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Maoist rebels kill at least 75 Indian soldiers in an attack on security convoys in Dantewada district in the central Indian state of Chattisgarh.
A 7.2 M_w earthquake hits Baja California, Mexico.
Space Shuttle Discovery launches on mission STS-131 carrying the Leonardo Multi-Purpose Logistics Module to the International Space Station.
More than 100 miners are rescued from a flooded mine in Shanxi, China, after being trapped for more than a week.
Children in India gain a legal right to a free education.
The British government establishes the UK Space Agency to manage all of the country's civil space activities.
Collisions between two 3.5 TeV proton beams in CERN's Large Hadron Collider set the world record for the highest-energy man-made particle collisions.
In architecture, SANAA cofounders Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa (example work pictured) win the 2010 Pritzker Prize.

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6 April 2010 (Tuesday)

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown calls a general election for 6 May. (BBC)
Dozens are killed in flooding and mudslides in Rio de Janeiro state in Brazil. (Al Jazeera) (Xinhua) (AP)
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)
The Israeli military has criticised its own soldiers for killing four young Palestinian demonstrators in the West Bank in March. (BBC)
At least 70 Indian soldiers are killed in an attack by Naxalites in the Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh. (Times of India) (AP)
A South Korean warship catches up with an oil tanker that was hijacked by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean. (BBC) (Korea Times)

April 6, 2010 Wikinews articles

5 April 2010 (Monday)

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 eight miners and leaves at least twenty missing. (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)

April 5, 2010 Wikinews articles

4 April 2010 (Sunday)

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)
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 Ban Ki-moon witnessed one of the world's worst environmental disasters as he flew 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)

April 4, 2010 Wikinews articles

3 April 2010 (Saturday)

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 is inaugurated in the Senegalese capital Dakar. (BBC) (Al Jazeera) (AFP)
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)
Eugene Terreblanche, founder of the Afrikaner Resistance Movement, is killed in his hometown of Ventersdorp. (BBC)

April 3, 2010 Wikinews articles

2 April 2010 (Friday)

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)

April 2, 2010 Wikinews articles

1 April 2010 (Thursday)

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:
- Israeli warplanes launch "the most serious air strikes in Gaza in over a year"—at least 13 overnight air strikes on the Gaza Strip, in locations which include Gaza, Khan Yunis and Rafah. (BBC) (The Jerusalem Post) (BBC) (Ynetnews) (Press TV)
- 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)

April 1, 2010 Wikinews articles

31 March 2010 (Wednesday)

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)

March 31, 2010 Wikinews articles

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Economics Automotive industry crisis Financial crisis Greek economic crisis European sovereign debt crisis Worldwide recession Medical West African meningitis outbreak HIV/AIDS in Africa Political Irish Catholic sexual abuse scandal Nigerian presidential power crisis Philippine presidential elections Scientific Expedition 23 STS-131 Sport 2010 NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament Humanitarian Haiti earthquake response edit sidebar

Recent deaths
April 6: Corin Redgrave 4: Alec Bedser 3: Eugène Terre'Blanche 2: Chris Kanyon 1: John Forsythe 1: Yuri Maslyukov 1: Ed Roberts 1: Tzannis Tzannetakis March 30: Jaime Escalante 30: David Mills 28: June Havoc 27: Dick Giordano 27: Peter Herbolzheimer 27: Vasily Smyslov 26: Ahmed bin Zayed Al Nahyan 25: Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann 24: Robert Culp edit sidebar

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