Events in May 2006
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May. 1
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Canada orders a public probe into the attack on Air India flight Kanishka on June 23, 1985 off the Irish coast which killed 329 people. |
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Bolivia nationalises oil, gas sector. |
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May. 2
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A seven-member Cabinet takes office in Nepal. K. P. Sharma Oli is made Deputy Prime Minister. |
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The Italian Premier, Silvio Berlusconi, resigns bowing to the outcome of the April 9-10 polls. |
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May. 3
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All 113 persons aboard an Armenian passenger jet are killed after it crashes into the Black Sea off Russia. |
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A U.S. federal jury rejects the death penalty for Zacarias Moussaoui holding he played only a minor role in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. |
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May. 5
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Margaret Beckett is appointed British Foreign Secretary replacing Jack Straw. John Reid becomes Home Secretary and Des Browne the new Defence Secretary. |
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Porter J. Goss quits as the CIA Director. |
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May. 6
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Singapore’s ruling People’s Action Party wins a landslide victory in parliamentary polls, the tenth straight victory. |
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Voting begins in Fiji’s week-long parliamentary elections. |
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May. 7
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Israel begins eviction of Jewish settlers in the West Bank city of Hebron. |
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May. 8
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The U.S. President, George Bush, names Michael Hayden to lead the CIA. |
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May. 9
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Australian miners Todd Russell and Brant Webb are rescued after lying trapped for 14 days in a gold mine in Beaconsfield, Tasmania. |
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India is elected to the newly established Human Rights Council at the U.N. General Assembly. |
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May. 10
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Georgio Napolitano (80) is elected Italian President. |
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Clashes between rival militias in Somalia leaves 122 dead. |
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May. 12
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A pipeline explosion kills 200 persons on the outskirts of Nigerian city Lagos. |
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May. 15
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Seventyeight persons are killed in three days of violence in Brazil. |
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Georgio Napolitano is sworn in Italian President. |
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May. 17
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The 59th Cannes Film Festival opens. |
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Romano Prodi is sworn in Italian Prime Minister. Massimo d’Alema has been named Foreign Minister. |
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May. 18
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The Nepal House of Representatives issues proclamation cutting the King’s powers and privileges. The country is declared a secular state and the national anthem scrapped. |
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Laisenia Qarase is sworn in Fiji Prime Minister for a second term. |
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Over 100 persons are killed in two days of violence in Afghanistan. |
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Scientists sequence the last chromosome in human genome with 3,141 genes. |
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May. 20
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The Iraqi Parliament approves a 37-member Cabinet headed by Nuri al-Maliki. Hoshyar Zabari gets Foreign Ministry. |
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China completes work on the world’s largest dam in the Three Gorges area, Hubei province, aimed at taming the flood-prone Yangtze river. |
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May. 21
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Kuwait’s emir dissolves Parliament and calls for elections on June 29 in a bid to end a political crisis over an electoral reform bill. |
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Dr. Lee Jong-wook (61), WHO Director-General dies after undergoing an emergency surgery for a blood clot in his brain, in Geneva. |
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May. 22
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A narrow majority votes to cede from Serbia in Montenegro referendum. |
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May. 23
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Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova and Azerbaijan form a new group, to facilitate integration into the E.U. and the NATO. |
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A 26-member Cabinet is sworn in in Fiji. |
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May. 25
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India and Japan agree upon a bilateral peace partnership. |
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Five Kuwaiti women create history by registering to run in the parliamentary polls, ending a 44-year ban on political participation by females. |
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May. 26
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The Nepalese Government and the Maoist rebels sign a 25-point code of conduct. |
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Nurpashi Kulayev, the only surviving attacker on a school in Beslan, southern Russia in September 2004 gets a lifer. |
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May. 27
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More than 5,800 people are killed as an earthquake rocks Yogyakarta home to the famed Borobudur temple in Central Java, Indonesia. The Prambanan temple complex suffers extensive damage. Bantul district is flattened. |
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US awards Congressional Gold Medal, the country's highest civilian honour to Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama. |
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May. 28
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British director Ken Loach wins the Cannes International Film Festival’s top Prize the Palm d’Or for The Wind That Shakes The Barley. Flanders by French director Bruno Dumont bags the runner-up Grand Prix. |
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Colombian President, Alvaro Uribe wins a second term. |
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The $ 4 billion Baku Tbilisi Ceyhan oil pipeline comes on stream. |
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U.S. Marines under investigation for alleged cover-up of a massacre of 24 Iraqis in Haditha town last November, an atrocity “worse than Abu Ghraib” |
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May. 29
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The Indian and the Chinese Defence Ministries sign the first ever MoU on military ties, in Beijing. |
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The European Union bans the LTTE. |
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May. 30
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The East Timor President, Xanana Gusmao takes direct charge of the armed forces to curb lawlessness, that has left 27 dead. |
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Daewoo Group founder Kim Woo-choong is jailed for 10 years for fraud and embezzlement by a Seoul court. |
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