Portal:Current events/2008 May 25

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• The opposition Bharatiya Janata Party wins the most seats in elections for the Karnataka legislature, India. [http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200805/s2255434.htm?tab=latest (Radio Australia)]
• USA Tornadoes of 2008
• A severe storm in Hugo, Minnesota kills one person with another 20 missing with unconfirmed reports of a tornado. [https://web.archive.org/web/20080529024417/http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jW-BndswWuhgPAPXOK4Q6TCQsANQD90T03E00 (AP via Google News)]
• Seven people are killed and dozens more injured as a tornado hits Parkersburg, Iowa. [http://wcco.com/iowawire/22.0.html?type=local&state=IA&category=n&filename=IA--EasternIowaTornad.xml (AP via WCCO)]{{Dead link|date=April 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
• The Phoenix lander arrives at Mars, landing successfully in the "Green Valley" region of Vastitas Borealis. [http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoenix/main/index.html (NASA)]
• New Zealand driver Scott Dixon wins the 2008 Indianapolis 500 ahead of Vitor Meira. [https://web.archive.org/web/20080527235855/http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gXcrfTIZYUGKPLdZMKQ_KLNor1xgD90STD000 (AP via Google News)]
• Laurent Cantet's film Entre les murs (The Class) wins the Palme d'Or at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. [http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5hyWz1pbKUODyTY12bU85Ydl-rnFw (Canadian Press via Google News)]{{Dead link|date=April 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
• The former President of Malawi Bakili Muluzi is arrested in Lilongwe after returning from the United Kingdom in relation to an alleged coup attempt. [https://www.reuters.com/article/newsMaps/idUSL25471120080525 (Reuters)]
• Michel Suleiman is elected as President of the Republic of Lebanon. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7418953.stm (BBC News)]
• 2008 Sichuan earthquake
• China's Cabinet states that the death toll from the earthquake has reached 62,664. [https://web.archive.org/web/20080526085302/http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hYiNinrp4U6hN569f8oDQgdhezQwD90SIL7O0 (AP via Google News)]
• An aftershock measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale topples thousands of building in Sichuan Province and injures hundreds of people. [https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/26/world/asia/26quake.html (The New York Times)]
• The Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon hosts a conference in Myanmar with representatives of 50 nations on how to aid in recovery from Cyclone Nargis. [https://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2008/05/24/ap5045873.html (AP via Forbes)]
• At Brussels Airport, a Boeing 747 cargo airliner from American operator Kalitta Air crashes at the end of the runway during takeoff and breaks in two. All 5 crewmembers survive. [http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/05/25/belgium.aircrash.ap/ (AP via CNN)]

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