Current events of 27 May 2008 (2008-05-27) (Tuesday) edit history watch

Rights groups say afghan women committing suicide at alarming rate; Women rights groups say that last year, almost 500 women chose death or disfigurement to life of despair by setting themselves on fire to escape forced marriages, slavery or sexual and other types of abuse.(VOA) Argentine farmers announce that they will stop selling grain for export from 28 May to 2 June in a deepening row with the federal government over export taxes. (AFP) The Russian Constitutional Court meets in its first session since it relocated from Moscow to the historical building of the Governing Senate at the Decembrists Square in Saint Petersburg. (Itar-Tass) The S&P/Case-Shiller index shows a record annual decline in United States house prices of 14.1%. (CEP News) Aung San Suu Kyi The State Peace and Development Council extends Aung San Suu Kyi's house arrest by one year. (AFP via Google News) Police in Burma detain more than a dozen members of Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy. (AP via Google News) In the aftermath of the Sichuan earthquake, the People's Republic of China evacuates 100,000 people from Mianyang as engineers prepare to drain the landslide dam-created Tangjiashan Lake.(CNN) Thabo Mbeki, the President of South Africa, leaves for Japan to attend a conference on African development despite concerns about the 2008 South African riots. (AFP) Protesting soldiers seize the deputy head of the Army of Guinea a week after Lansana Kouyate is dismissed as Prime Minister. (BBC News) Leiden University Medical Center scientists decipher the first complete DNA sequence of a woman. (MSNBC)