April 17, 2004

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• His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama begins a visit to Canada. (Toronto Star)
• Burma's National League for Democracy reopens its Rangoon headquarters nearly a year after the government closed it down. (VOA)
• Israeli-Palestinian conflict:
  • Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi, leader of Hamas, is killed by an Israeli missile attack. (CNN) (BBC)
  • An Israeli border policeman is killed in a suicide bombing attack at the Erez Crossing in northern Gaza. Hamas and Fatah claim responsibility. (INN)
• Socialist Party leader José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero is sworn in as Spain's prime minister. (CNN)