Portal:Current events/2009 May 28

Current events of May 28, 2009 (2009-05-28) (Thursday)

General Motors asks Germany to indebt its subsidiary automakers Opel and Vauxhall Motors. (Times Online) Sixteen people are killed and more than 20 injured when a bus crashes near Yambol, Bulgaria. (BBC) Raymond Hewlett, a person of interest in Madeleine McCann's disappearance, gives the West Yorkshire Police a DNA sample for testing. (Sky News) Former Chilean Army conscript José Adolfo Paredes Márquez is charged with murdering activist/singer Víctor Jara during General Augusto Pinochet's coup d'état in 1973. (Guardian) United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reaffirms President Barack Obama's demand that Israel halt settlement in the West Bank. (BBC) A 7.1-magnitude earthquake occurs in the Gulf of Honduras. (BBC) Two bombs kill eight people and injure 74 others in Peshawar, Pakistan. (CNN) The United States and South Korea increase their alert states after North Korea renounces the armistice that halted the Korean War in 1953. (BBC)