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May 18, 2010 (Tuesday)
- A new study has found that the gap in wealth between white and black Americans increased by more than four times between 1984 and 2007. (BBC)
- 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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