Portal:Current events/2008 May 19
May 19, 2008 (Monday)
- Suspected Sunni insurgents attack a minibus carrying police recruits near the border of Iraq and Syria killing 11 people. (AP via Google News)
- Edward Leigh's attempt to outlaw the creation of human-animal hybrid embryos in the United Kingdom is defeated by 336 votes to 176 in the British House of Commons. (BBC News)
- In United States v. Williams, the Supreme Court of the United States upholds a law making it a crime to send messages over the Internet offering or seeking child pornography even when no such pornography exists. (Los Angeles Times)
- A two-week conference in Dublin, aiming to create an international treaty banning cluster bombs, opens today. (RTÉ)
- Some 6,000 people have fled a wave of attacks on foreigners in South Africa, which has left at least 13 dead, aid workers say. (BBC News)
- 2008 Sichuan earthquake
- Xinhua reports that 200 relief workers trying to rescue people in the earthquake have been buried in a mudslide. (AP via The New York Times)
- The People's Republic of China holds three minutes silence at 2:28 pm marking a week since the earthquake. All public entertainment events have been cancelled. (AP via Time)
- A gunman kills eight people in Calamba City in the Philippines. (BBC News)
- Foreign Ministers of the member states of ASEAN including Nyan Win of Myanmar meet to discuss Cyclone Nargis. (The Wall Street Journal)
- Former Prime Minister of Malaysia, Mahathir Mohamad, tenders his resignation from the country's ruling political party, the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO). (BBC News)