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Current events of
May 19, 2010
(
2010-05-19
)
(Wednesday)
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Aljazeera
's
Manama
bureau is shut down by the
Bahrain
government for a "breach of media norms" after the channel broadcasts a report on poverty in the country.
(Aljazeera)
(Ynetnews)
(
Ha'aretz
)
(
BusinessWeek
)
An independent investigation concludes that a
North Korean
torpedo caused the
sinking of the South Korean Cheonan warship Cheonan
.
(
China Daily
)
(Yonhap)
(BBC)
(DailyNK)
2010 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
Cyclone Laila
approaches landfall in southeastern
India
, having already caused at least ten deaths and prompting the evacuations of 10,000 people in
Tamil Nadu
.
(IndiaServer.com)
Tropical Cyclone 02A
forms off the east coast of
Somalia
, although it is expected to dissipate before making landfall.
(Joint Typhoon Warning Center)
Battle of Bangkok
:
Red shirt
protesters surrender in Bangkok, Thailand.
(BBC)
(
Bangkok Post
)
Buildings across Bangkok have been set ablaze by anti-government protesters after the military stormed a protest camp in the centre of the city.
(Al Jazeera)
2010 Kyrgyzstani uprising
:
Two people are killed and a
state of emergency
is declared in the city of
Jalal-Abad
,
Kyrgyzstan
after protesters attempted to storm an
Uzbek
university.
(BBC)
(Al Jazeera)
(AP)
At least 40,000 Romanians rally in
Bucharest
to protest
planned wage cuts the government says are needed to shore up the ailing economy.
(BBC)
(Yahoo)
(Reuters)
(Mediafax)
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority
acting on orders from
Lahore High court
blocks access to
Facebook
in the country until May 31 due to a Facebook group encouraging drawings of the Prophet
Mohammed
on May 20, labeled as
Everybody Draw Mohammed Day
.
(Geo TV)
(CNN)
Ukraine
and
China
are interested in cooperation in cargo transportation sphere.
Konstyantyn Hryshchenko
says this at the joint news conference with
Foreign Minister of China
Yang Jiechi
.
(unian)
10 people are confirmed dead and one is missing after a coal mine gas explosion Tuesday in north China's
Shanxi Province
(Xinhua)
Hackers have attacked 81 Chinese government websites in the past week leaving 29 still paralyzed, according to figures released by the
National Computer Network Emergency Response Center of China
(
CNETCC
).
(china.org)
Yandex
,
Russia
's largest
search engine
and the eighth-largest in the world, launches an
English language
search engine.
(RT)
(RIA Novosti)
(The Moscow Times)
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