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May 17, 2012
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2012-05-17
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Armed conflicts and attacks
2012 East DR Congo conflict
: The
Democratic Republic of Congo
(DRC)'s military has been shelling positions it believes are held by rebels who have been fighting the army for weeks in the country's east.
(AJE)
Clashes between military troops and inmates at a prison in
Caracas, Venezuela
continue.
(
El Universal
)
Arts and culture
Pop singer
Donna Summer
dies of
lung cancer
at the age of 63.
(Newsday)
(CNN)
International relations
Unidentified
North Koreans
seize three
Chinese
boats with 29 crew and demand payment for their release.
(BBC)
Daniel B. Shapiro
, United States ambassador to
Israel
, says that the United States "is ready" to attack
Iran
to prevent the development of
nuclear weapons within Iran
.
(CBS News)
Law and crime
The trial of former
Bosnian Serb
Army
Colonel General
Ratko Mladić
is deferred indefinitely due to errors by prosecutors in disclosing evidence to the defence.
(AP via Yahoo! News)
Politics
The leader of the
Syrian National Council
,
Burhan Ghalioun
, offers to resign after being accused of monopolizing power.
(Al Jazeera)
A group of Chinese
Communist Party
veterans call for the removal of security chief
Zhou Yongkang
.
(Al Jazeera)
The
U.S. Senate
confirmed two of the President's nominees to the
Federal Reserve
, bringing board membership up to the statutory complement of seven. This is the first time all seven seats have been filled in six years.
(Reuters)
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