News headlines in May 2011, page 40

Osama bin Laden’s killing by U.S. troops, in a safe house adjacent to a Pakistani military academy in Abbottabad, may vindicate India’s charges that its neighbour is a haven for jihadist groups, but it will do little to change that reality.

In a surprise address late Sunday night, U.S. President Barack Obama declared Osama bin Laden - leader of the terrorist organisation al Qaeda and the world’s most wanted fugitive - dead. According to Obama, bin Laden was captured and shot in Pakistan’s Abbottabad city, just north of Islamabad. Within minutes of the announcement, leaders across the globe began to issue statements expressing their views on bin Laden’s death.

The killing of Osama Bin Laden in the garrison city Abbottabad in Pakistan has sent shockwaves among its citizens.The city of 600,000 seemed grief-stricken. Most people avoid media persons, who have arrived here in droves in this most peaceful place in the violence-wracked Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

Cuba’s opening to private enterprise still leaves out many professionals who have yet to find a way to use their skills and potential in non-state industries, although they have not lost hope that the rules of the game will change.

'The death of Osama bin Laden is a watershed moment in our common global fight against terrorism,' Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Monday. Addressing a group of reporters, Ban urged people to remember the victims of terrorism all over the world and stated that 'the United Nations condemns in the strongest possible terms terrorism in all its forms, regardless of its purpose and wherever it is committed.'

Following its first-ever fully digital census, Brazil has announced a total national population of 190,755,799 inhabitants in 2010. This figure, announced by The Brazilian Institute for Geography and Statistics (IBGE), indicates 12.3 percent relative growth since 2000.

Taiwan may become the first country in East Asia with a female head of state if opposition Democratic Progressive Party Chairwoman Tsai Ing-wen wins the island country’s fifth presidential election next Jan. 14.

The killing of Al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden in an operation by the U.S. forces has dealt a serious blow to the beleaguered Tehreek Taliban Pakistan (TTP).

First Egypt, then Syria, finally the Palestinians — while most Israelis concur with their Prime Minister that the revolutions, upheavals and shifting alliances closing in on their country have postponed peace prospects, remarkably, the evolving events convulsing the region may yet restore their country's battered legitimacy.

The shutdown was surprisingly swift and almost total. In the midst of a popular revolution — one that was blogged, YouTubed, and Twittered in minute-by-minute cyber blasts — the Egyptian regime tightened its Internet spigot in late January, choking the free flow of information down to a trickle.