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- 2008 attack on Omdurman and Khartoum:
- Cyclone Nargis:
- China announces the establishment of China Commercial Aircraft in Shanghai to challenge Airbus and Boeing for the domestic market. The first jet to be marketed is the ARJ21, developed by AVIC I, with a $2.7 billion start-up capital. (AP via CNN)
- Pakistan's two main coalition leaders, Asif Ali Zardari and Nawaz Sharif meet with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher in London to discuss the removal of judges by President Pervez Musharraf, but fail to reach an agreement. (AP via CNN)
- Run-offs in the Zimbabwean presidential election, according to George Chiweshe, the elections commissioner, must be delayed past the time alloted by law, up to a year, until funding can be found. (AP via CNN)
- Serbian voters go to the polls in the Serbian parliamentary election, 2008. A pro-Europe coalition associated with the President of Serbia Boris Tadić wins the most votes. (BBC News) (Sydney Morning Herald)
- A medical helicopter crashes returning to Madison, Wisconsin resulting in the death of three people including the pilot, a doctor and nurse. (Canadian Press via Google News)
- A Chilean computer hacker obtains confidential information about six million people from government servers and leaks it to the Internet. (BBC News)
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