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A timeline of events in the news for May, 2002.

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• Afghanistan timeline May 2002

1 May 31, 2002

• The United States Department of StateThe United States Department of State often referred to as the State Department is the Cabinet-level foreign affairs agency of the United States government, equivalent to foreign ministries in other countries. It is administered by the United States Secre issues a travel warning advising all Americans except for essential diplomatic personnel (about 60,000 people) to leave IndiaThe Republic of India is a large multicultural country in South Asia, with a population of over one billion. The Indian economy is the fourth largest in the world, in terms of purchasing power parity, and is the world's second-fastest growing economy. because "conditions along India's border with PakistanIslami Jamhuria Pakistan ( In Detail) ( In Detail) National motto: Iman, Ittehad, Nazm( Urdu: "Faith, Unity, Discipline" Official Language(s) Urdu, English Capital Islamabad Largest City Karachi President General Pervez Musharraf Prime Minister Shaukat Az and in the state of JammuJammu is one of the three regions of Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. It consists of six districts of the state namely Jammu, Kathua, Poonch, Rajouri, Udhampur and Doda. Largest city is Jammu. Approximately 66% of the population is hindu. Jammu is also and KashmirKashmir is a region in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent. The term Kashmir historically described the valley just to the south of the westernmost end of the Himalayan range. Politically, however, the term 'Kashmir' describes a much larger area have deteriorated."
• The European UnionFor other uses, see EU (disambiguation). The European Union or EU is a supranational organisation of 25 European states. It was established with that name by the Treaty on European Union (commonly known as the Maastricht Treaty) in 1992 but many aspects o ratifies the Kyoto ProtocolThe Kyoto Protocol is an amendment to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), an international treaty on global warming. It also reaffirms sections of the UNFCCC. Countries which ratify this protocol commit to reduce their emis treaty, and Japan stated they would shortly.
• Football World Cup 2002: Senegal defeats defending champion France 1-0.

2 May 30, 2002

• Miller Brewing is acquired from Philip Morris by South African Brewing for $3.6 billion in stock.
• September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack: A wordless ceremony at the World Trade Center site marks the end of the recovery effort. In the ceremony, which started at 10:29 AM with the tolling of a firemen's bell, a stretcher with an American flag, symbolizing the victims whose remains were not recovered or yet identified was carried up the 500-foot ramp to an FDNY ambulance, which slowly left the site, as did the flatbed truck carrying the last steel beam to be removed. The ceremony included the playing of America the Beautiful by the NYPD pipe-and-drum corps, a flyover by five NYPD helicopters, and the playing of taps by a NYPD and FDNY bugler. The ceremony was attended by hundreds of rescue and recovery workers, family members of victimes, and New York politicians.