Current events of 19 May 2009 (2009-05-19) (Tuesday) edit history watch

The United States Government Accountability Office warns that the Global Positioning System could fail by 2010. (Guardian) President Mahmoud Abbas inaugurates the Palestinian National Authority's new government. (BBC) United Kingdom House of Commons Speaker Michael Martin announces that he will resign on June 21. (BBC) President Mahinda Rajapaksa declares Sri Lanka "liberated" from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. (BBC) (Reuters) Uzbekistan's government leases Navoiy Airport to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. (IWPR) Pro-Tamil Tigers protesters and the Metropolitan Police Service battle, injuring 16 people, in London, England. (Sky News) The U.S. and Russia begin negotiations to replace the expiring Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. (BBC) The Association of Southeast Asian Nations expresses "grave concern" about National League for Democracy General Secretary Aung San Suu Kyi's trial. (Reuters) Ethiopia's National Defense Force reenters Somalia. (BBC) Former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney testifies about his relationship with arms dealer Karlheinz Schreiber. (CBC) Manmohan Singh of the National Congress is reelected as Prime Minister of India. (AFP) Brazilian oil company Petrobras and the People's Republic of China finalize a US$10-billion agreement. (WSJ) The European Parliament requests that Spain reform its planning laws. (BBC) A 47-million-year-old skeleton of a lemur species is discovered in Germany. (Sky News) Somali pirates release the German cargo ship MV Patriot. (AP) Bahrain recognizes Kosovo. (BNA)