Portal:Current events/2008 May 9
May 9, 2008 (Friday)
- 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)[permanent dead link]
- 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)