Current Events, May 2008
2008
- May 31
- Change in leadership in Democratic Unionist Party, Ian Paisley steps down [1]
- Former German Foreign Minister says US and Israel planning to attack Iran [2]
- Giant Confederate flag planned for Tampa area [3]
- Shuttle leaves for the International Space Station with Japanese science lab onboard [4]
- Al Jazeera cameraman freed from Guantanamo returns to Doha, Qatar [5]
- China accused of cyberspying on the U.S. Secretary of Commerce [6]
- May 30
- Australian government upset over frank comments on race [7]
- Israeli poll finds Netanyahu would win elections [8]
- 60,000 attend music concert by Croatian nationalist Marko Perkovic [9]
- Smallest Earth-like planet detected [10]
- Obama fixed the ballot to win his first race [11]
- Another Obama pastor mocks White people [12]
- Israel blocks Gaza students travel to US [13]
- Iran signals a desire to improve relations with the US [14]
- Israeli soldiers fire upon Hamas demonstrators injuring six [15]
- German politician, Gregor Gysi accused of having ties to East German secret police, Stasi [16]
- May 29
- May 28
- Italy condemned for 'racism wave' [21]
- Political scandals are routine for Israel [22]
- Madonna plans to adopt an African kid [23]
- U.S. genome institute director Dr. Francis Collins to resign [24]
- Ahmadinejad rival gets powerful post in Iran [25]
- US intelligence agencies in turf war [26]
- Secret Service being sued over racial discrimination [27]
- Son of Sir Oswald Mosley sues over National Socialist orgy claim [28]
- Nepal becomes a republic [29]
- Academics are outraged over the treatment of Palestinians in Gaza [30]
- Castro endorses Obama[31]
- FBI issues warning on imminent Al-Qaeda WMD threat [32]
- Israeli defense chief urges Olmert to step aside [33][34]
- May 27
- Zbigniew Brzezinski takes on the Israeli lobby [35]
- McCain campaign claims fundraising lead [36]
- Assassination fears in the 2008 presidential race[37]
- The ability to swim: it’s a race thing [38]
- Rights to Jewish Bratz Dollz settled [39][40]
- U.N. racism follow-up conference set for April 2009 [41]
- Australian town rejects Muslim school [42]
- NASA pioneer and German rocket scientist, Ernst Stuhlinger, dies at 94 [43]
- Obama fundraiser Tony Rezko trial decision may be soon [44]
- Sweden wants America and the EU to take in more Iraqi refugees [45]
- CIA watching for al-Qaida 'succession crisis' [46]
- American businessman Morris Talansky to testify against Ehud Olmert in Israeli corruption investigation [47] [48][49]
- Only one out of every 100 thieves in Israel is indicted [50]
- May 26
- Former Ethiopian dictator sentenced to death [51]
- How Bob Barr and Wayne Allyn Root took over the Libertarian Party [52]
- Hezbollah urges co-existence [53]
- Bob Barr wins Libertarian Party nomination and picks Jewish odds maker for his VP [54] [55]
- Cheap dollar means expensive oil [56]
- Jimmy Carter continues to criticize Israel over human rights crimes [57] [58]
- Mob violence against South Asians in Rome [59]
- Mars Phoenix lander touched down on the Red Planet [60]
- Peru recovers mass grave bodies [61]
- May 25
- May 24
- Oil price mocks fuel realities [66]
- "All Gypsies must go," Northern League of Italy says [67]
- Libertarian Party may become the ‘conservative party’ in ‘08 [68]
- Mars spacecraft due to land Sunday [69] [70]
- Hezbollah's army survives under Lebanon peace deal [71]
- ‘Jews against Obama’ shirt hawked by Israeli immigrant [72]
- Five Palestinian fighters killed in Gaza: Hamas [73]
- American professor Norman Finkelstein denied entry into Israel [74] [75] [76]
- Russia and China united in opposition to new US missile policy [77]
- Hamas leader says Olmert’s corruption an impediment to peace deal [78] [79]
- Trash riots in Italy [80]
- China: Quake toll surpasses 60,000 [81]
- 200 arrested after Belgium sport riots [82]
- May 23
- Vandals damage Stonehenge [83]
- Blacks and Jews near riot in New York City [84] [85]
- US now irrelevant to Middle East peace deal [86]
- Libertarian Party welcomes conservatives at their national convention [87]
- World oil survey to be released in November [88]
- Mexican city braces for bloody weekend [89]
- Thousands of Jews flock to pray at Tunisia synagogue that was Al-Qaeda target in 2002 [90] [91]
- Homicide rate jumps in Mexico [92]
- Hillary Clinton refers to the Robert Kennedy assassination in 1968 as a reason to stay in the race. [93] [94]
- Obama visits Florida synagogue to win Jewish support [95]
- History in the making for Hezbollah [96]
- May 22
- Israel tells France to shun Hamas [97]
- 18,000 new citizens take oath in LA, most non-White [98]
- White guy picked to clean up the mess made by the Black guy at HUD [99]
- Syria and Israeli peace deal breaks down [100]
- UN Security Council backs Lebanon peace deal with Hezbollah[101]
- ‘Hitler doing God’s will’ remark embarrasses the McCain campaign [102] [103]
- Red Army veteran charged with genocide in Estonia [104]
- May 21
- Brian Keenan former IRA guerrilla leader dies [105]
- Russia’s new leader Medvedev first foreign visit: China [106] [107]
- Obama seeks Jewish support in Florida [108]
- Split US view on the price of oil: speculators or tight supply [109]
- Mikheil Saakashvili claimes victory in Georgia's parliamentary election [110]
- FBI counterterrorism units badly run, understaffed [111]
- Hezbollah and Syria gain standing with new negotiations [112]
- Kenyan mob burns ‘witches’ to death [113]
- NPD creates Rudolf Hess stamp in Germany [114] [115] [116]
- Oil hit new record high [117] [118]
- North Korea to demolish nuclear facility soon: Seoul [119]
- Man found with explosives at Swedish nuclear plant [120] [121]
- Israel and Syria engaged in peace talks in Turkey [122]
- Former White House aide Hamilton Jordan dies at 63 [123] [124]
- Israel prepares to attack Hamas in Gaza [125]
- OPEC: the scapegoat of the oil crisis [126]
- U.K. predicts a nuclear arms race in the Middle East [127]
- Demjanjuk unlikely to be deported to Ukraine [128]
- Israel asks the US to impose a blockade on Iran [129]
- Immigrants continue to be killed by Black South Africans [130]
- May 20
- Silvio Berlusconi takes criticism on his new anti-immigrant measures in Italy [131]
- Three Israeli air strikes and one raid on Gaza [132]
- Alleged 9/11 “20th hijacker” driven to attempt suicide [133]
- Bush to meet with allies in Europe [134]
- Congress sees no winning plan to defeat Al Qaeda [135]
- Indians on the warpath in Brazil [136]
- Police: Top member of Basque group ETA arrested [137]
- Retired professor accused of passing secrets to China [138]
- Investigators dig for bodies at Charles Manson refuge [139]
- Former CIA executive director indicted in bribery case [140]
- Elie Wiesel: first Iranian nuke would hit Tel Aviv [141]
- Edward Kennedy has brain tumour [142]
- Lieberman asks YouTube to remove Islamic videos [143]
- Al Gore receives one million dollars from Israeli environmental fund [144]
- May 19
- 'Gay pride' march rejected in Italy [145]
- Al Jazeera English tries to extend its reach [146]
- Libertarian Party convention this week in Denver [147]
- Al-Qaida terror cell busted in Morocco [148]
- US determined to deport John Demjanjuk [149]
- Egypt criticizes America’s pro-Israel foreign policy [150]
- Narcotrafficking killings sweep Mexico [151]
- Liberia’s leader cannibalism trial continues [152]
- Growing up in Hawaii, Obama claims racial discrimination [153]
- Car bomb explodes in Spanish Basque area [154]
- Three million Zimbabweans under threat of attack from Black South Africans [155]
- Jewish oligarch Roman Abramovich living the good life [156]
- May 18
- Mass execution of leftists in 1950 South Korea now revealed [157]
- Lebanon Sunnis bitter over power shift toward Shiite Hezbollah [158]
- Bin Laden’s second audio message attacks Arab leaders [159]
- Pelosi pledges, ‘everyone will support Israel’ [160]
- Spacecraft scheduled to land next week near the north pole of Mars [161]
- Black South Africans attack and kill immigrants [162]
- May 17
- Israel’s history of ethnic cleansing in Palestine [163]
- US sends Haiti emergency food aid to curb riots [164]
- Bush sheds crocodile tears over Palestinians' plight [165]
- US sends emergency food aid to “Axis of Evil” nation: North Korea [166]
- Pakistan objects to U.S. missile attack [167]
- Late isolationist Senator William Borah in current presidential furor [168]
- Five suspected computer hackers arrested in Spain [169]
- Hizbullah refuses to disarm [170]
- 68% of Italians want Gypsies out [171]
- NAACP picks new leader [172]
- Senator Edward Kennedy hospitalized [173]
- Scottish National Party continues move toward independence [174]
- Hugo Chavez apologizes over Hitler remark [175]
- Anti-Semitism on the rise in Britain [176]
- May 16
- Slovakia seeks closer ties with Israel [177]
- UN to investigate racism in the US [178]
- Serbian nationalists and socialists plan on coalition government [179]
- Huckabee jokes to NRA of gun aimed at Obama [180]
- Bush plot against Iran fails. [181]
- Political terror sweeps Zimbabwe [182]
- New Bin Laden tape: Al-Qaida focused on Israeli-Arab conflict [183]
- Gypsy camp is burnt to the ground in Italy. [184]
- May 15
- Jews claim the right to be ruthless [185]
- Obama has problems with Jewish voters in spite of 'perfect' voting record [186]
- Basque separatists kill policeman in car-bomb attack [187]
- Australian politician threatens Iran to appease Jews [188]
- American Jews illegally fund Israeli politicians [189]
- London synagogues vandalized [190]
- Israeli film explores 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre [191]
- Italian crackdown on illegal immigrants.[192]
- Meth and immigration raid at kosher slaughterhouse in Iowa. [193][194]
- Reuters demands explanation from Israel for the death of their cameraman [195]
- Palestinians mourn as Bush celebrates in Israel.[196]
- Oldest known bust of Caesar found in France.[197]
- May 14
- President George W. Bush arrives in Israel in celebration of the country's 60th anniversary. [198]
- John Edwards endorses Barack Obama in 2008 presidential race [199]
