Portal:Current events/2009 May 7
May 7, 2009 (Thursday)
- The private military company Xe (formerly Blackwater Worldwide) ends its operations in Baghdad, Iraq. (AP via Google News)
- The Eastern Partnership conducts its inaugural meeting in Prague, Czech Republic.
- General Motors reports a US$6 billion loss for the first fiscal quarter of 2009. (AP via the Wall Street Journal)
- One police officer is killed and two more are injured in Napier, New Zealand. (TVNZ.co.nz)
- Canada experiences its first swine influenza-related death. (CP24 via Canadian Press)
- Wildfires near Santa Barbara, California, United States, burn 3,000 acres (12 km2) of land and force 15,000 people to evacuate. (BBC)
- The Armed Forces and the Union of Forces for Democracy and Development battle near Goz Beïda, Ouaddaï Region, Chad. (BBC)
- China announces that 5,335 schoolchildren died during an earthquake in Sichuan on May 12, 2008. (The Guardian)
- An American man is arrested in Burma for trespassing on National League for Democracy General Secretary Aung San Suu Kyi's property. (BBC)
- The Central Bank reduces the Eurozone's interest rate to 1% and implements €60 billion of quantitative easing. (BBC)
- A fire at a casino kills ten people and injures ten others in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine. (BBC)
- The fourth phase of India's general election concludes. (Hindustan Times)
- The Bank of England freezes interest rates at 0.5% and will implement £50 billion of quantitative easing. (BBC)
- Ten Army soldiers are killed and 22 others injured during combat with the Taliban in Swat, Pakistan. (BBC)
- Somali pirates hijack the Netherlands' MV Marathon and attack the U.S. Navy cargo ship Lewis and Clark. (Reuters)