World This Week : 21 May–27 May 2012

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21 May, 2012

• A suicide bomber blew himself up at a military parade rehearsal in Yemen's capital, killing 96 in one of the deadliest attacks in the city in years
• The former Sri Lankan Army chief, Sarath Fonseka, released from the high-security Welikada prison
• IAEA chief Yukiya Amano met Iran's nuclear chief Saeed Jalili and top negotiator Abbasi Davani in an effort to press for greater cooperation between Iran and the U.N. nuclear surveillance agency

22 May, 2012

• At least 12 people were killed and over 30 injured in Karanchi when unidentified gunmen opened fire at a rally that was organised to oppose the movement to create a “Mohajir” province
• Nepal's major parties agreed to register a Bill to extend the term of the Constituent Assembly by three months
• Britain called for urgent action to prevent a Greece-style financial crisis in Malawi, one of the world's poorest countries

23 May, 2012

• Russia successfully test-fired a new intercontinental ballistic missile capable of piercing defence systems being developed by the U.S
• The Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA confirm the presence of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in the Abbottabad house where he was killed on May 2 last year was sentenced to 33 years imprisonment under the colonial vintage Frontier Crimes Regulation (FCR)

24 May, 2012

• Responding to a writ petition, Nepal's Supreme Court issued an interim stay order against the government's proposal to amend the interim constitution and extend the term of the Constituent Assembly
• Iran and world powers agreed to hold another round of nuclear talks
• National Assembly Speaker Fehmida Mirza ruled that there was no case for disqualifying Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani as a member of the House

25 May, 2012

• Indian-American students have swept the prestigious National Geographic Bee, bagging the top four positions of this year's tough national competition, where U.S. President Barack Obama played a quizmaster
• Senate panel expressed its outrage over Pakistan's conviction of a doctor who helped the United States track down Osama bin Laden, voting to cut aid to Islamabad by 33 million dollar — 1 million dollar for every year of the physician's 33-year sentence for high treason
• UN Climate talk started at Bonn in Germany

26 May, 2012

• Pakistan PM Yusuf Raja Gilani decided not to appeal against the Supreme Court verdict convicting him for contempt of court
• Prime Minister Medvedev succeeded President Putin as head of the ruling party, United Russia
• Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, presidential candidate Mohamed Morsy polled the highest number of votes in the fractured electoral contest

27 May, 2012

• The Ilankai Tamil Arasu Katchi (ITAK), the main constituent of the Tamil National Alliance, the lone credible representative of Tamil people in the Northern Province,  refused to revisit its constitution, which seeks the establishment of a separate state, at its 14th national convention in the Eastern headquarter town of Batticaloa
• A group of Russia's 70-odd-year-old grannies made a big hit of this year's Eurovision Song Contest, finishing runners-up and beating 24 other contenders
• Pakistan Army recovered bodies of two of the 140 soldiers trapped under heaps of snow, slush, sand and hard rock since an avalanche wiped out a battalion headquarter on April 7