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May 18, 2011
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2011-05-18
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Three
Tunisian
security officers are killed in a clash with gunmen in the north of the country.
(IOL)
2011 Libyan civil war
:
Forces loyal to
Muammar Gaddafi
shell towns and villages in the western mountains in an attempt to capture higher ground.
(Al Jazeera)
Sources from the
Tunisian
defence ministry claim that Gaddafi's wife and daughter have fled there.
(Reuters)
Militants attack a checkpoint near the city of
Peshawar
in northwest
Pakistan
, resulting in the deaths of two
police officers
and 15 insurgents.
(AP via
Houston Chronicle
)
Iran
frees detained
Al-Jazeera
journalist
Dorothy Parvaz
, who had not been seen since being detained in
Syria
on April 29.
(
Seattle Times
)
At least twelve people are killed and 80 injured during a protest in the
Afghan
city of
Taloqan
against the killing of four civilians in a
NATO
raid.
(BBC)
The
United States
announces plans to impose sanctions on the
President of Syria
,
Bashar al-Assad
, and six members of his government, for alleged
human rights
breaches during the
2011 Syrian uprising
.
(AP via
The Washington Post
)
(Reuters via al-Jazeera)
The
United Nations
claims that
Sudan
has bombed a village in
Darfur
.
(BBC)
Arts and culture
American novelist
Philip Roth
wins the
Man Booker International Prize
, recognizing his body of work.
(AP via ABC News America)
Business and economy
Moody's Investors Service
cuts the
credit ratings
of
Australia
's four major banks, the
Commonwealth Bank
,
Westpac
,
National Australia Bank
and
ANZ
, to Aa1, due to their reliance on wholesale funding.
(
Sydney Morning Herald
)
Disasters and accidents
Fifteen people are killed after two buses collide in
Mwanza Province
, northern
Tanzania
.
(IOL)
The
United States Coast Guard
reopens a section of the
Mississippi River
to shipping that was closed on Tuesday as a result of the
2011 Mississippi River floods
.
(BBC)
A
tornado
hits the US city of
Philadelphia
,
Pennsylvania
for the first time since 1999.
(NBC Philadelphia)
Sol Líneas Aéreas
Flight 5428
aircraft crashes in the southern
Patagonia
region of
Argentina
with all 22 people on board dying - icing of the propellor driven
Saab 340
is cited as a possible cause.
(RIA Novosti)
,
(AP via MSNBC)
International relations
The
Palestinian Authority
calls on
Israel
to reinstate the rights of up to 140,000 people who lived in the
occupied West Bank
and lost their
residency
after travelling abroad.
(BBC)
Dmitry Medvedev
, the
President of Russia
, warns of a potential new
Cold War
if the
United States
does not listen to
Russia
's concerns about its proposed
missile defense
system.
(AFP via Google News)
UK royal state visit to Ireland
:
Queen Elizabeth II
of the
United Kingdom
visits
Croke Park
in
Dublin
, where British troops killed 20 people in the
Bloody Sunday massacre of 1920
.
(Sky News)
Ali Akbar Salehi
, the
Foreign Affairs Minister of Iran
, claims that the
Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant
is operational.
(
Jerusalem Post
)
Law and crime
Andrew Fastow
, the former
Chief Financial Officer
of
Enron Corp.
, now in the custody of the
Federal Bureau of Prisons
with a release date of December 17, 2011, moves to a half-way house in
Houston
,
Texas
.
(Reuters)
The jury is seated for the trial of
Chicago
businessman
Tahawwur Hussain Rana
for his alleged role in the
2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks
.
(AP via
Silicon Valley Mercury News
)
The
President of Guatemala
,
Alvaro Colom
, claims that
Hugo Alvaro Gomez Vasquez
, who has been arrested in relation to the killing of 27
cattle ranch
workers, is a leader of the
Los Zetas
drug cartel in the country.
(AP via MSNBC)
An
Afghan
detainee commits suicide at the US run
Guantanamo Bay detention camp
.
(AP via MSNBC)
Politics and elections
Voters in
South Africa
go to the polls for
municipal elections
.
(BBC)
Voters in the US city of
San Francisco
,
California
, will vote on a proposition to ban
male circumcision
in November.
(AP via the
Washington Post
)
Science
The
Space Shuttle
Endeavour
docks
at the
International Space Station
for the final time.
(Space via Yahoo)
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