Current events of April 1, 2015 (2015-04-01) (Wednesday) |
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- Politics and elections
- Thailand's military junta repeals martial law in favor of an imposed constitutional provision that allows the leader of the government to make extra-constitutional orders. (AP)
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Current events of April 2, 2015 (2015-04-02) (Thursday) |
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- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Disasters and accidents
- Germanwings Flight 9525:
- The flight data recorder is recovered from the crash site. (CNN)
- German prosecutors state that the co-pilot researched suicide methods and the security of cockpit doors. (BBC)
- International relations
- Law and crime
- Politics and elections
- Indiana Senate Bill 101
- A Christian-owned Indiana pizza shop closes its doors after receiving death and arson threats in response to the restaurant saying they would not cater a same sex wedding; the owners are afraid they may close permanently or leave town. (The Washington Times)
- A GoFundMe page gets over $50,000 from supporters. (The Washington Post)
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Current events of April 3, 2015 (2015-04-03) (Friday) |
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- Accidents and disasters
- Armed conflicts and attacks
- International relations
- Law and crime
- Miscellaneous news
- Pandemics
- Politics and elections
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Current events of April 4, 2015 (2015-04-04) (Saturday) |
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- Accidents and disasters
- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Sinai Insurgency
- Egypt launches strikes around Sheikh Zuweid in retaliation for the 15 Egyptian soldiers that were killed by ISIL-affiliated groups in the past week, killing about 100 terrorists according to Egyptian military sources. (PressTV)
- ISIL affiliated groups have claimed responsibility for killing the 15 soldiers. (ABC)(CTV)
- International relations
- Law and crime
- Sports
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Current events of April 5, 2015 (2015-04-05) (Sunday) |
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- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Disasters and accidents
- Devastating floods in northern Chile leave at least 25 dead and more than 100 missing. (CNN)
- International relations
- Law and crime
- Science and technology
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Current events of April 6, 2015 (2015-04-06) (Monday) |
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- Business and economy
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- Sports
- Basketball
- In basketball, Dick Bavetta, John Calipari, Spencer Haywood, Lisa Leslie, Dikembe Mutombo and Jo Jo White are announced as 2015 inductees to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. They will be formally inducted alongside five figures announced in February, Louie Dampier, Lindsay Gaze, Tom Heinsohn (already inducted as a player but now entering as a coach), John Isaacs, and George Raveling, on September 11. (ESPN)
- In basketball, Duke defeats Wisconsin 68–63 to win the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship.(USA Today)
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Current events of April 7, 2015 (2015-04-07) (Tuesday) |
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- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Intervention in Yemen
- The World Health Organisation estimates that 560 people have died, more than 1,700 people have been injured and more than 100,000 people have fled their homes following the intensification of fighting three weeks ago. (AP via Virginia Gazette)
- Disasters and accidents
- Following the deployment of 350 police, over 600 firefighters and over 400 soldiers, the fire at the Dragon Aromatics chemical plant in Zhangzhou (southeast China) restarts, forcing the evacuation of residents within a radius of 18km from the plant. (South China Morning Post)
- Widespread power outages are reported in Washington D.C. after an explosion at a Maryland power substation. (CNN), (ABC 6)
- Law and crime
- Politics and elections
- Sports
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Current events of April 8, 2015 (2015-04-08) (Wednesday) |
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- Armed conflicts and attacks
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Current events of April 9, 2015 (2015-04-09) (Thursday) |
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- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Arts and culture
- Disasters and accidents
- At least 24 people are killed and 22 injured in a bus accident in southwestern Bangladesh. (AP via TVNZ)
- A ship spills toxic bunker fuel into English Bay, Vancouver. The fuel has washed up on Vancouver's beaches, prompting a warning from city officials. (CBC)
- Tornadoes of 2015
- Law and crime
- A gunman attacks the Palace of Justice in Milan, killing three people, including a judge. A fourth person found dead at the scene apparently died from a heart attack.(AP) (The Telegraph)
- Former Chinese Communist Party official Liao Shaohua is sentenced to 16 years in prison after being convicted of bribery and abuse of power. (Global Times)
- A fire on April 1 that disrupted power and internet access throughout London is now suspected to have been part of a robbery at the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Company. (The Register)
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Current events of April 10, 2015 (2015-04-10) (Friday) |
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- Business and economy
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- Accidents and Disasters
- Head-on collision of fuel tanker truck and bus with young athletes kills 33 on Morocco highway where accidents are a "significant hazard" (ABC News)
- Politics and elections
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Current events of April 11, 2015 (2015-04-11) (Saturday) |
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- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Yemeni Civil War (2015)
- Heavy Saudi Arabian air strikes hit southern Yemen resulting in at least 20 deaths of Houthis soldiers and two members of rival militias. Saudi Arabia claims to have killed 500 rebels since the start of military operations in March. (Reuters), (CNN)
- India evacuates 5600 people including 960 foreign nationals from Yemen under Operation Raahat. Several flights were allowed to take off and land in Yemen despite the no-fly zone declared on the country. (NYT)
- Turkey–PKK conflict
- Turkey sends additional troops and aircraft into Ağrı Province which borders Iran, after four soldiers are injured in clashes with PKK insurgents. (Reuters)
- Business and economy
- International relations
- The President of the United States Barack Obama and the President of Cuba Raul Castro meet at the sidelines of the Summit of the Americas in Panama. This marks the first meeting of the leaders of the two countries since the Cuban Revolution. (ABC News America)
- A man carrying a protest sign, backpack and rolling luggage fatally shot himself in the head in front of the US Capitol building. Capitol Police announced there was no apparent connection to terrorism. It follows unconnected shootings at the US Census HQ and the NSA. (CNN)
- Law and crime
- Politics and elections
- Sports
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Current events of April 12, 2015 (2015-04-12) (Sunday) |
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Current events of April 13, 2015 (2015-04-13) (Monday) |
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- Accidents and disasters
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- Health
- An American man working at Managua's U.S. embassy provokes a security scare in Nicaragua; the country's health ministry quarantines the Ebola suspect and asks that he be removed from the country immediately. (BBC)
- Law and crime
- Politics and elections
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Current events of April 14, 2015 (2015-04-14) (Tuesday) |
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- Science and technology
- SpaceX's latest attempt at recycling its Falcon 9 rocket by landing it on an ocean platform fails again. (AFP via Yahoo! News)
- Stone tools found at Lomekwi 3 are dated to 3.3 million years ago, which, if confirmed, would represented the oldest known stone tools.(Science)
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Current events of April 15, 2015 (2015-04-15) (Wednesday) |
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- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Business and economy
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Current events of April 16, 2015 (2015-04-16) (Thursday) |
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- Arts and culture
- Disasters and accidents
- More than 40 people have drowned as a migrant boat sinks travelling between Libya and Italy. In a separate incident, 15 Muslim migrants from another Italy-bound boat have been arrested, after allegedly throwing 12 Christian migrants overboard. (BBC)
- International relations
- Law and crime
- Five people are found dead after a business dispute in Phoenix, Arizona. (AP)
- Five are shot in Toronto, Ontario, in a neighbourhood with children around playing, two critically and one in life-threatening condition, having been shot by the police. Four suspects detained. (CP24)
- One year after the Sinking of the MV Sewol, police blockade a memorial in response to public anger at inactivity by the government to rescue or salvage the bodies of victims from the ship's wreck. amnesty.org
- Sports
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Current events of April 17, 2015 (2015-04-17) (Friday) |
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- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Arts and culture
- Univisión announce that Sábado Gigante, the longest-running television variety series in history, will end after 53 years on September 19, 2015. (THR)
- Business and economy
- Mylan, a manufacturer of generic drugs, announced that its board has no interest in much-discussed prospect of purchase by Teva Pharmaceuticals, one of the 15 largest pharmaceutical concerns in the world. (Reuters)
- International relations
- Religion
- Science
- Sports
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Current events of April 18, 2015 (2015-04-18) (Saturday) |
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Current events of April 19, 2015 (2015-04-19) (Sunday) |
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- Armed conflicts and attacks
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- Politics and elections
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Current events of April 20, 2015 (2015-04-20) (Monday) |
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- Armed conflicts and attacks
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Current events of April 21, 2015 (2015-04-21) (Tuesday) |
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- Armed conflicts and attacks
- War in Somalia (2009–present)
- A deadly explosion in a Mogadishu restaurant kills at least four people and injures ten others. (Al-Jazeera)
- Yemeni Civil War
- Forty armed men in camouflaged uniforms and speaking Albanian take several police officers hostage in northern Macedonia, the armed men are apparently calling for the creation of "an Albanian state". The incident was reminiscent of an insurgency in Macedonia in 2001 when Skopje's security forces battled rebels demanding greater rights for the former Yugoslav republic's large ethnic Albanian minority. (Reuters)
- Two terrorist groups, ISIS and Taliban, announce Jihad against each other. (MintPress News)
- Arts and culture
- Business and economy
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Current events of April 22, 2015 (2015-04-22) (Wednesday) |
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- Business and economy
- Disasters and accidents
- Australian east coast low
- The storm in Australia's New South Wales is declared a "catastrophe" with four deaths, heavy flooding and disruption of transport to the state's largest cities Sydney and Newcastle. (The Australian), (WA Today)
- Twelve areas of NSW are declared as disaster zones including Dungog, Maitland, Cessnock Gosford, Great Lakes Council, Lake Macquarie, Newcastle, Pittwater Council, Port Stephens, Singleton, Warringah and Wyong. (WA Today)
- Sinking of the MV Sewol
- The Calbuco volcano erupts in southern Chile forcing the evacuation of 4000 residents. (Reuters via Yahoo! Canada), (Wall Street Journal)
- Law and crime
- Politics and elections
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Current events of April 23, 2015 (2015-04-23) (Thursday) |
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Current events of April 24, 2015 (2015-04-24) (Friday) |
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- Law and crime
- Science and technology
- A study by the University of Utah show that the magma reserves of the Yellowstone supervolcano are much greater than previously thought. (CNN)
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Current events of April 25, 2015 (2015-04-25) (Saturday) |
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- Arts and culture
- Business and Economy
- Disasters and accidents
- International relations
- Law and crime
- Politics and elections
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Current events of April 26, 2015 (2015-04-26) (Sunday) |
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- Business and economy
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- Politics and elections
- Sport
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Current events of April 27, 2015 (2015-04-27) (Monday) |
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Current events of April 28, 2015 (2015-04-28) (Tuesday) |
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- Sports
- In mixed martial arts, the UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Jon Jones, widely regarded as the best active mixed martial arts fighter in the world, is stripped of his title after his alleged involvement in a hit-and-run incident. (Fox News)
- In Major League Baseball, the Baltimore Orioles announce several changes to their upcoming schedule due to the riots in the city: (ESPN)
- After having two home games at Camden Yards with the Chicago White Sox postponed, the Orioles announce that the teams will play their April 29 game there with no fans allowed to attend. This is the first time in MLB history that a game has been held behind closed doors.
- The two postponed games will be made up as a doubleheader on May 28.
- The Orioles' upcoming weekend series against the Tampa Bay Rays, scheduled for Camden Yards, will instead be played at the Rays' home of Tropicana Field. The Orioles will be the designated home team for scoring purposes.
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Current events of April 29, 2015 (2015-04-29) (Wednesday) |
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- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Yemeni Civil War (2015)
- An Iranian Red Crescent plane is blocked by bombing of Sanaa International Airport's runway by Saudi Arabian F-15 fighters, which unsuccessfully intercepted and issued warnings to the plane to turn back. (The Guardian)
- Businesses and economy
- Disasters and accidents
- Health
- International relations
- Politics and elections
- Science and technology
- Scientists discover the first known dinosaur with membranous wings, Yi Qi. (NY Times)
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Current events of April 30, 2015 (2015-04-30) (Thursday) |
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Elections |
- 28: Nigeria, President, House of Representatives, Senate
- 29: Uzbekistan, President
- 2: Lebanon, President (21st round)
- 11: Malta, Referendum
- 13: Sudan, President, National Assembly
- 19: Finland, Parliament
- 19: Northern Cyprus, President (1st round)
- 22: Lebanon, President (22nd round)
- 25: Togo, President
- 25: Anguilla, House of Assembly
- 26: Benin, National Assembly
- 26: Kazakhstan, President
- 26: Northern Cyprus, President (2nd round)
- 30: Tanzania, Referendum
- 3: Nagorno-Karabakh, National Assembly
- 7: United Kingdom, House of Commons
- 10: Poland, President
- 11: Guyana, National Assembly
- 13: Lebanon, President (23rd round)
- 22: Ireland, Referenda
- 24: Ethiopia, House of Peoples' Representatives
- 25: Suriname, National Assembly
- 26: Burundi, National Assembly
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Trials |
Recently concluded
- Australia: Brett Peter Cowan, Craig Thomson, Robert Hughes
- Brazil: Mensalão scandal
- Canada: Michael Thomas Rafferty, Luka Magnotta
- China: Liu Tienan, Li Daqiu, Ji Jianye, Liao Shaohua, Ni Fake
- Croatia: Ivo Sanader
- Egypt: Hosni Mubarak, Peter Greste
- Germany: Bernie Ecclestone, Uli Hoeness, Christian Wulff, Breno Borges
- Iran: Mohammad Reza Rahimi
- Israel: Hussam Qawasmeh
- Italy: Silvio Berlusconi
- Jordan: Abu Qatada
- Malaysia: Anwar Ibrahim
- Russia: Leonid Khabarov, Vladimir Kvachkov, Pussy Riot
- South Africa: Shrien Dewani, Oscar Pistorius, Chris Mahlangu
- Turkey: Kenan Evren, Tahsin Şahinkaya
- United Kingdom: Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale, Ali Dizaei, Antoni Imiela, Brian Regan, Donna Air, Ched Evans, Clayton McDonald, Titus Bramble, Dan Penteado, John Terry, Iftikhar and Farzana Ahmed, Asil Nadir, Justin Lee Collins, Kweku Adoboli, Tony McCluskie, Kevin Hutchinson-Foster, Chris Huhne, Nicola Edgington, Vicky Pryce, Derek Rose, Mick Philpott, Mairead Philpott, Paul Mosley, Kevin Liverpool, Junior Bradshaw, Aggro Santos, Stuart Hazell, Mark Bridger, Andrew Lancel, Dale Cregan, Ray Wilkins, Michael Le Vell, Liam Adams, R v Grillo and Grillo, Ian Watkins, William Roache, Dave Lee Travis, Nicholas Jacobs, Nigel Evans, Max Clifford, Stuart Hall, Dappy, Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson, Rolf Harris, Tulisa Contostavlos, Chris Denning, Ray Teret, Gary Glitter, Fred Talbot
- United States: Abu Hamza al-Masri, Michael Grimm, Bob McDonnell, Vilma Bautista, George Huguely, Allen Stanford, Roger Clemens, Jerry Sandusky, Jared Lee Loughner, Lauryn Hill, Kermit Gosnell, George Zimmerman, Chelsea Manning, Ariel Castro, Whitey Bulger, Robert Bales, Nidal Malik Hasan,
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Ongoing
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- China: Zhou Yongkang, Wu Changshun
- Libya: Saif al-Islam Gaddafi
- Spain: Lionel Messi
- United Kingdom: Dane Bowers, Andy Coulson
- United States: Paul Anthony Ciancia, Javaris Crittenton, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Dylan Quick, James Eagan Holmes, Aaron Hernandez, Graham Spanier, Tim Curley, Gary Schultz, Anas al-Libi, Justin Bieber, Chris Brown, Rick Perry
- International
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