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Portal:Current events/2009 May 23

May 23, 2009 (Saturday)

Madhav Kumar Nepal of the Communist Party (Unified Marxist-Leninist) is elected as Prime Minister of Nepal. (CNN)
Fourteen people are killed as a King Air 350 crashes near philippines, Bahia, Brazil. (AFP via ABC News)
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon demands better humanitarian aid for 250,000 war refugees in Sri Lanka. (CNN)
The Army and the Taliban battle in Mingora, Swat, Pakistan. (Al Jazeera)
Former South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun commits suicide. (AP via USA Today)
Floods force the evacuations of Kempsey and Grafton, New South Wales, Australia. (ABC News)
Madagascar's political parties agree to establish a provisional government and a truth/reconciliation commission. (BBC)
A car bomb kills at least six people and injures 70 others in Peshawar, Pakistan. (BBC)
Germany's Federal Assembly re-elects Horst Köhler as President. (Deutsche Welle)
United States President Barack Obama nominates former astronaut Charles F. Bolden, Jr. as Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. (Los Angeles Times)
A bomb kills two people and injures 12 others in Kathmandu, Nepal. (CNN)

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