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Current events of
May 22, 2009
(
2009-05-22
)
(Friday)
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Manmohan Singh
is
inaugurated
for his second
term
as
Prime Minister
of
India
.
(Reuters)
Floods
kill at least 11 people in
Haiti
.
(Press Association via Google News)
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)
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)
The
Credit CARD Act of 2009
was
signed
into
U.S. law
by the
President
,
Barack Obama
.
(NBC)
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