Portal:Current events/2008 May 30

• India will establish panel to help survivors of the 1984 Bhopal disaster; day after government promised to establish commission to look into long-standing demands of survivors of a deadly gas leak, scores of campaigners continued their peaceful protest in park in central Delhi. (VOA)

• Grupo TACA Flight 390, an Airbus A320 flying from El Salvador, crashes in Honduras after failing to land due to a wet runway. 18 casualties are reported, including the chairman of the Central American Bank for Economic Integration. CNN Noticias24

• Montenegro received the list of requirements it must fulfil in order to join the Schengen Agreement. The country hopes to be visa-free by next year.(Southeast European Times)
• The UN envoy in Cyprus said he was encouraged by the "initiative and commitment" the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot leaders have shown in efforts to end the island's decades-long division.(Southeast European Times)
• Kosovo delegation attends a European Parliament session for first time since declaring independence from Serbia. (Southeast European Times)
• Iraq delivers a report on security, reconstruction, and economic progress at the U.N. conference on Iraq in Stockholm. Iraq seeks debt forgiveness and foreign investment to aid with reconstruction. (Mawtani) (VOA)
• Cyclone Nargis:
  • Burma grants visas to international relief workers, but are preventing many from traveling to the Irrawaddy Delta, one of the hardest areas hit by Cyclone Nargis. (VOA)
  • The pro-military junta newspaper New Light of Myanmar criticises foreign aid for victims of Cyclone Nargis stating that they could survive from eating frogs and fish in the Irrawaddy River delta. (AFP)
• The United Nations marks 60 years of international peacekeeping operations. (VOA) (United Nations)
• 2008 Sichuan earthquake: China begins inspecting the ruins of thousands of schools that collapsed in the Sichuan earthquake, searching for clues about why they crumbled. (VOA)
• Somalia's Eritrea-based opposition splits after hard-line Islamist leader Sheik Hassan Dahir Aweys seeks to remove moderate Islamist Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed as chairman. (VOA)
• The Texas Supreme Court rules that 416 children taken from the YFZ Ranch should be returned. (AP via Bloomberg)
• Gujjar protesters in New Delhi halt traffic to enforce blockade on Indian's capital seeking ethnic classification with preferential access to government jobs and educational institutions. (VOA)
• The FBI is investigating after a net flooding assault takes down legitimate video website Revision3. Company officials accuse MediaDefender. (The Register)
• Archaeologists say England's Stonehenge was a burial ground. (The Washington Post)
• 19,000 auto workers accept buyout at G.M. (The New York Times)

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