Portal:Current events/2008 May 13

May 13, 2008 (Tuesday)

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)
2008 United States presidential election
- 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.^{[citation needed]} ^{[citation needed]}
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 Mohammed al Qahtani, 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.^{[citation needed]}