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Current events of
April 3, 2011
(
2011-04-03
)
(Sunday)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
2011 Bahraini protests
:
Authorities ban the publication of the main opposition paper
Al Wasat
.
(
Times Live South Africa
)
(Al Jazeera)
(
Malaysia Star
)
2011 Libyan civil war
:
Forces loyal to
Muammar Gaddafi
continue to shell the western city of
Misrata
.
(Al Jazeera)
2011 Syrian protests
:
Syria tightens security to crack down on anti-government protests.
(FoxNews)
President
Bashar al-Assad
appoints
Adel Safar
as
Prime Minister
to form a new government.
(newser)
The
United States Government
offers free flights out of
Syria
to its employees.
(Reuters)
2011 Yemeni protests
:
Anti-government
opposition coalition unveils plan to end month-long unrest.
(
Haaretz
)
At least 40 people are dead and 100 injured following a
Taliban
suicide bomb
on a
Sufi Muslim
shrine in
Pakistan
.
(
The Scotsman
)
Arts and culture
The
People's Republic of China
detains
Ai Weiwei
, a leading artist and dissident, as part of a crackdown on dissenting views.
(
Wall Street Journal
)
Taylor Swift
wins the Entertainer of the Year award at the
Academy of Country Music
Awards 2010 with
Miranda Lambert
winning four awards including Female Vocalist of the year.
(AP)
Disasters
The bodies of two dead workers are found at the afflicted
Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant
in
Japan
.
(
New York Times
)
The efforts to plug the
leaks
at the Fukushima I plant appear not to be working.
(
New York Times
)
The official death toll from the
2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
passes 12,000 with over 15,000 people missing.
(
National Police Agency of Japan
)
The wreckage of
Air France Flight 447
, which crashed in June 2009, killing 228 people, is found in the
Atlantic Ocean
.
(BBC)
,
(AP via MSNBC)
Politics
A
presidential election
takes place in
Kazakhstan
, with
President
Nursultan Nazarbayev
winning 95% of the vote.
(BBC)
(RIA Novosti)
Russian
President
Dmitry Medvedev
orders
Prime Minister
Vladimir Putin
to remove his deputies on the boards of state companies by 1 July.
(Reuters)
(RIA Novosti)
,
(BBC)
Guido Westerwelle
, the
Foreign Minister of Germany
, resigns as leader of the
Free Democrats
following recent poor electoral performances.
(
Financial Times
)
Environment
Among the rising concerns about the
water quality
in
Hanoi
's
Hoàn Kiếm Lake
, its
giant sacred turtle
is captured for study and (possibly) medical treatment.
Time
magazine
;
Reuters
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