Portal:Current events/2009 May 19
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May 19, 2009 (Tuesday)
- The United States Government Accountability Office warns that the Global Positioning System could fail by 2010. (Guardian)
- President Mahmoud Abbas inaugurates the Palestinian National Authority's new government. (BBC)
- United Kingdom House of Commons Speaker Michael Martin announces that he will resign on June 21. (BBC)
- President Mahinda Rajapaksa declares Sri Lanka "liberated" from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. (BBC) (Reuters)
- Uzbekistan's government leases Navoiy Airport to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. (IWPR)
- Pro-Tamil Tigers protesters and the Metropolitan Police Service battle, injuring 16 people, in London, England. (Sky News)
- The U.S. and Russia begin negotiations to replace the expiring Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. (BBC)
- The Association of Southeast Asian Nations expresses "grave concern" about National League for Democracy General Secretary Aung San Suu Kyi's trial. (Reuters)
- Ethiopia's National Defense Force reenters Somalia. (BBC)
- Former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney testifies about his relationship with arms dealer Karlheinz Schreiber. (CBC)
- Manmohan Singh of the National Congress is reelected as Prime Minister of India. (AFP)
- Brazilian oil company Petrobras and the People's Republic of China finalize a US$10-billion agreement. (WSJ)
- The European Parliament requests that Spain reform its planning laws. (BBC)
- A 47-million-year-old skeleton of a lemur species is discovered in Germany. (Sky News)
- Somali pirates release the German cargo ship MV Patriot. (AP)
- Bahrain recognizes Kosovo. (BNA)
- Boston Latin School and two other local schools in Massachusetts are closed for at least seven days due to the swine flu. (Boston)