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May 18, 2014
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2014-05-18
)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
A group headed by
Khalifa Haftar
, which includes renegade Libyan general Mokhtar Farnana,
launches an attack
on the
Parliament of Libya
.
(AP)
A blast hits the northern
Nigerian
city of
Kano
.
(BBC News)
Business and economy
American communications company
AT&T Inc.
agrees to buy pay television company
DirecTV
for $48.5 billion.
(AP via Politico)
Disasters and accidents
Officials in
North Korea
report the collapse of a 23-story block of flats that is believed to have killed multiple residents, in a rare public apology.
(Al Jazeera)
Soma mine disaster
:
Turkish police
arrest 18 people including mining company executives over the disaster which caused the deaths of 301 people.
(BBC)
A bus in
Fundación
,
department of Magdalena
,
Colombia
, ignites while transporting children from a religious service, killing 31 children.
(
TIME
)
International relations
2014 Vietnam anti-China protests
:
More than 3,000
Chinese citizens
are evacuated from
Vietnam
, with two Chinese killed and more than 100 injured in the riot last week following
China
drilling for oil in the
South China Sea
.
(Reuters)
(CNN)
Politics and elections
Voters in
Switzerland
resoundingly reject a
proposed law change
that would have given that country the world's highest
minimum wage
.
(AP)
Sport
In
basketball
,
Maccabi Tel Aviv
wins its
sixth
Euroleague
championship.
Euroleague Official Website
In
football
,
River Plate
defeats
Quilmes
5-0 to secure its
35th
championship in the
Argentine Primera División
.
(Reuters via Yahoo! Sport)
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