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Summary.     Click for More >   Mugabe's Zanu-PF loses majority   Election Commission: Zanu-PF party has taken 94 of the 207 contested seats, while opposition parties have won 105 NATO denies Georgia and Ukraine Police entered YFZ compound Olympic torch extinguished
Apr.1  Paris  Sarkozy pleads for Colombian hostage
Apr.2   Zimbabwe  
 Ireland  PM to quit over payments scandal
Apr.3   NATO
  Texas
 Brazil  Thousands hit by outbreak of dengue
 Zimbabwe  Raids target opposition party
Apr.4  Zimbabwe  Zanu-PF backs Mugabe for run-off
 Washington  Blackwater Iraq contract to be renewed
Apr.5  Zimbabwe  Opposition: Runoff risks violence
 Sri Lanka  Blast kills highways minister
Apr.6  North Caucasus  Bush, Putin disagree on missile defense
 London  Angry protests as torch reaches London
Apr.7   Paris  
  The relay was disrupted by protesters demonstrating against the Chinese government, causing authorities to extinguish the flame 3 times.    Officials extinguished and put the torch on a ...
  London   Princess Diana unlawfully killed   The inquest jury: Diana and Dodi Al Fayed were unlawfully killed due to the gross negligence of driver Henri Paul and the paparazzi  Iraq  Religious leaders want militia intact  Texas  Kansas pulled away victory in NCAA Apr.8  Haiti  Rioters storm presidential palace Apr.9  Global  IMF slashes world growth forecast  San Francisco Bay Area  Route changes mark Olympic torch relay  Thailand  54 Myanmar migrants suffocate in freezer Apr.10  UN  UN chief to miss Olympics opening  Washington  Bush backs Iraq withdrawal freeze Apr.11  Sadr City  Iraq sends tanks into Sadr City  Zambia  Summit to tackle Zimbabwe Apr.12   Zambia Summit opens to end Zimbabwe vote crisis  China  Taiwan, China hold historic meeting  Haiti  Prime minister ousted over food prices   Global IMF head gives food price warning  Zimbabwe  Zimbabwe to hold partial recount Apr.13   Nepal Maoists extend poll lead  Kenya  Odinga named PM in bid to end vote crisis Apr.14   Rome     Billionaire Berlusconi wins election   Conservative former prime minister is on track to become next leader after his center-left rival Walter Veltroni conceded general election d... Apr.15  Iraq  Bombings kill at least 60   Washington Warm US welcome for Pope Benedict Apr.16  Congo  Plane crash kills 38; others missing  Washington  Pope attacks US sex abuse record Apr.17  Kenya  Unity government sworn in  New Delhi  Heavy security for torch  South Korea  S Korea 'due to lift US beef ban' Apr.18  UN  Pope Benedict makes speech to UN  USA  Citigroup sees second giant loss  USA  Carter presses on with Hamas Apr.19  Somalia  82 reported killed in Mogadishu Apr.20  New York  Pope offers prayer at Ground Zero  Paraguay  Exit polls projected Lugo winning Apr.21  Indonesia  Court sentences key militant   Georgia Georgia accuses Russia of downing plane Apr.22  Egypt  al-Zawahiri: Attacks on West works   Darfur Darfur deaths 'could be 300,000'  Pennsylvania  Clinton 'wins key Democrat vote' Apr.23  Sri Lanka  Scores killed as troops and rebels clash  Australia  More arrests as Australia hosts torch  Gaza  Fuel embargo blocks UN aid Apr.24   Syria Syria 'had covert nuclear scheme' Apr.25  West Pakistan  Blast ends lull in violence  Japan  Scuffles at torch relay  Nigeria  Oil firms cut output Apr.26   Zimbabwe Recount shows opposition ahead  Iran  Conservatives claim election win   Kabul President flees ceremony attack  South Korea  Tight security at Seoul torch relay Apr.27   Austria     Captive woman had 7 children by father Map of Amstetten Austria
  Police believe a 73-year-old man held his daughter captive in his cellar for the past two decades and had seven children with her.    The existence of the woman, missing since 1984 and now 42, emerged app...
 China  Train collision kills at least 66 Apr.28  Austria  'House of Horrors' father confesses Apr.29  Austria  DNA: Captor fathered daughter's children Apr.30  Iran  Iran dumps U.S. dollar for oil trades  Somalia  Air raid kills militants


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  Sarkozy pleads for Colombian hostage   French President will send a humanitarian mission to Colombia's jungles to treat ailing hostages held by leftist rebels there   Mugabe's Zanu-PF loses majority

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Apr.1  Zimbabwe  Rivals neck and neck
 Ukraine  Bush backs Ukraine on NATO bid
  Paris  
 Zimbabwe  'No deal' for Mugabe to step down
 Zimbabwe  Election pressure mounts

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Apr.2   Zimbabwe  
  Election Commission: Zanu-PF party has taken 94 of the 207 contested seats, while opposition parties have won 105
 The MDC said its leader Morgan Tsvangirai had won the presidential election. The official election results have not yet been declared
  Ireland   PM to quit over payments scandal   Bertie Ahern, who helped broker peace in Northern Ireland, could not survive a scandal over his collection of cash from businessmen  Romania  France to send battalion to Afghanistan  Zimbabwe  Opposition wins assembly

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Apr.3   NATO     NATO denies Georgia and Ukraine
  NATO will not yet offer membership to Georgia or Ukraine after the alliance was split amid strong objections from Russia.    Albania and Croatia were given the green light. US and Czech off...
 Southern Iraq  U.S. in deadly airstrike on Basra house   Texas   Police entered YFZ compound Map of Eldorado TX USA
  Texas law enforcement entered the compound following allegations of physical and sexual abuse of a 16-year-old girl.    On April 8, 533 women and children had bee...
  Brazil Thousands hit by outbreak of dengue   Zimbabwe Raids target opposition party  Zimbabwe  Zanu-PF meets to discuss strategy

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Apr.4   Zimbabwe Zanu-PF backs Mugabe for run-off   Washington Blackwater Iraq contract to be renewed  Zimbabwe  MDC bids to end poll silence

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Apr.5   Zimbabwe Opposition: Runoff risks violence  Paris  Sarkozy terms for Olympic attendance  Baghdad  Iraq: Blackwater staying on 'is bad news'   Sri Lanka Blast kills highways minister  Southern California  Hollywood legend Charlton Heston dead

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Apr.6   North Caucasus Bush, Putin disagree on missile defense   London Angry protests as torch reaches London  USA  Clinton's chief strategist Mark Penn quits  Sadr City  Rocket attacks kill 3 U.S. troops

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Apr.7   Paris   Olympic torch extinguished
  The relay was disrupted by protesters demonstrating against the Chinese government, causing authorities to extinguish the flame 3 times
 Officials extinguished and put the torch on a bus for safety reasons, in the face of protests
  London   Princess Diana unlawfully killed
  The inquest jury: Diana and Dodi Al Fayed were unlawfully killed due to the gross negligence of driver Henri Paul and the paparazzi
 Paul's drink-driving and a lack of seatbelts contributed to their deaths. Al Fayed's father Mohamed has refused to accept the verdict
  Iraq Religious leaders want militia intact   Texas Kansas pulled away victory in NCAA  Beijing  China vows to keep torch on track  Zimbabwe  Election officials arrested

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Apr.8  U.S. Congress  Petraeus: US 'must suspend' withdrawal  Washington  IMF may sell 400 tons of gold   Haiti   Rioters storm presidential palace  Hungry Haitians demand the resignation of President Preval over soaring food prices. U.N. peacekeepers battled rioters  Colombia  Rebels reject French aid to hostage  San Francisco Bay Area  Protests ahead of torch relay

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Apr.9   Global   IMF slashes world growth forecast  The International Monetary Fund has said that the world economy will grow much more slowly in the next two years as a result of the credit c...  Zimbabwe  Court mulls vote decision  Gaza  Militant attack on Israel border   San Francisco Bay Area   Route changes mark Olympic torch relay   Heavy security surrounded runners, as the threat of violent protests prompted officials to make dramatic last-minute changes  Haiti  President: Cut in food taxes to stop riots  San Francisco Bay Area  Google and Yahoo to share web ads  USA  American Airlines grounds flights   Thailand   54 Myanmar migrants suffocate in freezer   The bodies of migrant workers were found on the back of a truck. 67 other migrants were alive inside the freezer  Beijing  Olympics to 'rebound from crisis'

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Apr.10   UN UN chief to miss Olympics opening   Washington Bush backs Iraq withdrawal freeze  Zimbabwe  Opposition rejects run-off vote  China  35 arrested in Olympics bomb plot  U.S. Supreme Court  Democrats: Bush is avoiding Iraq decisions

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Apr.11  Argentina  Argentina braced for torch relay  Zimbabwe  Ban on Harare rallies  Zimbabwe  Mugabe pulls out of election crisis summit   Sadr City   Iraq sends tanks into Sadr City  Iraqi tanks, with U.S. air support, are attacking Sadr City, just hours after al-Sadr called for calm in the wake of the assassination   Zambia Summit to tackle Zimbabwe

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Apr.12   Zambia   Summit opens to end Zimbabwe vote crisis
  Leaders from southern Africa convened for a meeting aimed at trying to resolve a dispute over the release of March 29 presidential election results.    Zimbabwe's President Robert...
  China Taiwan, China hold historic meeting  Turkey  'World peace' hitcher is murdered   Haiti Prime minister ousted over food prices   Global   IMF head gives food price warning
  Dominique Strauss-Kahn has warned that hundreds of thousands of people will face starvation if food prices keep rising
  Zimbabwe Zimbabwe to hold partial recount

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Apr.13   Nepal   Maoists extend poll lead
  The former guerrillas have won 40 out of 79 seats. Maoist party has increased its lead as more results are declared from the landmark elections
  Kenya   Odinga named PM in bid to end vote crisis   President Kibaki named rival Raila Odinga as prime minister, implementing a power-sharing deal after protracted negotiations  US Georgia  Trevor Immelman wins Masters  Global  World Bank echoes food cost alarm

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Apr.14  Rome  Berlusconi narrowly ahead in vote  Zimbabwe  Opposition fail in legal bid  Kenya  Report: Gang members killed in protests   Rome     Billionaire Berlusconi wins election
  Conservative former prime minister is on track to become next leader after his center-left rival Walter Veltroni conceded general election defeat
 Charismatic center-right Silvio Berlusconi, 71, has a commanding lead in both houses of parliament. 52-year-old Veltroni delivered a concession speech live on Italian television. Berlusconi will lead Italy's 63rd government since the end of World War II
 Northern Iraq  Car bombs, suicide attack kill 17

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Apr.15   Iraq Bombings kill at least 60  Congo  Air crash kills more than 80  Zimbabwe  Opposition warns of genocide   Washington     Warm US welcome for Pope Benedict
  Pope received an unprecedented presidential greeting from Bush as he arrived for his first official visit to the US
 Gujarat  Many dead in bus accident

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Apr.16  Washington  Pope in landmark White House trip  Zimbabwe  Police clamp down on strikers  Gaza  Air strike 'kills 9 Palestinians'   Congo   Plane crash kills 38; others missing   Rescue workers were still searching for 20 people, a day after a plane crashed into a busy market   Washington Pope attacks US sex abuse record  East Timor  President returns home

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Apr.17   Kenya     Unity government sworn in  Kenya swore in a new Cabinet, split 50-50 between former bitter enemies from opposing parties   New Delhi Heavy security for torch  South Africa  S Africa joins Zimbabwe vote call  Zimbabwe  Opposition party 'was offered deal'   South Korea S Korea 'due to lift US beef ban'  Darfur  Attacks force U.N. to cut food relief

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Apr.18   UN     Pope Benedict makes speech to UN  The head of the Roman Catholic Church has begun a speech to the United Nations on the final leg of his six-day US tour   USA Citigroup sees second giant loss   USA Carter presses on with Hamas  Zimbabwe  Mugabe attacks opposition and UK  New York  Pope promotes friendship at synagogue  Mumbai  10 deaths a day on city's trains  New York  Crude hits record $117 per barrel  Bolivia  Bolivia struggles with floods  Zimbabwe  Zimbabwe to begin ballot recount  London  Bank £50bn mortgage rescue plan

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Apr.19  South Africa  Zimbabwe weapons ship heads to Anglola  Afghanistan  Pakistan envoy: I am Taliban hostage  Zimbabwe  Annan demands action on Zimbabwe  Beijing  Anti-French rallies across China  Iraq  Al-Sadr threatens to 'declare war' in Iraq   Somalia 82 reported killed in Mogadishu  Japan  Danica Patrick makes IndyCar history

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Apr.20   New York     Pope offers prayer at Ground Zero   Benedict XVI has visited the scene of the 11 September 2001 attacks on Twin Towers, at the end of a six-day tour of the US  Zimbabwe  Opposition claims mass arrests   Paraguay   Exit polls projected Lugo winning  Exit polls projected former Roman Catholic Bishop Fernando Lugo winning enough votes in to end six decades of one-party rule  New York  Stadium Mass ends Pope's US visit

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Apr.21   Indonesia   Court sentences key militant  An Indonesian court has sentenced Abu Dujana, he alleged military commander of an al Qaeda-linked network, to 15 years in prison   Georgia     Georgia accuses Russia of downing plane
  Georgia's air force commander: A Russian fighter jet has shot down an unmanned spy plane as it flew over the breakaway region of Abkhazia
 Zimbabwe  Opposition turns to UN  UN  Leaders warn on biofuels and food

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Apr.22   Egypt al-Zawahiri: Attacks on West works  Zimbabwe  Churches: Stop the murder, torture  USA  Clinton's poll day threat to Iran   Darfur   Darfur deaths 'could be 300,000'
  UN head of humanitarian affairs John Holmes: An estimated 300,000 people may have died as a result of the conflict. That is an increase of 50%
  Pennsylvania     Clinton 'wins key Democrat vote'  Hillary Clinton has beaten Democratic rival Barack Obama. Analysts say she needs a big win to keep her campaign alive  Zimbabwe  Official: Expect election result in days

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Apr.23   Sri Lanka Scores killed as troops and rebels clash  USA  Clinton 'best to take on McCain'  Georgia  Georgia denounces Russian 'harassment'   Australia   More arrests as Australia hosts torch   5 people were arrested as the Olympic torch made its way through Canberra in a relay that was more orderly than in other countries  U.S. Congress  U.S. to cite N. Korea-Syria nuclear link   Gaza Fuel embargo blocks UN aid

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Apr.24  South Africa  Zuma: Zimbabwe crisis at critical level   Syria     Syria 'had covert nuclear scheme'
  The United States has accused N. Korea of helping Syria build a nuclear reactor that 'was not intended for peaceful purposes'.    A covert nuclear reactor destroyed last year in Syria would have been capable of producing plutonium. But ...
 Zimbabwe  U.S.: Mugabe trying to steal election

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Apr.25   West Pakistan Blast ends lull in violence  UN  UN probes US Syria reactor claim  Japan  Japan leg of torch relay begins  USA  Nuclear head angry at U.S. info delay   Japan Scuffles at torch relay   Nigeria Oil firms cut output  West Bank  Abbas will meet Bush in May

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Apr.26   Zimbabwe   Recount shows opposition ahead
  Ruling party has failed to gain the seats needed to hold onto control of parliament in a recount of ballots in last month's controversial elections.    In initial results, the Movement for Democratic Change, declared a majority of parliamentary seats, but the electoral commis...
 Sadr City  U.S. denies Sadr City airstrikes  Somalia  Pirates free crew of Spanish boat   Iran Conservatives claim election win   Kabul     President flees ceremony attack
  Hamid Karzai and other quickly scrambled toward safety when the sound of gunfire and explosions interrupted a military ceremony.    Security forces whisked Karzai away from the scene and hundreds of people fled as shots rang out. He and other dignitaries were safe. The Taliban clai...
  South Korea Tight security at Seoul torch relay

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Apr.27   Austria     Captive woman had 7 children by father Map of Amstetten Austria
  Police believe a 73-year-old man held his daughter captive in his cellar for the past two decades and had seven children with her
 The existence of the woman, missing since 1984 and now 42, emerged apparently after a teenage child fell ill and had to be taken to hospital.
 Sadr City  Female suicide bomber kills 3  Austria  Detectives study cellar   China Train collision kills at least 66  Congo  UN troops 'armed DR Congo rebels'

April 28 ... more > Top ^

Apr.28   Austria 'House of Horrors' father confesses

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Apr.29   Austria DNA: Captor fathered daughter's children  Baghdad  Tariq Aziz on trial over executions  Northern England  Scholes fires United to Champions final  Kabul  Karzai was warned of assassination plot  Georgia  Georgia-Russia tensions ramped up

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Apr.30   Iran Iran dumps U.S. dollar for oil trades  NATO  Nato warns Russia over Georgia  Austria  Austrian incest dad holidayed in Thailand  London  Drogba, Lampard send Chelsea through  CIA  CIA: China is not an 'inevitable enemy'  Washington  Further cut in interest rates   Somalia   Air raid kills militants  Aden Hashi Ayrow, the head of an al-Qaeda-linked group, has been killed in pre-dawn air strike in the central town of Dusamareb  Iran  'Provocative' Clinton angers Iran  United Arab Emirates  Hopes as talks continue

Blackwater Iraq contract to be renewed Bush, Putin disagree on missile defense Religious leaders want militia intact Bush backs Iraq withdrawal freeze Iraq sends tanks into Sadr City  Iraqi tanks, with U.S. air support, are attacking Sadr City, just hours after al-Sadr called for calm in the wake of the assassination 82 reported killed in Mogadishu   Georgia accuses Russia of downing plane



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2008
Apr.1  Ukraine  Bush backs Ukraine on NATO bid
Apr.2  Romania  France to send battalion to Afghanistan
Apr.3  Southern Iraq  U.S. in deadly airstrike on Basra house
Apr.4   Washington
Apr.5  Baghdad  Iraq: Blackwater staying on 'is bad news'
Apr.6   North Caucasus
Apr.6  Sadr City  Rocket attacks kill 3 U.S. troops
Apr.7   Iraq
Apr.8  U.S. Congress  Petraeus: US 'must suspend' withdrawal
Apr.8  Colombia  Rebels reject French aid to hostage
Apr.9  Gaza  Militant attack on Israel border
Apr.10   Washington
Apr.10  U.S. Supreme Court  Democrats: Bush is avoiding Iraq decisions
Apr.11   Sadr City
Apr.16  Gaza  Air strike 'kills 9 Palestinians'
Apr.17  Darfur  Attacks force U.N. to cut food relief
Apr.19  South Africa  Zimbabwe weapons ship heads to Anglola
Apr.19  Iraq  Al-Sadr threatens to 'declare war' in Iraq
Apr.19   Somalia
Apr.21   Georgia
  Georgia's air force commander: A Russian fighter jet has shot down an unmanned spy plane as it flew over the breakaway region of Abkhazia
Apr.22  USA  Clinton's poll day threat to Iran Apr.22   Darfur Darfur deaths 'could be 300,000'
  UN head of humanitarian affairs John Holmes: An estimated 300,000 people may have died as a result of the conflict. That is an increase of 50%
Apr.23   Sri Lanka Scores killed as troops and rebels clash Apr.24   Syria   Syria 'had covert nuclear scheme'
  The United States has accused N. Korea of helping Syria build a nuclear reactor that 'was not intended for peaceful purposes'.    A covert nuclear reactor destroyed last year in Syria would have been capable of producing plutonium. But ...
Apr.26  Sadr City  U.S. denies Sadr City airstrikes Apr.27  Congo  UN troops 'armed DR Congo rebels' Apr.29  Georgia  Georgia-Russia tensions ramped up Apr.30   Somalia Air raid kills militants  Aden Hashi Ayrow, the head of an al-Qaeda-linked group, has been killed in pre-dawn air strike in the central town of Dusamareb


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