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Portal:Current events/2009 May 22

May 22, 2009 (Friday)

Manmohan Singh is inaugurated for his second term as Prime Minister of India. (Reuters)
Floods kill at least 11 people in Haiti. (Press Association via Google News)
Former Special Air Service officer John Wick is revealed as the whistleblower behind the United Kingdom Parliament's expenses controversy. (BBC) (Telegraph)
A 5.7-magnitude earthquake strikes Chiautla de Tapia, Puebla, Mexico. (USGS)
At least 36 people are killed as the Transitional Federal Government and Islamist militants battle in Mogadishu, Somalia. (BBC)
Bingu wa Mutharika is reelected as President of Malawi. (AP via Google News)
The Space Shuttle Atlantis prepares to land at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, United States. (NASA)
The United Nations requests aid for 1,500,000 people who have been displaced by war in northwest Pakistan. (Sky News)
Spain's National Police Corps arrests 23 people for trafficking Nigerian prostitutes through voodoo. (BBC)
Northern Ireland's first sextuplets are born in Belfast. (BBC) (RTÉ)
The Credit CARD Act of 2009 was signed into U.S. law by the President, Barack Obama. (NBC)

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