Portal:Current events/2014 May 18

May 18, 2014 (Sunday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

A group headed by Khalifa Haftar, which includes renegade Libyan general Mokhtar Farnana, launches an attack on the Parliament of Libya. (AP)
A blast hits the northern Nigerian city of Kano. (BBC News)

Business and economy

American communications company AT&T Inc. agrees to buy pay television company DirecTV for $48.5 billion. (AP via Politico)

Disasters and accidents

Officials in North Korea report the collapse of a 23-story block of flats that is believed to have killed multiple residents, in a rare public apology. (Al Jazeera)
Soma mine disaster:
- Turkish police arrest 18 people including mining company executives over the disaster which caused the deaths of 301 people. (BBC)
A bus in Fundación, department of Magdalena, Colombia, ignites while transporting children from a religious service, killing 31 children. (TIME)

International relations

2014 Vietnam anti-China protests:
- More than 3,000 Chinese citizens are evacuated from Vietnam, with two Chinese killed and more than 100 injured in the riot last week following China drilling for oil in the South China Sea. (Reuters) (CNN)

Politics and elections

Voters in Switzerland resoundingly reject a proposed law change that would have given that country the world's highest minimum wage. (AP)

Sport