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May 14, 2009 (Thursday)
- Chrysler terminates 789 dealerships throughout the United States. (Detroit Free Press)
- Burma charges National League for Democracy General Secretary Aung San Suu Kyi for violating her house arrest. (Sky News)
- North Korea announces that arrested American journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling will be tried on June 4. (Reuters)
- The Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda kill at least 90 people in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (BBC)
- Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Zhao Ziyang's secret memoirs about the 1989 protests in Tiananmen Square are published. (BBC)
- The South Korean Navy destroyer Mummu the Great and the U.S. Navy cruiser Gettysburg capture 17 suspected Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden. (CNN)
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