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May 28, 2015
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2015-05-28
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Business and economy
The
Solicitor General
of the
United States
sides with
Oracle
in a much-watched
copyright
dispute with
Google
over
Java
APIs
.
(IDG News Service)
.
Disasters and accidents
The
United States Air Force
says that as many as 22 people have been inadvertently exposed to
anthrax
during a laboratory training exercise at
Osan Air Base
in
South Korea
.
(AFP via Yahoo! News)
Tornadoes of 2015
and
2015 Texas–Oklahoma flood and tornado outbreak
The death toll from the recent storms in the American states of
Texas
and
Oklahoma
rises to 21 with 11 people missing. Fourteen more people have been killed in northern
Mexico
.
(AP via ABC News)
2015 Indian heat wave
The death toll from the Indian heat wave rises to over 1,400 with over 1000 dead in
Andhra Pradesh
state alone.
(CNN)
Seventeen students are killed and five injured when a truck carrying them to school overturns on the
Indonesian
island of
Sumatra
.
(AFP via Abram Online)
International relations
The
Hellenic Coast Guard
rescues 218 migrants off the coast of
Greece
who sailed illegally from
Turkey
making the total number of people arriving more than 1,500 in a week.
(AFP via
Daily Star
)
Law and crime
Former
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
Dennis Hastert
is
indicted
for allegedly trying to evade banking reporting requirements and lying to the
Federal Bureau of Investigation
.
(CNBC)
Independent lawmaker
Catherine Murphy
raises fresh allegations in Ireland's
Dáil
against billionaire
Denis O'Brien
, prompting criticism over the silence of the country's media (much of it owned by O'Brien).
(RTE)
(
Broadsheet
)
(
UP Report
)
Politics and elections
Republican Party presidential primaries, 2016
Former
Governor of New York
,
George Pataki
, announces that he is seeking the
Republican Party
nomination for the
2016 presidential election
.
(CNN)
Science and technology
NASA
awards
Boeing
a commercial contract to build and fly the next passenger spacecraft, the
CST-100
.
(Fin24)
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