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In the Second Battle of Swat against the Taliban, the Pakistani military announces that it has fully regained control of Mingora, the largest town in the Swat Valley.
Around 250 people are killed in clashes between the Rizeigat and Messiria nomadic tribes in Sudan.
The discovery of a 4,000-year-old skeleton showing the earliest known evidence of leprosy (example pictured) in the Indian state of Rajasthan is announced.
President of Niger Tandja Mamadou dissolves the National Assembly after the constitutional court rejects his attempt to remove presidential term limits.
In association football, FC Barcelona defeat Manchester United to win the 2009 UEFA Champions League Final.
Soyuz TMA-15 is launched at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, carrying Expedition 20, part of the first six-man crew of the International Space Station.

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May 31, 2009 (Sunday)

Six Palestineans are killed in a West Bank clash between Hamas fighters and policemen. (BBC)
The Police Force charges two men with plotting to assassinate former Democratic Party Chairman Martin Lee in Hong Kong, People's Republic of China. (AFP via News Limited)

May 31, 2009 Wikinews articles

Thief steals over €6 million worth of jewels from Paris store

May 30, 2009 (Saturday)

Three Jundallah members who bombed a mosque in Zahedan, Iran, on May 28 are hanged. (Reuters)
Chelsea F.C. defeat Everton F.C. to win the 2009 Football Association Challenge Cup Final. (BBC)
Former Iraqi Trade Minister Abdel Falah al-Sudani is arrested at Baghdad International Airport on corruption charges. (BBC)
The Pakistani military captures Mingora, Swat, Pakistan from the Taliban. (AP via Google News)
Germany allows Canadian company Magna International to take over automaker Opel. (BBC)
North Korea launches its sixth ballistic missile despite the United Nations Security Council's possible international sanctions. (AFP via News Limited)

May 30, 2009 Wikinews articles

May 29, 2009 (Friday)

Member of Parliament for Scunthorpe Elliot Morley will resign at the United Kingdom's next general election. (BBC)
American record producer Phil Spector is jailed for 19 years for murdering actress Lana Clarkson in 2003. (BBC)
American media companies Time Warner and AOL terminate their merger. (Washington Times)
Irish brewery Beamish and Crawford closes after 217 years in business. (Irish Examiner) (Belfast Telegraph)
Irish broadcaster Pat Kenny hosts his final episode of the The Late Late Show. (BBC) (RTÉ)
Kavya Shivashankar of Kansas wins the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C. (ABC)
Former President Roh Moo-hyun's state funeral is held in Seoul, South Korea. (Korean Daily News)
The United States Department of Defense will create a computer-security military command. (New York Times)
Four people are killed when a dam bursts in Piauí, Brazil. (BBC)
The lethal Lujo virus is identified in Africa. (AP)
North Korea launches a short-range ballistic missile. (RTÉ)
Soyuz TMA-15 docks with the International Space Station. (BBC)
Ireland's government intends to further recapitalize Anglo Irish Bank by €4 billion. (Irish Times) (RTÉ)
At least 20,000 civilians were reportedly killed during the final five months of Sri Lanka's civil war. (The Times)

May 29, 2009 Wikinews articles

May 28, 2009 (Thursday)

General Motors asks Germany to indebt its subsidiary automakers Opel and Vauxhall Motors. (Times Online)
Sixteen people are killed and more than 20 injured when a bus crashes near Yambol, Bulgaria. (BBC)
Raymond Hewlett, a person of interest in Madeleine McCann's disappearance, gives the West Yorkshire Police a DNA sample for testing. (Sky News)
Former Chilean Army conscript José Adolfo Paredes Márquez is charged with murdering activist/singer Víctor Jara during General Augusto Pinochet's coup d'état in 1973. (Guardian)
United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reaffirms President Barack Obama's demand that Israel halt settlement in the West Bank. (BBC)
A 7.1-magnitude earthquake occurs in the Gulf of Honduras. (BBC)
Two bombs kill eight people and injure 74 others in Peshawar, Pakistan. (CNN)
The United States and South Korea increase their alert states after North Korea renounces the armistice that halted the Korean War in 1953. (BBC)

May 28, 2009 Wikinews articles

May 27, 2009 (Wednesday)

United States President Barack Obama nominates Hispanic Roman Catholic theologian Miguel H. Diaz as Ambassador to the Holy See. (AP via Google News)
FC Barcelona defeats Manchester United F.C. to win the 2008-09 UEFA Champions League Final. (CNN)
North Korea launches its fifth missile since testing a nuclear weapon on May 25. (Sky News)
Russian investment firm Digital Sky Technologies purchases 1.96% of the social network service Facebook. (New York Times)
A suicide attack kills at least 35 people and injures 250 more in Lahore, Pakistan. (CNN) (BBC)
Soyuz TMA-15 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. (Reuters)
A rare white tiger is euthanized after killing a zookeeper at the Zion Wildlife Gardens in Whangarei, New Zealand. (BBC) (RTÉ)
Russia will supply US$1 billion of uranium to civilian nuclear reactors in the United States. (CNN)
An anti-piracy warship destroys a Yemeni fishing vessel in the Red Sea, killing at least two people. (BBC)

May 27, 2009 Wikinews articles

May 26, 2009 (Tuesday)

Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Hu Jintao of the People's Republic of China and Nationalist Party Chairman Wu Poh-hsiung of Taiwan meet in Beijing to discuss cross-Strait relations. (Xinhua)
The Supreme Court of California upholds Proposition 8, the state's ban on same-sex marriage. (AP via Yahoo)
President Barack Obama nominates Federal Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the United States Supreme Court. (AP via Yahoo)
President Isaias Afewerki says Eritrea will not release imprisoned journalist Dawit Isaak. (DPA via EarthTimes)
Pakistan's Supreme Court will allow former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to stand for election. (BBC)
North Korea tests two more missiles. (BBC)
Trial of Aung San Suu Kyi:
- The National League for Democracy's General Secretary testifies in Burma. (Reuters)
- U.S. President Obama calls for her immediate and unconditional release from incarceration. (BBC) (RTÉ)
South Africa's economy contracted by 6.4% during the first fiscal quarter of 2009 and thus enters recession. (BBC)
An air raid on a people-smuggling convoy in Sudan in January killed 119 people. (BBC)
French President Nicolas Sarkozy will open a military base in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. (Press Trust of India)
A suicide attack kills six people in Kapisa Province, Afghanistan. (BBC)
The Swedish Navy arrests seven Somali pirates during the attempted hijacking of a Greek ship. (Radio Netherlands)
Nigerien President Tandja Mamadou dissolves the National Assembly. (Reuters)

May 26, 2009 Wikinews articles

May 25, 2009 (Monday)

Nine United Kingdom Cabinet ministers have been implicated in Parliament's expenses scandal. (RTÉ)
Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj of the Democratic Party is elected as President of Mongolia. (BBC)
North Korea conducts its second nuclear test. (ABC News Australia)
Singapore's consumer price index decreased by 1.5% in April, its largest recorded decline. (Reuters)
Somali President Sharif Ahmed requests international aid in combating Islamic militants. (CNN)

May 25, 2009 Wikinews articles

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Ongoing events
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 and spending scandals 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 and 15 edit sidebar

Recent deaths
May 30: Ephraim Katzir 30: Gaafar Nimeiry 29: Karine Ruby 26: Peter Zezel 23: Roh Moo-hyun 20: Lucy Gordon 20: Oleg Yankovsky 19: Nicholas Maw 18: Dolla 18: Velupillai Prabhakaran 17: Mario Benedetti 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 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 Parliament 6: South Africa, President (indirect) 7: India, Parliament (fourth round) 9: Maldives, Parliament 10: New Caledonia, Parliament 13: India, Parliament (fifth round) 16: Kuwait, Parliament 17: Lithuania, President (first round) 17: Switzerland, Referendum 17: Comoros, Constitutional referendum 19: Malawi, President and Parliament 20: Cayman Islands, Parliament and constitutional referendum 20: Moldova, President (first round, indirect) 23: Germany, President (indirect) 24: Mongolia, President Upcoming 31: South Ossetia, Parliament June 2: Greenland, Parliament 3 : Moldova, President (second round, indirect) 4–7: European Union, European Parliament 6: Mauritania, President 7: Denmark, Act of Succession referendum 7: Luxembourg, Chamber of Deputies 7: Lebanon, Parliament 12: Iran, President 21: Haiti, Senate (second round) 21–22: Italy, electoral law referendum 28: Albania, Parliament 28: Argentina, National Congress 28: Guinea-Bissau, President 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 France: Church of Scientology 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 30–31: Kaamatan (Labuan, Sabah) Current 31: World No Tobacco Day 31: Syaday (Discordianism) 31: Pentecost (Western Christianity) 31: Visitation of Mary (Western Christianity) 31: Mother's Day (Algeria, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Mauritius, Morocco, Sweden, Tunisia) 31: Castile-La Mancha Day (Castile-La Mancha) 31: Carpet Day (Turkmenistan) 31: Royal Armed Forces Day (Brunei) 31: Arbor Day (Venezuela) June Upcoming 1: Whit Monday (Western Christianity) 1: Madaraka Day (Kenya) edit sidebar

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