Portal:Current events/2009 May 15
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May 15, 2009 (Friday)
- General Motors will terminate 1,100 dealerships in the United States by October 2010. (CBS)
- The United States releases Lakhdar Boumediene from Guantánamo Bay Naval Base's detention center. (BBC)
- Sixty-five indigenous peoples declare an insurgency against Peru's government. (AFP via Google News)
- Shahid Malik resigns as the United Kingdom's Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice. (BBC)
- The Eurozone's 16 national economies contract by 2.5% throughout the first fiscal quarter of 2009. (BBC)
- U.S. President Barack Obama will resume military tribunals for detainees at Guantánamo Bay. (BBC)
- A suicide attack kills three people in Grozny, Chechnya, Russia. (BBC)
- Demonstrators demand the resignation of Guatemalan President Álvaro Colom. (Sky News)
- Sudan accuses Chad of launching two air raids on its territory. (Reuters)
- The Central Bank of Nicaragua introduces new 10 and 20 Córdoba banknotes. (TIME)