Portal:Current events/2016 May 25
May 25, 2016
(
2016-05-25
)
(Wednesday)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
The
Afghan
Taliban
announces that
Haibatullah Akhundzada
will be its new leader replacing
Akhtar Mansour
who died recently in a drone strike.
Sirajuddin Haqqani
and Mullah Yaqoob are named as deputy leaders.
(Al-Jazeera)
A
suicide bomb
attack kills at least 10 people and injures four people travelling on a bus for appeals court staff travelling west of
Kabul
.
(Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Business and economy
Greek financial crisis
The
Eurozone
agrees to a €10.3 billion ($11.48 billion) bailout package for
Greece
.
(
The Guardian
)
Disasters and accidents
European migrant crisis
At least five die after their overcrowded,
repurposed
trawler
capsized in the southern
Mediterranean Sea
off the coast of
Libya
. The
Italian navy
rescued 562 people.
(Al Jazeera)
International relations
Russia–Ukraine relations
,
War in Donbass
Ukrainian
pilot and
parliamentarian
Nadiya Savchenko
, who has been detained in Russia since 2014, arrives home following a dramatic prisoner swap with Russia.
(Reuters)
Politics and elections
In the United States,
Hillary Clinton
is criticized by the
State Department
’s inspector general for
her usage of a private email server
while she was
secretary of state
. The finding also concluded though that former secretary of state
Colin Powell
also had a private email server, as did former ambassador to Kenya
Scott Gration
. The inspector referred to the email server usage as "longstanding systemic weaknesses".
(
New York Times
)
Sports
2016 Stanley Cup playoffs
:
The
San Jose Sharks
defeat the
St. Louis Blues
in the Western Conference Final in six games to advance to the
Stanley Cup Finals
for the first time in franchise history.
(NHL)
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