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May 16, 2012 (Wednesday)

Armed conflict and attacks

Cambodian police and soldiers evict farmers from land with a teenage girl reportedly being killed. (AP via The Jakarta Post)

Law and crime

Police in the Australian state of Queensland remove an Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Musgrave Park in the state capital Brisbane. (ABC Online)
The trial of former Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladić starts in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia located at The Hague. (AP via The Herald-Sun)

Politics and elections

Greece is to hold a second round of elections on June 17, after final talks by the major political parties to form a coalition government were unsuccessful. [(BBC)

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