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Current events of
April 20, 2011
(
2011-04-20
)
(Wednesday)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
2011 Libyan civil war
:
Renowned photographers
Tim Hetherington
and
Chris Hondros
are killed and four others injured in
Misrata
.
(CBC)
France
and
Italy
are to send military officers to
Libya
to train rebels.
(IBN Live)
2011 Syrian protests
:
Protests continue in
Syria
despite the lifting of the
state of emergency
law.
(Al Jazeera)
Opposition figure Mahmud Issa is arrested after giving a television interview.
(
Times of India
)
2011 Yemeni protests
:
The
United Nations Security Council
fails to come up with an agreed public statement at its first meeting to discuss the crisis in
Yemen
as violence continues.
(BBC)
Second Ivorian Civil War
Pro-
Ouattara
forces attempt to remove remaining militia loyal to deposed President
Laurent Gbagbo
.
(AFP via Google News)
Law and crime
Two prominent
Chinese
human rights lawyers Jiang Tianyong and Liu Xiaoyuan are released.
(BBC)
(Angola Press)
(Al Jazeera)
Politics and elections
President
Goodluck Jonathan
of
Nigeria
wins the
presidential election
held on 16 April.
(This Day Live)
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