Portal:Current events/2008 May 13

• 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 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)

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