Events in May 2005
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May. 1
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Abu Faraj al-Libbi (40), a Libyan accused of being Al-Qaeda’s number three is captured after a brief shootout by Pakistani policemen in the remote northwestern town of Mardan. |
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Twentyfive persons are killed as a suicide bomber ploughs his car through a tent of mourners in the Iraqi town of Tel Afar. |
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Nepal frees Communist leader, Madhav Kumar Nepal under house arrest since February 1. |
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May. 2
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U.S. army reservist Lynndie England pleads guilty to prisoner abuse at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison, at her court martial hearing in Fort Hood, Texas. |
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Five held for the murder of aid worker Margaret Hassan last year following her abduction in Baghdad. |
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Twentyeight persons are killed as an arms cache hidden by an Afghan warlord in a bunker beneath his home in Baghlan province near Kabul explodes. |
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May. 3
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Iraqi Shia leader, Ibrahim Jaafari is sworn in Prime Minister. |
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Parliamentary wrangling delays decision on voting rights for Kuwaiti women. |
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A 2,300-year-old mummy is unearthed in the Saqqara Pyramids south of the Egyptian capital Cairo. |
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May 4
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Fifty persons are killed in a suicide bombing in northern Iraq’s Kurdish city of Irbil. |
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The World Trade Organisation reaches an accord on calculating tariffs that had been blocking the Doha round of global trade negotiations, in Paris. |
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New Zealand becomes the first country in the world to introduce a carbon tax to address global warming, which will come into effect in two years. |
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May. 5
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Britons vote in general elections. |
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May. 6
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The British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, leads the Labour Party to an unprecedented third successive term in office but with a highly reduced majority. |
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Suspected Maoists kill a top Nepalese priest, Narayan Prasad Pokharel, in Butwal, Rupandehi district. |
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May. 7
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The sixteenth anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe is observed in the French city of Reims where surrender documents were signed on May 7, 1945. |
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May. 9
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Watch out for “the emergence of new lethal doctrines… that can become fertile soil for new threats,” warns the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, on the 60th anniversary of the Allied Victory over Nazi Germany in World War II at a function, in Moscow. |
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“Russia has always stood by India and will always stand by India,” says the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, during talks with the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh. |
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May. 10
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The Russia and the E.U. sign a breakthrough pact to promote closer economic ties. |
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Maoists storm two army bases in Nepal and the fighting leaves 37 guerrillas dead. |
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Germany’s national Holocaust memorial is dedicated in Berlin. |
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May. 11
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Fiftynine persons are killed in a string of suicide bombings by Iraqi guerrillas. |
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The Indonesian High Court upholds the 30-month prison term for Abu Bakar Bashir for his role in the March 2002 Bali bombings. |
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Four persons are killed in riots in Afghanistan following reports of desecration of the Koran by U.S. soldiers at Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba. |
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May. 13
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At least 169 persons are killed in Uzbekistan’s Andijan city in Ferghana valley as the army opens fire to quell a riot in protest against the terror trial of 23 local businessmen. |
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Connecticut puts convicted serial killer Michael Ross to death by lethal injection for the killing of eight women in the 1980s. |
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Anti-U.S. protests claim three more lives in Afghanistan and hardliners stage rallies in Pakistan and Indonesia. |
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May. 15
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Ethiopia witnesses massive polling in general elections. |
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Thirtytwo persons are killed after a ferry sinks in Bura Gauranga river in Bangladesh’s Patuakhali district. |
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Another ferry sinks in a storm near Aricha 64 km west of Dhaka. |
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May. 16
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“Our continent is living the best years in its history”, says the Polish President, Aleksander Kwasniewski, at the Council of Europe’s “unity” summit in Warsaw. |
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China’s growing economic might is a benign force for global prosperity, says the President, Hu Jintao, at the opening ceremony of the 2005 Fortune Global Forum, in Beijing. |
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At least 50 Maoists are killed in a battle in Udayapur district in Nepal. |
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May. 17
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Kuwaiti Parliament grants women the right to vote and run in elections. |
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Dil giant Yukos’ founder, Mikhal Khodorkovsky is found guilty of fraud by a Russian court. |
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Nurpashi Kulayev, the sole survivor among the gang which was responsible for Beslan school siege on September 11, 2004 in Russia, goes on trial. |
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May. 18
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China launches a new forex dealing system that allows domestic trading in currencies other than the yuan. |
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Militants gun down six Afghan staff of a U.S.-funded anti-drugs project in Zabul province. Five other staff of the firm had been killed a day earlier. |
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The toll in Bangladesh’s twin ferry disaster goes up to 112. |
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May. 19
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A team of South Korean scientists develops patient-specific stem cells taking the first step towards therapeutic cloning. |
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British scientists at Newcastle University successfully clone human embryo. |
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May. 20
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At least 52 Chilean solders are killed in a snowstorm in the Andes near the border with Argentina. |
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Scientists announce the discovery of a new monkey species, “highland mangabey” in Tanzania. The spotting was done in 2004 in the Ndundulu forest. |
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India signs maritime accord with Thailand. |
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May. 21
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Belgian Sibling filmmakers, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s ‘The Child’, wins the Palme d’Or at the 58th Cannes International Film Festival. Tommy Lee Jones bags the best actor (The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada) and Hanna Laslo is best actress (Free Zone). The Grand Prix goes to Jim Jarmusch’s Broken Flowers.A leaked dossier to the New York Times, implicates top |
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U.S. military brass in the abuse and killing of two persons at Afghanistan’s Bagram prison in late 2002. |
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May. 22
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The German Chancellor, Gerhard Schroeder, advances general election by a year after his Social Democratic Party loses the North Rhine-Westphalia in local polls after 39 years. |
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The Afghanistan and the U.S. sign a “strategic partnership” declaration after Karzai-Bush talks in the White House. |
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May. 23
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India will never be a proliferator of weapons of mass destruction, says the President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam at the Moscow University. |
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Mongolia’s former Prime Minister, Nambar Enkhbayar, wins the presidential polls. |
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May. 24
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India and Russia favour creation of a just and fair world order, call for stability in Eurasia after talks between Presidents, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin. |
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Jerusalem’s Greek Orthodox Patriarch Irineos I is dismissed for his role in a land sale scandal. |
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May. 25
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The $4 billion 1,770 km-long Baku-Tbilis:-Ceyhan pipeline to bring oil directly from the Caspian Sea to the Western markets is launched in the Azerbaijan capital Baku. |
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The President, A.P.J. Kalam, arrives in Geneva and the Swiss Government declares May 26 as science day in his honour. |
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Egyptians cast votes in a referendum on an electoral reform to allow competitive presidential polls for the first time. |
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May. 26
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Sean Hoey, an alleged Irish Republican Army dissident, is charged with the murder of 29 victims in the 1998 car bombing in Omagh, Northern Ireland. |
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May. 27
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Akihiko Saito, a Japanese hostage is killed by his Iraqi abductors. |
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May. 28
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Twenty persons are killed as two sequential blasts rock a marketplace in Tentena in Indonesia’s Sulawesi island. |
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May. 29
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French voters reject the proposed European Union Constitution in a referendum. |
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Low voterout marks first phase of Lebanon’s parliamentary polls. |
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Maulvi Abdullah Fayyaz, a leading Islamic cleric in southern Aghanistan, is shot dead by militants. |
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May. 31
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Natalie Glebova (23) of Canada is crowned Miss Universe 2005 at the Thailand capital Bangkok. |
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India and Iceland sign an agreement on air services and an MoU on foreign office consultations. |
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The French President appoints Dominique de Villepin the country’s new Prime Minister replacing Jean Pierre Raffarin. |
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Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky is given a nine-year jail term for fraud and tax evasion. |
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Mark W. Felt (91) the former Deputy Director of the FBI reveals himself as Deep Throat who blew the lid off the Watergate scandal and helped bring down U.S. President Richard Nixon in 1972. |
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