Tagagamit:Bluemask/In the news/2007-05

May 2007

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• right|100x100px|Bertie Ahern
  • The Venezuelan government shuts down the private television network Radio Caracas Television and replaces it with the state-sponsored channel TVes.
  • In the Irish general election, Fianna Fáil under Taoiseach Bertie Ahern (pictured) win the most seats, but their Progressive Democrat coalition partners collapse.
  • A.C. Milan win the UEFA Champions League, defeating Liverpool F.C. 2-1 in the final.
  • Fighting between the Lebanese Armed Forces and Fatah al-Islam breaks out near Tripoli and Nahr al-Bared in northern Lebanon.
  • The Cutty Sark, a 19th-century clipper and museum ship at Greenwich in London, is extensively damaged by fire while undergoing restoration.
  • About 500,000 silver and gold coins are retrieved from a 17th-century shipwreck off the coast of Cornwall, South West England.
• The Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, established abroad after the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, is formally reunited with the Russian Orthodox Church.
• Paul Wolfowitz announces his resignation from the Presidency of the World Bank Group following allegations of ethics violations involving Shaha Riza.
• right|100x100px|Cutty Sark, 2005 photo
• The 2007 FA Cup Final concludes with Chelsea Football Club defeating Manchester United 1-0 (aet) at the newly rebuilt Wembley Stadium.
• right|100x100px|Paul Wolfowitz
• François Fillon is appointed Prime Minister of France by newly inaugurated President and fellow Union for a Popular Movement member Nicolas Sarkozy.
• The death toll for violence associated with the general election in the Philippines reaches 126.
• At least one million people gather in İzmir for the fifth mass rally to demand that Turkey remain a secular state.
• Afghan officials report the death of Mullah Dadullah, a Taliban military commander in southern Afghanistan killed in a battle with the coalition forces in Helmand.
• In Karachi, Pakistan, a political rally organised by the MQM before an address by suspended Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry turns into a violent riot, resulting in more than 50 deaths and 800 arrests.
• Singer Marija Šerifović of Serbia wins the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 with the song "Molitva".
• right|100px100px|Izmir rally
• Samoan monarch Malietoa Tanumafili II dies aged 94; the constitution stipulates that Samoa now become a republic with the office of O le Ao o le Malo becoming a ceremonial presidency with a five-year term.
• José Ramos Horta defeats FRETILIN candidate Francisco Guterres to win the presidential election in East Timor.
• British Prime Minister Tony Blair announces he will leave office on June 27, once the Labour Party has elected a successor.
• The 2007 Atlantic hurricane season begins early with the formation of Subtropical Storm Andrea off the Southeast U.S. coast.
• Six men are arrested for allegedly conspiring to attack soldiers at the Fort Dix military base in New Jersey, USA.
• The suspension of the Northern Ireland Assembly ends after four and a half years, restoring home rule in Northern Ireland.
• 100x100px|right|José Ramos Horta. Photo credit:Elza Fiúza/ABr
• NASA announces the discovery of SN 2006gy, a supernova with the largest absolute brightness ever recorded.
• 100x100px|right|Tony Blair
• A tomb believed to be that of Herod I, King of Judaea from 37 to 4 BCE, is discovered at Herodium, near Jerusalem.
• 100x100px|right|Tony Blair
• 100x100px|right|Northern Ireland Parliament Buildings at Stormont
• UMP candidate Nicolas Sarkozy is elected President of France, defeating Socialist candidate Ségolène Royal.
• Kenya Airways Flight 507 crashes soon after taking off from Douala, Cameroon, killing all 114 people on board.
• 100x100px|right|Nicolas Sarkozy
• 100x100px|right|SN 2006gy, NASA illustration
• The Scottish National Party surpasses the Labour Party and wins a plurality in the Scottish Parliament for the first time. Labour also suffers losses in elections to the Welsh Assembly and to local councils in England and Scotland.
• The Winograd Commission criticizes the Israeli government for mishandling the 2006 Lebanon war, prompting protests in Tel Aviv and calls for Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister Amir Peretz to resign.
• The Ulster Volunteer Force, a loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland, renounces the use of force.
• A violent siege of the Estonian embassy in Moscow continues in response to the removal of the Bronze Soldier, a Soviet Red Army war memorial in Tallinn.
• 100x100px|right|Debating chamber of the Scottish Parliament
• Exit polls indicate that Nicolas Sarkozy (pictured) has won the runoff poll in the French presidential election with 53–55% of the vote, beating socialist Segolène Royal.
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