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Portal:Current events/2015 May 24

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;Armed conflicts and attacks

;Arts and culture

;Disasters and accidents

  • Flash floods and heavy storms in the American states of Texas and Oklahoma claim at least two lives with at least eight people missing and hundreds of homes destroyed. [https://news.yahoo.com/residents-rescued-flooded-homes-texas-oklahoma-121006744.html (AP via Yahoo!)] [http://us.cnn.com/2015/05/23/weather/texas-oklahoma-flash-flood-warnings/index.html (CNN)] [http://kxan.com/2015/05/24/family-of-former-nueces-county-commisioner-missing-following-flood/ (KXAN)]

;International relations

  • Feminist activists including Gloria Steinem cross the Korean Demilitarized Zone by bus after being denied permission to walk across. [https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2015/05/23/womens-walk-across-koreas-dmz-denied-they-cross-on-bus (AP via US News and World Report)]

;Law and crime

  • Authorities in Malaysia find mass graves in more than a dozen camps near the border with Thailand where Rohingya migrants are held. [http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/3d281c11a96b4ad082fe88aa0db04305/Article_2015-05-24-AS-Rohingya-Boat-People/id-22debc49d4ea448ea0a6e2bfe56854d0 (AP)]

;Politics and elections

  • Polish presidential election, 2015
  • Voters in Poland go to the polls for the second round of a Presidential election between President Bronisław Komorowski and challenger Andrzej Duda with exit polls showing Duda ahead. [https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32862772 (BBC)] [http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_POLAND_PRESIDENTIAL_ELECTION?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT (AP)] [https://web.archive.org/web/20150926200139/http://wtop.com/europe/2015/05/exit-poll-shows-andrzej-duda-ahead-of-president-bronislaw-komorowski-in-polish-election/ (AP via WTOP)]
  • Ethiopian general election, 2015
  • Voters in Ethiopia go to the polls for a general election with the ruling Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Democratic Front facing no viable opposition. [https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/may/23/ethiopia-election-wake-up-call-human-rights-governance (The Guardian)]

;Science

  • Nobel Prize winner John Forbes Nash, Jr. and his wife Alicia died in a taxi accident. [http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/05/25/science/john-nash-a-beautiful-mind-subject-and-nobel-winner-dies-at-86.html?referrer (The New York Times)]

;Sports

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