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May 28, 2019
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2019-05-28
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International relations
Australia–China relations
,
South China Sea dispute
Australian
helicopters, from the
Royal Australian Navy
flagship
HMAS
Canberra
, are forced to make an emergency landing after being targeted by lasers from fishing boats in the
South China Sea
. The
Canberra
was being trailed by a Chinese warship.
(AP via MSN.com)
Law and crime
Kawasaki stabbings
A man stabs two people to death and wounds 17 others, including sixteen children, in
Kawasaki
,
Japan
, before slitting his own throat; he later dies of his wounds. Three people are in critical condition.
(BBC News)
(CNN)
China–United States trade war
Huawei
files for a
summary judgment
, seeking to expedite its
March
lawsuit against the
U.S. Government
, challenging the constitutionality of
Section 889
of the
National Defense Authorization Act
that bans U.S. executive government agencies from procuring Huawei and
ZTE
telecommunications equipment based on national security.
(CNBC)
(CNN)
Former
Tehran Mayor
Mohammad-Ali Najafi
is arrested after confessing to the murder of his wife.
(IFP)
Politics and elections
2018–19 Sudanese protests
Opposition leaders lead a two-day protest in
Sudan
over stalemate in negotiations between the military and opposition alliance groups over the transition of government following the
2019 Sudanese coup d'état
.
(Reuters)
(
The Washington Post
)
Science and technology
Discoveries of exoplanets
Rare-earth metals
are discovered in
KELT-9b
, an
exoplanet
located 650 light-years away from
Earth
.
(Astronomy Now)
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