Portal:Current events/2007 May 29

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• US President George W. Bush nominates former deputy secretary of state Robert Zoellick as President of the World Bank. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6701865.stm (BBC)]
• U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg takes the rare step of reading aloud her dissent in Ledbetter v. Goodyear. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/29/AR2007052900740.html?hpid=topnews (Washington Post)]
• Heavy fighting resumes between the Lebanese army and al Qaeda linked militants at the Nahr el-Bared refugee camp. [http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/05/30/lebanon.army.ap/index.html?eref=rss_world (AP via CNN)]
• United States health officials quarantine a man who may have exposed passengers on two transatlantic flights to extensively drug resistant tuberculosis. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6702765.stm (BBC)]
• Russia successfully tests its new RS-24 ICBM, purportedly designed to defeat present and future anti-missile systems. [http://en.rian.ru/russia/20070529/66260249.html (RIA Novosti)] [https://web.archive.org/web/20070930230006/http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/politics/28.html?menu=1&id_issue=11756960 (Interfax-AVN)] [http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6668328,00.html (The Guardian)]
• Iraqi insurgency:
• At least 22 people die in a car bombing in central Baghdad. [http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/05/29/iraq.main/ (CNN)]
• Five British nationals are kidnapped from a Finance Ministry building in central Baghdad. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6700319.stm (BBC)] [http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKKAR93772920070529?src=052907_1230_TOPSTORY_westerners_kidnapped_in_iraq (Reuters)]
• Bashar al-Assad is re-elected as President of Syria in an election in which he was the only candidate. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6700021.stm (BBC)]
• Zheng Xiaoyu, former head of the China's State Food and Drug Administration, is sentenced to death for taking bribes to approve untested medicines as Chinese authorities introduce a recall system for unsafe food products. [http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/world/4842797.html (AP via Houston Chronicle)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6699441.stm (BBC)]
• Ehud Barak, former Prime Minister of Israel, wins the first round of the Israeli Labor Party leadership election and faces a runoff against former secret service chief Ami Ayalon. [http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L29447177.htm (Reuters Alertnet)]
• Adam Air announces a deal which will ensure the recovery of the black boxes from Adam Air Flight 574. [http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?ContentBlockID=6bd232b1-10a1-44a1-8526-0d0e1010b9c7 (Aero-News)]
• Umaru Yar'Adua assumes office as the President of Nigeria. [http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/05/29/africa/AF-GEN-Nigeria.php (AP via International Herald Tribune)]

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