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Poroshenko vows to punish rebels who shot down Ukraine helicopter

Protesters Storm Presidential Building in Breakaway Abkhazia

Waves of immigrant minors present crisis for Obama, Congress

House bolsters ‘de facto amnesty’ probe

Florida: Would-be jihad mass murderer allowed not to stand when judge enters court; demands taxpayer-funded Islamic clothing

Deportation reprieve for Nigerians amid female genital mutilation fears

Today in Cold War History May 30
1949 – East German constitution approved
1955 – Tunisia begins domestic self governing
1958 – Memorial Day: the remains of two unidentified American servicemen, killed in action during World War II and the Korean War respectively, are buried at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery.
1961 – The long-time Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo is assassinated in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
1963 – A protest against pro-Catholic discrimination during the Buddhist crisis is held outside South Vietnam’s National Assembly, the first open demonstration during the eight-year rule of Ngo Dinh Diem.
1965 – Viet Cong offensive against US base Da Nang, begins
1966 – The former Congolese Prime Minister, Évariste Kimba, and several other politicians are publicly executed in Kinshasa on the orders of President Joseph Mobutu.
1966 – Launch of Surveyor 1 the first US spacecraft to land on an extraterrestrial body.
1968 – Charles de Gaulle reappears publicly after his flight to Baden-Baden, Germany, and dissolves the French National Assembly by a radio appeal. Immediately after, less than one million of his supporters march on the Champs-Élysées in Paris. This is the turning point of May 1968 events in France.
1971 – Mariner program: Mariner 9 is launched to map 70% of the surface, and to study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface, of Mars.
1972 – The Angry Brigade goes on trial over a series of 25 bombings throughout the United Kingdom.
1972 – In Tel Aviv, Israel, members of the Japanese Red Army carry out the Lod Airport massacre, killing 24 people and injuring 78 others.
1982 – Spain becomes 16th member of NATO
1984 – Bomb explodes in rebel leader Eden Pastora’s headquarters in Nicaragua
1989 – Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: the 33-foot high “Goddess of Democracy” statue is unveiled in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators.

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Walid Shoebat: Don’t be so quick to rule out a botched kidnapping attempt during Benghazi attack

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?

Pregnant woman beaten to death by family outside Pakistani court

Boko Haram attack kills 31 Nigerian security personnel

French riot police bulldoze Calais migrant camps

Three Chinese Nuclear Missile Submarines Photographed in South China Sea

Today in Cold War History for May 28
1952 – The women of Greece are given the right to vote.
1956 – Eisenhower signs farm bill allows government to store agricultural surplus
1958 – Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro’s 26th of July Movement, heavily reinforced by Frank Pais Militia, overwhelm an army post in El Uvero.
1961 – Peter Benenson’s article The Forgotten Prisoners is published in several internationally read newspapers. This will later be thought of as the founding of the human rights organization Amnesty International.
1964 – The Palestine Liberation Organization is formed.
1964 – Unmanned Apollo 2 Saturn test launched into Earth orbit
1971 – USSR Mars 3 launched, 1st spacecraft to soft land on Mars
1974 – Italian fascists bomb demonstrators in Brescia, 6 killed
1975 – Soyuz 18 launches
1976 – The Peaceful Nuclear Explosion Treaty was signed, limiting any nuclear explosion – regardless of its purpose – to a yield of 150 kilotons.
1982 : British troops re-capture Port Darwin and Goose Green in the Falkland Islands taking almost 1500 Argentine prisoners.
1987 – The 19-year-old West German pilot Mathias Rust evades Soviet Union air defenses and lands a private plane in the Red Square in Moscow, Russia. He is immediately detained and will not be released until August 3, 1988.

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White House mistakenly identifies CIA chief in Afghanistan

Karzai refused to meet Obama at Bagram Air Base, says US official

New Ukraine president Petro Poroshenko vows to stop war

Front National wins European parliament elections in France

China’s Leader, Seeking to Build Its Muscle, Pushes Overhaul of the Military

China’s state-owned sector told to cut ties with U.S. consulting firms

Today in Cold War History for May 26

1948 – The U.S. Congress passes Public Law 557, which permanently establishes the Civil Air Patrol as an auxiliary of the United States Air Force.
1950 : After 11 years petrol rationing finally ends in Great Britain and the British People tear up petrol rationing books which have been in use since the beginning of World War II
1956 – A fire on board the aircraft carrier USS Bennington in Narragansett Bay, off Rhode Island, kills 103 crew
1961 – USAF bomber flies Atlantic in a record of just over 3 hours
1966 – British Guiana gains independence, becoming Guyana.
1969 – Apollo 10 returns to Earth after a successful eight-day test of all the components needed for the forthcoming first manned moon landing.
1970 – The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2.
1971 – Bangladesh Liberation War: The Pakistan Army slaughters at least 71 Hindus in Burunga, Sylhet, Bangladesh.
1972 – President Nixon signed the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty on behalf of the United States the treaty puts a limit on the number of antiballistic missile sites in USA and Russia.
1980 – Soyuz 36 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Hungarian) to Salyut 6
1981 – An EA-6B Prowler crashes on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN-68), killing 14 crewmen and injuring 45 others.
1986 – The European Community adopts the European flag.
1991 – Zviad Gamsakhurdia becomes the first elected President of the Republic of Georgia in the post-Soviet era.

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Obama no longer considers al-Qaeda a direct threat to America. Intelligence community stunned.

Taliban Goes on Beheading Spree in Afghanistan

UKIP Deliver a Heavy Blow to the Political Establishment

Thai military detains politicians and activists

US court sentences former president of Guatemala to prison for taking bribes

Ecuador signs permits for oil drilling in Amazon’s Yasuni national park

Today in Cold War History for may 23
1948 – Thomas C. Wasson, the US Consul-General, is assassinated in Jerusalem, Israel.
1949 – The Federal Republic of Germany is established and the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany is proclaimed.
1951 – Tibetans sign the Seventeen Point Agreement for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet with China.
1958 – The satellite Explorer 1 ceases transmission.
1967 – Egypt closes the Straits of Tiran and blockades the port of Eilat at the northern end of the Gulf of Aqaba to Israeli shipping.
1958-Mao Zedong starts “Great leap forward” movement in China
1960 – Israel announces capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina
1962 – Scott Carpenter orbits Earth 3 times in US Aurora 7
1966 : The British government declares a state of emergency following the start of the nationwide seamen’s strike one week ago. The state of emergency will allow the Royal Navy to take control and clear the ports and lift restrictions on driving vehicles to allow for the free movement of goods.
1977 : South Moluccan militants armed with machine guns hold 105 children and six teachers hostage in a primary school in northern Holland. A second band of gunmen held about 50 persons on a train about 10 miles from the school in Bovensmilde.
1982 – BBC warns Britain will bomb Argentina
1983 – Radio Moscow announcer Vladimir Danchev praises Afghanistan Muslims standing up to Russia; he is removed from the air
1985 – Thomas Patrick Cavanagh was sentenced to life in prison for trying to sell Stealth bomber secrets to the Soviet Union.
1986 – US & West Europeans veto heavier sanctions against South Africa
1991 – Last Cubans troops leave Angola

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U.S. utility’s control system was hacked, says Homeland Security

WH ‘picking up the pace’ on executive actions

Egyptian doctor to stand trial for female genital mutilation in landmark case

Rand Paul: Do We Continue to Arm the Enemies of Israel and the U.S. in Syria?

Sorrow and horror at Jos’s Terminus market – now a smouldering bomb site

Obama Administration Ready to Work with Terrorist Group Hamas

Today in Cold War History for may 21
1950 Vietnamese troops of Ho Chi-Minh attack Cambodia
1951 Chinese offensive in Korea collapses
1956 “Nuclear testing: Shot Redwing-Cherokee is successfully detonated at Bikini Atoll at the Pacific Proving Grounds in the Marshall Islands. With a yield of 3.8 megatons, it is the first aircraft deliverable hydrogen bomb tested by the United States.”
1964 The initiation of the standing carrier presence at Yankee Station in the South China Sea.
1964 US begin intelligence flights above Laos
1966 – The Ulster Volunteer Force declares war on the Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland.
1968 “US nuclear-powered sub (Scorpion), with 99 men, reported missing & is later found at the bottom of the ocean off Azores”
1969 – Robert Kennedy’s murderer Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death: later commuted to life imprisonmnet
1971 – National Guard mobilizes to quell riot in Chattanooga Tenn
1981 – Irish Republican hunger strikers Raymond McCreesh and Patsy O’Hara die on hunger strike in Maze prison.
1982 – Falklands War: A British amphibious assault during Operation Sutton leads to the Battle of San Carlos.
1991 Former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated by a female suicide bomber near Madras.
1991 “Mengistu Haile Mariam, president of the People’s Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, flees Ethiopia, effectively bringing the Ethiopian Civil War to an end.”

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U.S. Charges China With Cyber-Spying on American Firms

Boko Haram Strikes Chinese Company in Cameroon

Right to Bear Arms – Citizen Militia Kills 200 Boko Haram Terrorists in Ambush

Gunmen storm Libyan parliament amid anti-government uprising

Israel to strengthen ties with Latin America

Brazil’s favelas are in big trouble, despite the World Cup marketing push

Today in Cold War History
1950 – A barge containing munitions destined for Pakistan explodes in the harbor at South Amboy, New Jersey, devastating the city.
1950 – Egypt announces that the Suez Canal is closed to Israeli ships and commerce.
1958 US & Canada form North American Air Defense Command (NORAD)
1959 – The North Vietnamese Army establishes Group 559, whose responsibility is to determine how to maintain supply lines to South Vietnam; the resulting route is the Ho Chi Minh trail.
1960 – USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 33,222 m
1961 – Venera program: Venera 1 becomes the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (the probe had lost contact with Earth a month earlier and did not send back any data).
1964 – US diplomats find at least 40 secret microphones in Moscow embassy
1965 “30th Naval Construction Regiment activated at Danang, Vietnam”
1967 US bombs Hanoi
1967 USSR ratifies treaty with England & US banning nuclear weapons in space
1971 – Mars probe program: Mars 2 is launched by the Soviet Union.
1983 – NASA launches Intelsat V satellite, no. 506
1986 – The Firearm Owners Protection Act is signed into law by U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
1991 – Croatians vote for independence in a referendum.

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What is China building on this tiny island? Philippines government releases image of reclamation in the South China Sea

New NKorea warships seen in satellite images

America could hold answer to Putin’s pipeline pinch on Ukraine

Obama Administration Threatened Nigeria with Sanctions in 2013 for Fighting Boko Haram

Shinzo Abe reveals plans to lift Japan’s ban on fighting in conflicts overseas

China warns Vietnam over deadly protests in territorial dispute

Today in Cold War History
1948 – The body of CBS News correspondent George Polk was found in Solonika Bay in Greece. It had been a week after he’d disappeared.
1953 – American journalist William N. Oatis is released after serving 22 months of a ten-year prison sentence for espionage in Czechoslovakia.
1957 – US launches its 3rd atomic submarine, USS Skate, at Groton Conn
1960 – A Big Four summit in Paris collapsed due to the American U-2 spy plane incident.
1961 – Park Chung-hee leads a coup d’état to overthrow the Second Republic of South Korea.
1963 – After 22 Earth orbits Gordon Cooper returned to Earth, ending Project Mercury.
1965 – Bomb destroys USAF base Bien Hoa South Vietnam
1966 – The Communist Party of China issues the “May 16 Notice”, marking the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
1969 – Venera program: Venera 5, a Soviet space probe, lands on Venus.
1969 – US nuclear sub Guitarro sinks off SF
1974 – Josip Broz Tito is re-elected president of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. This time he is elected for life.
1975 – India annexes Sikkim after the mountain state holds a referendum in which the popular vote is in favor of merging with India.
1989 – Soviet president Mikhail S Gorbachev & Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping ended a 30-year rift when they formally met in Beijing

Bonus: Cold war article to read: Files Uncovered: Nazi Veterans Created Illegal Army http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/wehrmacht-veterans-created-a-secret-army-in-west-germany-a-969015.html

US calls for probe of possible weapons deal between former bitter foes Iran, Iraq

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Russia to ban US from using Space Station over Ukraine sanctions

€1.2bn French Helicopter-Carrier Deal Will Help Russia Win Wars in ’40 mins’

Military operation launched to locate kidnapped Nigerian girls

Bombshell: Senator Accuses Obama Of Actively Allowing These Terrorists Into Country

Vietnamese workers torch foreign factories over Chinese sea claims

US, others protest as wife of controversial UN official Richard Falk named to new post

Today in Cold War History for May 14
1948 – Israel is declared to be an independent state and a provisional government is established. Immediately after the declaration, Israel is attacked by the neighboring Arab states, triggering the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
1949 Truman signs bill establishing a rocket test range at Cape Canaveral
1955 – Eight Communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign a mutual defense treaty called the Warsaw Pact.
1957 Petrol rationing, which has been in force in Britain and France for five months following the Suez crisis ends.But surcharges on petrol prices and the four-day working week for many factories are to remain in place till oil supplies are normalized.
1960 U.S.S.R. launch 1st (unmanned) space capsule
1963 – Kuwait joins the United Nations.
1964 Following US refusal to help finance building the Aswan Dam , President Gamal Abdul Nasser of Egypt and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev mark the beginning of the project by diverting the Nile.The Aswan dam is financed and built with Russian helpThe Aswan Dam came into operation in 1971 increasing good farming land in Egypt by one third, and creating the world’s largest man-made lake Lake Nasser.
1968 – RAF-leader Andreas Baader sentenced to 3 years in West Berlin
1970 – The Red Army Faction is established in West Germany.
1973 – Skylab, the United States’ first space station, is launched.
1974 – Symbionese Liberation Army destroyed in shoot-out, 6 killed
1975 U.S. forces raid Cambodian island of Koh Tang to free Mayaguez ship
1986 Mikhail Gorbachev goes on TV to tell the Russian people that the death toll has reached 9 and a further 299 are hospitalized with radiation poisoning from the Chernobyl accident on April 26th. Meanwhile fallout from the nuclear accident has been identified as far away as the USA.
1991 Winnie Mandela sentenced to 6 years for complicity in kidnapping and beating of four youths, one of whom died, She is freed pending appeal

“MUSLIMS LIVING IN THE WEST TAKE YOU SUICIDE VEST AND CARRY OUT A LONE WOLF ATTACK” AL SHABAB’S NEW MESSAGE FOR SOMALIS IN MINNESOTA

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Israel at 66: Not a Pariah, Not Isolated

The ‘Brave German Woman’ and Europe’s Islam Question

American survivor of female genital mutilation calls on US to take action

British Islamist: Muslims Should Humiliate Christians to Make them Convert

Romania queries Moscow after deputy PM sends bomber jet tweets

Morocco building wall at Spain’s Melilla border: NGO

Today in Cold War History for May 12
1949 – The Soviet Union lifts its blockade of Berlin.
1949 – The western occupying powers approve the Basic Law for the new German state: The Federal Republic of Germany.
1951 – 1st H Bomb test, on Enewetak Atoll
1955 – Austria regains its independence as the Allied occupation following World War II ends.
1958 – A formal North American Aerospace Defense Command agreement is signed between the United States and Canada.
1965 – The Soviet spacecraft Luna 5 crashes on the Moon.
1968 – Vietnam War: North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces attack Australian troops defending Fire Support Base Coral, east of Lai Khe in South Vietnam on the night of 12/13 May, resulting in heavy casualties on both sides and beginning the Battle of Coral–Balmoral.
1975 – Mayagüez incident: The Cambodian navy seizes the American merchant ship SS Mayaguez in international waters.
1981 – Francis Hughes starves to death in the Maze Prison in a Republican campaign for political prisoner status to be granted to Provisional IRA prisoners.
1982 In Fatima Portugal, a Spanish priest with a bayonet is stopped prior to his attempt to attack Pope John Paul II
1998 – Four students are shot at Trisakti University, leading to widespread riots and the fall of Suharto

Dozens dead as migrant boat sinks off coast of Libya

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Vietnam: Chinese ships ram vessels near oil rig

North Korean Regime’s Days May Finally Be Numbered

Terror TV for Tots: Hamas show has child vowing to “Shoot the Jews”

Obama Administration: Boko Haram Has ‘Legitimate Concerns’

Report: U.S. Missiles Being Used by Islamist Fighters in Syria

Russia Launches Two ICBMs, Rebuffs “Simulated Massive Nuclear Strike” As Part Of Military Drill

Today in Cold War History for may 9
1948 – Czechoslovakia’s Ninth-of-May Constitution comes into effect.
1950 – Robert Schuman presents his proposal on the creation of an organized Europe, which according to him was indispensable to the maintenance of peaceful relations. This proposal, known as the “Schuman declaration”, is considered by some people to be the beginning of the creation of what is now the European Union.
1955 – West Germany joins NATO.
1956- England Frogman Disappears : A British naval diver ( Commander Lionel “Buster” Crabb ) goes missing ( Later Found Dead ) during a Goodwill Visit by a Soviet cruiser carrying Soviet leaders Nikita Khruschev and Marshal Nikolai Bulganin. At the time no one would admit that he was spying on the Russian Cruiser on a spying mission for MI6 and had dived under the cruiser to check out the hull and any other information he could find. And it still remains a mystery on how he died.
1960 – Nigeria becomes a member of British Commonwealth
1962 – A laser beam was successfully bounced off Moon for the first time.
1965 – Luna 5 launched (USSR) 1st attempt to soft land on Moon (fails)
1970 – Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 75,000 to 100,000 war protesters demonstrate in front of the White House.
1976- Israel Plane Hijack 9th May 1976 : A Sabena Boeing that was hijacked after leaving Vienna with 90 passengers and 10 crew that had been held hostage for 23 hours at Lod airport in Tel Aviv is stormed by Israeli soldiers disguised as maintenance staff who killed two of the Arab hijackers and released the passengers and crew.
1978 – The bullet-riddled body of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro was found in an automobile in the center of Rome. The Red Brigades had abducted him.
1979 – Iranian Jewish businessman Habib Elghanian is executed by firing squad in Tehran, prompting the mass exodus of the once 100,000 member strong Jewish community of Iran.
1980 – 35 motorists die as a Liberian freighter rams a Tampa Bay Bridge

Assad’s New Bomb: Syrian Regime Hasn’t Abandoned Chemical Weapons