May 1, 2013 (2013-05-01) (Wednesday)
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- Flash floods leave 16 people dead and 3 others missing in Saudi Arabia, with authorities urging citizens to avoid low-lying wadis. At least two others were killed in neighboring Oman in some of the heaviest rainfall in more than 25 years. (Al Arabiya)
- Heavy rain and a whirlwind sweeps over eights districts and towns in Lào Cai Province, northern Vietnam, destroying 52 houses and 2 schools, ripping roofs off of 1600 houses, and damaging crops of local people. (Talkvietnam)
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May 2, 2013 (2013-05-02) (Thursday)
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May 3, 2013 (2013-05-03) (Friday)
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May 4, 2013 (2013-05-04) (Saturday)
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- Hundreds of protestors gather in Chinese cities to rally against planned large-scale industrial projects. (Bloomberg)
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- A train carrying toxic flammable chemicals derails and causes a major fire near the Belgian town of Wetteren, killing two and wounding forty-nine. (BBC)
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May 5, 2013 (2013-05-05) (Sunday)
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May 6, 2013 (2013-05-06) (Monday)
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- Germany arrests a 93-year-old, alleged former Auschwitz guard, Hans Lipschis, on charges of murder. (AFP via Google News), (BBC)
- According to the FBI, a terror attack is disrupted when US authorities raid a mobile home in Montevideo, Minnesota, United States. (AP via News24)
- U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Jeff Krusinski, who was in charge of the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office, is arrested on charges of sexual assault. (ABC News)
- A stolen dinosaur skeleton is returned to Mongolia. (Los Angeles Times)
- Three women missing for more than a decade are found alive in the U.S. city of Cleveland, Ohio, while a 52-year-old man, Ariel Castro, is taken into custody. (The Guardian), (News Limited)
- American singer Lauryn Hill is sentenced to prison for three months after being convicted of tax evasion. (Huffington Post)
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May 7, 2013 (2013-05-07) (Tuesday)
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May 8, 2013 (2013-05-08) (Wednesday)
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May 9, 2013 (2013-05-09) (Thursday)
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May 10, 2013 (2013-05-10) (Friday)
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May 11, 2013 (2013-05-11) (Saturday)
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May 12, 2013 (2013-05-12) (Sunday)
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May 13, 2013 (2013-05-13) (Monday)
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- Kevyn Orr, a state-appointed emergency manager of the finances of the city of Detroit, Michigan, issues a report describing the city as "clearly insolvent on a cash flow basis." (BBC)
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- Attorney General Eric Holder, acting for the Obama Administration, testifies before the House Judiciary Committee that he was not party to the U.S. Justice Department's secret seizure of telephone records of the news agency the Associated Press. The Justice Department seized two months worth of telephone records from AP offices and reporters. (Fox News),(CBS News)(AP)
- In Mexico City, Mexico, two men are arrested in connection with the May 9 murder of 28-year-old American Malcolm Shabazz, the grandson and first male descendant of Malcolm X. (NPR)
- Iranian man Azim Aghajani is convicted in Nigeria of attempting to smuggle weapons to The Gambia. He is sentenced to five years imprisonment. (BBC)
- Kermit Gosnell, a U.S. abortion physician, is found guilty in Pennsylvania of three counts of murder of newborn infants, one count of involuntary manslaughter, and various other charges. (The Washington Post)(BBC)
- The U.S. Department of Treasury may probe why Bloomberg News reporters were monitoring how investment bank employees searched their site for financial information, including U.S. Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. (The New York Times),(BBC)
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May 14, 2013 (2013-05-14) (Tuesday)
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- Greek civil servants hold a 24-hour strike after the government proposes to use emergency powers to stop striking teachers from disrupting university exams. (AP via ABC)
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May 15, 2013 (2013-05-15) (Wednesday)
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May 16, 2013 (2013-05-16) (Thursday)
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May 17, 2013 (2013-05-17) (Friday)
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- The United States government paves the way for expanded exportation of natural gas by approving a US$10 billion facility in Texas. (Reuters)
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May 18, 2013 (2013-05-18) (Saturday)
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- One hundred thousand people march in Rome, the capital of Italy, to protest the austerity measures of the new government, demanding a new policy focus on the creation of jobs. (BBC)
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May 19, 2013 (2013-05-19) (Sunday)
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- Syrian civil war:
- Heavy fighting is reported in Qusair, Syria, as the Syrian army launches a major counter-offensive against rebel forces. (BBC)
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May 20, 2013 (2013-05-20) (Monday)
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May 21, 2013 (2013-05-21) (Tuesday)
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- Criminal investigation of Saab Automobile:
- Three former top executives of Swedish car manufacturer Saab Automobile, Jan-Åke Jonsson (President and CEO), Kristina Geers (Chief Counsel), and Karl Lindström (CFO), are arrested on suspicion of accounting fraud and tax evasion during the bankruptcy procedure of the company. (Göteborgs-Tidningen)[permanent dead link] (Sveriges Radio)
- Carl Pistorius, the brother of Paralympian athlete Oscar Pistorius, is acquitted of culpable homicide over the death of a motorcyclist in South Africa. (BBC)
- U.S. Army Brigadier General Bryan T. Roberts, the Commanding General of the U.S. Army Training Center, Fort Jackson (South Carolina), is suspended from his duties because of an investigation into alleged adultery (which is treated as a criminal violation, not just a civil matter, in the U.S. military), and for allegedly being in a physical altercation. (NBC)
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May 22, 2013 (2013-05-22) (Wednesday)
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- One fourth-grade child is fatally injured, one is missing, and two others (from a St. Louis Park, Minnesota elementary school) were rescued by firefighters, after a gravel slide at St. Paul, Minnesota's Lilydale Regional Park, near the Mississippi River. The rescue effort was suspended for the night, after conditions got worse. (NBC)
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May 23, 2013 (2013-05-23) (Thursday)
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- The victim of yesterday's attack in London is confirmed to have been a serving British soldier, and named as Drummer Lee Rigby of the 2nd Battalion the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers. (BBC)
- Abdul-Baki Todashev, the father of Ibragim Todashev (the man who had confessed to the FBI the day before in Orlando, Florida, to working with Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the deceased older brother in the April 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, in a previously unsolved 2011 triple homicide, and subsequently while being questioned attacked an agent with a knife and was killed) claims that his son is innocent and that federal investigators are biased against Chechens and made up their case against him. (NBC)
May 24, 2013 (2013-05-24) (Friday)
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May 25, 2013 (2013-05-25) (Saturday)
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Lifesound Speech and Hearing Clinic was inaugurated at Shivajinagar, Bengaluru.
May 26, 2013 (2013-05-26) (Sunday)
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May 27, 2013 (2013-05-27) (Monday)
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- Seventeen people die during an H1N1 outbreak in Venezuela, and a further 250 are infected. (Reuters)
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May 28, 2013 (2013-05-28) (Tuesday)
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May 29, 2013 (2013-05-29) (Wednesday)
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- At least 13 people are dead and at least 20 injured following a collision between a bus and a tanker near the Indian town of Dahanu in Maharashtra state. (IBN)
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May 30, 2013 (2013-05-30) (Thursday)
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- Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine makes an "unpatriotic" comment on television, prompting calls for him to be removed to a "Communist country" or pursued by secretive anti-terrorism hit squads. Levine responds by tweeting dictionary definitions of words such as "joke", "humourless" and "lighthearted" but is later forced to apologise for his indiscretion. (The Guardian)
- It is announced that Internet sensation Grumpy Cat will star in a feature-length movie. (Reuters)
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- There is no added benefit obtained from a double dose of Tamiflu according to a new study. (Reuters)
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May 31, 2013 (2013-05-31) (Friday)
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