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Current events of
May 16, 2009
(
2009-05-16
)
(Saturday)
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Alexander Rybak
of
Norway
wins the
2009
Eurovision Song Contest
.
(Reuters)
Ruth Padel
becomes the
University of Oxford
's first female
Professor of Poetry
.
(
The Irish Times
)
Manchester United Football Club
win the
2008-09 season
of the
Premier League
.
(AFP via
The Australian
)
The
Gulf
drug cartel
liberates
59 inmates from a
prison
in
Zacatecas
,
Mexico
.
(Reuters via Yahoo! Xtra)
Representative
Yukio Hatoyama
becomes the
President
of
Japan
's
Democratic Party
.
(BBC)
The
People's Party
concedes
to the
United Progressive Alliance
in
India
's
general election
.
(AFP/BBC via ABC Australia)
The
Niger Delta
Emancipation Movement
claims that
Nigeria
's
military
killed one of its
hostages
during an
operation
.
(BBC)
A
car bomb
kills
at least 11 people and injures 25 others in
Peshawar
,
Pakistan
.
(BBC)
President
Mahinda Rajapaksa
says that
Sri Lanka
has "militarily defeated the
Tamil Tigers
".
(MSNBC)
The
United Kingdom
's
Royal Air Force
ends its involvement in
Iraq
.
(BBC)
An
acid
attack
injures
30 people in
Hong Kong
,
People's Republic of China
.
(BBC)
Thousands of
demonstrators
protest
unemployment
in
Berlin
,
Germany
.
(
The Irish Times
)
India
and
Turkey
confirm their first cases
of
(A)H1N1
influenza
.
(BBC)
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