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Current events of
May 18, 2009
(
2009-05-18
)
(Monday)
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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 at the
2009 expenses scandal
.
(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)
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