Portal:Current events/2011 April 9
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April 9, 2011 (Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2011 Libyan civil war:
- Fighting continues between government and rebels in Brega and Ajdabiya in Libya. (Al Jazeera)
- 2010-2011 Ivorian crisis/Second Ivorian Civil War:
- Forces loyal to Laurent Gbagbo regain ground in Abidjan. (Reuters)
- The Egyptian Army initiates a fatal crackdown in Tahrir Square, Cairo, on people protesting that ousted president Hosni Mubarak be prosecuted for corruption. (BBC)
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict:
- Over 120 rockets are fired into southern Israel this weekend, wounding 5 people. The Iron Dome missile system intercepts 10 rockets. (Jerusalem Post)
- Israeli air strikes kill 12 in Gaza, according to doctors. (BBC)
- Israel promises to carry out more air strikes on the Gaza Strip in response to the recent mortar and rocket attacks. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
- Basque conflict:
- Despite a ceasefire, ETA shoot a French policeman in Valliere, Limousin. Two more shooting incidents follow the first one. (Typically Spanish)
Arts and culture
- U.S. movie director Sidney Lumet dies in Manhattan.(Reuters via TV New Zealand)
Disasters and accidents
- A tornado hits in Iowa's Monona County in the midwestern United States. (Omaha World-Herald)
Law and crime
- Australian police are condemned for their failure to treat the 2007 death of an Aboriginal boy found weighted with rocks in a waterhole as anything other than an accident in Borroloola, Northern Territory. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
- A shooting spree in a shopping mall in Alphen aan den Rijn in the Netherlands leaves seven dead, including the perpetrator. (NOS)
- Women's groups protest outside the Oireachtas after police are filmed discussing raping women after their arrest. (The Guardian)
- The Police Service of Northern Ireland says that a "sophisticated and substantial" 500lb bomb left in a van under the main Belfast to Dublin road near Newry had the potential to cause huge loss of life and devastation, and may have been destined for a town centre. (BBC)
- Australian army sex scandal:
- Australia's Chief of the Defence Force, Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston, describes a broadcast of a young cadet engaging in sexual intercourse at the Australian Defence Force Academy as an "abhorrent" but "isolated" incident. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
- More army members speak out about other incidents of sexual abuse. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
Politics and elections
- Ismael Omar Guelleh is re-elected as President of Djibouti. (Manilla Bulletin)
- Icelanders vote in a referendum on a renegotiated compensation deal with Britain and the Netherlands over the collapsed Icesave bank. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
- Nigerians vote in parliamentary elections. (BBC)
- 72-year-old Indian social activist Anna Hazare is to end a four-day hunger strike after the government agrees to his wishes for tougher anti-corruption laws which have gained widespread public support. (BBC)