Events in April 2008
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Apr. 1
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India’s Kamalesh Sharma takes over as the Commonwealth Secretary General. |
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Turkey’s Supreme Court decides to hear a case calling for the closure of the ruling Justice and Development Party and banning the Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President Abdullah Gul from politics for five years. |
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Finland’s Foreign Minister Ilkka Kanerva is sacked for sending suggestive text messages to an erotic dancer Johanna Tukiainen. |
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Apr. 2
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President Robert Mugabe’s party loses control of Zimbabwe’s Parliament. |
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Apr. 3
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Russia scuttles bid to induct Ukraine and Georgia into the NATO at a summit in the Romanian capital Bucharest. |
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Ledra Street, the barricaded boulevard in the heart of Nicosia, the last divided capital in Europe is thrown open for traffic. |
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Apr. 5
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The Druk Phuensum Tshogpa president Jigmi Y. Thinley is endorsed Bhutan’s Prime Minister-elect by the party executive meeting in Thimphu. |
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Apr. 6
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Jeyaraj Fernandopulle Sri Lanka’s Highways Minister and 13 others are killed while attending a marathon race in Weliveriya town near Colombo. |
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Montenegrins cast votes in president polls. |
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Apr. 8
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Sri Lanka’s ultra-nationalist Janatha Vimukthi Perumana splits. |
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Britain’s High Court rules that the government cannot alter the terms of the High Skilled Migrants Programme. |
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India and Venezuela sign a historic agreement to invest $400 million to develop the San Cristobal oil field. |
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Apr. 9
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The Navy becomes the first Indian team to ski to the North Pole Jigme Y. Thinley assumes office as Bhutan’s first elected Prime Minister. |
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Apr. 10
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Nepali voters cast ballots in a historic Constituent Assembly election. |
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Sabeel Ahmed, brother of Kafeel Ahmed who died in the botched terror attack on the Glasgow airport in 2007, gets 18-month jail sentence for withholding information on the plot from British police. |
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Apr. 11
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China’s first domestically-made bullet train rolls off the production line. |
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Apr. 12
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Two Border Roads Organisation personnel are killed in a suicide attack in Afghanistan’s Nimroz province. |
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Apr. 13
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Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki names Opposition leader Raila Odinga Prime Minister. Uhuru Kenyatta and Musalia Mudavadi to be Deputy Prime Ministers. |
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Italians cast ballots in general elections. |
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Seventynine LTTE cadres and 13 soldiers are killed in fire fighting in Sri Lanka’s north. |
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Apr. 14
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Eighteen schoolgirls are burnt to death after fire engulfs a dormitory at Budo Junior School near the Ugandam capital Kampala. |
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Apr. 15
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Over 80 persons are killed after a plane crashes shortly after take-off at Goma in Congo. |
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More than 50 persons are killed in car bomb attacks in Iraq |
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Italians vote to power Silvio Berlusconi and his People of Freedom party wins majority in both the Lower House and the Senate. |
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Apr. 17
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Fortynine mourners are killed and 55 injured as a suicide bomber strikes at a funeral in a Sunni Arab village northern Iraq. |
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Mexico and India sign agreements on cooperation in renewable energy and on Air Services after talks between President’s Pelipe Calderon and Pratibha Patil. |
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Apr. 20
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India and Saudi Arabia reach agreement on establishing a Saudi –India investment fund. Bilateral Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement is ratified. |
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Apr. 21
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India and Chile sign four agreements covering air services, S and T, Antarctica expeditions and sports cooperation. |
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Apr. 23
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Intense fighting leaves 90 people – 52 LTTE cadres and 38 army men dead in Sri Lanka’s Jaffna peninsula. |
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Apr. 24
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A draft framework agreement on starting work on the $7.6 billion Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India (TAPI) gas pipeline, project in 2010 is signed in Islamabad. |
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Relatives meet death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh lodged in Kot Lakhpat jail in Lahore, Pakistan. |
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Apr. 25
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Iranians cast votes in run-off parliamentary polls. |
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Apr. 26
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The Pakistan Foreign Secretary Riaz Mohammed Khan is sacked. Abdul Moiz Bothari is named acting Foreign Secretary. |
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Apr. 27
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai escapes bid on life by Taliban fighters during a military parade in Kabul. |
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LTTE aircraft drops three bombs on Sri Lankan Army positions in the north. |
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Apr. 28
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Seventy persons are killed and 416 injured as a high-speed passenger train jumps track and smashes into another train in China’s Shandong province. |
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Apr. 29
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The U.N. decides to set up a task force to tackle the global food crisis to be headed by the Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon |
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Apr. 30
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The British House of Lords rejects government move to push through new rules against non-EU doctors. |
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