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Current events of
April 18, 2011
(
2011-04-18
)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
A 16-year-old
Israeli
boy injured by a
Palestinian
missile attack on his
school bus
on April 7 dies.
(
BBC
)
(
Wikinews
)
2011 Libyan civil war
:
Gaddafi's forces kill over 100 civilians in
grad rocket
attacks in the
Nafusa Mountains
of Libya.
(Al Jazeera)
Gaddafi's forces commit
mass rape
of women in
battle of Misrata
.
(
The First Post
)
(
Ottawa Citizen
)
Suspected
Muslim
insurgents detonate a bomb in southern
Thailand
, killing one and injuring 23 people.
(
Straits Times
)
2011 Syrian protests
:
Eight killed in
Syrian
Protests.
(BBC)
Syrian city of
Homs
"boiling" after deaths of 25 protesters.
(
Haaretz
)
A Syrian officer is reportedly killed for his unwillingness to open fire at protesters.
(
Haaretz
)
Suicide Bombing in
Iraq
kills 9 and wounds 25.
(BBC)
Disasters
Storms in
Guangdong
, southern
China
, kill at least 18 people and leave 150 injured.
(BBC)
(Xinhua)
A landslide kills 10 people in
Indonesia
's
East Java
province.
(
Jakarta Post
)
(
The Hindu
)
14 people killed in mudslide in
Colombia
.
(BBC)
International relations
An anti-
piracy
conference opens in
Dubai
,
United Arab Emirates
.
(Al Jazeera)
Politics
Ugandan
opposition leader
Kizza Besigye
is arrested during a protest against high food and fuel prices in the capital
Kampala
.
(Reuters)
(Al Jazeera)
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