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May 7, 2009 (Thursday)

The private military company Xe (formerly Blackwater Worldwide) ends its operations in Baghdad, Iraq. (AP via Google News)
The Eastern Partnership conducts its inaugural meeting in Prague, Czech Republic.
General Motors reports a US$6 billion loss for the first fiscal quarter of 2009. (AP via the Wall Street Journal)
One police officer is killed and two more are injured in Napier, New Zealand. (TVNZ.co.nz)
Canada experiences its first swine influenza-related death. (CP24 via Canadian Press)
Wildfires near Santa Barbara, California, United States, burn 3,000 acres (12 km²) of land and force 15,000 people to evacuate. (BBC)
The Armed Forces and the Union of Forces for Democracy and Development battle near Goz Beïda, Ouaddaï Region, Chad. (BBC)
China announces that 5,335 schoolchildren died during an earthquake in Sichuan on May 12, 2008. (The Guardian)
An American man is arrested in Burma for trespassing on National League for Democracy General Secretary Aung San Suu Kyi's property. (BBC)
The Central Bank reduces the Eurozone's interest rate to 1% and implements €60 billion of quantitative easing. (BBC)
A fire at a casino kills ten people and injures ten others in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine. (BBC)
The fourth phase of India's general election concludes. (Hindustan Times)
The Bank of England freezes interest rates at 0.5% and will implement £50 billion of quantitative easing. (BBC)
Ten Army soldiers are killed and 22 others injured during combat with the Taliban in Swat, Pakistan. (BBC)
Somali pirates hijack the Netherlands' MV Marathon and attack the U.S. Navy cargo ship Lewis and Clark. (Reuters)

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