April 2000 & April 1 - 12 2010

0 End Of March 2010

29 March 2010 (2010-03-29) (Monday) edit history watch

15 people, including 2 journalists, are arrested by Israel during a police attack on a protest near Bethlehem. (The Muslim News) Aung San Suu Kyi's party, the National League for Democracy, announces it will boycott the upcoming general elections in Burma. (BBC) (AP) Suicide bombers detonate two bombs at Moscow Metro stations Lubyanka and Park Kultury, killing at least 36 with the death toll expected to rise. (RIA) (AP) (Russia Today) (RIAN) The stern of the South Korean warship which exploded on Friday with 46 crewmen still missing is located and the military is expected to attempt a dive. (The Sydney Morning Herald) (Yonhap) Maule, Chile, is rattled by a 6.1 magnitude aftershock on Monday 08.43 a.m. AEDT (5:43 p.m. Sunday local time). (The Sydney Morning Herald) (Xinhua) A Rio Tinto executive is jailed for 10 years in China. (RTÉ) FARC releases into the jungle a soldier it kidnapped just under a year ago. (BBC) Ireland's rail line between Galway and Limerick reopens for the first time in 34 years. (RTÉ) More than 300 southern right whales, mostly young calves, have been discovered dead off Argentina's Patagonian coast in the last five years. (The Sydney Morning Herald) In architecture, Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, cofounders of the firm SANAA, win the 2010 Pritzker Prize. (BBC News) Nine members of the Hutaree militia are arrested in the United States on allegations of a plot to kill policemen then to attack the funerals, in preparation for a war against all levels of American government. (CNN) A patent on two human genes is struck down by a judge in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. (The New York Times) (Newsweek)

Current events of 30 March 2010 (2010-03-30) (Tuesday) edit history watch

Colombian soldier Pablo Emilio Moncayo is released after 12 years in FARC captivity. (BBC) Russia has a day of mourning following the train bombs in Moscow. (CBC) (RTÉ) The Andaman Islands are rattled by a 6.6 magnitude earthquake. (USGS) Two mortuary staff in Shandong are arrested after 21 baby corpses are found in a river. (China Daily) (news.com.au) (Sky News) (CNN) The body of Sheikh Ahmed bin Zayed Al Nahyan is found by a team of Moroccan and French divers four days after his aircraft crashed into a lake in Morocco. (Al Jazeera) The 2010 South American Games are officially closed, with Colombia winning the most gold medals and Brazil just a little over 10 medals behind. Somali pirates hijack 8 Indian vessels abducting 120 sailors, biggest abduction count till date, off the coast of Kismayo. (The Times of India) 10 children, youths and young adults between the ages of 8 and 21 are gunned down, presumably by drug traffickers, in the northern Mexican state of Durango. (CNN) Chinese police are hunting a man suspected of killing five members of a migrant family, including an 8-year-old girl, in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. (People's Daily) Seán Quinn's Quinn Insurance goes into administration. (RTÉ) (The Irish Times) (The Guardian) (BBC) Ten people were shot Tuesday night in what appears to be two drive-by shootings in southeast Washington D.C., with at least four killed. (Xinhua) (China Dialy) (CCTV) (CNN) At least 31 militants were killed Tuesday during Pakistan Security Forces operation in the Orakzai tribal agency. Over 150 militants have been killed in the last six days. (People Dialy)

Current events of 31 March 2010 (2010-03-31) (Wednesday) edit history watch

Algerian authorities arrest an Israeli spy found with a false Spanish passport under the 35-year-old pseudonym Alberto Vagilo. This was initially reported by some sources as the abduction of a Spanish citizen by an al-Qaeda-linked group. (Press TV) Yemeni Minister of Justice Ghazi al-Aghbari and Palestinian ambassador to Yemen Bassem Al-Agha hold discussions on the issue of bilateral judicial cooperation. (Saba News Agency) The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) fire tear gas at around 200 Palestinians and their allies protesting outside the gates of Ofer Prison at the recent detainment of colleagues. (Ynetnews) MPs state the UK government must ensure that military equipment sold to Israel is not used in the occupied territories. (BBC) A bicycle-borne bomb kills at least 13 people and injures 45 others in Afghanistan's Helmand province. (CNN) Twelve people, including two police officers, are killed in two blasts in the town of Kizlyar in Russia's volatile North Caucasus region of Dagestan. (RIA Novosti) (Xinhua) (TVNZ) Serbia passes legislation that offers an apology for its role in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre during the Bosnian War. (B92) (BBC) Shahram Amiri, a scientist involved in Iran's nuclear program, defects to the United States and begins talking to the Central Intelligence Agency. (ABC News) The trial of the lone surviving gunman involved in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, Ajmal Kasab, concludes. (NDTV) (BBC) Google says thousands of internet users in Vietnam have been spied on with malicious software, appearing to target opponents of bauxite mining in the country. (BBC) (Reuters) Foreign journalists based in China and Taiwan say their Yahoo email accounts have been hacked. (Times of India) (BBC) (Radio Taiwan International) Lines of "green wall" are built along the desert district in Yanchi county, Ningxia Hui autonomous region to defend against desertification. (Sina)

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1 April 2000

• April 1 - Japanese prime minister Obuchi Keizo suffers a stroke and falls into a coma.
• April 3 - United States v. Microsoft: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust laws by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.
• April 5 - Mori Yoshiro replaces Obuchi as prime minister of Japan.
• April 7 - Attack submarine ex-Trepang completes being recycled.
• April 16 - Tuanku Syed Putra ibni Almarhum Syed Hassan Jamalullail, Raja of Perlis dies after a reign of 55 years. He was the longest reigning monarch in the world since the death of Hirohito, Emperor of Japan.
• April 17 - Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin becomes Raja of Perlis.
• April 22 - In a predawn raid, federal agents seize six-year old Elián González from his relatives' home in Miami, Florida and fly him to his Cuban father in Washington, DC ending one of the most publicized custody battles in US history.
• April 25 - The State of Vermont passes HB847, legalizing Civil Unions for same-sex couples.

Monday 03: United States v. Microsoft: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust laws by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors. » April 03 in History

Saturday 08: A U.S. Marine Corps V-22 Osprey crashes during landing at Marana, Arizona killing 19. » April 08 in History

Wednesday 19: An Air Philippines Boeing 737-200 crashes near Davao International Airport, killing 131.April 19 in History

Saturday 22: The Big Number Change takes place in the United Kingdom.» April 22 in History.

2 April 2010
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1 April 2010 (2010-04-01) (Thursday) edit history watch

The Indian government initiates The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act to provide free and compulsory education to all children aged between 6 and 14 years, making education a fundamental right for millions of children. (The Hindu) (Al Jazeera) (BBC) (The Times) (Press TV) Israeli–Palestinian conflict: After Palestinians fire a Qassam rocket that explodes in an open area of the city of Ashkelon, Israeli planes launch air strikes on several targets in the Gaza Strip, in locations which include Gaza City, Khan Yunis and Rafah. (The Jerusalem Post) (BBC) (Ynetnews) Palestinians and Lebanese protest the arrest of Abbas Zaki, former Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) representative in Lebanon. Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir asks that he be released immediately. (The Daily Star Lebanon) On a visit to Saudi Arabia, American Congressman Keith Ellison (D-MN-5) says the United States considers Israel's settlements in East Jerusalem to violate international law. (Arabnews) One British lawmaker Martin Linton says Israelis are funding British political parties, while another lawmaker, Sir Gerald Kaufman, himself a Jew, says "right-wing Jewish millionaires" are influencing the Conservative Party. (Jewish Telegraphic Agency) (The Daily Telegraph) The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, is reported to be lobbying US politicians to pressure the White House over its public feud with Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu. (The Sydney Morning Herald) Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin, speaking at Holy Thursday mass in St Mary's Pro-Cathedral, criticizes Catholics who believe the church should move on from recent child abuse scandals in Ireland. (RTÉ) Archbishop of Westminster Vincent Nichols says he "understands arguments for condoms", in apparent conflict with Roman Catholic Church teaching on contraception. (Reuters) Sudanese elections: Southern Sudan's Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) announces its decision to withdraw its presidential candidate, Yasir Arman, from elections. (Al Jazeera) Most other opposition parties join them. (BBC) (Reuters) (The Star) Almost 25,000 homes remain powerless after part of Northern Ireland's electricity network is knocked out. (BBC) (RTÉ) Guinea-Bissau's chief of staff and Prime Minister Carlos Domingos Gomes Júnior are "seized" as national radio broadcasts are replaced by military music. (BBC) (France24) (Al Jazeera) (CNN) India launches its new 2011 biometric census, the largest census in the world. (The Times of India) (BBC) (The Guardian) (France24) (Bangkok Post) President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev pays an unexpected visit to Dagestan, the day after the deaths of 12 people occur there in a double suicide attack. (BBC) (The Sydney Moning Herald) (France24) Missing four-year-old Paulette Gebara Farah, whose disappearance from her home in Huixquilucan, Edomex, achieved major publicity in Mexico, is found dead under a mattress in her bedroom. (BBC) (The Sydney Morning Herald) (The Melbourne Age) Dozens of prisoners escape/are wounded after an explosion occurs at a prison in Daleh. (BBC) (Philippine Daily Inquirer) (The Daily Telegraph) (Reuters) A landmark ruling at the Court of Appeal allows science writer Simon Singh to rely on the defence of fair comment in a libel action taken by the British Chiropractic Association over a 2008 article in The Guardian newspaper. (BBC) (The Guardian) (The Times) Justice Victoria Sharp blocks a rail work stoppage by signallers over pay cuts and working conditions, which would have been Britain's first national rail strike in 16 years. (Reuters) The Nigerian government asks that criminal charges against Nuhu Ribadu be withdrawn. (BBC) 12 people are wounded in a seven-vehicle pile-up on the M6 motorway near Rugby in Warwickshire, England. (BBC) South Warwickshire Tourism Ltd (Shakespeare Country), which promoted Stratford-upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa, Warwick and Kenilworth, ceases to trade. (BBC) Machu Picchu reopens with the help of actress Susan Sarandon. (BBC) (Channel 4 News) (The Guardian) Academy Award winning actor Anna Paquin's unexpected public acknowledgement of her bisexuality in a video causes the anti-discrimination Give a Damn campaign website she is promoting to crash. (Reuters) (The Daily Telegraph) (The New Zealand Herald) (RTÉ) (The Vancouver Sun) Aretha Franklin and Michael Jackson are inducted into the hall of fame at New York's Apollo Theater. (BBC) Members of the Christian militia group Hutaree plead not guilty to a court in Michigan, United States, to claims of plotting to kill American police officers. (CNN) Sarah Palin spoke to thousands of tea party activists gathered in the Nevada desert about Harry Reid. (Main line)

Current events of 2 April 2010 (2010-04-02) (Friday) edit history watch

United States Department of Labor announces second solid growth in jobs since the recession. (Los Angeles Times) (Business Week) Bishop of Down and Connor Noel Treanor says at St Peter's Cathedral, Belfast in Ireland that the "crimes and sins of abuse of children and minors by clergy and religious" are "faith-shaking". (RTÉ) (The Times) (The Australian) Rescue teams attempting to reach 153 miners trapped in a flooded coal pit in Shanxi report "signs of life", including "tapping", "banging" and "shouts", as relatives allege an official cover-up of the incident. (BBC) (The Guardian) Brazilian land reform activist Pedro Alcantara de Souza is fatally shot five times in the head by two men on motorcycles as he tries to ride his own bicycle in Pará. (BBC) (Miami Herald) (Arabnews) Soyuz TMA-18 is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, carrying three members of the Expedition 23 crew of the International Space Station. (CNN) 3 men are charged with murder in the fatal stabbings of two men on a New York City subway over the weekend. (AP) (CBS) (The New York Times) (CKOY) Record rains cause flooding across New England, with Rhode Island hit the hardest. FEMA officials say as many as 200,000 people in Rhode Island could be affected. President Barack Obama talks to Governor Don Carcieri about the damage. (My Fox Boston) (Boston Channel) (Boston) (CNS) Limerick pubs break with tradition by opening on Good Friday following the recent landmark court ruling. (RTÉ) (The Irish Times) (Irish Examiner) Another nation-wide blackout affects Malta due to a technical fault. (MaltaMediaOnline) (Times of Malta)

Current events of 3 April 2010 (2010-04-03) (Saturday) edit history watch

Eugène Terre'Blanche, founder of the Afrikaner Resistance Movement, is killed in his hometown of Ventersdorp. (BBC) (RTÉ) Three German soldiers are killed in north Afghanistan, five other Germans were wounded in fighting southwest of Kunduz. 22 German soldiers have been killed by fighting or attacks in Afghanistan since 2001 and another 138 wounded. (China Daily) (Newsday) (ABC) (Breitbart) (Wten) German troops kill at least five Afghan soldiers in a friendly fire incident north of the capital Kabul. (Deutsche Welle) (The Daily Telegraph) (Taiwan News) Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd appoints the country's first population minister, Tony Burke, as part of a strategy for managing population growth. (ABC News) (Angola Press) (Reuters India) Rescuers enter a flooded mine in Shanxi, China to help over 153 workers trapped there for over a week. (China Daily) (CNN) (Press TV) Eight people are missing and one dies as a fishing boat sinks while searching for the South Korean Cheonan warship that sank last week near the Northern Limit Line border with North Korea. (Yonhap) (BBC) The controversial African Renaissance Monument, which is taller than the Statue of Liberty, is inaugurated in the Senegalese capital Dakar. (BBC) (Al Jazeera) (AFP) (CNN) (The Guardian) Thousands of "red shirt" anti-government protesters rally in the Thai capital Bangkok demanding new elections. (Thai News Agency) (CBC) (The Hindu) Cambridge Boat Club defeats Oxford Boat Club to win the 156th University Boat Race in London, England. (BBC)

Current events of 4 April 2010 (2010-04-04) (Sunday) edit history watch

114 miners trapped in a flooded mine for more than a week in Shanxi, China, are rescued. (AP) (Xinhua) At least 10 Indian security personnel are killed and three injured when Maoist guerrillas blow up a police bus in Orissa's Koraput district. (Times of India) President of Senegal Abdoulaye Wade announces in a televised address marking 50 years of independence that his country is to resume control of all military bases held by former colonial power France. (BBC) (Al Jazeera) (euronews) The Chinese coal ship Shen Neng 1 is reported to be leaking oil after it ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef off Queensland, Australia. (Al Jazeera) Three car bombs hit the Egyptian, German and Iranian embassies in the centre of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, in quick succession, killing at least 30 people. (BBC) President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai threatens to join the Taliban if the Afghani Parliament refuses to approve his proposal to take control of the electoral apparatus from the United Nations. {Wall Street Journal Online) A 7.2-magnitude earthquake hits Baja California, about 108 miles east-southeast of Tijuana, says the U.S. Geological Survey. (USGS Earthquake Hazards Program) (News Channel 10) Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon witnesses one of the world's worst environmental disasters as he flies over the shrinking Aral Sea, the world's fourth largest lake, which has in recent decades shrunk in size by more than 70 percent. (UN)

Current events of 5 April 2010 (2010-04-05) (Monday) edit history watch

Iran invites 60 countries to a two-day nuclear disarmament conference in Tehran on April 17–18, entitled "Nuclear energy for everyone, nuclear arms for no one". China says it will attend the conference which invites "the world to disarm and prevent proliferation". (Al Jazeera) A United Nations peacekeeper dies in Mbandaka, Équateur, Democratic Republic of Congo. (Al Jazeera) The United States Supreme Court declines to take up a case by residents of Bikini Atoll and Enewetak in the Marshall Islands, who are seeking compensation for U.S. nuclear tests conducted on the islands. (Christian Science Monitor) Wikileaks releases a video from 2007 showing the killing of civilians, including two Reuters news staff, by the U.S. military in Baghdad, Iraq. (BBC News) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is currently attempting to gauge the risk of the recently-discovered XMRV virus, linked to rare forms of prostate cancer and chronic fatigue syndrome, to the blood donation supply. (The Wall Street Journal) A series of coordinated bombings at the U.S. consulate in Peshawar and at a ruling party rally in the Pakistani North-West Frontier Province kills fifty people and injures one hundred. (Reuters) An explosion at a coal mine in Raleigh County, West Virginia kills 25 miners and leaves several missing. This is the deadliest mining accident in the U.S. in at least 35 years. (BBC News) (Herald Sun) The Duke Blue Devils defeat the Butler Bulldogs, 61-59, to win their fourth U.S. men's college basketball title. (AP at Yahoo)

01 April 06 - 12

12 April 2010 (2010-04-12) (Monday) edit history watch

Pope Benedict XVI and the child sexual abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic Church: Homosexuality is to blame for paedophilia, according to Vatican Secretary of State and the Pope's Deputy, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, speaking today at a news conference in Chile. (The Washington Post) (Reuters) Retired Italian bishop Giacomo Babini says the Jews are to blame for "powerful and refined" attacks on Benedict, quoted on the Roman Catholic Pontifex website. (The Times) The Vatican has handled damaging child abuse cases in an “exemplary” manner, according to the editor-in-chief of Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano Giovanni Maria Vian, who also hails Benedict as a “great communicator”. (National Post) Children were "sadistically tormented and also sexually abused" at a Catholic monastery in Ettal, Bavaria where Pope Benedict XVI is from. (Reuters) Ten Maltese men, who have taken three priests to court on charges of child abuse, request a private meeting with Pope Benedict XVI when he visits Malta this weekend. (Reuters India) (Boston Herald) Benedict's security is increased for his visit to Malta after the island's population of sexually abused announce plans to protest at his handling of the scandal and posters promoting his weekend trip receive Adolf Hitler style moustaches and the word "paedophile". (The Daily Telegraph) British campaigners, among them Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, plan to arrest Benedict for crimes against humanity related to the child abuse scandal in the Catholic Church when he visits the UK. (Deutsche Welle) (The Sydney Morning Herald) (The Guardian) (New York Daily News) (Ynetnews) The Vatican publishes its guidelines for dealing with cases of sexual abuse of children in an effort to quell critics. (Reuters via The New York Times) The Vatican says it is overhauling its rules on handling sexual abuse accusations, though neglects to give any details. (CNN) Benedict is to meet the College of Cardinals for lunch and a "a cosy chit-chat" in the Vatican on 19 April as part of the celebrations for his fifth anniversary of being elected as Pope. (The Irish Times) The Vatican also forgives The Beatles for their satanic lifestyle of sex, drugs and rock and roll, and calls them a "precious jewel" with "beautiful melodies". (Vancouver Sun) (The Guardian) (CBC) (The Daily Telegraph) Pope Benedict is nominated for a Classical Brit Award after his voice is featured on an album of music from the Vatican. (Reuters) Sudan's landmark elections are extended by two days after delays delivering ballot papers. (BBC) Hungarian parliamentary election, 2010 The centre-right Hungarian Civic Union (Fidesz) wins all 119 individual seats in the first round of Hungary's parliamentary elections. Their total of 206 seats gives them an outright majority in the National Assembly, with 121 seats still in play in the second round on April 25. The left-wing Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP) earns 28 regional seats, while the far-right Movement for a Better Hungary (JOBBIK) earns 26 regional seats. The remaining five seats went to the green party Politics Can Be Different (LMP). (BBC) 2010 Holywood car bombing: A car bomb explodes shortly after midnight near Northern Ireland's MI5 headquarters in Holywood, County Down, blowing an elderly man off his feet and sending him to hospital. (Times Online) (Xinhua) Politicians react. (BBC) The Real IRA issues a telephone call to the BBC to claim responsibility. (BBC) (RTÉ) Northern Ireland appoints its first justice minister in 38 years. (BBC) This is Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (APNI) leader David Ford. (RTÉ) Aftermath of 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash: Polish President Lech Kaczyński lies in state in Warsaw as Russia marks a day of mourning and Poland appoints an acting head of the central bank to replace the one killed in Saturday's air disaster near Smolensk. (BBC) (RTÉ) His funeral and burial and that of his wife who died with him are to take place on Saturday. (CNN) The search for body parts continues at the crash site, with only 14 corpses easily identified by relatives and 20 others by forensic experts, with DNA testing necessary to identify the rest of the corpses. (RIA Novosti) Poland's President is to review travel rules for military officials after the President and all his army generals die in one plane crash. (BBC) Polish Canadians in Windsor, Ontario mourn the death of President Lech Kaczyński with a memorial mass. (CBC) Adelaide's Catholic Archbishop Philip Wilson announces a special mass to take place on Thursday. (ABC News) A book of condolence is opened in Aberdeen. (BBC) Western experts mull the causes of the plane crash. (RIA Novosti) Nine people are thought to have been killed and 30 others are injured, some seriously, after a landslide caused a train to derail in Merano, near the Austrian border with Italy. (BBC) (Al Jazeera) The United States opens fire on a bus in Afghanistan, knocking the driver unconscious, killing as many as five civilians, including a woman, and wounding at least 18 other passengers.(The New York Times) (Al Jazeera) U.S. President Barack Obama opens a summit of 47 countries for nuclear security talks aimed at developing a strategy to keep nuclear weapons out of the hands of potential nuclear terrorists (Voice of America) The UK General Election countdown: The Labour party launches its manifesto, which states that it will halve the budget deficit within four years through a mixture of spending restraint and tax increases, mainly for the higher paid, that failing police forces will be taken over by successful ones, that every primary-school child who needs it will get one-to-one tuition and that there will be no switch to the euro without a referendum. [1] SNP leader Alex Salmond urges the Scots to vote for an "alternative vision of the future" as he launched the party's election campaign. The Scottish first minister attacks Labour and the Tories for cuts which he said posed a danger to public services. [2] Welsh Assembly Government ministers are accused of "abuse of position" by announcing £17.5 miles in tourism grants during the general election campaign. Welsh Conservative leader Nick Bourne says Heritage Minister Alun Ffred Jones and Environment Minster Jane Davidson must "face questions". [3] An Iranian and a Tajik are jailed for 25 years in Dubai over the 2009 killing of a Chechen military commander. (BBC) (The Washington Post) (Miami Herald) (Reuters) (People's Daily Online) (The Star) Leading Russian federal judge Eduard Chuvashov is shot dead at his apartment building in central Moscow. (BBC) (Al Jazeera) Three former Labour Party MPs – David Chaytor, Elliot Morley and Jim Devine – face criminal charges over their expenses win the right to have their legal fees paid for by the taxpayer. (BBC) The World Trade Organization overturns Australia's ban on importing New Zealand apples, which had been in place since 1919. (The Age) The world's deepest undersea volcanic vents are discovered in the Caribbean. (BBC) A multiple-vehicle crash on a rain-slicked freeway north of Los Angeles kills five people; Southbound Interstate 5 is closed just south of Santa Clarita. (Los Angeles Times) The Copenhagen Conference was destroyed from the start by the leak of the "Danish draft" negotiating text to The Guardian, the Indian environment minister said this weekend in a warning that the breakdown of international trust would continue to undermine climate talks this year. (The Guardian) A 6.2 magnitude earthquake strikes Spain, one of the first large earthquakes to strike the Iberian region in half a century. Microsoft launches two new mobile phones marketed to young people. The phones, the Kin One and Kin Two, are built around their social networking features. (New York Times) SS Columbia, feared lost at sea after the 8.8-magnitude Chile earthquake, arrives in a Chilean port, more than a month after it was scheduled to dock. (Times Online) Manchester City and Togo striker Emmanuel Adebayor announces his retirement from international football at the age of 26, saying he is "still haunted" by the Togo national football team attack which killed three of his colleagues in Angola ahead of the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations three months ago. (BBC) (The Guardian) Thierry Henry, the footballer involved in a notorious handball controversy in the France vs Republic of Ireland 2010 FIFA World Cup play-off in November 2009, is not assured of playing for his team in the 2010 FIFA World Cup, according to his manager Raymond Domenech on French television show Canal Football Club. (ESPN) (Metro) (RTÉ) Tiger Woods quits golf again after his 2010 Masters Tournament failure. He previously quit after becoming embroiled in a sex scandal last year. (BBC) (The Daily Telegraph) (USA Today)

April 12, 2010 Wikinews articles

Car bomb explodes near MI5 army base in Northern Ireland Wikinews interviews Juana Bustamante, Chilean earthquake survivor from Paniahue

Current events of 11 April 2010 (2010-04-11) (Sunday) edit history watch

Aftermath of 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash: The body of President Lech Kaczyński, who was killed in yesterday's plane crash just north of Smolensk, Russia, is flown back to Poland. (Reuters news coverage) (The Economist) (Toronto Star) Concerts and football matches are cancelled, while cinemas, theatres, restaurants and shopping malls close their doors. (The Guardian) The President is processed through the streets and lies in state in the Presidential Palace, Warsaw. (Al Jazeera) (The New Zealand Herald) Tens of thousands of Poles line the streets of Warsaw to witness the event. (Los Angeles Times) (The Sydney Morning Herald) A two minute silence is observed across Poland in memory of the victims. (RTÉ) 10 million Polish Americans mourn their loss in several cities across the country. (Wall Street Journal) Polish British mourn one of their priests, Monsignor Bronislaw Gostomski, who died in the crash. (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution) 1 million Polish Canadians begin a week of mourning. (CBC) (CBC) Women's U-17 UEFA Championship elite qualifying phase game Poland versus Republic of Ireland in Ukraine is postponed due to the tragedy. (RTÉ) Pakistan: Airstrikes kill 10 militants in northwestern Pakistan as part of a military operation that has eliminated more than 300 fighters in the last three weeks. (The New Zealand Herald) Pakistani troops with helicopters bomb 13 militants to death and wound several others. (Press TV) Iran: President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad plans to relocate millions of Tehranians as the city is threatened by earthquakes. (Press TV) Iran announces it will take part in the International Atomic Energy Agency's conference to review the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in New York, United States in May. (Press TV) Iran announces its decision to file a formal complaint with the United Nations against the United States, citing Barack Obama's threat to use a "nuclear attack" against it as a "threat to global peace and security". (Al Jazeera) A map showing the origin of the April 2010 Solomon Islands earthquake A 6.8 magnitude earthquake strikes the southern Solomon Islands, 97 km southwest of Kirakira on Makira Island. (The Australian) (TVNZ) Israel is set to impose a military order, which some fear could see thousands of Palestinians deported from the West Bank if they do not have a residency permit. (BBC) (Al Jazeera) The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) asks China to pressure Israel to have its nuclear sites inspected during the forthcoming international nuclear conference, saying "world silence on the issue of the Israeli nuclear capabilities is creating tension in the region, especially with the relentless international focus on Iran and North Korea". (Brunei News) Kyrgyzstan's interim government considers arresting and charging President Kurmanbek Bakiyev for the deaths of 81 people in riots earlier this week. (Al Jazeera) (AFP) (Xinhua) South African police investigate a possible link between homosexual sex and the murder of Eugène Terre'Blanche. (IOL) (The New York Times) (The Times) Iraq's election seeks a recount in five provinces after up to 750,000 votes are "tainted by fraud". (Reuters) Sudan hosts its first general elections in 24 years. (Al Jazeera) (BBC) (Press TV) (Arab News) Centre-right Fidesz wins majority of parliamentary seats in the first round of the Hungarian general elections. (Reuters) (AP/Yahoo!) Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and Vietnamese President Nguyễn Minh Triết discuss bilateral ties in oil, food and manpower and sign three major agreements — a treaty avoiding double taxation, a protocol to promote ties in the oil and gas sectors and an agreement to promote agricultural cooperation. (Arab News) (Reuters) (Daily Star Lebanon) (Radio Australia) (Saudi Gazette) Nine people, including three Italian medical workers, are detained over accusations of plotting to kill Governor of Helmand Gulab Mangal. (Al Jazeera) The death toll in clashes between anti-government protesters and Thai troops in the capital Bangkok rises to at least 20 people. (BBC) (Thai News Agency) Two Chinese singers become the country's first to be punished for lip-synching nearly two years after the Beijing Olympiad. (Reuters South Africa) The Belfast Wheel ceases to function. (BBC) (RTÉ) Texas Stadium, the former home of the National Football League's Dallas Cowboys, is demolished by implosion. (ESPN Dallas) Analysts predict the 2011 bankruptcy of one of the world's largest economies, Japan, with a public debt figure larger than any other industrialised nation. (Press TV) (AFP) (The Economist)

April 11, 2010 Wikinews articles

Australian rules football: 2010 Gippsland Football League round 1 - Moe v Traralgon Spain hit by 6.3 magnitude earthquake Australian Muslim killed by her hijab in go-carting accident Eurozone offers Greece 30 billion euro in loans Pakistan: Twelve suspected Taliban rebels die in airstrikes Clashes leave 21 dead in Thai capital Officials: Almost 100 killed in air raids in Pakistan

Current events of 10 April 2010 (2010-04-10) (Saturday) edit history watch

2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash: A Tu-154 from the 36th Special Aviation Regiment crashes while landing at military airport Severny in Smolensk Oblast, Russia; 96 persons onboard are reported dead. Pilot error is seen as a possible cause of the crash. (MSNBC) (Вести; Russian) (lenta.ru; Russian) The plane was flying from Warsaw to mark the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre. (CBC) The plane carried President of Poland Lech Kaczyński, his economist wife, army chief, central bank governor, MPs, leading historians, and many top Polish government officials to their deaths. (BBC) (The Hindu) (The New York Times) There are no survivors. (Passenger list via Reuters India) (CNN) (Los Angeles Times) Polish parliamentary speaker Bronisław Komorowski legally becomes Acting President of Poland. (Xinhua) Lech Wałęsa calls it "the second disaster after Katyn ... They wanted to cut off our head there, and here the flower of our nation has also perished". (The New York Times) Poland's Foreign Ministry spokesman Piotr Paszkowski says "Nothing like this has ever happened in Poland". (The Sydney Morning Herald) Prime Minister Donald Tusk declares it the "most tragic event in Poland's postwar history". (RTÉ) Tusk announces he is to fly to the crash site. (The Star Malaysia) Flags fly at half mast across Poland as Poles mourn their loss. (The Irish Times) (BBC) Leaders from around the world give their response to the tragedy. (Voice of America) (CNN) (The Jakarta Post) Russia and Lithuania prepare for an official day of mourning for the death of Poland's President Kaczyński and other persons on board. (RIAN; Russian) (Delfi) Nineteen people die after violence breaks out between government forces and protesters in Thailand. (India Blooms News Service) The Pakistani military kills 100 Taliban in the northwest of the country. (Al Jazeera) (Time) A blast injures at least 19 people outside a prison in Ilam. (Al Jazeera) A spokesman for Pope Benedict XVI claims allegations that he deliberately delayed the punishment of a paedophile priest have been "taken out of context". (BBC) (RTÉ) Thousands of people attend funeral events in Kyrgyzstan for people killed during recent events. (BBC) (Financial Times) (UPI) (CNEWS) The death toll in Wangjialing coal mine's flood in Shanxi rises to 28 after the recovery of another corpse. (Shanghai Daily) Thousands of people protest against public sector cuts in London. (BBC) The Shroud of Turin is displayed in public for the first time in 10 years. (BBC) (Sky News) (Miami Herald) (The Age) Don't Push It, ridden by jockey Tony McCoy, wins the 2010 Grand National at Aintree on McCoy's 15th attempt. (BBC News) (The Daily Telegraph)

April 10, 2010 Wikinews articles

Baseball: Oakland Athletics defeat LA Angels 10 to 4 US military to carry out review following Wikileaks release of classified 2007 video Junior Canadian cabinet minister leaves amid scandal Polish President Lech Kaczyński dies as his plane crashes in Russia Four dead after US helicopter crashes in Afghanistan

Current events of 9 April 2010 (2010-04-09) (Friday) edit history watch

Rescue efforts continue in Brazil in an attempt to locate around 200 people believed to have been buried in their homes by a large landslide in Morro do Bumba near Rio de Janeiro city in the state of Rio de Janeiro. (BBC) The death toll in Shanxi's flooded Wangjialing coal mine reaches 25. (Al Jazeera) Thousands of Iraqis protest in the city of Najaf to mark the seventh anniversary of the occupation of Iraq by the USA. (People's Daily Online) (Al Jazeera) Australia immediately suspends all new asylum claims by people from Sri Lanka and Afghanistan. (The Times of India) (BBC) (The Guardian) (Reuters) (The Times) (France24) (Al Jazeera) Union Minister of Home Affairs of the Republic of India P. Chidambaram takes "full responsibility" for the killing of 76 paramilitary troops in Tuesday's Maoist ambush in Chhattisgarh — history's deadliest attack on security forces by Maoist insurgents — and offers to resign. (BBC) (Reuters India) The funeral of South Africa's white supremacist leader Eugene Terreblanche takes place in South Africa. (Sky News) (BBC) (Al Jazeera) Anti-government protesters in Thailand storm and occupy an opposition television station. (BBC) (Thai News Agency) Germany charges a former member of the Red Army Faction (RAF) in connection with the murder of Attorney General Siegfried Buback, who was shot alongside two other men in 1977. (Deutsche Welle) (BBC) (Die Welt) Sri Lanka's governing coalition wins a majority in the country's 2010 parliamentary election. (BBC) (Al Jazeera) (France24) (Reuters) (South China Morning Post) Ahead of Sudan's first multi-party elections in 24 years, some opposition parties criticise lack of access to balanced media coverage and accuse the government of manipulation. (Al Jazeera) Pope Benedict XVI encounters allegations he was responsible for obstructing the punishment of American paedophile priest Stephen Kiesle by signing a letter in 1985 - the first time he has been directly accused of involvement in the Catholic Church's ongoing international child sex abuse scandal. (BBC) (The Guardian) (The Times) (LA Times) (The J Post) The first black Prime Minister of Zimbabwe Rhodesia, Bishop Abel Muzorewa, is announced to have died at the age of 85. (BBC) (The Daily Telegraph) (Daily Nation) (Voice of America) Two days of national mourning begin in Kyrgyzstan for the victims of police shootings as the dead are buried. (Deutsche Welle) (BBC) (ABC News) The Islamic State of Iraq posts a statement on the internet claiming responsibility for Sunday's triple bombings in Baghdad which killed at least 40 people and affected some foreign embassies but denies involvement in Tuesday's six bombings which killed 35 people in Shia areas. (BBC) (France24) (Reuters) (People's Daily Online) Shanghai Metro Line 2 opens service to Pudong International Airport. (Shanghai Daily) U.S. helicopter - Air Force CV-22 Osprey - crashes in southern Afghanistan, killing three U.S. service members and one civilian employee. Zabiullah Mujahid says Taliban fighters shot down the chopper. (CNN) Associate Justice John Paul Stevens of the U.S. Supreme Court announces his retirement after serving on the court for 34 years. (LA Times) American and Russian physicists announce the creation of ununseptium, atomic element number 117. (CBC News) New York Times 4.1-magnitude earthquake jolts northern Chinese city of Tangshan, the China Earthquake Administration said. (Sina)

April 9, 2010 Wikinews articles

Iran tests new centrifuges Qatari diplomat detained on Las Vegas bound flight Obama, Medvedev sign treaty cutting nuclear stockpiles German Physical Society demands nuclear disarmament British Airways and Iberia sign merger deal Red Shirts cause state of emergency in Thai capital

Current events of 8 April 2010 (2010-04-08) (Thursday) edit history watch

2010 Kyrgyzstan riots: 100 people die in anti-government protests in Kyrgyzstan, according to opposition activist Toktoim Umetalieva. (Arab News) The Kyrgyzstan government is ousted as the result of the popular revolt. (News.com.au) Opposition leader Roza Otunbayeva says she will lead a temporary government for six months. (Kyrgyz National Informational Agency) (The New York Times) President Kurmanbek Bakiyev escapes Bishkek, purportedly to a southern region of the country through Osh. He refuses to resign, but admits he's lost control of the Kyrgyz military. (BBC) Sri Lankans vote in the country's 2010 parliamentary election. (The Guardian) Pakistan adopts the 18th amendment to the Constitution, stripping President Asif Ali Zardari of key powers. (Dawn) (Hindustan Times) (Press TV) (CNN) (Radio Netherlands Worldwide) 5 people are killed and 11 others are injured in separate attacks in Diyala and Nineveh. (People's Daily Online) United States President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev sign a new arms reduction treaty that will cut both countries' arsenals by a third. (BBC) (AP) (TIME) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cancels his trip to a summit on nuclear weapons in the United States over fears that Egypt and Turkey might question him on his nuclear supplies and ask him to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). (BBC) (Reuters) A Palestinian teen reported to have been killed returns home safely. (Ottawa Citizen) Professor Lee R. Berger announces the discovery of a new hominid species, Australopithecus sediba, believed to be an ancestor of either Homo habilis or Homo erectus. (Time) The Bangladeshi army distributes drinking water among more than 12 million people in Dhaka as fears grow over the city's water crisis. (Arab News) More than 50 doctors in Edo State, Nigeria go on strike after a colleague is kidnapped by unidentified gunmen. (BBC) 29 paramilitary troops are convicted of mutiny and imprisoned for up to seven years at a Bangladeshi tribunal. (Arab News) The death toll in the storm which caused severe damage to Brazil's Rio de Janeiro metro area reaches 200. (The Huffington Post) (Xinhua) Separation surgery is declared successful in London on the conjoined twins from Cork, Ireland, born on 2 December. (RTÉ) (The Daily Telegraph) (Irish Examiner) (Sky News) (BBC) (CNN) Scientists say Glacier National Park has lost two more of its glaciers to global warming. (Xinhua) Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren, notorious for the banned "God Save the Queen" single, dies in New York. (The Independent) (BBC) (The Guardian) (Sky News) 14 people die of dengue fever in Dominican Republic. 2,000 cases of dengue fever have been registered. A total of 52 died of the disease last year. (Xinhua) Dublin's Glasnevin Cemetery, which holds 1.5 million corpses, is reopened with a new museum after an €11 million redevelopment. (The Irish Times)

April 8, 2010 Wikinews articles

UK interest rates remain at 0.5% US air carrier Spirit Airlines announces $45 carry-on baggage fee Eurozone economy did not grow at all in last quarter of 2009

Current events of 7 April 2010 (2010-04-07) (Wednesday) edit history watch

James Hansen wins the Sophie Prize. (350.org) (Reuters) (The Independent) The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) announces that the number of LGBT characters on scripted programs in the United States has doubled since 2005. (CNN) 2010 Kyrgyzstan riots: President Kurmanbek Bakiyev reportedly flees the country, as the government steps down and protestors overrun the parliament building. The opposition announces the formation of a new provisional government headed by Roza Otunbayeva. (Russia Today) (Al Jazeera) President Kurmanbek Bakiyev makes a last-ditch attempt to quell the riots by imposing a curfew as six people reportedly die. (RIA Novosti) (BBC) Protesters seize the state television channel building in the capital, Bishkek. Kyrgyz opposition representatives and human rights activists appear on the TV channel KTR which resumes broadcasting after one hour. (RIA Novosti) (Kyrgyz National Informational Agency) Interior Minister Moldomussa Kongantiyev is reported to have been killed after being taken hostage by opposition protesters inside an interior department building in the northern city of Talas. (Xinhua) July 12, 2007 Baghdad airstrike WikiLeaks video controversy: Fox News alleges "many who have viewed the video" WikiLeaks released recently showing American forces killing civilians in a July 12, 2007 Baghdad airstrike have accused the website of "selectively editing" (by slowing down selected parts of it) after a report by The Pentagon was released claiming that several of those killed did have weapons. (Fox News) Families of the victims request that those responsible be taken to court as two young children who were injured ask why their dead father was targeted when he tried to bring an injured man to hospital. (Al Jazeera) Conjoined twins: The conjoined twins recently born in Gaza less than two weeks ago are reported as being in a critical condition in Saudi Arabia where surgery is taking place to separate them. (Arab News) The conjoined twins from Cork, Ireland, born four months ago, undergo separation surgery in London. (RTÉ) (The Guardian) (Irish Independent) (The Daily Telegraph) Israeli–Palestinian conflict: Campaigning organisations call for the lifting of an Israeli media ban on the "security case", the case of a 23-year-old former soldier who leaked details of extra-judicial killings of Palestinians. (BBC) Saudi cleric Sheik Mohammed al-Areefi cancels a visit to Jerusalem due to public anger at Israeli policy. (Saudi Gazette) (Arab News) (Ha'aetz) An 18-year-old dies and six others escape with their lives in Rafah, Gaza, after the collapse of two tunnels used to smuggle goods through Egypt and around Egypt's and Israel's blockade. (Arab News) Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas fires the director of his bureau, Rafik Husseini, who was involved in ‘Fatahgate’ sex scandal. (The Jerusalem Post) (CNN) Human Rights Watch tells Hamas to stop executions in Gaza after Hamas courts sentence 16 people to death in 2009 and this year, including eight convicted of alleged “treason”. (The Jerusalem Post) Human Rights Watch requests that the Government of Peru investigate the deaths of six civilians after police opened fire on a mining demonstration last Sunday. At least 30 others were injured. (BBC) Brazil is hit by a second day of heavy rain. (Al Jazeera) At least six people die and at least twelve others are injured after a boat sinks in Lake Kivu while carrying people to commemorations to mark the 16th anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide. (BBC) A 7.7-magnitude earthquake strikes northern Sumatra, Indonesia. (CNN) (Al Jazeera) Blacktown District Soccer Football Association's CEO says he will ignore a FIFA ruling to ban the hijab even if it is enforced by Football Federation Australia after the Iran girls' football team is disqualified from the Youth Olympic Games by FIFA for their view on the hijab. (The Sydney Morning Herald) Prime Minister of Thailand Abhisit Vejjajiva, declares a state of emergency after widespread anti-government protests and shortly after demonstrators stormed the country's parliament. (CNN) Amnesty International’s Secretary-General sparks a furor by saying that “jihad in self-defense” is not “antithetical” to human rights. (The Jerusalem Post) Sixteen countries attend a two-day conference organised by the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Cairo to discuss the retrieval of old items which were pillaged by other nations, such as the Rosetta Stone (held by the British Museum, London) and Queen Nefertitti's bust (held by the Neues Museum, Berlin). (BBC) (France24) A starving Grey Seal claiming to be from London Zoo is found in Skerries, Ireland. The Irish Seal Sanctuary asks the UK and Europe for help identifying it. (RTÉ) (BBC) Turkey's Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, describes Israel as the "main threat to peace" in the Middle East. (BBC) FC Barcelona's Lionel Messi is widely hailed as the best footballer in the world after scoring four goals for the first time in his career in one UEFA Champions League game, including his fourth hat-trick of 2010. (BBC) (The New York Times) (AFP) (BusinessWorld) (The Guardian) (The Daily Telegraph) Tennis player Martina Navratilova announces she has been diagnosed with breast cancer. (The Guardian) (The New York Times) Shanghai mayor Han Zheng, leading a delegation with a presence from some 50 companies, visits Taiwan for investment talks. (Focus Taiwan) Norway experiences its first Catholic child abuse scandal as it becomes known that a bishop, Georg Müller, was forced to resign in 2009 because of sexual abuse of an altar boy in the early 1990s. (The New York Times) (CNN)

April 7, 2010 Wikinews articles

Two arrests at Liverpool airport after attempt to smuggle corpse on to flight Naperville, Illinois welcomes home Olympic silver medalist Molly Schaus US announces revised limits on use of nuclear weapons

Current events of 6 April 2010 (2010-04-06) (Tuesday) edit history watch

Details of North Korea's own Red Star operating system emerge. (BBC) (IOL) Announcement of first animals that spent their entire lives without oxygen were discovered in depths of Mediterranean Sea. They belong to three new species from phylum Loricifera. (BMC Biology) (Nature) About 103 people are killed in flooding and mudslides in Rio de Janeiro state in Brazil. Of the total, thirty-three people died in the city of Rio de Janeiro, while 33 were killed in the neighbouring city of Niterói, 12 people dead in São Gonçalo, and one in Petrópolis. (BBC) (Al Jazeera) (Xinhua) (AP) (O Estado de S. Paulo) Israeli–Palestinian conflict: Palestinians fire another Qassam rocket at southern Israel, causing no harm, despite Gaza groups agreement to stop rockets attacks. (The Jerusalem Post) Teenager from the Gaza Strip who was alleged to have been killed by IDF soldiers last week, released from an Egyptian prison, after infiltrating the Egyptian border through an underground tunnel and saying that he and several Palestinian teenagers who were with him were tortured by Egyptian soldiers while in prison. (The Jerusalem Post) The Israeli military criticises its own soldiers for killing four young Palestinian demonstrators near Nablus in the West Bank in March, with the Commander describing the killings as "an unnecessary operational occurrence with dire consequences". (BBC) (Arab News) Israel's Nahalat Shimon settler group presents an eviction warrant to two further Palestinian families in East Jerusalem, bringing the current total number of Palestinian houses facing eviction in that neighbourhood to eight. (Arab News) Israeli troops arrest for an unrevealed reason three Palestinian civilians in Beit Ommer village and later move them to a military detention centre, as the Israeli military also ransacks homes in Nablus and Hebron. (The Muslim News) Egypt allows a rare opening of the Rafah border to permit the first-known Palestinian conjoined twins, their family and a medical team to travel to the National Guard Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, for separation surgery 10 days after their birth. Abdullah of Saudi Arabia is to pay for the surgery. (Ha'aretz) 23-year-old Israeli Arab Rawi Fuad Sultani is imprisoned for nearly six years for passing on sensitive information about Israeli Army Chief Gabi Ashkenaz. (BBC) (France24) (The Jerusalem Post) (Ha'aretz) Turkey: Turkish police arrest at least 14 military officers, including four generals, accused of a 2003 coup plot. (Al Jazeera) (BBC) (Reuters) Prime Minister of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, speaking about 100,000 Armenian illegal immigrants currently living in Turkey, says "I may have to tell these 100,000 to go back to their country because they are not my citizens. I don't have to keep them in my country". (Ethiopian Review) At least 70 Indian soldiers are killed in an attack by Naxalites in the Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh. (Times of India) (AP) At least eight explosions rock Baghdad and kill at least 35 people and wound over 140 others. (Al Jazeera) Hundreds of protesters seize a government office in Bishkek to request the resignition of Kurmanbek Bakiyev after battling flashbangs and lachrymators. A local governor is taken hostage by protesters. Hundreds surround police HQ. Almazbek Atambayev is seized by police. There are riots in Talas. (BBC) Baton-wielding Egyptian police disperse a pro-democracy demonstration in Cairo. (BBC) (Reuters) (The Washington Post) South African police build a barricade from razor wire to curtail people scuffles outside Ventersdorp Magistrate's court where two farm workers, aged 15 and 28, are charged with Saturday's murder of white supremacist leader Eugène Terre'Blanche. (BBC) (IOL) Campaigning ahead of Sri Lanka's parliamentary election comes to an end. (Al Jazeera) British Prime Minister Gordon Brown calls a general election for 6 May. (BBC) (Al Jazeera) (RTÉ) Lord Saville is asked to hold back until after the UK general election the publication of the Bloody Sunday (1972) report into the killing of 14 unarmed civil rights protesters by British Army paratroopers in Bogside, Derry. (RTÉ) (The Guardian) (BBC) Nigeria's acting President Goodluck Jonathan inaugurates a new Cabinet. (NEXT) (BBC) Hackers based in China access classified Indian documents, emails of the Dalai Lama, offices of the United Nations and the Pakistani embassy in the United States. (BBC) (Times of India) (CBC) President of Yemen Ali Abdullah Saleh frees prisoners as part of its support for the cease-fire. (Arab News) A South Korean warship catches up with an oil tanker that was hijacked by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean. (BBC) (Korea Times) Vigils and a musical requiem are among a series of events held in L'Aquila to mark the first anniversary of one of Europe's largest post-war natural disasters. (BBC) AOL announces it is to sell or shut down Bebo two years after purchasing it. (BBC) (The Wall Street Journal) (The New Zealand Herald) United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rules that the FCC cannot enforce net neutrality and that Comcast can limit its customers' access to BitTorrent. (The New York Times) (Wired News)

April 6, 2010 Wikinews articles

Heavy earthquake hits Sumatra, Indonesia Officials: Maoist rebels kill at least 70 Indian soldiers 25 dead after mine explosion in West Virginia UK Prime Minister announces date for general election Toyota fined $16 million by US government over recalls

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