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Current events of
May 20, 2012
(
2012-05-20
)
(Sunday)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Syrian uprising
: A roadside bomb explodes near a
United Nations
convoy in the Syrian capital of
Damascus
, in the district of
Douma
.
(BBC)
Bahraini uprising
: Jailed
Bahrain Centre for Human Rights
head
Nabeel Rajab
is granted $800 bail with a travel ban for a charge of "insulting an official authority", though according to his lawyer he is still locked up on a second charge.
(Al Jazeera)
Arts and culture
Bee Gees
singer
Robin Gibb
dies at the age of 62.
(BBC)
Disasters
At least 6 people are killed and dozens injured when
a 6.0-magnitude earthquake
strikes northern
Italy
.
(BBC)
(
Los Angeles Times
)
International relations
Prime minister
Benjamin Netanyahu
tells his cabinet that hundreds of thousands of iIllegal immigrants from Africa would threaten Israel's identity.
(
The Guardian
)
(The Jerusalem Post)
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi
, the former Libyan intelligence officer convicted of the 1988 bombing of
Pan Am Flight 103
over
Lockerbie, Scotland
, dies at his home in the
Libyan
capital of
Tripoli
at the age of 60.
(BBC)
(Al Jazeera)
International Atomic Energy Agency
(IAEA) director general
Yukiya Amano
heads for
Tehran
to convince the Iranian government to co-operate with the agency.
(
The Guardian
)
(Al Jazeera)
(BBC)
Law and crime
Staines
becomes
Staines-upon-Thames
.
(BBC)
Two women in
Jieyang
,
Guangdong
,
PRC
, are executed for counterfeiting nearly 300 million yuan RMB.
(NetEase)
(Inside China)
Politics and elections
Pan-Green
protesters pelt eggs at a poster of
Ma Ying-jeou
as Ma is sworn in for a second term as the
President of the Republic of China (Taiwan)
, after winning the
presidential election
in January.
(Al Jazeera)
Voters in the
Dominican Republic
go to the polls for a
presidential election
with early results showing
Danilo Medina
as the winner.
(AP via ABC America)
(Reuters via Yahoo News)
Tomislav Nikolić
is
elected
President of Serbia
with 49.4% of the vote.
(Deutsche Welle)
Sport
Thousands of people gather in
London
for an open-top bus parade to celebrate
Chelsea
's
UEFA Champions League
victory over Munich in
last night's final
.
(BBC)
A homegrown
Montpellier
overcome big-spending rivals
Paris Saint-Germain
to shock fans worldwide by winning their first
Ligue 1 title
and qualifying for the
UEFA Champions League
for the first time in their history.
(Al Jazeera)
Russia
wins
2012 IIHF World Championship
.
(Yahoo! Sports)
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