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May 18, 2010 (Tuesday)

Hamas' interior ministry executes three Palestinians in Gaza, without the approval of the President of the Palestinian National Authority, Mahmoud Abbas. (The Jerusalem Post)
A Taliban suicide car bomber kills at least 12 Afghan civilians and wounds dozens more in an attack on a NATO convoy in the capital, Kabul. (TVNZ)
A suicide car-bomber attacks a police van in the north western Pakistani town of Dera Ismail Khan, killing 12 people. (TVNZ)
Suspected Maoists kill 35 people in a land mine attack against a bus in central India on a road roughly 280 miles (450 km) south of the state capital of Raipur. (CNN)
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appoints Christiana Figueres of Costa Rica to lead United Nations efforts to combat climate change and global Warming. (UN)

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 * A suicide car-bomber attacks a police van in the north western [[Pakistan]]i town of [[Dera Ismail Khan]], killing 12 people. [http://tvnz.co.nz/world-news/bomber-kills-12-in-pakistan-3556986 (TVNZ)]
 * Suspected [[Maoist]]s kill 35 people in a land mine attack against a bus in central [[India]] on a road roughly 280 miles (450 km) south of the state capital of [[Raipur]]. [http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/05/17/india.maoist.attack/index.html?hpt=T2 (CNN)]
-* Secretary-General [[Ban Ki-moon]] appoints [[Christiana Figueres]] of [[Costa Rica]] to lead [[United Nations]] efforts to combat [[climate change]]. [http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=34719&Cr=climate+change&Cr1= (UN)]
+* Secretary-General [[Ban Ki-moon]] appoints [[Christiana Figueres]] of [[Costa Rica]] to lead [[United Nations]] efforts to combat [[climate change]] and [[global Warming]]. [http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=34719&Cr=climate+change&Cr1= (UN)]
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