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Current events of
May 13, 2009
(
2009-05-13
)
(Wednesday)
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United States
President
Barack Obama
proclaims May 2009 as
Jewish American Heritage Month
.
(White House)
Pope
Benedict XVI
advocates the
creation
of a
Palestinian
state
.
(BBC)
The
European Commission
fines
Intel Corporation
€
1.06 billion for
anti-competitive practices
.
(BBC)
The
United Nations
reports that
Somalia
is experiencing its worst
drought
since the
1990s
.
(BBC)
Artillery
shelling
kills
50 people and injures 40 more at a
hospital
in
Sri Lanka
's
war zone
.
(Sky News)
A
suicide attack
at
FOB
Salerno
kills
seven
civilians
and injures 21 more in
Khost
,
Afghanistan
.
(MSNBC)
The
Emancipation Movement
and the
Army
battle
in
Nigeria
's
Niger Delta
.
(CNN)
Pixar
's
Up
becomes the first
animated film
to
open
the
Cannes Film Festival
.
(BBC)
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