Portal:Current events/2007 May 29
May 29, 2007 (Tuesday)
- US President George W. Bush nominates former deputy secretary of state Robert Zoellick as President of the World Bank. (BBC)
- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg takes the rare step of reading aloud her dissent in Ledbetter v. Goodyear. (Washington Post)
- Heavy fighting resumes between the Lebanese army and al Qaeda linked militants at the Nahr el-Bared refugee camp. (AP via CNN)
- United States health officials quarantine a man who may have exposed passengers on two transatlantic flights to extensively drug resistant tuberculosis. (BBC)
- Russia successfully tests its new RS-24 ICBM, purportedly designed to defeat present and future anti-missile systems. (RIA Novosti) (Interfax-AVN) (The Guardian)
- Iraqi insurgency:
- Bashar al-Assad is re-elected as President of Syria in an election in which he was the only candidate. (BBC)
- Zheng Xiaoyu, former head of the China's State Food and Drug Administration, is sentenced to death for taking bribes to approve untested medicines as Chinese authorities introduce a recall system for unsafe food products. (AP via Houston Chronicle) (BBC)
- Ehud Barak, former Prime Minister of Israel, wins the first round of the Israeli Labor Party leadership election and faces a runoff against former secret service chief Ami Ayalon. (Reuters Alertnet)
- Adam Air announces a deal which will ensure the recovery of the black boxes from Adam Air Flight 574. (Aero-News)
- Umaru Yar'Adua assumes office as the President of Nigeria. (AP via International Herald Tribune)