Portal:Current events/2009 May 23
May 23, 2009 (Saturday)
- Madhav Kumar Nepal of the Communist Party (Unified Marxist-Leninist) is elected as Prime Minister of Nepal. (CNN)
- Fourteen people are killed as a King Air 350 crashes near philippines, Bahia, Brazil. (AFP via ABC News)
- United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon demands better humanitarian aid for 250,000 war refugees in Sri Lanka. (CNN)
- The Army and the Taliban battle in Mingora, Swat, Pakistan. (Al Jazeera)
- Former South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun commits suicide. (AP via USA Today)
- Floods force the evacuations of Kempsey and Grafton, New South Wales, Australia. (ABC News)
- Madagascar's political parties agree to establish a provisional government and a truth/reconciliation commission. (BBC)
- A car bomb kills at least six people and injures 70 others in Peshawar, Pakistan. (BBC)
- Germany's Federal Assembly re-elects Horst Köhler as President. (Deutsche Welle)
- United States President Barack Obama nominates former astronaut Charles F. Bolden, Jr. as Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. (Los Angeles Times)
- A bomb kills two people and injures 12 others in Kathmandu, Nepal. (CNN)