Portal:Current events/2007 May 27
May 27, 2007 (Sunday)
- Gay rights in Russia: Russian gay rights leaders and foreign dignitaries are beaten and arrested in Moscow. Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov had denied permission for a gay pride parade.(The Guardian)
- Nepalese police clash with Bhutanese asylum seekers at a United Nations resulting in one 16-year-old boy being killed and a dozen people being injured. (Reuters Alertnet)
- Auto racing: Scotland's Dario Franchitti wins the rain-shortened 91st Indianapolis 500. (Bloomberg)
- Iraq War: United States forces rescue 42 Iraqis from an al-Qaeda hideout northeast of Baghdad with some captives showing signs of torture. (AP via Nine MSN)
- China claims all gold and silver medals in the Table Tennis World Championships in Zagreb, Croatia. (Xinhua)
- 2007 Israel-Gaza conflict:
- Two Qassam rockets land in Israel with at least two casualties in Sderot.
- The IAF strikes two Hamas posts in the Gaza Strip, with no casualties reported. (Reuters) (Ynet)
- President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych of Ukraine agree to a compromise, with early parliamentary elections to be held on September 30. (AFP via The Australian)
- Spanish voters go to the polls in local and regional elections. (BBC)
- Venezuelan TV station Radio Caracas Television is shut down by the Hugo Chávez administration. (BBC)
- Romanian film 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days by Cristian Mungiu gets the Palme d'Or at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. (Forbes)
- Japanese band Zard vocalist Izumi Sakai dies of cerebral contusion in Keio University hospital, Shinjuku, Tokyo. (Breitbart)