Portal:Current events/2008 May 10
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- May 2008 tornado outbreak sequence:
- A tornado kills at least nine in Picher, Oklahoma. [https://web.archive.org/web/20080514113249/http://www.ktul.com/news/stories/0508/518665.html (KTUL.com)] [https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080511/ap_on_re_us/severe_weather (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. [https://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN10545745 (Reuters)] [http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jW-BndswWuhgPAPXOK4Q6TCQsANQD90J83CG1 (AP via Google News)]{{Dead link|date=April 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} [http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/080510_rpts.html (NOAA)]
- 2008 United States presidential election: Illinois Senator Barack Obama takes the lead in support from superdelegates to the Democratic National Convention [https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/10/us/politics/10clinton.html (The New York Times)]
- News Corporation withdraws its bid to purchase the New York City newspaper Newsday. [https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/11/business/media/11paper.html (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. [https://web.archive.org/web/20080513083304/http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g72XI4pMTIS_8vNapA9PDgI4wEoAD90ISVDO0 (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. [http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/05/10/russia.nato.ap/index.html (AP via CNN.com)]
- Muqtada al-Sadr and the Iraqi Government announced a ceasefire in Baghdad's Sadr district. [http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/05/10/iraq.main/index.html (CNN)]
- 2008 unrest in Lebanon:
- The Prime Minister of Lebanon Fuad Saniora accuses Hezbollah of staging "an armed coup" against Lebanon. [http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/05/10/africa/ME-GEN-Lebanon-Government.php (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. [https://web.archive.org/web/20080512233255/http://yalibnan.com/site/archives/2008/05/lebanon_army_re.php (YA Libnan)]
- Ninawa campaign: The Iraqi Army launched a major operation in the northern city of Mosul against al-Qaeda and its allies. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7393826.stm (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. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7393629.stm (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. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7393058.stm (BBC News)]
- Negotiators from Pakistan's two major coalition parties meet in London, but fail to reach an agreement. [http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/05/11/pakistan.judges.ap/index.html (AP via CNN)]
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