Portal:Current events/2011 April 10
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April 10, 2011 (Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- United Nations and French forces open fire on the residence of the President of Côte d'Ivoire Laurent Gbagbo in response to recent attacks. (AP via Times Union)
- 2011 Syrian protests
- Eyewitnesses claim that Syrian security forces killed four protesters in the coastal city of Banias. (AP via Forbes)
- Eyewitnesses report that Daraa where dozens of protesters were shot on Friday is 80 per cent paralysed. (Al-Jazeera)
- An African Union mission arrives in Libya to negotiate a settlement in the 2011 Libyan civil war between Muammar Gaddafi and his opponents. (BBC)
Arts and culture
- U2's 360° Tour becomes the highest grossing music tour of all time following a show in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (NME via Bigpond Music)
Business and economics
- The People's Republic of China records its first trade deficit in six years with rising commodity prices blamed. (AP via CBS Moneywatch)
Disasters
- Wildfires in the US state of Texas destroy more than 230,000 acres of land, including about 20 homes in the small town of Fort Davis. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- Beijing police arrest at least a dozen members of a Christian house church for attempting to hold a church service in public after they are evicted from their usual place of worship. (AP via Star Tribune)
- A British Royal Navy sailor is charged with murdering an officer and attempted murder of three crew members aboard a nuclear submarine HMS Astute on Friday night in Southampton. (AP via Yahoo News), (AFP via ABC News)
Politics and elections
- Peruvians vote in presidential elections with the most likely result a runoff between Ollanta Humala and either Pedro Pablo Kuczynski or Keiko Fujimori. (BBC), (AP via Newsday), (New York Times), (BBC)
- The governing Democratic Party of Japan loses 70 seats in local government elections due to concerns over handling of the Fukushima I nuclear accidents. (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
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