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- Chinese Patriotic
Catholic Association outraged Vatican by planning to ordain another bishop,
Liu Xinhong in Anhui Province.
On Sunday, China has already ordained Ma Yinglin, not approved
by the Holy See, as a
bishop in Yunnan. Hong Kong Cardinal Joseph Zen urged the
Vatican to stop diplomatic talks with China [1]
- King Gyanendra of Nepal swears in Girija
Prasad Koirala as the new Prime Minister of
Nepal. Baburam Bhattarai of the CPN(M) which controls two thirds of the
country, states that his party will respect the results of an
election to a constituent assembly, so long as these are "free and
fair". (BBC)
- President of Chad Idriss Déby
refuses to delay upcoming presidential
elections despite pressure from U.S. diplomat Donald
Yamamoto, high ranking Chadian Christian officials, and the
head of the Chadian human rights league. However, he announced the
Chadian government is negotiating with the
United Front for
Democratic Change rebel group to avoid violence. (VOA)
- Spain, Portugal, Finland and Greece join the United Kingdom, Republic of
Ireland and Sweden in
allowing workers from the ten countries which joined the European Union
two years ago free access to their labour markets. (BBC)
- Bolivian Gas War: President Evo Morales has signed a decree nationalising the
nation's natural gas
industry, instructing foreign energy firms to channel their
activities through the Bolivian government within a six-month
deadline or face expulsion, and ordering the Bolivian
military to occupy and secure key energy installations. (BBC)
- Puerto Rico budget
crisis: The government of Puerto Rico is
partially shut down, including public schools. More
than 90,000 employees of the public sector are put in license
without salary. Their salary will not be paid until further notice,
but they will remain employed whether they present themselves to
work or not. If they present themselves to work it will be on a
voluntary basis without retroactive payment. (Reuters)
- Terrorism in Kashmir: At least 22 Hindus in two
small villages in Indian-administered Kashmir are
killed by Islamic militants. (BBC), (Reuters)
- Darfur conflict: The African Union
extends the deadline for a peace deal by 48 hours. (BBC), (Reuters)
- Beaconsfield
mine collapse: Rescuers at a mine in Beaconsfield, Tasmania have
begun work after two miners were detected alive. The two had been
trapped alive over 1 kilometre underground for the past five days.
(BBC)
- Immigrant workers and their supporters across the United States stay
home from work or school and abstain from commerce during the 2006 Immigration Policy Boycott in the United
States, also called the "Great American Boycott" or "Day
Without Immigrants", a protest against the enforcement of
immigration law. Demonstrations are planned
nationwide. In Latin
America, a one-day boycott of American products called the
"Nothing Gringo Boycott" is planned in conjunction with U.S.
events. (Guardian) (CNN) (SFGate)
- Asian Pacific
American Heritage Month: The first day of Asian American and
Pacific Islander Heritage Month in the United States.
- Ethnic
conflict in Sri Lanka:
- A second wave of pollutants from last year's toxic
chemical spill in Jilin City, China, trapped in the frozen Amur and Songhua Rivers
during the winter, is now being released by the spring thaw,
affecting Khabarovsk
and other settlements in the Russian Far East. (BBC), (Guardian), (CNN)
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- Violence continues during the police raids
of San
Salvador Atenco, Mexico.
- Manasseh
Sogavare is elected Prime Minister of the
Solomon Islands, following Snyder Rini's brief period in office.
Sogavare was previously prime minister from 2000 to 2001. (ABC)
- In Israel, a new Cabinet
under Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is sworn in. (BBC)
- A tsunami warning was issued for Fiji and New Zealand following a magnitude 7.9
earthquake in Tonga which occurred at 15:26 UTC (04:26 May 4,
local time). The warning was canceled when it was found that the
earthquake did not produce a tsunami. (USGS) (Pacific Tsunami Warning Center)
- Picasso's Dora Maar
With Cat is sold in an auction for US$95,216,000, becoming
one of the most expensive paintings
in the world. (BBC)
- Shahrir Abdul Samad resigns as
chairman of the Barisan Nasional Backbenchers Club in
the Parliament of Malaysia, after a motion to
refer a Member of Parliament implicated in a corruption scandal to
the Dewan
Rakyat House Rights and Privileges Committee failed. (The Sun)
- British Prime
Minister Tony
Blair's Labour Party suffers one of its worst
electoral defeats, losing more than 200 council seats in the 2006 UK local elections, and coming third
in total votes, behind the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats. (Reuters), (BBC)
- The latest update is the 2006
Red
List. It evaluates 40,168 species as a whole, plus an
additional 2,160 subspecies, varieties, aquatic stocks, and
subpopulations.
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- The People's Republic of China
announces Vatican-approved
Paul Pei Junmin will be ordained as a Catholic bishop on Sunday, just days after a diplomatic
clash due to the unilateral ordination of two other bishops by Beijing. (Reuters)
- Mahamat
Nouri, until recently the Chadian ambassador to Saudi Arabia, who has previously served as
the Chadian Defense Minister, defects to Sudan and joins the United Front for
Democratic Change rebels. (Reuters)
- Grant
McLennan, co-founder of the legendary Australian band The Go-Betweens
dies at age 48, while sleeping in his house at Brisbane, Australia, from a reported heart
attack.
- The People's Action Party is returned
to government in Singapore for the twelfth time, winning 82
out of 84 seats with the ruling party winning 66.6% of the total
votes in the 2006
general election. (CNA)
- The starboard engine of the cruise liner Calypso, sailing from Tilbury to St
Peter Port on Guernsey, catches fire at 4 am, 16 miles off
Eastbourne, southeast
of the British
coast. Its crew puts the fire out,
after its 708 passengers are moved into its lifeboats. Rescue lifeboats
attend but neither these nor the ship's lifeboats are needed.(Yahoo News).
- The People's Republic of China
plans to launch satellites for lunar surveying, probing the
moon's surface, physiognomy, landform
and geological structure. (People's Daily)
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- Residents flee Mogadishu as warlords and Islamist militias battle for control of
the Somali capital. The death toll in five days
of fighting reaches 120. (VoA), (BBC)
- A grizzly-polar
bear hybrid is found on Banks Island in Canada's Northwest Territories. (MSNBC)
- Baidu Baike, a
collaborative online encyclopedia, is launched in People's Republic of China
by Baidu.com, modelled on Wikipedia but heavily self censored. Wikipedia is largely inaccessible without a proxy in China. (BBC)
- The United
States National Security Agency is
reported to operate "the largest database ever assembled in
the world", containing a record of all calls (domestic and
international) placed through AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth. Qwest
Communications refused to provide customer records, citing the
need for a warrant. (USA Today)
- Ernie
Fletcher, Republican governor of
the U.S. state of Kentucky, is indicted on three misdemeanor
counts of conspiracy, official misconduct and political
discrimination for hiring, promoting, demoting and firing state
employees based on political loyalties.(Lexington
Herald-Leader)
- Results for the state election held in Tamil Nadu, India, on May 8 were announced and the DMK and its allies have
captured the power.And the AIADMK becoming a stronger opposition in
the history of Tamil Nadu.
- The State of West Bengal also made a History. "The Communist
Party of India (Marxsist) emerged victorius for another 5 years,
making its stand of almost 35 years at a stretch"
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- CIA
officials try to get the case of Khaled el-Masri,
who says he was abducted
and tortured, dismissed as
it "could undermine U.S. relations with foreign countries". (Washington Post) (New York Times)
- The International
Committee of the Red Cross criticizes the United States for
denying access to detainees in violation of the Geneva Convention. The US admits holding
detainees secretly but claims they do not fall under that
convention. (ABC Australia) (Xinhua)
- Typhoon
Chanchu makes landfall twice in the Philippines. 23 people
are killed and five remain missing after a boat capsizes in the
stormy seas off Masbate
island. (CNEWS), (CNN), (Reuters), (SwissInfo)
- Chad:
- George Seitz,
a Labor Party Member of the state
Legislative Assembly in
Victoria, Australia, is accused of running an elaborate
branch
stacking operation to manipulate results in state and federal
elections and pre-selections. (The Age)
- Authorities in Indonesia issue a red alert for active volcano Mt.
Merapi, evacuating 17,000 people in expectation of an eruption.
(BBC) (MSNBC)
- Liverpool
F.C. win the FA Cup against West Ham
United F.C. on penalties after a last minute 40-yard Steven
Gerrard equalizer. (BBC)
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- Israeli-Palestinian conflict:
- Ahmat Mahamat Bachir, the president of the Chadian Independent
National Election Commission, announces that incumbent President of Chad
Idriss Déby won
the 2006 Chadian
presidential election held on May 3 with
77.5% of the vote. The official turnout was 61%, though
international observers estimated turnout at 4–10%. (Al Jazeera)
- Organized crime led by the group Primeiro Comando da Capital
causes rioting in Brazil and
claims over 50 lives. (BBC)
- Mount
Merapi in Central
Java, Indonesia,
which has been rumbling for about a month, is shooting out black
smoke, volcanic
ash and lava, and a volcanic eruption appears to be
imminent. Mandatory evacuations are under way. (BBC) (CNN) (Reuters)
- Prime Minister of the United Kingdom,
Tony Blair, signs a
petition in support of animal testing and condemns the acts of
animal-rights extremists. (BBC)
- Seven people are wounded as two bombs explode in the Iranian city of Kermanshah. A local branch of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) claimed
responsibility. (Reuters)
- Alligators
kill three women in one week in separate incidents across the
U.S. state of Florida. [2]
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- The United
States releases a list of 759 former and current inmates of the
Guantánamo Bay prison camp in Cuba after a Freedom of
Information Act action was filed by the Associated
Press. (Pentagon list) (The Age)
- Darfur conflict: The United Nations Security
Council votes unanimously to initiate the process which would
lead to a UN
peacekeeping force relieving the beleaguered African Union
peacekeepers in the war-torn Darfur region of Sudan. The Government of Sudan opposes the move.
(BBC), (VoA)
- Chadian Information Minister
Hourmadji Moussa Doumgor accuses the Government of Sudan of facilitating a
new alliance between the Mahamat Nour's UFDC and the
defected troops of Mahamat Nouri against the Déby
administration. Neither group has confirmed or denied the
merger. (CNN)
- Italian centre-left leader Romano Prodi is given the mandate to form
a new government by President Giorgio
Napolitano. Prodi is supposed to present his list of ministers
on May 17. (BBC)
- At least 23 people have been killed in a shooting and bombing
attack in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, police say. (BBC)
- Mark Inglis, a
New Zealander, became the first double-amputee to climb Mount Everest [http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=hampton
- A British-Ugandan team reports a substantial reduction in glacial cover atop the Rwenzori Mountains in Central Africa,
attributable to increases in air temperature over the past four
decades. This "Mountains of the Moon",
according to 2nd Century geographer Ptolemy, is one of the sources of the Nile, and is projected in the study
to disappear in two decades. (BBC)
- A tattooed mummy of a woman in her late 20s of
the Moche tribe from 1,500 years
ago is found near Trujillo, Peru. (BBC)
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- Captain Nichola Goddard, 26, of 1st RCHA is killed while
engaged in combat against Taliban forces near Kandahar, Afghanistan. Captain Goddard is Canada's
first female casualty since World War 2, and Canada's first female
combat arms casualty. (BBC)
- A total of 155 people are killed in a recent wave of violence in
São Paulo, Brazil. (CNN)
- Incumbent Prime
Minister Laisenia Qarase of Fiji claims victory in the 2006 general election. (BBC)
- A gunman opens fire at the Turkish Council of State, the top
court in Ankara, while the
court is in session, injuring four judges, and killing one - Mustafa Yücel Özbilgin. The
shooting represents a rise in tensions between the secular apparatus
of state and supporters of Islamic fundamentalism. (BBC)
- Barcelona win
the UEFA Champions League, defeating
Arsenal 2-1 in the
final. Arsenal goalkeeper Jens Lehmann became the first player ever
sent off in a Champions League final.
Barcelona's goals were scored by Belletti and Samuel Eto'o; Arsenal's goal was scored by
Sol Campbell. (BBC) (SkySports)
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- Nepali legislators vote unanimously
to strip the king (Currently Gyanendra) of his powers,
effectively turning the Hindu
kingdom into a secular constitutional monarchy. (CBC)
- Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase
of Fiji swears in for a second term after
winning the 2006 general
election. (BBC)
- White House Press Secretary
Tony Snow is unwilling
to either confirm or deny U.S. financial and logistical support for
the
Alliance for the Restoration of Peace and Counter-Terrorism in
Somalia. Previously, such
accusations were denied. The current Prime Minister of Somalia, Ali Mohamed Gedi, criticized U.S. support
for "criminals." (Philadelphia
Inquirer)
- The European Parliament committee
examining the claims of para-legal deportations of individuals for
torture-based questioning, known as "extraordinary renditions", reports that it
has CIA
confirmation that between 30 and 50 individuals underwent such
deportations to seven "black sites" in Asia, Europe and Africa.
Those in Europe have reportedly been closed down following the
public outcry, but there is still one such site operating in a
North African country. (EU Observer) (UPI) (Reuters)
- New Italian prime minister Romano Prodi pledges
to withdraw Italian troops from Iraq and calls the Iraq war a "grave mistake
that has not solved but increased the problem of security". (Guardian) (Al Jazeera)
- Typhoon
Chanchu, the strongest storm on record to have entered the South China Sea
in May, makes landfall between the cities of Shantou, Guangdong and Xiamen, Fujian in China. (BBC) (Reuters)
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- Ray Nagin is re-elected Mayor of New Orleans,
Louisiana, USA.(BBC)
- The construction of the Three Gorges Dam wall, the largest dam
in the world, is completed in the People's Republic of China.
(Reuters)
- Campaigning in Montenegro's referendum on
independence ends at midnight local time, with voting scheduled
to begin the following morning. (B92) A final poll shows the
independence forces with 56% support, slightly above the internationally-imposed
threshold of 55%. (EUObserver)
- 5,000 medical students, doctors, and lawyers rally in New Delhi, India against the boosting of quotas for lower-caste students in medical,
engineering and other colleges from 22.5% to 49.5%. (ChannelnewsAsia.com)
(Wikinews)
- The Iraqi National Assembly votes in a new
government, leaving the ministries of Defense, National
Security and Interior in temporary hands. (BBC)
- United
States Congressman Duncan Hunter (R-CA) claims U.S. Marines in
Haditha, Iraq, killed 24 civilians in an incident in 2005. Earlier Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) had said even
innocent women and children were killed in cold blood. (Washington Post) (Times of India)
- Finnish rock band Lordi wins the Eurovision Song Contest
2006 with the song "Hard Rock Hallelujah". (BBC), (Reuters), (CNN)
- Booth Middle School of Georgia and Troy High School of
California win the 22nd annual U.S. Science Olympiad for their respective
divisions, held at Indiana
University Bloomington.
- In the Crosstown
Classic, a brawl breaks out between the Chicago White
Sox and Chicago
Cubs when Cubs catcher Michael Barrett punches
White Sox catcher A.J. Pierzynski.
Barrett drew a 10 game suspension.
- Munster win
their first Heineken
European Cup, defeating Biarritz Olympique in the final by
23 points to 19. Team captain Anthony Foley lifts the cup for the first
time for the Irish
province.
- Kentucky Derby winner, Barbaro breaks down during the Preakness
Stakes. Eight months later he is euthinized.
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- The United
Kingdom government announces plans to
overhaul the pension system
(BBC)
- The 5th Season of the talent search American Idol comes to a close with a two
hour finale, and Taylor Hicks being crowned the
winner.
- The Kuomintang
announces that it plans to cease publishing the Central Daily
News, the oldest Chinese language newspaper in existence, by the end of this
month. (ChinaPost)
- The World Health Organization is
investigating several bird
flu deaths for a possible person-to-person transmission chain.
(Reuters)
- The ABC News claims that Speaker
of the United States House of Representatives Dennis Hastert is
under investigation for corruption, but the Justice
Department issues a denial. (ABC) (UPI) Hastert denies
knowledge of any FBI investigation, and jointly issues a statement
with Democratic House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi
demanding that the FBI return documents found in a court ordered
search of Democratic Representative Bill Jefferson,
based on the constitutional principle of separation of powers. (ABC News)
- Over 100 people are feared dead following heavy rains and flooding in northern Thailand. (BBC) (Irrawaddy News)
- Four Russian soldiers die during fighting in
Chechnya. (BBC) (MosNews)
- Disgruntled former soldiers and government troops clash in East Timor, leading to at
least two deaths in Dili.
Australians evacuate as violence escalates. (CNN), (Daily Telegraph) As
requested by the East Timor government, at least four countries, Australia, New Zealand, Portugal and Malaysia, are sending in
troops in an effort to maintain order. (CNN)
- A large fire breaks out at the cargo terminal of Atatürk International
Airport in Istanbul,
Turkey, forcing the suspension
of air traffic. (BBC)
- President of Mexico Vicente Fox begins a
tour of the United
States in Salt
Lake City by criticizing a proposed border wall. This comes
amid the U.S. Senate passing a sweeping
immigration bill. (AP via Yahoo!) (AP) (LA Times).
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- Las Vegas
Sands wins the bid to build the first casino Integrated Resort in Singapore, The Marina Bay Sands, at a cost of over S$5 billion. (CNA)
- Well-known Australian mountain climber Lincoln Hall is reported to have died on Mount Everest, but
is later reported to be alive, having survived a night exposed near
the summit of the mountain without oxygen. (Sydney Morning Herald)
(BBC)
- In Berlin, Germany, Europe's largest train station, Berlin
Hauptbahnhof, is opened by Chancellor Angela Merkel, Deutsche Bahn Chairman Hartmut Mehdorn
and Industrial Commissioner of the European Union Günter
Verheugen. The station is the hub of routes from Stockholm to Rome and Paris to Moscow. 1,200 trains will depart and arrive
every day. The station is expected to have cost €800 million. (CNN) At the end of the
ceremony, a stabbing rampage occurred, injuring 28 people, six of
them heavily. Police say one of the first stabbing victims was HIV positive, so other victims may have
been infected. (Scotsman) (BBC)
- Mahmoud al-Majzoub, a leader of the
Palestinian
Islamic Jihad, is killed in a car-bombing along with his
brother, Nidal. (AP) (NYT)
- The United States Capitol building
complex in Washington, D.C. is locked down after
reports of what sounded like gunfire reached US Capitol police. The
United
States Senate was in session as a report of at least one person
seeing a gunman in the Rayburn House Office
Building gym was issued. Police say that the sound was likely
that of a pneumatic hammer and that the 'gunman' may have been a
plainclothes police officer. (CNN)
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Ruff Ruffman premiered on PBS Kids Go! on this
date. Surpirisingly, however, the premier episode wa not shown, but
for unknown reasons, the 6th episode was.
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- A labor
dispute causes Toronto Transit Commission
to shut down the city's public transit system unexpectedly, leaving
commuters stranded. (CBC)
- In the Italian municipal
elections, centre-left incumbent mayors Walter
Veltroni, Sergio Chiamparino and Rosa
Russo Iervolino lead in Rome,
Turin and Naples, respectively. In the regional election of
Sicily, incumbent president Salvatore Cuffaro of the House of
Freedoms leads over Rita Borsellino. (BBC)
- In Kabul, Afghanistan, thousands
demonstrate against the United States after several civilians
were killed in a car accident in which 3 US humvees collided with a
traffic jam. (Washington Post) (Al Jazeera)
- The Times
reports on investigations into an incident in al-Haditha, Iraq, where US Marines are accused of
having covered up the murder of 24
civilians after a soldier had been killed in an attack. (The Times)
- The Lebanese-based Hezbollah group threatens Israel with Iranian-made rockets. (Haaretz)
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- A motion to vote on a bill opening the Three Links between mainland China
and Taiwan is defeated for the
third time in the Legislative Yuan of the Republic of
China when a Democratic Progressive
Party lawmaker tries to eat the written cloture motion. The
opposition Pan-Blue Coalition controls the
legislature and would have likely passed the bill. (Reuters) (ChinaPost)
- British mobile phone operator
Vodafone posts the largest
annual loss in British corporate history – £21.8 billion –
as it writes down the value of company purchases made mainly in Germany in the years up to
2000. (Guardian)
- The board of the Engelhard Corporation agreed to a takeover by
BASF. BASF will become the world's
largest manufacturer of catalytic converters. BASF will pay
USD 5.0 billion for Engelhard,
which translates to $39 per share. (BBC)
- Seven United
Nations peacekeepers are taken hostage by the Nationalist and
Integrationist Front militia of Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of the
Congo. (BBC)
- The European Court of Justice
rules illegal an EU-US agreement to pass airline passenger
data to the US authorities, as it does not ensure privacy
protection for European passengers. (BBC), (Guardian)
- The Constitutional Council of
Chad, the highest court in Chad, confirms Idriss Déby's victory in the presidential
elections which took place on May 3, 2006. However, the court only gives him
64.67% of the vote, instead of his administration's claim of 77.4%.
Turnout was also reduced to 53.08% instead of the previous 60%. (allAfrica.com)(BBC)
- May 2006 Java earthquake: The
death toll in last Saturday's earthquake in Indonesia is officially raised to 5,427. (Reuters)
- Former Daewoo boss Kim Woo-jung is
sentenced to 10 years in prison for fraud. (BBC)
- John W. Snow
has resigned as United States
Secretary of the Treasury. President George W. Bush has nominated Goldman
Sachs CEO Henry
Paulson to succeed him. (Washington Post)
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- Ohio Republican Thomas Noe pleads guilty to illegally
directing $50,000 into the 2004 re-election campaign of President
George W.
Bush.(AP)
- The United
States is expected to change its policies regarding Iran and its nuclear program. Condoleezza
Rice, Secretary of State of the USA said that the USA may join
Iran nuclear talks. (MSNBC) (CNN)
- The Pirate
Bay is closed when servers located in Stockholm, Sweden, are
confiscated in a police raid initiated by the Swedish anti-piracy
bureau. Massive media-discussion and criticism against the bureau's
methods and the acts of the Swedish police follows, since at least
20 non-piracy sites are taken down at the same time - including the
website of Piratpartiet, a Swedish political party
aimed to run in the 2006 elections. (ABC)
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