Portal:Current events/2016 May 25
Armed conflicts and attacks
- War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
- The 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)
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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, Italian navy rescued 562 people. (Al Jazeera)
- At least five die after their overcrowded,
International 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 Stanley Cup Final for the first time in franchise history. (NHL)
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