Portal:Current events/2010 April 6

April 6, 2010 (Tuesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Israeli–Palestinian conflict:
- Palestinians fire another Qassam rocket at southern Israel, causing no harm, despite Gaza groups agreement to stop rockets attacks. (The Jerusalem Post)
- Teenager from the Gaza Strip who was alleged to have been killed by IDF soldiers last week, released from an Egyptian prison, after infiltrating the Egyptian border through an underground tunnel and saying that he and several Palestinian teenagers who were with him were tortured by Egyptian soldiers while in prison. (The Jerusalem Post)
- The Israeli military criticises its own soldiers for killing four young Palestinian demonstrators near Nablus in the West Bank in March, with the Commander describing the killings as "an unnecessary operational occurrence with dire consequences". (BBC News) (Arab News)
- Israel's Nahalat Shimon settler group presents an eviction warrant to two further Palestinian families in East Jerusalem, bringing the current total number of Palestinian houses facing eviction in that neighbourhood to eight. (Arab News)
- Israeli troops arrest for an unrevealed reason three Palestinian civilians in Beit Ommer village and later move them to a military detention centre, as the Israeli military also ransacks homes in Nablus and Hebron. (The Muslim News)
- Egypt allows a rare opening of the Rafah border to permit the first-known Palestinian conjoined twins, their family and a medical team to travel to the National Guard Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, for separation surgery 10 days after their birth. Abdullah of Saudi Arabia is to pay for the surgery. (Haaretz)
- 23-year-old Israeli Arab Rawi Fuad Sultani is imprisoned for nearly six years for passing on sensitive information about Israeli Army Chief Gabi Ashkenaz. (BBC News) (France24) (The Jerusalem Post) (Haaretz)
Naxalite–Maoist insurgency: At least 70 Indian soldiers are killed in an attack by Naxalites in the Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh. (The Times of India) (AP)
Iraq War: At least eight explosions rock Baghdad and kill at least 35 people and wound over 140 others. (Al Jazeera)
Kyrgyz Revolution of 2010: Hundreds of protesters seize a government office in Bishkek to request the resignition of Kurmanbek Bakiyev after battling flashbangs and lachrymators. A local governor is taken hostage by protesters. Hundreds surround police HQ. Almazbek Atambayev is seized by police. There are riots in Talas. (BBC News)
Piracy in Somalia: A South Korean warship catches up with an oil tanker that was hijacked by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean. (BBC News) (Korea Times)

Arts and culture

Vigils and a musical requiem are among a series of events held in L'Aquila to mark the first anniversary of one of Europe's largest post-war natural disasters. (BBC News)

Business and economy

AOL announces it is to sell or shut down Bebo two years after purchasing it. (BBC News) (The Wall Street Journal) (The New Zealand Herald)
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rules that the FCC cannot enforce net neutrality and that Comcast can limit its customers' access to BitTorrent. (The New York Times) (Wired News)

Disasters and accidents

About 103 people are killed in flooding and mudslides in Rio de Janeiro state in Brazil. Of the total, thirty-three people died in the city of Rio de Janeiro, while 33 were killed in the neighbouring city of Niterói, 12 people dead in São Gonçalo, and one in Petrópolis. (BBC News) (Al Jazeera) (Xinhua) (AP) (O Estado de S. Paulo)

International relations

Details of North Korea's own Red Star operating system emerge. (BBC News) (IOL)
Prime Minister of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, speaking about 100,000 Armenian illegal immigrants currently living in Turkey, says "I may have to tell these 100,000 to go back to their country because they are not my citizens. I don't have to keep them in my country". (Ethiopian Review)
Hackers based in China access classified Indian documents, emails of the Dalai Lama, offices of the United Nations and the Pakistani embassy in the United States. (BBC News) (Times of India) (CBC)

Law and crime

Turkish police arrest at least 14 military officers, including four generals, accused of a 2003 coup plot. (Al Jazeera) (BBC News) (Reuters)
Baton-wielding Egyptian police disperse a pro-democracy demonstration in Cairo. (BBC News) (Reuters) (The Washington Post)
South African police build a barricade from razor wire to curtail people scuffles outside Ventersdorp Magistrate's court where two farm workers, aged 15 and 28, are charged with Saturday's murder of white supremacist leader Eugène Terre'Blanche. (BBC News) (IOL)
President of Yemen Ali Abdullah Saleh frees prisoners as part of its support for the cease-fire. (Arab News)

Politics and elections

Campaigning ahead of Sri Lanka's parliamentary election comes to an end. (Al Jazeera)
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown calls a general election for 6 May. (BBC News) (Al Jazeera) (RTÉ)
Lord Saville is asked to hold back until after the UK general election the publication of the Bloody Sunday (1972) report into the killing of 14 unarmed civil rights protesters by British Army paratroopers in Bogside, Derry. (RTÉ) (The Guardian) (BBC News)
Nigeria's acting President Goodluck Jonathan inaugurates a new Cabinet. (NEXT) (BBC News)

Science and technology

Announcement of first animals that spent their entire lives without oxygen were discovered in depths of Mediterranean Sea. They belong to three new species from phylum Loricifera. (BMC Biology) (Nature)