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- Air travel disruption after the 2010 eruptions of Eyjafjallajökull:
- All United Kingdom airports have reopened at 10:00pm BST on Tuesday 20 April, with first planes landing at London Heathrow (BBC)
- Another plume threatens to cause further disruptions. (Los Angeles Times)
- Half of all scheduled European flights are expected to go ahead, though airspace remains closed in many countries, including Ireland, Norway and Poland. Denmark accepts no landings. (BBC)
- Planes return to the air in France, Germany and Italy. The United Kingdom still experiences disruptions. (CNN) (ABC News)
- Ryanair cancels all of its flights between Ireland and the United Kingdom until 13:00 on Friday 23 April and all Northern European flights — Ireland, UK, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Belgium, The Netherlands, France, Germany, Poland, Baltic States and North Italy — until 13:00 on Thursday 22 April. (Irish Examiner)
- The Irish Aviation Authority closes Cork Airport and Dublin Airport until at least 20:00, opens Shannon Airport for limited services. (Irish Independent) (The Wall Street Journal)
- President of the United States Barack Obama speaks of the "unbreakable bonds" and "special relationship" between his country and Israel on the 62nd anniversary of Israel's birth. (Sky News) (The Jerusalem Post)
- Palestinian officials say they will oppose new Israeli orders on deporting Palestinians from the West Bank. (BBC)
- The Yushu earthquake death toll rises to 2,046. (Xinhua)
- President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko announces the ousted President of Kyrgyzstan Kurmanbek Bakiyev, wanted by his successors in connection with the recent unrest in which more then 80 people died, is in Minsk. (BBC)
- Britain goes on trial over the torture of suspects in Afghanistan. (The Independent)
- The United States Supreme Court, in ruling on United States v. Stevens, strikes down a law outlawing videos that depict animal cruelty. (Washington Post)
- The United States and Iraq kills another al-Qaeda leader, Ahmed al-Obeidi, this time in Nineveh. (BBC) (CBC) (The News International)
- Two Canadian men are accused of committing an act of "flag desecration" in La Quinta, California, United States — they allegedly took down an American flag and replaced it with the flag of Canada following their country's ice hockey victory in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. (CBC)
- Speaking in Tehran, Iranian Islamic cleric Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi blames promiscuous women for causing earthquakes. (BBC) (news.com.au) (Fox News) (The Sydney Morning Herald)
- The International Court of Justice in The Hague rules that Uruguay should have informed Argentina about its plans to build two paper mills on the banks of the River Uruguay, though it concludes it did not violate the environment and the one mill which was built is allowed to continue working. (BBC)
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- Robert Kiprono Cheruiyot of Kenya wins the 2010 Boston Marathon, setting a new course record. ESPN
- Kyrgyzstan unrest:
- Several hundred people armed with sticks and stones clashed with ethnic Russians and Meskhetian Turk landowners in the village of Maevka, before moving toward the capital Bishkek and demanding talks with officials. Alertnet
- Jalal-Abad: Approximately 1,000 people gather in the southwestern town's main square, denouncing the interim government and chanting pro-Bakiev slogans. Rallies also take place in neighboring Osh and Batken provinces. RFE-RL
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict:
- Iraq:
- Air travel disruption after the 2010 eruptions of Eyjafjallajökull:
- A report by the Fédération Internationale de Luge de Course (FIL) concludes the track on which Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili died at the 2010 Winter Olympics was faster than it should have been. (BBC)
- Aftershocks of the Yushu earthquake continue. Quake death toll rises to 1,944. (Xinhua) (People) (QNA) (CCTV)
- Seven are killed and 30 are injured in a magnitude 5.3 earthquake in the mountains north of Kabul, Afghanistan. (The Washington Post)
- Hundreds of Indonesian protesters in Jakarta demand the riot police be disbanded after three are killed and at least 156 wounded in bloody clashes between Indonesian National Police and demonstrators. (The Times)
- Former United States presidential candidate and US Senator, John McCain, calls for sanctions against Iran designed to prevent the country from producing a nuclear weapon. (UPI) (The Washington Post)
- North Korea denies it sank a South Korean naval patrol boat in disputed waters between the two Koreas. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
- The Thai army moves into the Bangkok CBD to block the path of protesters. (BBC) (Japan Today) (Melbourne Age) (The Washington Post)
- Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd shows a two-hour presentation on his health reform plan at a Council of Australian Governments (COAG) meeting in Canberra. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
- Derviş Eroğlu, head of a party opposed to reunification of Cyprus, wins leadership elections in the Turkish Cypriot north but pledges talks with Greek Cypriots. (Al Jazeera)
- UN Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie appeals for safety in Somalia for thousands of Somalis trapped in the country’s capital of Mogadishu. (UN)
- Franck Ribéry and other footballers from the French national football team are investigated by police in connection with an underage prostitution ring. (The Times) (AFP) (RTÉ) (Ennahar)
- Drug trafficker Carl Williams of Melbourne gangland killings fame is murdered in prison. Yahoo
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- The Dow Live Earth Run for Water started on April 18th. The host cities are: Buenos Aires, Cape Town, Chicago, Hong Kong, Jimbaran, London, Los Angeles, Manchester, Melbourne, Mexico City, Milan, Minneapolis, New York, Lisboa, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Singapore City, Stockholm, Toronto and Washington, D.C.. (The Independent) (Live Earth)
- The Tehran International Conference on Disarmament and Non-Proliferation, 2010 concludes.
- Air travel disruption after the 2010 eruptions of Eyjafjallajökull:
- Benedict and child sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church:
- Independence Day in Zimbabwe:
- President of China Hu Jintao visits survivors in the earthquake zone as the death toll climbs to more than 1,700 people. (BBC)
- The semi-finals of the Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket tournament are moved from Bangalore to Mumbai following the discovery of further explosive devices after yesterday's bombing. (Al Jazeera)
- Seven people are killed and twenty others are injured in a suicide car bomb attack on a police station in Kohat, one day after twin bomb attacks kill more than 40 people and wound at least 60 others at a camp for the displaced in the city. All the dead are civilians. (BBC) (Al Jazeera) (CNN)
- Nigerian gunmen take two German men, from Port Harcourt and Lagos, in Abia State. (BBC) (France24) (IOL) (ABC News)
- Three Italian aid workers, Matteo Dell'Aria, Marco Garatti and Matteo Pagani, accused of being involved in a plot to to assassinate Governor of Helmand Gulab Mangal, are released after being found "not guilty". (Al Jazeera)
- Increasing numbers of women from Saudi Arabia are running away from home, studies by the International Muslim Organization for Women and Family (IMOWF) in Jeddah say. (Arab News)
- Bahrain gives Abdullah of Saudi Arabia the Ajrab sword of Imam Turki bin Abdullah kept by Bahrain for 140 years and confers on him the Sheikh Isa bin Salman Al Khalifah Medal during a ceremony at Al-Sakhir Palace. (Arab News) (Bahrain News Agency) (Gulf Daily News)
- King Oyo, Rukidi IV of Toro, one of Uganda's last remaining kings and the world's youngest monarch, reaches the age of 18 at the end of a four-day ceremony and takes full control of his kingdom. (CNN) (Xinhua)
- Former President of the United States George Washington owes $300,000 for overdue library books he borrowed from New York Society Library five months into his presidency and which he failed to return. (The Guardian) (New York Daily News)
- 69-year-old Spanish tenor opera star Plácido Domingo returns to the stage at Milan's Teatro alla Scala weeks after colorectal cancer surgery. (BBC)
- A recently unearthed track by The Rolling Stones is released as a limited edition 7" single for Record Store Day. The first song recorded by Blur's original line-up since guitarist Graham Coxon quit in 2002 is also released for the same purpose. (BBC)
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- Tehran International Conference on Disarmament and Non-Proliferation, 2010:
- Eruption of Eyjafjallajökull:
- Child sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church:
- April 2010 Kohat bombings:
- Twin bombs injure eight people outside M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore ahead of an IPL-3 league game between the Royal Challengers Bangalore and the Mumbai Indians. A third device is located outside. (Indian Express) (BBC) (The Daily Telegraph)
- Over 100,000 mourners attend a memorial service to honour the death of the Polish president Lech Kaczyński, and 95 others who were killed in a plane crash the previous week. (The Guardian)
- Snowfall in central Tokyo matches a record set in April 1967. (The Japan Times) (MSN Malaysia)
- Two oil tankers collide and burst into flames, killing at least five people and wounding several more, in southwest Nigeria. Three large freight trucks along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway also ignite. (AFP)
- Internal e-mails reveal Porter Goss, a former head of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), agreed with a decision to destroy hundreds of tapes purportedly showing agents waterboarding two al-Qaeda suspects being held in Thailand in 2002 over fears that public release of the tapes would be "devastating". (Al Jazeera)
- An earthquake strikes Adelaide, the capital of South Australia, and is felt 50 kilometres away. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
- An investigation is launched after a plane crashes into a field and bursts into flames in Weyhill, Andover, Hampshire, United Kingdom, killing at least two people. (The Daily Telegraph) (RTÉ) (BBC) (Sky News) (The Guardian)
- Toyota is to recall 600,000 Sienna minivans in the US over fears of corrosion. "In the worst case, the carrier cable may fail and the spare tyre could become separated from the vehicle" a statement from the company read. (BBC)
- The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia buys 202 double decker buses from China's Zhengzhou Yutong Group for €35 million in the first cooperation between the two countries. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
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- Ni Box opens in Monaco on 25 April 2010. (Monaco)
- Eruption of Eyjafjallajökull volcano:
- Travel chaos spreads across Europe as planes are grounded in the United Kingdom, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia as a result of the giant cloud of ash coming across from Iceland. (BBC) (Al Jazeera) (CNN)
- The UK's National Air Traffic Service (NATS) confirms flight restrictions will now remain in place until at least 07:00 tomorrow. (Sky News)
- Ireland opens its air space and transatlantic flights resume from Dublin Airport. A small section off the south coast remains closed. (RTÉ)
- Ryanair, Europe's largest low-cost carrier, cancels all flights to and from Ireland, Britain, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Belgium, the Netherlands, northern France, northern Germany, Poland and the Baltic states until 12:00 GMT on Monday: CEO Michael O'Leary calls the situation "unprecedented". (Reuters) (Barcelona Reporter) (Irish Independent)
- The BBC reports that share prices have fallen in many European airlines as a result of the grounding of many jets. (BBC)
- The World Health Organisation does not know what effects the ash could have on human beings, but they have advised Europeans to stay indoors, if possible. (BBC)
- Jens Stoltenberg, Prime Minister of Norway, is stuck in New York City due to the eruption. (New York Daily News) (CNN) (Los Angeles Times)
- 2010 Yushu earthquake:
- The death toll from the earthquake in China which occurred on Wednesday has risen to 1144, officials have announced. Another 417 people are reported to be unaccounted for. (BBC)
- Premier Wen Jiabao travels to the earthquake zone, having postponed a scheduled visit to Brunei, Indonesia and Myanmar. President Hu Jintao calls the Presidents of Chile and Venezuela to postpone trips to those countries. (CNN)
- Child sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church:
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict:
- President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad writes a letter to President of the United States Barack Obama urging cooperation between the two countries. (CNN) (One India) (The Washington Post)
- Victims of the recent severe storm in India angered by slow government response attack officials and raid an aid storage facility. (AFP)
- Gary Jackson, former president of the US private security firm, Blackwater Worldwide (Xe Services LLC), and four other former workers are indicted on federal weapons charges. (BBC)
- The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charges Goldman Sachs with defrauding investors. (The Wall Street Journal)
- Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is named as the key suspect in "one of the biggest corruption scandals in Israel's history". (Voice of America) (The Times) (Ha'aretz)
- The United Nations commission investigating the events and circumstances surrounding the assassination of Benazir Bhutto submits its report which states that the murder was "avoidable" and the inquiry was bungled. (Dawn) (BBC)
- At least ten people die and another 35 are wounded in a suicide attack on a hospital in Quetta. (BBC) (The Times of India) (Al Jazeera) (Sky News)
- The seven candidates running in Sunday's Northern Cyprus presidential election, 2010 take part in a live televised election debate on Turkish Cypriot TV. (Famagusta Gazette) (Hürriyet) (Today's Zaman)
- UK general election countdown:
- As a result of popular protests in the north and capital of the country President Kurmanbek Bakiyev officially resigns after he leaves Kyrgyzstan for Kazakhstan. (The Hindu)
- Vote counting begins in Sudan after the five-day landmark multi-party election. (BBC)
- Al-Qaeda reportedly free an Italian couple that they had been holding since December 2009. (BBC)
- It is reported that Mohammad Khatami, an ex-president of Iran, has been barred from leaving the country. (BBC)
- The 2010 BRIC summit opens in Brasília amidst growing cooperation and calls for a bigger role. (The Hindu)
- Senior red-shirt leader Arisman Pongruangrong climbs down a rope to escape an assassination attempt by Thai security forces laying siege to Thaksin Shinawatra's SC Park Hotel in Bangkok. He urges protesters to leave Ratchaprasong "to avoid being used as human shields". (Al Jazeera) (BBC) (The Daily Telegraph) (The Times)
- United States Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton calls again on Israel and the Palestinians to make a better effort to pursue peace. (BBC)
- Lady Gaga breaks a YouTube most viewed record, becoming "Queen of YouTube" with more than one billion views. (NBC Philadelphia) (Digital Spy)
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- 2010 Yushu earthquake:
- Sudanese general election, 2010:
- Due to the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull volcano, Belgian, British, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Icelandic, Irish, Norwegian, Polish, Russian and Swedish airspaces are affected by the eruption. (BBC) (euronews) (RTÉ) (The Irish Times)
- Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is a prime suspect in a large corruption scandal, law enforcement sources have told the BBC. (BBC)
- The leaders of the United Kingdom's three main political parties take part in the first of three televised debates ahead of the 2010 General Election. (BBC) (The Guardian)
- The maiden flight of the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mk.II, India's first launch with an indigenous cryogenic upper stage, ends in failure, resulting in the loss of the GSAT-4 satellite. (The Hindu)
- Three explosions occur in the former Burmese capital of Yangon during the city's Water Festival, killing at least 9 people and injuring 178. (Xinhua) (BBC) (Radio Australia News)
- Gunfire disrupts a rally in support of former President of Kyrgyzstan Kurmanbek Bakiyev in the southern city of Osh. (Reuters) (Al Jazeera)
- At least three security officers are killed after riots in north Jakarta, Indonesia, over plans to bulldoze a cemetery containing a memorial to a revered Muslim scholar. (Antara) (Ninemsn) (Jakarta Post)
- The 2010 IBSA summit comes to a close in Brasilia.
- Oxfam International says the number of sexual assaults in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has increased "dramatically". (Al Jazeera)
- Israel's Communications Ministry imposes a blanket ban on the iPad and will confiscate them from anyone carrying them into the country. (Ha'aretz) (PC World)
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- 2010 Yushu earthquake
- At least 100 people are killed in India after a powerful storm demolished thousands of homes in West Bengal. (BBC News)
- Kyrgyzstan's interim leader Roza Otunbayeva says that President Kurmanbek Bakiyev must stand trial over riots last week. (Times of India) (Al Jazeera)
- Eruption in glacier volcano Eyjafjallajökull, Iceland, enters a new phase, causing local evacuations. (Morgungblaðið)
- It is reported that U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday will unveil a "bold and daring" new space mission to send astronauts to Mars months after he controversially scrapped a project to return to the Moon. (The Telegraph)
- Controversy arises over the decision to bury Polish President Lech Kaczyński in Wawel Cathedral in Krakow—a place reserved for Poland's kings and heroes. Hundreds of people have taken to the streets in protest, and thousands have joined an internet campaign objecting to the plan. (BBC News)
- Tokelau outlaws whaling within its territorial waters. (RNZI)
- The Liberal Democrats send out a "four step" manifesto plan to "hardwire fairness into British society". Leader Nick Clegg says his policies, including raising the state pension and a tax cut for low and middle earners, combined "hope and credibility". (BBC News)
- The Vatican seeks to "clarify" remarks made by a senior cardinal, who linked homosexuality with paedophilia in the abuse scandal facing the Church. (BBC News)
- For the first time in decades, researchers report a significant drop worldwide in the number of women dying each year from pregnancy and childbirth, to about 342,900 in 2008 from 526,300 in 1980. (The New York Times)
- A cargo aircraft crashes on take-off from General Mariano Escobedo International Airport, Monterrey, Mexico, killing five crew members and one person in a car on the ground. (Aviation Safety Network)
- Australia arrests the captain and chief officer of a Chinese ship that ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef, damaging three kilometres of coral reef and leaking tonnes of oil. (New Straits Times) (BBC) (Economic Times)
- Apple delays the international launch of its iPad computer for a month, blaming "surprisingly strong US demand" that has outstripped its ability to produce them. (The Guardian)
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