Portal:Current events/2010 April 9
From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
Jump to:
navigation
,
search
Current events of
April 9, 2010
(
2010-04-09
)
(Friday)
edit
history
watch
Rescue efforts continue in
Brazil
in an attempt to locate around 200 people believed to have been
buried in their homes by a large landslide
in
Morro do Bumba
near
Rio de Janeiro
city in the state of
Rio de Janeiro
.
(BBC)
The death toll in
Shanxi
's
flooded Wangjialing coal mine
reaches 25.
(Al Jazeera)
Thousands of
Iraqis
protest in the city of
Najaf
to mark the seventh anniversary of the occupation of Iraq by the
USA
.
(
People's Daily Online
)
(Al Jazeera)
Australia
immediately suspends all new asylum claims by people from
Sri Lanka
and
Afghanistan
.
(
The Times of India
)
(BBC)
(
The Guardian
)
(Reuters)
(
The Times
)
(France24)
(Al Jazeera)
Union Minister of Home Affairs of the Republic of India
P. Chidambaram
takes "full responsibility" for
the killing of 76 paramilitary troops
in Tuesday's
Maoist
ambush in
Chhattisgarh
— history's deadliest attack on security forces by Maoist insurgents — and offers to resign.
(BBC)
(Reuters India)
The funeral of
South Africa
's white supremacist leader
Eugene Terreblanche
takes place in
South Africa
.
(Sky News)
(BBC)
(Al Jazeera)
Anti-government protesters
in
Thailand
storm and occupy an opposition television station.
(BBC)
(Thai News Agency)
Germany
charges a former member of the
Red Army Faction
(RAF) in connection with the murder of
Attorney General
Siegfried Buback
, who was shot alongside two other men in 1977.
(Deutsche Welle)
(BBC)
(
Die Welt
)
Sri Lanka
's governing coalition wins a majority in the country's
2010 parliamentary election
.
(BBC)
(Al Jazeera)
(France24)
(Reuters)
(
South China Morning Post
)
Ahead of
Sudan
's
first multi-party elections in 24 years
, some opposition parties criticise lack of access to balanced media coverage and accuse the government of manipulation.
(Al Jazeera)
Pope Benedict XVI
encounters allegations he was responsible for obstructing the punishment of American paedophile priest
Stephen Kiesle
by signing
a letter
in 1985 - the first time he has been directly accused of involvement in the Catholic Church's ongoing international child sex abuse scandal.
(BBC)
(
The Guardian
)
(
The Times
)
(
LA Times
)
(
The J Post
)
The first black Prime Minister of
Zimbabwe Rhodesia
, Bishop
Abel Muzorewa
, is announced to have died at the age of 85.
(BBC)
(
The Daily Telegraph
)
(
Daily Nation
)
(Voice of America)
Two days of national mourning begin in
Kyrgyzstan
for the victims of police shootings as the dead are buried.
(Deutsche Welle)
(BBC)
(ABC News)
The
Islamic State of Iraq
posts a statement on the
internet
claiming responsibility for Sunday's
triple bombings
in
Baghdad
which killed at least 40 people and affected some foreign embassies but denies involvement in Tuesday's six bombings which killed 35 people in Shia areas.
(BBC)
(France24)
(Reuters)
(
People's Daily Online
)
Shanghai Metro
Line 2
opens service to
Pudong International Airport
.
(Shanghai Daily)
U.S. helicopter -
Air Force
CV-22 Osprey
- crashes in southern
Afghanistan
, killing three U.S. service members and one civilian employee.
Zabiullah Mujahid
says
Taliban
fighters shot down the chopper.
(CNN)
Associate Justice
John Paul Stevens
of the
U.S. Supreme Court
announces his retirement after serving on the court for 34 years.
(
LA Times
)
American and Russian physicists announce the creation of
ununseptium
, atomic element number 117.
(CBC News)
New York Times
4.1-magnitude earthquake jolts northern Chinese city of
Tangshan
.
(Sina)
The
World Bank
approves a $3.75 billion loan for a
coal-fired power plant
in
South Africa
.
(Democracy Now)
Category
:
2010 by day
Navigation menu
Personal tools
Log in
Request account
Namespaces
Portal
Discussion
Variants
Views
Read
View source
View history
More
Search
Navigation
Main page
Recent changes
Random page
Help
Infogalactic News
Buy an account
Tools
What links here
Related changes
Special pages
Printable version
Permanent link
Page information