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Former President of South Korea Roh Moo-hyun (pictured) commits suicide.
In rugby union, Leinster defeat Leicester Tigers in the 2009 Heineken Cup Final to win their first ever Heineken Cup.
Madhav Kumar Nepal is elected Prime Minister of Nepal by the Interim legislature.
The German Federal Assembly re-elects Horst Köhler as President of Germany.
Bingu wa Mutharika is elected to a second term as President of Malawi.
Ireland's Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse concludes that the Roman Catholic Church and government inspectors knew sexual abuse was "endemic" in boys' institutions.

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May 24, 2009 (Sunday)

Voters in Mongolia go to the polls for a Presidential election. (BBC)

May 24, 2009 Wikinews articles

Bundesliga: Wolfsburg win first season title

May 23, 2009 (Saturday)

Madhav Kumar Nepal of the Communist Party is elected as Prime Minister of Nepal. (CNN)
At least 14 people are killed as a King Air 350 crashes near Trancoso, Bahia, Brazil. (AFP via ABC News)
Ban Ki-moon urges Sri Lanka to take care of its 300,000 refugees. (CNN)
Pakistani troops storm the Swat valley. (AlJazeera)
Roh Moo-hyun, former President of South Korea, commits suicide over alleged involvement in a corruption scandal. (AP via USA Today)
The towns of Kempsey and Grafton on the North Coast of New South Wales are evacuated due to heavy flooding. (ABC News Australia)
Madagascar's political parties agree to establish a provisional government and a truth/reconciliation commission. (BBC)
A car bomb kills at least six people and injures 70 others in Peshawar, Pakistan. (BBC)
The German Federal Assembly re-elects Horst Köhler as President of Germany. (Deutsche Welle)
U.S. President Barack Obama nominates former astronaut Charles F. Bolden, Jr. as NASA administrator. (Los Angeles Times)
Two people are killed and about a dozen others are injured when a bomb explodes in a Catholic church in Kathmandu, Nepal. (CNN)

May 23, 2009 Wikinews articles

May 22, 2009 (Friday)

Floods in Haiti have killed at least 11 people this week. (UK Press Association)
Former Special Air Service officer John Wick is revealed as the whistleblower behind the United Kingdom Parliament's expenses controversy. (BBC) (Telegraph)
A 5.7-magnitude earthquake strikes Chiautla de Tapia, Puebla, Mexico. (USGS)
At least 36 people are killed as the Transitional Federal Government and Islamist militants battle in Mogadishu, Somalia. (BBC)
Bingu wa Mutharika is reelected as President of Malawi. (AP via Google News)
The Space Shuttle Atlantis prepares to land at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, United States. (NASA)
The United Nations requests aid for 1,500,000 people who have been displaced by war in northwest Pakistan. (Sky News)
Manmohan Singh is inaugurated for his second term as Prime Minister of India. (Reuters)
Spain's National Police Corps arrests 23 people for trafficking Nigerian prostitutes through voodoo. (BBC)
Northern Ireland's first sextuplets are born in Belfast. (BBC) (RTÉ)

May 22, 2009 Wikinews articles

May 21, 2009 (Thursday)

Four men are arrested for planning to bomb two synagogues and destroy military aircraft in New York, United States. (Sky News)
Egyptian businessman Hisham Talaat Moustafa is convicted of murdering Lebanese pop singer Suzanne Tamim. (CNN)
A man who entered the President's official residence in Belgrade, Serbia, with at least one hand grenade surrenders. (CNN)
Her Majesty's Government will allow retired Gurkhas who served in the Armed Forces to settle in the United Kingdom. (CNN)
Apa Sherpa summits Mount Everest for the 19th time. (Salt Lake Tribune)
Israel evicts Jewish settlers from a hilltop in the West Bank. (Reuters)
The U.S. develops a framework to provide the United Arab Emirates with nuclear energy. (White House)
Maoist rebels kill 16 police officers near Nagpur, Maharashtra, India. (BBC)

May 21, 2009 Wikinews articles

May 20, 2009 (Wednesday)

The United Kingdom's House of Lords suspends Thomas Taylor and Peter Truscott until November for misconduct. (BBC)
South East Queensland, Australia, is declared a natural disaster zone, following flooding. (ABC News Australia)
Iran launches a Sajjil-2 medium-range surface-to-surface missile. (BBC)
An Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft crashes in Java, Indonesia, killing at least 98 people. (Reuters)
The Globe and Mail refutes portions of former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's testimony about his relationship with German arms dealer Karlheinz Schreiber. (Globe and Mail)
The International Security Assistance Force reports that the Taliban are using white phosphorus in the Afghanistan War. (CNN)
Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond activates Whitelee Wind Farm, Europe's largest onshore wind farm. (BBC) (NCE)
Three civilians die during combat between Islamist insurgents and the African Union Mission in Mogadishu, Somalia. (BBC)
Japan's economy contracted by 4% during the first fiscal quarter of 2009. (BBC)
Ireland's Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse concludes that the Roman Catholic Church and the Department of Education and Science knew sexual abuse was "endemic" in boys’ institutions. (RTÉ)
A car bomb kills at least 34 people and injures 72 others in Baghdad, Iraq. (BBC)
The Provincial Police of Woodstock, Ontario, Canada, charge two people with abducting and murdering Victoria Stafford. (CTV)
FC Shakhtar Donetsk defeat SV Werder Bremen to win the final UEFA Cup. (BBC) (UEFA)

May 20, 2009 Wikinews articles

May 19, 2009 (Tuesday)

The United States Government Accountability Office warns that the Global Positioning System could fail by 2010. (Guardian)
President Mahmoud Abbas inaugurates the Palestinian National Authority's new government. (BBC)
United Kingdom House of Commons Speaker Michael Martin announces that he will resign on June 21. (BBC)
President Mahinda Rajapaksa declares Sri Lanka "liberated" from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. (BBC) (Reuters)
Uzbekistan's government leases Navoiy Airport to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. (IWPR)
Pro-Tamil Tigers protesters and the Metropolitan Police Service battle, injuring 16 people, in London, England. (Sky News)
The U.S. and Russia begin negotiations to replace the expiring Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. (BBC)
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations expresses "grave concern" about National League for Democracy General Secretary Aung San Suu Kyi's trial. (Reuters)
Ethiopia's National Defense Force reenters Somalia. (BBC)
Former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney testifies about his relationship with arms dealer Karlheinz Schreiber. (CBC)
Manmohan Singh of the National Congress is reelected as Prime Minister of India. (AFP)
Brazilian oil company Petrobras and the People's Republic of China finalize a US$10-billion agreement. (WSJ)
The European Parliament requests that Spain reform its planning laws. (BBC)
A 47-million-year-old skeleton of a lemur species, Darwinius masillae, is discovered in Germany. (Sky News)
Somali pirates release the German cargo ship MV Patriot. (AP)
Bahrain recognizes Kosovo. (BNA)

May 19, 2009 Wikinews articles

May 18, 2009 (Monday)

Dalia Grybauskaitė is elected as the first female President of Lithuania. (BBC)
National League for Democracy General Secretary Aung San Suu Kyi's trial for violating house arrest begins in Burma. (BBC)
Sri Lanka's government declares an end to its civil war with the Tamil Tigers. (AFP)
Chad admits that its military has performed three incursions into Sudan. (BBC)
Somalia requests international assistance to establish an anti-piracy coast guard. (BBC)
Twenty members of the United Kingdom's Parliament demand House of Commons Speaker Michael Martin's resignation, amid an expenses controversy. (BBC) (The Daily Telegraph)
The European Commission's headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, is evacuated because of a fire. (RTÉ)
Former United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is accused of quoting the Bible while briefing then-President George W. Bush. (BBC)
U.S. President Barack Obama urges Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to accept a Palestinian state. (BBC) (Reuters)
Italian Camorra leader Raffaele Amato is arrested in Marbella, Spain. (BBC)

May 18, 2009 Wikinews articles

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Ongoing events
Cultural / Social 62nd Cannes Film Festival Economic Automotive industry crisis Financial crisis Global Iceland Ireland (banking / financial) Russia Worldwide recession Humanitarian Brazilian floods and mudslides Swine influenza outbreak Zimbabwean cholera outbreak Political / Military British Parliamentary vote selling scandal British Parliamentary spending scandal Fijian constitutional crisis North Korean nuclear program Piracy in Somalia Solomon Islands Truth and Reconciliation Commission Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty renewal End of Sri Lanka's Civil War Thai political crisis Treaty of Lisbon ratification Scientific Soyuz TMA-14 STS-125 edit sidebar

Recent deaths
May 22: Roh Moo-hyun 20: Lucy Gordon 20: Oleg Yankovsky 19: Nicholas Maw 18: Dolla 18: Velupillai Prabhakaran 17: Mario Benedetti 15: Hubert van Es 15: Susanna Agnelli 15: Bud Tingwell 15: Wayman Tisdale 11: Abel Goumba 9: Chuck Daly edit sidebar

Ongoing conflicts
Worldwide War on Terrorism Africa / Middle East Fourth Chadian Civil War War in Darfur Iraq War Israeli–Palestinian conflict Maghreb insurgency Conflict in the Niger Delta Somali Civil War Second Tuareg Rebellion Second Ugandan Civil War Asia War in Afghanistan Balochistan conflict Internal conflict in Burma Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir Laotian Secret War Ethnic conflict in Nagaland Naxalite-Maoist insurgency War in North-West Pakistan South Thailand insurgency Turkey–PKK conflict Americas Colombian Civil War Mexican Drug War Internal conflict in Peru edit sidebar

Elections
Recent May 3: Panama, President and National Assembly 6: South Africa, President 7: India, House of the People (fourth round) 9: Maldives, People’s Majlis 10: New Caledonia, Congress 12: British Columbia, Legislative Assembly 13: India, House of the People (fifth round) 16: Kuwait, National Assembly 17: Lithuania, President (first round) 17: Switzerland, referendum 17: Comoros, constitutional referendum 19: Malawi, President and National Assembly 20: Cayman Islands, Legislative Assembly and constitutional referendum 20: Moldova, President (indirect) Upcoming June 4-7: European Union, Parliament edit sidebar

Trials
Recently concluded Peru: Alberto Fujimori Sweden: The Pirate Bay United States: James Charles Kopp, Aníbal Acevedo Vilá, Phil Spector Ongoing Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Tribunal Canada: Larry O'Brien Iraq: Supreme Criminal Tribunal Italy: Raffaele Sollecito, Amanda Knox Netherlands: Thomas Lubanga (ICC), Radovan Karadžić (ICTY) New Zealand: David Bain (retrial) Republic of China: Chen Shui-bian Sierra Leone: Charles Taylor (SCFSL) Singapore: Tak Boleh Tahan Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra United States: Jena Sixedit sidebar Upcoming Burma: Aung San Suu Kyi Germany: John Demjanjuk United States: Viktor Bout, Noshir Gowadia, William J. Jefferson, Bernard Madoff, Ehren Watada, Sheila Dixon, Joseph Bruno

Holidays and observances
May Ongoing April 9 - May 28: Omer (Judaism) 23 - 24: Rosh Chodesh Sivan (Judaism) Current 24: Saints Cyril and Methodius Day (Eastern Orthodox Church, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Russia) 24: Aldersgate Day (Methodism) 24: Commonwealth Day (Belize) 24: Bermuda Day (Bermuda) 24: Lubiri Memorial Day (Buganda) 24: Battle of Pichincha Day (Ecuador) 24: Independence Day (Eritrea) 24: Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer Pilgrimage (Romani people) Upcoming 25: Africa Day/African Liberation Day (African Union) 25: May Revolution Day (Argentina) 25: Palmerston Gospel Day (Palmerston Island) 25: Independence Day (Jordan) 25: Liberation Day (Lebanon) 25: National Patriots' Day (Quebec) 25: National Heroes' Day (Turks and Caicos Islands) 25: Memorial Day (United States) 25: National Missing Children's Day (United States) 25: Confederate Memorial Day (Virginia) 25: Geek Pride Day (Geeks) 25: Towel Day (Douglas Adams fans) 25: Integrity Day (Scientology) 26: National Sorry Day (Australia) 26: Crown Prince's Birthday (Denmark) 26: Independence Day (Georgia) 26: Independence Day (Guyana) edit sidebar

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