rajaratnam, Casey Anthony, Conrad Murray, George Huguely, Allen Stanford, Roger Clemens, Jerry Sandusky, Jared Lee Loughner, Lauryn Hill, Kermit Gosnell
Ongoing
- Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Tribunal
- Canada: Luka Magnotta
- China: Organized crime in Chongqing
- France: Church of Scientology
- Germany: Beate Zschape
- Iraq: Supreme Criminal Tribunal
- Malaysia: Anwar Ibrahim
- Netherlands: Thomas Lubanga (ICC), Radovan Karadžić (ICTY), Ratko Mladic (ICTY)
- Palau: Tommy Remengesau
- Philippines: Andal Ampatuan, Jr., Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
- Russia: Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Platon Lebedev
- Singapore: Tak Boleh Tahan
- South Africa: Oscar Pistorius
- Sudan: Lubna al-Hussein
- Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra
- Turkey: Ergenekon network, Kenan Evren
- United Kingdom: Koo Stark, Dale Cregan, Liam Adams
- United States: Ahmed Ghailani, David Headley, Charles P. White, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Viktor Bout, Jodi Arias
- Vatican: Vatileaks scandal
Upcoming
- Czech Republic: Václav Klaus
- France: Éric Raoult
- Italy: Silvio Berlusconi
- Libya: Saif al-Islam Gaddafi
- Ivory Coast: Laurent Gbagbo
- South Africa: Oscar Pistorius
- United Kingdom: Dane Bowers, Max Clifford
- United States: Nidal Malik Hasan, Javaris Crittenton, Bradley Manning, Robert Bales, George Zimmerman, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Peter Madoff, Christian Gerhartsreiter, Crystal Mangum, Dylan Quick, Richie Farmer, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, James Eagan Holmes, Ariel Castro
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