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- 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)
- Thunderstorms throughout the Midwestern United States kill five people. (New York Times)
- Afghan President Hamid Karzai demands that the United States halt airstrikes in the war against the Taliban. (Reuters)
- Louis Caldera resigns as Director of the White House Military Office. (New York Times)
- Wildfires cause at least 30,000 people to evacuate Santa Barbara, California, United States. (Reuters via ABC News Australia)
- Islamic terrorist and Singaporean fugitive Mas Selamat bin Kastari is arrested in Malaysia. (AP via Google News)
- At least 45,000 people evacuate as war between the government and the Taliban continues in Swat, Pakistan. (Sky News)
- A cave-in at a gold mine in Siguiri, Guinea, kills 20 people, injures five more, and renders ten others missing. (BBC)
- Pope Benedict XVI begins his tour of Jordan, Israel, and the Palestinian territories. (BBC)
- The United Kingdom's House of Lords suspends Thomas Taylor and Peter Truscott until November for misconduct. (BBC)
- South East Queensland, Australia, is declared a natural disaster zone, following flooding. (ABC News Australia)
- Iran launches a Sajjil-2 medium-range surface-to-surface missile. (BBC)
- An Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft crashes in Java, Indonesia, killing at least 98 people. (Reuters)
- The Globe and Mail refutes portions of former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's testimony about his relationship with German arms dealer Karlheinz Schreiber. (Globe and Mail)
- The International Security Assistance Force reports that the Taliban are using white phosphorus in the Afghanistan War. (CNN)
- Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond activates Whitelee Wind Farm, Europe's largest onshore wind farm. (BBC) (NCE)
- Three civilians die during combat between Islamist insurgents and the African Union Mission in Mogadishu, Somalia. (BBC)
- Japan's economy contracted by 4% during the first fiscal quarter of 2009. (BBC)
- Ireland's Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse concludes that the Roman Catholic Church and the Department of Education knew sexual abuse was "endemic" in boys’ institutions. (RTÉ)
- A car bomb kills at least 34 people and injures 72 others in Baghdad, Iraq. (BBC)
- The Provincial Police of Woodstock, Ontario, Canada, charge two people with abducting and murdering Victoria Stafford. (CTV)
- FC Shakhtar Donetsk defeat SV Werder Bremen to win the final UEFA Cup. (BBC) (UEFA)
- Kris Allen is crowned the new American Idol.
- 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)
- The People's Justice Party wins the by-election in Penanti, Penang, Malaysia. (Bernama)
- Russian cyclist Denis Menchov wins the 2009 Giro d'Italia in Rome, Italy. (New York Times)
- Late-term abortion provider George Tiller is shot and killed in Wichita, Kansas, United States. (The Wichita Eagle)
- South Ossetia holds its parliamentary election. (Al Jazeera)
- Six people are killed during battle between Hamas militants and the Palestinian National Authority's Preventive Security Service in the West Bank. (BBC)
- Two men are charged with plotting to assassinate former Hong Kong Democratic Party Chairman Martin Lee. (AFP via News Limited)
- At least 44 inmates escape from a prison in Bagua Grande, Peru. (BBC)
- A man steals €6 million in jewellery from Chopard in Paris, France. (BBC)
- Thousands of demonstrators gather in Hong Kong to commemorate the upcoming anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre of June 4, 1989. (Straits Times) (BBC)
- At least 72 protesters are arrested after battling with the National Police Agency in Seoul, South Korea. (The Korea Times)
- Robin Söderling of Sweden defeats world-number-one, four-time French Open and defending champion Rafael Nadal of Spain in tennis's 2009 French Open. (Sky News) On the same day, women's defending champion Ana Ivanovic also bows out, losing to Victoria Azarenka. (The Telegraph)
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