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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 U.S. 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 attacker was arrested within minutes and German police said he had islamist background. (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)

Russian president Vladimir Putin dies from kidney failure at the age of 63. (Daily Mail)
Philippine presidential election, 2016
- Rodrigo Duterte continues to lead in the presidential race, while Leni Robredo leads Bongbong Marcos by a small margin in the vice presidential race. (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
United States presidential election, 2016, United States presidential election in West Virginia, 2016, United States presidential election in Nebraska, 2016
- Voters in the state of West Virginia head to the polls to vote in the Democratic and Republican presidential primaries. Voters in the state of Nebraska vote in the Republican presidential primary with Donald Trump just 169 delegates short of securing the nomination. (New York Daily News) (Lincoln Journal Star)
- Donald Trump is projected as the winner in the Republican primary in West Virginia while Bernie Sanders is projected to win the Democratic Primary. (New York Times), (BBC)
- Donald Trump is projected to win Nebraska. (Washington Examiner)

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

In basketball, Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors is named NBA MVP for the [[2015–16 NBA season|second straight season. Curry is also the first player ever to receive all possible first-place votes. (ESPN)
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)