Politics
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by Majdi Fathi
Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja attends a ceremony where he was honoured at Palestine University in Gaza City.
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Palestinian police assess the graduation ceremony of the military in Gaza City.
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Egyptian police angered by the kidnapping of seven colleagues by Islamist gunmen kept a crossing into the Gaza Strip closed again for four days, stranding hundreds of Palestinian travellers, witnesses said, while checks are made.
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The fourth anniversary of the most painful event to afflict the Tamil people in living memory. 18th May 2009 marked the peak of several weeks of indiscriminate violence that left tens of thousands of Tamil civilians dead.
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by Saso Domijan
Slovenian president Borut Pahor greets Hungarian president Janos Ader with military honour guard on an official visit in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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by Majdi Fathi
Palestinian members of Hamas national security forces march during a graduation ceremony in Gaza City.
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President of Hungary Janos Ader visits president of Slovenia Borut Pahor. The reception was held at Kongresni and after the reception they went together to the president palace.
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Labourers use a hydraulic drill as they work on foundations of a new complex (L) of Jerusalem's Old City with the Dome of the Rock mosque and Al Aqsa mosque compound in the background.
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Three years memories of red shirt victims, The victims of the incident in political demonstration. @ Ratchaprasong Intersection.
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With the purpose of promoting literary creation and naval culture in adults over 65 years old was held the awards ceremony to the participants of the 5th contest "The Old Man and the Sea" where they relate their experiences, longings or anecdotes.
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by Amer Ghazzal
A group of devout Christian protesters hold a group prayer against gay marriage as the British parliament debates the same sex couples marriage at the Houses of Parliament in Westminster.
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The day after a gay man, Mark Carson, was shot dead on the streets of Greenwich Village, the epicenter of New York's LGBT community, 2,000 protesters and several political leaders marched the streets in protest, demanding safety for their community.
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An estimated 1500 people took to the streets of the West Village in Manhattan, New York City, rallying against hate crimes against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
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The current hunger strike at Guantánamo Bay entered its 101st day on Saturday 18th May outside the USA Embassy. This went largely unnoticed by most of the mainstream media in the UK.






































































