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May 13, 2012
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2012-05-13
)
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Armed conflict and attacks
Mexican Drug War
: 49 dismembered bodies
are discovered
by
Mexican
authorities on
Mexican Federal Highway 40
. The decapitated and mutilated bodies were dumped on a roadside near the northern city of
Monterrey
, presumably by members of the powerful
Los Zetas
drug cartel
.
(CNN)
(BBC)
Several people are killed in clashes in the
Lebanese
city of
Tripoli
between supporters and opponents of the
Syrian
president
Bashar al-Assad
, in a violent spillover from the
Syrian civil war
.
(Al Jazeera)
Arsala Rahmani
, a key peace negotiator for the
Afghan
government, is shot dead by assassins in
Kabul, Afghanistan
.
(BBC)
Following American
drone
strikes against suspected militants in southern
Yemen
, at least 15 other militants are killed in a
Yemeni Army
offensive.
(Al Jazeera)
The
Ugandan army
captures Caesar Achellam, a senior commander of the militant
Lord's Resistance Army
, in the
Central African Republic
.
(BBC)
Disasters
Torrential rainfall and flooding in
China
's
Hunan Province
destroys a bridge and 3,500 homes, leading to the evacuation of 28,000 people in
Pingjiang County
.
(
Shanghai Daily
)
(Xinhua via
Shanghai Daily
)
Law and crime
Paul Watson
, the founder of the
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
, is arrested in
Germany
for
allegedly violating
Guatemalan
territorial waters in 2002.
(
The Australian
)
Politics
Voters in the
German
state of
North Rhine-Westphalia
head to the polls for an
election
, with the
Social Democratic Party of Germany
winning the most votes, allowing it to continue in government with the support of the
Greens
.
(Reuters via ABC Australia)
.
(AP via
Cleveland Plain-Dealer
)
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Chinese security
tsar
and
Politburo Standing Committee
member
Zhou Yongkang
reportedly transfers his security-related duties to Minister of Public Security
Meng Jianzhu
, following the
Bo Xilai scandal
.
(
Financial Times
)
The
President of Greece
,
Karolos Papoulias
, fails to broker a
coalition
deal between
Greece
's major political parties.
(RIA Novosti)
Science
Scientists claim that there is a visible link between the loss of
biodiversity
and the
disappearance of endangered languages and cultures
.
(BBC)
Sport
Manchester City
win the
Premier League
for the first time, beating
Manchester United
on goal difference.
(Reuters via Yahoo! Australia)
British
international
motorcycle speedway
racer
Lee Richardson
dies in hospital in the
Polish
city of
Wrocław
following a crash in a racing event.
(BBC)
After winning the
Spanish Grand Prix
with driver
Pastor Maldonado
, the British
Formula One
team
Williams
suffers a fire in its pit garage, leaving 31 people injured.
(BBC)
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