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Portal:Current events/2012 May 20

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;Armed conflicts and attacks

  • Syrian uprising: A roadside bomb explodes near a United Nations convoy in the Syrian capital of Damascus, in the district of Douma. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-18138269 (BBC)]
  • Bahraini uprising: Jailed Bahrain Centre for Human Rights head Nabeel Rajab is granted $800 bail with a travel ban for a charge of "insulting an official authority", though according to his lawyer he is still locked up on a second charge. [http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2012/05/2012520175956728676.html (Al Jazeera)]

;Arts and culture

  • Bee Gees singer Robin Gibb dies at the age of 62. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18140862 (BBC)]

;Disasters

  • At least 6 people are killed and dozens injured when a 6.0-magnitude earthquake strikes northern Italy. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18135898 (BBC)] [http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2012/05/deadly-earthquake-italy.html (Los Angeles Times)]

;International relations

  • Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells his cabinet that hundreds of thousands of iIllegal immigrants from Africa would threaten Israel's identity. [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/20/israel-netanyahu-african-immigrants-jewish (The Guardian)] [http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=270682 (The Jerusalem Post)]
  • Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the former Libyan intelligence officer convicted of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, dies at his home in the Libyan capital of Tripoli at the age of 60. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-18137896 (BBC)] [http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2012/05/201252012581955868.html (Al Jazeera)]
  • International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) director general Yukiya Amano heads for Tehran to convince the Iranian government to co-operate with the agency. [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/20/iaea-visit-iran-nuclear-talks (The Guardian)] [http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2012/05/2012520155112905959.html (Al Jazeera)][https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-18140539 (BBC)]

;Law and crime

  • Staines becomes Staines-upon-Thames. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-18118309 (BBC)]
  • Two women in Jieyang, Guangdong, PRC, are executed for counterfeiting nearly 300 million yuan RMB. [https://web.archive.org/web/20140810075331/http://news.163.com/12/0520/06/81U9IV1N00014AED.html (NetEase)] [http://insidechina.onehotspots.com/the-two-women-forged-nearly-300-million-yuan-rmb/41326/ (Inside China)]

;Politics and elections

;Sport

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