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A series of bomb blasts in Jaipur, India kills at least 80 people.
An earthquake(epicenter shown on map) measuring 7.9 Mw strikes Sichuan, China with over 13,000 people reported dead.
Sudan cuts diplomatic relations with Chad, blaming it for helping rebels from Darfur to launch an attack on Sudan's capital, Khartoum.
An international relief operation begins after Cyclone Nargis strikes Burma, with at least 100,000 people reported killed or missing. The Burmese military regime conducts a constitutional referendum days after the cyclone's strike.
A tornado outbreak in Oklahoma and Missouri, United States kills at least 23 people.
Skirmishes between supporters of Lebanon's government and the opposition erupt in Beirut.
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Current events of May 14, 2008 (2008-05-14) (Wednesday)
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Xinhua reports that the death toll from the 2008 Sichuan earthquake has reached nearly 15,000. (AP via Google News)
The President of the United States George W. Bush starts a trip to the Middle East where he will celebrate Israel's sixtieth anniversary and meet with King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. (BBC News)
Cyclone Nargis
The United Nations is warning that another cyclone could be forming near Myanmar which was devastated by Cyclone Nargis. (AP via Fox News)
Thailand claims that the State Peace and Development Council will allow 30 Thai doctors to visit the Irrawaddy River Delta region worst hit by the cyclone. (AFP via The Times of South Africa) (AP via Yahoo! News)
A car bomb explodes in a civil guards barracks in the town of Legutiano in the Basque Country of Spain killing at least one person and injuring several others. (AFP via Google News)
Current events of May 13, 2008 (2008-05-13) (Tuesday)
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U.S. federal prosecutors have filed a new indictment against baseball slugger Barry Bonds, charging him with 14 counts of lying to a grand jury and one count of obstruction of justice when he denied knowingly using performance-enhancing drugs. (AP via Yahoo! News)
Wayne Swan, the Treasurer of Australia, delivers his first budget establishing $40 billion funds for infrastructure, health and education. (News Limited)
Hewlett-Packard agrees to buy Electronic Data Systems for $13.9 billion dollars. (Bloomberg)
2008 Sichuan earthquake:
The death toll from the earthquake reaches 12,000. (CNN)
The Chinese government launches a massive rescue operation to search for survivors. (BBC News)
Cyclone Nargis:
The State Peace and Development Council continues to block foreign aid workers from entering Burma. (BBC News)
The United Nations call for the opening of an air corridor to bring aid to the victims. (BBC News)
Ministers from Nawaz Sharif's party Pakistan Muslim League (N) resign from the Government of Pakistan. (BBC News)
United States presidential election, 2008
West Virginia voters go to the polls in the Democratic Party primary to elect 28 delegates to the 2008 Democratic National Convention. New York Senator Hillary Clinton obtains a clear victory. (Washington Post)
Senator Clinton welcomes the vote in West Virginia as an "overwhelming vote of confidence" in her campaign. (Associated Press)
A series of bomb blasts hits the Indian city of Jaipur, killing at least 60 people and injuring 150. (BBC News)
Eleven people are killed and 20 wounded in clashes between Iraqi militias and the United States Army in the Sadr City district of Baghdad. (BBC News)
The United States Department of Defense drops charges against Mohamed al-Kahtani, who was suspected of being the "20th hijacker" in the September 11, 2001 attacks. (BBC News)
Colombian warlord extradition
Colombia extradites 14 former paramilitary leaders, including Salvatore Mancuso, Rodrigo Tovar Pupo, and Diego Murillo Bejarano, to the United States where they have been charged with drug trafficking. (BBC News)
President of Colombia Álvaro Uribe says that the assets of warlords will be confiscated to compensate victims. (Associated Press)
Current events of May 12, 2008 (2008-05-12) (Monday)
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2008 Sichuan earthquake: A magnitude 7.9 earthquake hits China's Sichuan province, killing at least 10,000 people. (BBC News) (BBC News)
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says he is "immensely frustrated" at the State Peace and Development Council's slow response to the cyclone. (BBC News)
2008 unrest in Lebanon:
Hezbollah clash with forces loyal to Druze leader Walid Jumblatt in the Shouf mountains, and with Sunni supporters of the government in Tripoli. (BBC News)
United States President George W. Bush offers to help improve the Lebanese Armed Forces. (BBC News)
2008 attack on Omdurman and Khartoum:
Shootings are reported in Khartoum, Sudan, one day after the rebel attack. Islamist leader Hassan al-Turabi is released from custody after being interrogated by police. (BBC News) (BBC News)
Chad closes its border with Sudan and severs economic relations after being accused of backing the attack. (BBC News)
Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's party Pakistan Muslim League (N) announces it has decided to leave the governing coalition because of differences over how to restore around 60 judges sacked by President Pervez Musharraf on November 3, 2007. (BBC News) (BBC News)
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez nationalises steel firm Ternium-Sidor, which is mainly owned by Argentina's Techint. (BBC News)
Israeli police raid the Jerusalem city hall to seize documents related to alleged bribes received by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert from businessman Moshe Talansky. (BBC News)
The President of Bolivia Evo Morales approves recall elections for himself and the governors of the nine departments on August 10, 2008. (AP via Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Russia's new Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announces his cabinet. (BBC News)
United States federal authorities start sending aid to Missouri, Oklahoma and Georgia as the total death toll from the May 2008 tornado outbreak sequence reaches 23. (BBC News)
Current events of May 11, 2008 (2008-05-11) (Sunday)
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2008 attack on Omdurman and Khartoum:
Sudan's government halts an attack on the country's capital Khartoum by hundreds of rebels from Darfur. (Al-jazeera)
Sudan breaks diplomatic ties with Chad, claiming it backed the rebel attack. (BBC News)
Sudan's ambassador to the United Nations Abdalmahmood Abdalhaleem says there is proof that Chad supported the rebels. Opposition leader Hassan al-Turabi is arrested. (BBC News)
Cyclone Nargis:
The International Federation of the Red Cross says that the cargo ship carrying the first load of food aid from the Red Cross for survivors of Cyclone Nargis has sunk in the Irrawaddy River. (Reuters) (AP via Yahoo! News)
The official death toll for Cyclone Nargis rises to 28,458. (Vatican Radio)
Pakistan's two main coalition leaders, Asif Ali Zardari and Nawaz Sharif meet with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher in London to discuss the removal of judges by President Pervez Musharraf, but fail to reach an agreement. (AP via CNN)
Run-offs in the Zimbabwean presidential election, according to George Chiweshe, the elections commissioner, must be delayed past the time allotted by law, up to a year, until funding can be found. (AP via CNN)
Serbian voters go to the polls in the Serbian parliamentary election, 2008. A pro-Europe coalition associated with the President of Serbia Boris Tadić wins the most votes. (BBC News) (Sydney Morning Herald)
Current events of May 10, 2008 (2008-05-10) (Saturday)
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May 2008 tornado outbreak sequence:
A tornado kills at least nine in Picher, Oklahoma. (KTUL.com) (AP via Yahoo! News)
A swarm of tornadoes in southwest Missouri kills at least 12 people with much of the damage in Newton County, Missouri. (Reuters) (AP via Google News) (NOAA)
United States presidential election, 2008: Illinois Senator Barack Obama takes the lead in support from superdelegates to the Democratic National Convention (The New York Times)
News Corporation withdraws its bid to purchase the New York City newspaper Newsday. (The New York Times)
2008 attack on Omdurman and Khartoum: Hundreds of Darfur rebels from the Justice and Equality Movement reach the outskirts of Khartoum and engage in clashes with the Sudanese military. (AP via Google News)
Russia's air force chief Col.-Gen. Alexander Zelin accuses NATO fighters of launching "air attacks" during escort of Russian bombers. (AP via CNN.com)
Muqtada al-Sadr and the Iraqi Government announced a ceasefire in Baghdad's Sadr district. (CNN)
2008 unrest in Lebanon:
The Prime Minister of Lebanon Fuad Saniora accuses Hezbollah of staging "an armed coup" against Lebanon. (AP via The International Herald Tribune)
The Lebanese Army overturns two key government decisions in order to reduce tension between Hezvollah and the Government of Lebanon. (YA Libnan)
Ninawa campaign: The Iraqi Army launched a major operation in the northern city of Mosul against al-Qaeda and its allies. (BBC News)
Morgan Tsvangarai, the Leader of the Movement for Democratic Change in Zimbabwe, announces that he will contest a runoff election in the Zimbabwean presidential election, 2008. (BBC News)
Voters in Burma go to the polls for the Burmese constitutional referendum, 2008 despite the widespread devastation caused by Cyclone Nargis with widespread concerns about the legitimacy of the process. (BBC News)
Negotiators from Pakistan's two major coalition parties meet in London, but fail to reach an agreement. (AP via CNN)
Current events of May 9, 2008 (2008-05-09) (Friday)
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Pakistan's two main coalition leaders, Asif Ali Zardari and Nawaz Sharif meet in London to discuss the removal of judges by Musharraf (AP via CNN)
Commander Esteban Robles Espinosa of Mexico City's investigative police force was shot dead as he left his home. (CNN)
Cyclone Nargis:
A spokesman for the World Food Programme says that Myanmar's refusal to give visas to relief experts is "unprecedented" in the history of humanitarian assistance. (AP via Google News)
The World Food Programme suspends shipments to Myanmar after the State Peace and Development Council seizes supplies shipped to the country. (AP via The Houston Chronicle)
The World Food Programme says that it will resume food shipments on Saturday while warning of further rain in Myanmar next week. The United States has been granted permission to send one C-130 Hercules carrying relief aid on Monday. (AP via Google News) (AP via Google News)
2008 unrest in Lebanon:
Hezbollah gains control of large sections of Beirut as a pro-government television station is forced off the air. (AFP via News Limited)
The United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice accuses Hezbollah backed by Syria and Iran of killing "innocent civilians". (AP via USA Today)
The price of crude oil reaches a new record high of US$125.98 a barrel. (BBC News)
The United States Military denies the capture of al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Ayyub al-Masri. (BBC News)
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert denies taking bribes from businessman Moshe Talansky. (BBC News)
A Zimbabwean policeman tells the BBC the presidential runoff election will be rigged by war veteran militias. (BBC News)
Current events of May 8, 2008 (2008-05-08) (Thursday)
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The Congress of Bolivia agrees to hold a recall election by 7 August on whether the President of Bolivia Evo Morales should remain in power. (CNN)
Commissioner Édgar Eusebio Millán Gómez of Mexico's Federal Preventive Police is shot dead in central Mexico City. (CNN)
The United States House of Representatives approves legislation developed by Barney Frank to let the United States government insure up to $300 billion in mortgages to help homeowners avert foreclosure. (Bloomberg)
The Iraqi Minister of Defence claims that the leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, has been captured. (BBC News)
North Korea hands over thousands of pages about its nuclear program to a visiting diplomat from the United States that will help verify its plutonium holdings. (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Russia expels two United States military attachés following earlier expulsion of two Russian diplomats from the United States. (Bloomberg)
Latvia and Lithuania become the latest EU member states to ratify the Treaty of Lisbon. (RTÉ)
2008 unrest in Lebanon: Gunbattles erupt in Beirut as the government of Lebanon cracks down on Hezbollah. Two people are killed and eight injured in the fighting. (AFP) (AP via Google News)
The 2008 Summer Olympics torch relay reaches the peak of Mount Everest. (AP via Google News)
Cyclone Nargis:
An international relief operation begins after cyclone Nargis strikes Burma, with at least 63,500 people reported killed or missing. (Reuters via NineMSN)
Three planes carrying vital food aid for the World Food Programme to Burma are delayed in Bangkok, Dhaka and Dubai due to a failure by Burma's State Peace and Development Council to grant approval. After approval is granted, planes start arriving in Yangon. (Reuters via NineMSN) (AP via Google News)
Silvio Berlusconi is sworn in as Prime Minister of Italy for the fourth time. (EuroNews)
The PRO-IP Act passes through the United States House of Representatives. (Ars technica)
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May 13: Five of six accused over 9/11 to be tried; charges against '20th hijacker' dropped
May 13: Late Emir of Kuwait passes away at age 78
May 13: Car crash on A37 near Bristol, two dead
May 13: Moldovan wines win three medals at contest in Bordeaux
May 13: Pakistan's coalition government faces split
May 12: Dottie Rambo dies in tour bus crash
May 12: Republic of Molossia announces new customs station
May 12: British Airways Flight 38 suffered low fuel pressure; investigation continues
May 12: Polish humanitarian Irena Sendler dies at age 98
May 12: UK opposition leader calls for Burma aid to be dispatched by air if access for aid workers does not improve
May 12: 2007/08 Bundesliga: MSV Duisburg vs. Bayern Munich
May 12: Large earthquake hits central China
May 12: Ben Folds performs at Western Connecticut State University
May 12: Galatasaray clinch 17th Turkish title
May 11: Felipe Massa wins 2008 Turkish Grand Prix
May 11: Fighting continues in Tripoli, Lebanon
May 11: The Next Consortium of ITRI launches 'RoboScooter'
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