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The launch of the World Digital Library is announced by UNESCO and the United States Library of Congress.
Delegates from at least 30 countries exit in protest during Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's (pictured) speech at the Durban Review Conference in Geneva, Switzerland.
The New York Times wins five Pulitzer Prizes, including for international reporting on the "military and political challenges" of the United States in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The National Unity Party led by Derviş Eroğlu wins a majority of seats in the Assembly of the Republic of Northern Cyprus.
Four people associated with the torrent-tracking website The Pirate Bay are found guilty in a Swedish court of promoting copyright infringements.

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April 22, 2009 (Wednesday)

South Africans go to the polls for a general election. (Reuters)
Communist rebels hijack a train in Latehar on the eve of the second round of voting in India's general election. (Sky News)
Argentina formally claims 1,700,000 square kilometres (660,000 sq mi) of ocean including the British territories of the Falklands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. (BBC)
Japan reports its first annual trade deficit in 28 years. (BBC)

April 22, 2009 Wikinews articles

April 21, 2009 (Tuesday)

Yahoo! announces that it will cut between 600 and 700 jobs. (AP via Forbes)
The Shining Path makes a resurgence in Peru with anti-government ambushes. (CNN)
Twelve navies from the Americas begin annual UNITAS Gold exercises near Florida, United States. (Miami Herald)
The World Digital Library launches at UNESCO's headquarters in Paris, France. (AFP via Google News)
The Wall Street Journal reports that cyber-spies have hacked the U.S. Joint Strike Fighter Program. (Reuters)
The United Kingdom's Retail Prices Index records negative inflation for the first time since 1960. (BBC)
Twenty-four people die during combat between the Mungiki criminal organization and citizens of Karatina in Kenya. (BBC)
Scientists announce the discovery of Gliese 581 e, the smallest exoplanet ever found. (MSNBC)

April 21, 2009 Wikinews articles

April 20, 2009 (Monday)

The 2009 Pulitzer Prizes are announced. (New York Times)
Oracle Corporation purchases Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion. (MarketWatch)
India's Space Research Organization launches its RISAT-2 reconnaissance satellite. (CNN-IBN)
The National Unity Party wins Northern Cyprus's legislative election. (BBC)
The hijacker of CanJet Flight 918 surrenders and releases his six hostages. (BBC) (Sky News)
Durban Review Conference:
- The United Nations World Conference against Racism begins in Geneva, Switzerland. (Telegraph)
- A protester throws an object at Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and yells, "Racist, racist!" (BBC)
- Several delegations exit during an anti-Israel speech by President Ahmadinejad. (Reuters) (Telegraph)
China's government discovers 3,850 kilometres (2,390 mi) more of the Great Wall of China. (BBC)

April 20, 2009 Wikinews articles

April 19, 2009 (Sunday)

Eight corrections officers are killed in an ambush during a prisoner transfer in Nayarit, Mexico. (AP via Google)
United States President Barack Obama announces that Central Intelligence Agency personnel who employed enhanced interrogation techniques on terrorism suspects will not be prosecuted. (BBC)
The Fifth Summit of the Americas ends in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. (Canadian Press)
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta releases British hostage Robin Barry Hughes. (CNN)

April 19, 2009 Wikinews articles

April 18, 2009 (Saturday)

France's National Police arrest ETA military leader Jurdan Martitegi in Montauriol. (Reuters via ABC News Australia)
Canada's HMCS Winnipeg and the United States' USS Halyburton thwart Somali pirates' attack on a Norwegian oil tanker. (MSN)
Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi is charged with espionage and imprisoned in Iran until 2017. (BBC)
An explosion at a warehouse kills at least 18 people in Hunan Province, China. (BBC)
The Abu Sayyaf Group releases Swiss Red Cross worker Andreas Notter from captivity in the Philippines. (Reuters)
The Netherlands' Korps Commandotroepen rescue 20 Yemeni hostages from Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden. (BBC)

April 18, 2009 Wikinews articles

April 17, 2009 (Friday)

An airplane crash kills 11 people in Papua, Indonesia. (UPI)
American Sterling Bank in Sugar Creek, Missouri, is closed. (MarketWatch)
The Bangladesh Police arrest 31 suspected Hizb ut-Tahrir members for planning terrorism. (AFP via Sydney Morning Herald)
The Irish political party Fianna Fáil departs the Alliance for Europe of the Nations and joins the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party. (EurActiv)
Two earthquakes kill 22 people in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan. (Sky News)
Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm, and Carl Lundström of The Pirate Bay are found guilty of copyright infringement and imprisoned until 2010. (New Zealand Herald)
People's Alliance for Democracy leader Sondhi Limthongkul is injured in an apparent assassination attempt in Bangkok, Thailand. (Los Angeles Times)
A recount in Moldova's parliamentary election confirms an "emphatic win" by the Communist Party. (Russia Today)
The trial of Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasāb resumes. (Al Jazeera)
Serbian President Boris Tadić visits Kosovo. (Deutsche Welle)
The Czech Republic invites Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko to a European Union summit in May. (RIA Novosti)
Botswana will reduce its output of diamonds by more than 50% in 2009. (AFP)
Malagasy President Andry Rajoelina issues an arrest warrant for former President Marc Ravalomanana. (News 24)
South Africa's Army enters KwaZulu-Natal province to prevent violence during the upcoming general election. (BBC)
Canada restores citizenship to foreigners in an amendment to the Citizenship Act of 1977. (Wall Street Journal)
The Fifth Summit of the Americas begins in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. (Barbados Advocate)

April 17, 2009 Wikinews articles

April 16, 2009 (Thursday)

Sweden's National Museum of Science and Technology publicly displays a confiscated Pirate Bay server. (The Local)
China's economy grows by 6.1% in the first quarter of 2009, the lowest increase since 1999. (Xinhua)
The Naxalite movement kills 17 people as India's general election begins. (Times Online)
A landslide in Kyrgyzstan kills at least 16 people. (BBC)
Bolivian police kill three people and arrest two others over an alleged plot to assassinate President Evo Morales and Vice President Álvaro García Linera. (RTÉ) (BBC)

April 16, 2009 Wikinews articles

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Ongoing events
Economic Worldwide recession Financial crisis Global Iceland Ireland (banking / financial) Russia Automotive industry crisis Sun Microsystems acquisition Political / Military Malagasy political crisis Enlargement of NATO Piracy in Somalia Treaty of Lisbon ratification North Korean nuclear program Fijian constitutional crisis Thai political crisis American tax protests Imprisonment of Roxana Saberi Durban Review Conference Humanitarian Zimbabwean cholera outbreak edit sidebar

Recent deaths
April 21 : Jack Jones 19 : J. G. Ballard 19 : Doc Blanchard 18 : Edward George 18 : Bill Orton 16 : Viktor Paskov 15 : Clement Freud 14 : Peter Rogers 13 : Mark Fidrych 13 : Jack D. Hunter 13 : Harry Kalas 12 : Marilyn Chambers 12 : John Maddox 12 : Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick edit sidebar

Ongoing conflicts
Worldwide War on Terrorism Africa / Middle East Casamance Conflict Fourth Chadian Civil War War in Darfur Iraq War Israeli–Palestinian conflict Maghreb Insurgency Conflict in the Niger Delta Somali Civil War Second Tuareg Rebellion Second Ugandan Civil War Asia War in Afghanistan Balochistan conflict Internal conflict in Burma Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir Laotian Secret War Ethnic conflict in Nagaland Naxalite-Maoist insurgency Insurgency in the Philippines South Thailand insurgency Sri Lankan Civil War Turkey–PKK conflict The Americas Colombian Civil War Mexican Drug War Internal conflict in Peru edit sidebar

Elections
Recent April 4: Slovakia, President (second round) 5: Republic of Macedonia, President (second round) 5: Moldova, Parliament 9: Indonesia, Parliament 9: Algeria, President 16: India, Parliament (first round) 19: Haiti, Senate 19: Ecuador, President and Parliament 19: Northern Cyprus, Parliament Happening Now 22: South Africa, National Assembly Upcoming April 23: India, Parliament (second round) 25: Iceland, Parliament 26: Andorra, Parliament 26: Ecuador, President and Parliament 30: India, Parliament (third round) edit sidebar

Trials
Recently concluded Peru: Alberto Fujimori Sweden: The Pirate Bay United States: James Charles Kopp United States: Aníbal Acevedo Vilá United States: Phil Spector Ongoing Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Tribunal Canada: Larry O'Brien Iraq: Supreme Criminal Tribunal Italy: Raffaele Sollecito, Amanda Knox Netherlands: Thomas Lubanga (ICC) Netherlands: Radovan Karadžić (ICTY) New Zealand: David Bain (retrial) Republic of China: Chen Shui-bian Sierra Leone: Charles Taylor (SCFSL) Singapore: Tak Boleh Tahan Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra United States: Jena Sixedit sidebar Upcoming United States: Viktor Bout United States: Noshir Gowadia United States: William J. Jefferson United States: Bernard Madoff United States: Ehren Watada United States: Sheila Dixon United States: Joseph Bruno

Holidays and observances
April Ongoing 9 - May 28: Omer (Judaism) 19 - 25: Bright Week (Eastern Christianity) 20 - May 2: Riḍván (Bahá'í Faith) Current 22: Earth Day 22: Administrative Professionals' Day 22: Yggdrasil Day (Germanic Neopaganism) 22: Discovery Day (Brazil) 22: Oklahoma Day (Oklahoma) Upcoming 23: World Book and Copyright Day 23: Aragón Day (Aragón) 23: Book Day (Canada) 23: Castile and León Day (Castile and León) 23: Independence Day (Conch Republic) 23: Saint George's Day (Europe, Lebanon) 23: First Day of Summer (Iceland) 23: National Sovereignty and Children's Day (Northern Cyprus, Turkey) 23: Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day (United States) edit sidebar

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