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- The death toll from the fighting in Kingston, Jamaica's capital, jumps to 27. (BBC)
- May 2010 Central European floods:
- The Guardian obtains access to classified documents which reveal Israel's Shimon Peres offered to sell nuclear warheads to apartheid-era South Africa's Pieter Willem Botha in 1975, evidence that Israel possesses nuclear weapons. (Al Jazeera)
- An international operation against a major drug trafficking gang deals "a major blow" as 26 people are arrested in Ireland, Spain and the United Kingdom, including a capo di tutti capi. (RTÉ) (The Irish Times) (BBC) (France24) (The Sydney Morning Herald)
- Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva launches TV Brasil Internacional, an international television station currently broadcasting to African nations. (BBC) (France24) (MercoPress)
- Increased tensions over the sinking of the South Korean warship Cheonan: South Korea begins broadcasting propaganda over its border with North Korea. North Korea severs all ties and communications with the South and expels Southern workers from a jointly-run factory above the border. (Yonhap) (BBC)
- A court in Thailand issues an arrest warrant for former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra on charges of terrorism, following a report by the Thai Department of Special Investigations, which concluded that he had financed Red Shirt protesters and had helped them smuggle in weapons and fighters from Cambodia, during the 2010 political crisis. (Al Jazeera)
- At least 17 people die after a tourist bus crashes in Antalya. (RIA Novosti) (BBC) (CBS News) (Hürriyet Daily News & Economic Review) (Today's Zaman)
- A white teacher in Dahlonega, Georgia is suspended after permitting non-black students to bring bed sheets and cone-shaped party hats to school to dress in the traditional costume of right-wing white supremacist nationalist organisation Ku Klux Klan for a film project. She refuses to apologise after the issue is raised by African-American students when one of them was asked to take part in a re-enactment of a lynching. (BBC) (Pretoria News) (The Daily Telegraph)
- Iran releases film director Jafar Panahi after more than two months in custody, including a hunger strike, following an international campaign led by the actress Juliette Binoche. (BBC) (The Daily Telegraph) (The Guardian)
- The Malaysian tanker MT Bunga Kelana 3 and a bulk carrier collide in the Singapore Strait, resulting in an estimated 2,000 tonnes of oil spilled. (Reuters) (The Times) (Straits Times)
- The Supreme Court of Pakistan dismisses a government appeal to detain Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, a Muslim cleric suspected by India to have masterminded the 2008 Mumbai attacks. (Reuters) (AP)
- Italy's cabinet approves an austerity budget to cut its deficit by €24 billion in 2011 and 2012. (BBC) (Reuters) (The Miami Herald)
- Sicilians react with outrage to an advert for a clothing shop in Palermo featuring Adolf Hitler dressed in pink and a heart instead of a swastika. (BBC)
- Russia's new Cyrillic alphabet Internet domain (.рф) launches on 476 sites. (RIA Novosti)
- A study indicates that the Pac-Man game Google put on its home page Friday led to the loss of almost five million man-hours (or 550 years) of work time. (BBC) (CBC News) (Daily Mail)
- Bono is released from hospital in Munich following his spinal surgery as U2 confirm the postponement of the North America leg of the U2 360° Tour and cancel their headlining slot at the Glastonbury Festival 2010. (The Irish Times) (CNN) (The Sydney Morning Herald)
- Swedish model Charlotte Lindström is released from Long Bay Prison in Sydney after serving a three year sentence for plotting to kill two people; she served the time in total isolation because of death threats towards her. (Herald Sun)
- South African opera star Siphiwo Ntshebe, chosen by Nelson Mandela to sing "Hope" at the opening ceremony of the 2010 FIFA World Cup next month, dies suddenly aged 34 after contracting meningitis. (IOL) (BBC) (CBC) (The Daily Telegraph) (The Guardian)
- Ivor Powell, the world's oldest football coach and "one of the great footballers of his generation" retires at the age of 93. (BBC)
- The first female pilot at Aer Lingus, Capt Gráinne Cronin, retires after 33 years of service. (RTÉ) (The Irish Times)
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- Trinidad and Tobago holds a general election, resulting in the victory of the United National Congress, and Kamla Persad-Bissessar becoming its first female Prime Minister. (CaribbeanWorldNews), (Xinhua)
- The death toll as a result of severe flooding in Poland reaches 15 as Interior Minister Jerzy Miller says "The situation is worse than expected". (Deutsche Welle) (The Irish Times) (Press TV) (RTÉ)
- Israel:
- Operation Herrick:
- Sinking of the ROKS Cheonan:
- Two police officers are killed and six others are wounded by gunmen during unrest in Jamaica's capital, Kingston. (BBC) (Sky News)
- The first China-Europe High-Level Political Party Forum convenes in Beijing. (Global Times)
- The second round of the U.S.–China Strategic and Economic Dialogue begins in Beijing, China. (CNN) (Xinhua)
- The assassination of Bashar al-Ageidi from the election-winning Iraqiya bloc of Ayad Allawi takes place outside his house in Mosul. (BBC)
- Partial results show Western-backed leader Meles Zenawi's party is going to win the national Ethiopian election, although there are allegations it was rigged. (BBC) (The Times) (The Daily Telegraph)
- A panel of judges rules that Kenya's Islamic courts favour Islam and that this is unconstitutional as Kenya is a secular country. (BBC)
- Niger proposes reforms that would see only those with a university degree be allowed to run in presidential elections and parliamentary candidates be under the age of seventy and have some form of secondary education. Opposition groups say this discriminates against the 80 per cent of the population that is illiterate. (BBC)
- President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is met with protests during a speech in Khorramshahr. (BBC) (Reuters) (Voice of America)
- The International Monetary Fund says "far-reaching" reforms are vital for Spain's economy. (BBC)
- Plane Stupid protesters break into Manchester Airport and lock arms around an aircraft. Flights are suspended. (Sky News)
- At least three people die and four others are critically injured in a school bus crash in Keswick, Cumbria in the Lake District of North West England in the United Kingdom. (Sky News)
- The people of Huddersfield in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees of West Yorkshire in England are ordered to remain indoors and several schools are shut down after a huge fire engulfs a chemical plant in the area. (Sky News)
- The UK's General Medical Council bans Dr. Andrew Wakefield, who was the first to publish research suggesting a connection between the MMR vaccine and autism, from practicing in the country, finding him guilty of "serious professional misconduct." (AP) (BBC) (The Washington Post) (Wall Street Journal)
- Peter Harvey, the UK teacher who attacked a pupil with a dumbbell while shouting "die, die, die", is sentenced to community order as his trial ends in Nottingham. The judge calls him as a "thoroughly decent man". (The Daily Telegraph) (The Guardian) (The Irish Times) (RTÉ) (The Times)
- Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) leader and South Down MP Margaret Ritchie resigns from the Northern Ireland Executive. Alex Attwood is the new Minister for Social Development. (RTÉ)
- Sarah, Duchess of York receives support from businessman Simon Cowell and an award for her work with the disadvantaged children of the U.S. city of Los Angeles despite being caught in a newspaper sting in Britain. (Sky News)
- Iran's largest water supply project is inaugurated in Khorramshahr. (Bernama) (Press TV) (Tehran Times)
- Paul Gray, bassist and founding member of heavy metal group Slipknot, is found dead at the age of 38 by a hotel employee in his room in Iowa, United States. (The Guardian) (Xinhua) (TIME) (ABC News)
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- At least 19 passengers were killed and more than 70 were injured, when a landslide in rain-drenched Yujiang, East China's Jiangxi Province. (Global Times)
- A state of emergency is declared in the Jamaican capital Kingston after armed gangs attacked police and blockaded parts of the city in an attempt to prevent the arrest of a drug lord. (Jamaica Observer) (BBC) (CNN)
- A five-day strike at British Airways is announced to begin tomorrow following a breakdown in talks which were invaded by protesters yesterday. (Al Jazeera) (The Australian) (The Daily Telegraph) (Wall Street Journal)
- Ethiopian general election, 2010:
- Voters in Nagorno-Karabakh vote in a parliamentary election as more than 70 international observers watch. (Voice of Russia) (Reuters)
- A train traveling from Shanghai to Guilin derails in a mountainous area near Fuzhou, Jiangxi, China, and is destroyed, killing at least 19 and injuring 71 others. (Xinhua) (BBC) (Reuters) (Al Jazeera)
- The death toll in Poland's worst flooding in 60 years reaches 12. (Al Jazeera)
- Clashes break out between Indian and Pakistani troops near the border in the disputed Kashmir region. (Al Jazeera) (Hindustan Times)
- Dozens of masked gunmen from an Islamist group break into a United Nations-run Gaza summer camp for children and set it on fire, after beating up the guard and destroying the plastic tents. (The Jerusalem Post) (Al Jazeera)
- Somalia's presidential palace is targeted by Al-Shabab militants in a mortar attack. (Press TV) (Reuters) (The Sydney Morning Herald) (AP)
- Rescue teams hunt for the data recorders from Air India Express Flight 812. (BBC) (The Times) (Japan Today)
- Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama makes an apology for breaking an election promise to get rid of a U.S. military base located in Okinawa which he and the United States believe is "needed to guarantee regional security". Demonstrators affected by this failure order him to "go home". (BBC)
- Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli nuclear whistleblower who spent 18 years in prison, goes back to jail for violating the terms of his parole. (AP) (CNN)
- Sinking of the ROKS Cheonan:
- The Cuban government eases jail conditions for political prisoners following talks with Catholic Church leaders and President Raúl Castro. (Reuters) (Press Trust of India) (BBC)
- Maria Vittoria Longhitano, Italy's first woman priest, belonging to a breakaway Catholic order, is ordained. (BBC) (The Sydney Morning Herald)
- The Catholic Church requests the public to donate at least £1 million to church collections today to fund three big open air masses at which Pope Benedict XVI will present while in the UK. The rest of the money is paid for by the British government. (BBC)
- Nine ships under the banner Freedom Flotilla, from the UK, Ireland, Algeria, Kuwait, Greece and Turkey, and comprised of 800 people from 50 nationalities, begin a trip to Gaza, the biggest attempt by international aid groups to break Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip. Israel informs them they will be stopped for "breaching Israeli law". (Al Jazeera)
- Two militants are killed in the woods near Serzhen-Yurt in Shali, Chechen Republic. (Voice of Russia)
- Sarah, Duchess of York's involvement in a "cash for royal access" scandal is filmed by undercover reporter Mazher Mahmood; she asked for a $40,000 (£27,650) golden handshake in cash and for £500,000 to be sent to her bank in return for access to Prince Andrew. (The Times) (The Daily Telegraph) (News of the World) (Al Jazeera)
- Sweden's "Treskilling Yellow", the most expensive postage stamp in the world, retains its title at a private auction. (AP) (The Times of India)
- The UK tourist resort of Blackpool is expected to benefit "tens of millions" of pounds, described by the tourism chief as "unthinkable", following the local football club's elevation to the Premier League as an open-top bus tour is announced. (BBC)
- The Champs-Élysées is covered in earth and turned into a huge green space by young financially impoverished farmers. (BBC) (The Independent) (The Sydney Morning Herald)
- Thai film Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul (pictured) wins the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival much to the surprise of the BBC. (BBC)
- The Rolling Stones achieve their first UK number one album for 16 years with a re-release of Exile on Main St.. (BBC)
- Czech Republic defeats Russia in 2010 IIHF World Championship final. (The Washington Post)
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- Air India Express Flight 812:
- Apa, a Nepalese Sherpa mountain climber who already held the world record for summiting Mount Everest more than any other person, reaches the summit for the 20th time. (Xinhua) (Press Trust of India) (Asian Tribune)
- The death toll of Cyclone Laila in Andhra Pradesh, the worst storm to hit the Indian state in 14 years, reaches 36. (IndiaTimes) (BBC)
- The death toll from yesterday's car bomb at a market in Diyala reaches 30. (BBC)
- The Texas Education Agency adopts controversial changes to the Texas public school curriculum, including dropping coverage of enlightenment thinker Thomas Jefferson and suggesting United Nations is a "threat to freedom". The proposal to refer to the slave trade as the "Atlantic triangular trade" is not implemented. (BBC)
- Irish authorities arrest two men and foil a "major dissident bomb operation". (RTÉ) (Press Association)
- Afghan police seize a cache of hundreds of rockets hidden on the outskirts of Kabul. (BBC)
- At least 13 people have died in a clash between a Somali militia and Ethiopian forces who had crossed the border in Somaliland. (BBC)
- Campaigning closes ahead of the Ethiopian general election, 2010 to be held tomorrow. (Al Jazeera)
- Abbott Laboratories buys a Piramal Healthcare unit in India to become the country's largest drug-maker. (The Irish Times) (Economic Times)
- Five people are shot dead by 100 armed Maoists who storm and burn market buildings in Sheohar, Bihar. (Economic Times) (The Hindu)
- British Airways chief executive Willie Walsh is surrounded by demonstrators who storm the headquarters of the Acas building in London. (The Daily Telegraph) (The Guardian) (CNN) (Hindustan Times)
- Ariane 5 launch vehicle carries out its 50th mission, putting two large telecommunications satellites in orbit. (BBC)
- In the 2010 UEFA Champions League Final, Inter Milan defeats Bayern Munich 2–0, for their first major European title since 1965. (BBC)
- More than 74,000 South African football fans attend the first match at Soccer City—venue for the 2010 FIFA World Cup Final—less than three weeks before the tournament begins. (BBC)
- Thirteen-year-old American Jordan Romero becomes the youngest person to reach the summit of Mount Everest. (AP via ESPN)
- Blackpool Football Club beat Cardiff City Football Club 3-2 in the 2010 Final of the Football League Championship play-offs to be guaranteed "the biggest windfall in global sport from the outcome of a single event". (The Sunday Times) (BBC) (The Independent)
- Republic of Ireland defender Shane Duffy undergoes life-saving surgery in Dublin after lacerating his liver. (BBC) (RTÉ) (ABC News) (USA Today)
- Nicolaus Copernicus is disinterred from an unmarked grave and reburied by Poland. (AP) (The Voice of Russia)
- A range of activities occur across the United Kingdom to mark the International Day for Biological Diversity. (BBC)
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