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- James Hansen wins the Sophie Prize. (350.org)
- 2010 Kyrgyzstan riots:
- Conjoined twins:
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict:
- 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)
- WikiLeaks has been accused of "selectively editing" (by slowing down selected parts of) a video they released recently showing American forces killing civilians in a July 12, 2007 Baghdad airstrike after a Pentagon report was released claiming that several of those killed did have weapons. (Fox News)
- 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. (NY Times) (CNN)
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- Green way to celebrate Qingming Festival. The chinese celebration was held on April 5. (People)
- 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:
- 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)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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