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Current events of May 10, 2016 (2016-05-10) (Tuesday)

War in Afghanistan (2015–present)
- Ali Haider Gilani, the son of former Prime Minister of Pakistan Yousaf Raza Gilani, is rescued in a joint operation by US and Afghan forces three years after he was kidnapped by suspected Taliban militants. (AFP via ABC News Australia)
Kurdish–Turkish conflict (2015–present)
- At least three are killed in a car bomb targeting a Turkish police vehicle in Diyarbakır, Turkey. (FOX News)

At least 50 are killed in flooding and landslides triggered by heavy rains in Ethiopia. (FOX News)

Munich knife attack
- One person is killed and several others injured in a knife attack at the Grafing station, a station of the Munich S-Bahn system in Germany. The alleged assailant has been arrested. (NBC News) (Sky News)
The head of Bangladesh’s largest Islamist party, Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, Motiur Rahman Nizami, is executed for his alleged role in acts of genocide and war crimes during the independence war against Pakistan in 1971. (Washington Post)

NASA confirms that 1,284 objects discovered by its Kepler spacecraft are in fact exoplanets. (The Verge)

London football club West Ham United F.C. play the final match of their 112-year stay at the Boleyn Ground, before moving to the city's Olympic Stadium. (BBC)