27 May: ETA explodes two devices in Bilbao train station, one day after Otegui arrest... Blair urged by industry to get tough on climate change... German Parliament's upper house votes to approve EU Constitution...
26 May: Spain's government has detained Otegui, leader of the banned political party Batasuna, after a judge ruled he was linked to ETA terror activities...
25 May: Car bomb hits Madrid, attributed to Basque separatist group ETA, which informed the newspaper Gara where the device would explode...
24 May: New planet discovered 15,000 light years from Earth...
23 May: Bush refuses Karzai demand to turn over command of US forces to Afghan military... 14 moderate US senators reach agreement on pact to prevent Frist "nuclear option" from eliminating filibuster...
22 May: In wake of new torture, homicide revelations regarding US forces in Afghanistan, Karzai says he will demand Bush turn over command of US forces in country to his government...
20 May: NY Times lead story ongoing Pentagon investigation of murder of two Afghan prisoners in US custody at Bagram air base...
19 May: Korea announces production of cloned embryonic stem cells for medicinal use... Uzbek regime refuses calls for international inquiry into massacre of demonstrators...
18 May: Sellafield nuclear plant in Cumbria, England, has accidentally leaked 20 tons of uranium + 160kg of plutonium into "contained environment"; details of 18 April leak now emerging, classified as "Level 3 incident" (Three Mile Island was Level 5, Chernobyl Level 7)...
11 May: US Congress, White House evacuated in security alert; staff permitted to return to offices minutes later... Rioting breaks out in Afghanistan in reaction to rumors Koran had been placed on or near toilets in Guantanamo prison...
6 May: Families, anti-war groups bring war-crimes charges against UK before ICC at Hague...
3 May: Hundreds of journalists rally in Nepal for restoration of press freedoms... Greenpeace co-founder Bob Hunter dies, aged 63, after battle with prostate cancer...
1 May: Syria announces it will restore relations with Iraq after 23 years of diplomatic impasse...
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