Portal:Current events/2005 May 30
May 30, 2005 (Monday)
- In Prague, Prince Hamid Bin Abdul Sani al-Thani of Qatar has been found guilty of sexually abusing girls younger than 15 from 2001 and 2004 and sentenced to 30 months in prison. (BBC)
- Amidst scandals regarding the sale of land in Jerusalem, Patriarch Irenaios I of Jerusalem has been replaced by Metropolitan Cornelius of Petra, who serves as locum tenens of the Orthodox Church of Jerusalem.BBC
- Fighting in the proposed Somali capital of Baidoa threatens the stability of the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia. BBC
- Angela Merkel is elected by the CDU/CSU as candidate to become Chancellor of Germany in the upcoming German federal election, 2005. (Spiegel online, German)
- Amnesty International has urged foreign governments to investigate high level US government officials for human rights violations committed in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Guantanamo Bay.
- Pope Benedict XVI says he wants to heal the rift with the Orthodox Church during his papacy. He spoke to hundreds-of-thousands of people attending a mass in the southern Italian city of Bari during his first pilgrimage away from the Vatican since he was elected less than two months ago. (VOA News)
- Lebanese general election, 2005:
- Preliminary results indicate that political alliance of Saad Hariri, son of killed Rafiq Hariri, wins in Beirut parliamentary elections, despite the low turnout (Daily Star, Lebanon) (Al-Jazeera) (Reuters)
- Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Israel fires rockets at the Jabaliya, a Palestinian refugee camp, injuring two civilians. The IDF says it was targeting militants who were planning a rocket attack on Israel. (BBC)
- Astronomers of California Institute of Technology and Astronomical Observatory of Strasbourg state that the Andromeda Galaxy is three times bigger than previously estimated (Space.Com) (Universer Today) (Reuters) Archived 2013-09-02 at archive.today
- Red Cross of Canada admits that it has used blood infected with HIV or hepatitis virus (Canada Newswire) (Canada.Com) (CTV) Archived 2005-12-08 at the Wayback Machine (Bloomberg)