Portal:Current events/2015 May 28
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May 28, 2015 (Thursday)
Business and economy
- The Solicitor General of the United States sides with Oracle in a much-watched copyright dispute with Google over Java APIs. (IDG News Service).
Disasters and accidents
- The United States Air Force says that as many as 22 people have been inadvertently exposed to anthrax during a laboratory training exercise at Osan Air Base in South Korea. (AFP via Yahoo! News)
- Tornadoes of 2015 and 2015 Texas–Oklahoma flood and tornado outbreak
- The death toll from the recent storms in the American states of Texas and Oklahoma rises to 21 with 11 people missing. Fourteen more people have been killed in northern Mexico. (AP via ABC News)
- 2015 Indian heat wave
- The death toll from the Indian heat wave rises to over 1,400 with over 1000 dead in Andhra Pradesh state alone. (CNN)
- Seventeen students are killed and five injured when a truck carrying them to school overturns on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. (AFP via Abram Online)
International relations
- The Hellenic Coast Guard rescues 218 migrants off the coast of Greece who sailed illegally from Turkey making the total number of people arriving more than 1,500 in a week. (AFP via Daily Star)
Law and crime
- Former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Dennis Hastert is indicted for allegedly trying to evade banking reporting requirements and lying to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. (CNBC)
- Independent lawmaker Catherine Murphy raises fresh allegations in Ireland's Dáil against billionaire Denis O'Brien, prompting criticism over the silence of the country's media (much of it owned by O'Brien). (RTE) (Broadsheet) (UP Report)
Politics and elections
- Republican Party presidential primaries, 2016
- Former Governor of New York, George Pataki, announces that he is seeking the Republican Party nomination for the 2016 presidential election. (CNN)
Science and technology