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MAY 12
2005
(THURSDAY)
Malcolm Glazer
wins control of UK
Football
team
Manchester United F.C.
after securing a 70% share.
(BBC)
(ABC News)
(NY Times)
The
British
Air Accidents Investigation Branch
states that it has reached "no definite conclusion" about the reason of
Air Crash
that claimed the life of billionaire
Paul Louis Halley
, his wife and their pilot in
2003
.
(BBC)
Zimbabwe
releases 60
South Africa
n mercenaries that were linked to an alleged
Coup
attempt in the
Equatorial Guinea
last year.
(BBC)
(IOL)
(Reuters AlertNet)
A
United States Senate
probe releases evidence showing two prominent
British
and
French
Politician
s received vouchers for millions of barrels of
Iraq
i oil in exchange for their support of
Saddam Hussein
's regime.
George Galloway
is accused of using his children's
Leukemia
foundation to conceal the transfer of 3 million barrels of oil, although he denies any wrongdoing.
(BBC)
,
(ABC News)
The
European Court Of Human Rights
rules that
Turkey
's
1999
trial of
Kurd
ish leader
Abdullah Öcalan
was not fair.
(Zaman Online, Turkey)
(IHT)
(Reuters)
Nigeria
n president
Olusegun Obasanjo
opens the country's first
Blood Transfusion
centre. The centre is meant to screen blood to hinder the spread of the
AIDS
.
(Reuters AlertNet)
Western countries pledge funds to
Ukraine
so the country can cover the
Chernobyl
Nuclear Reactor
.
(Planet Ark)
(Reuters AlertNet)
In
Colombia
, former justice minister
Alberto Santofimio Botero
is arrested suspected of complicity in the
Murder
of
Presidential Candidate
Luis Carlos Galan
in
1989
.
(Reuters AlertNet)
(ABC)
A federal judge in
Houston, Texas
, sentences former
Enron
executive
Dan Boyle
to 3 years and 10 months in prison for his involvement with a barge scam with the
Merrill Lynch
. Two Merrill Lynch executies also receive sentences.
(Houston Chronicle)
(Businessweek)
(Reuters)
La Cumbre
volcano on
Ferdinanda Island
in the
Galápagos Islands
begins to erupt.
(ABC News)