'''1 di aprili, venniridìa ''' 
* Roma: Veni ripurtatu ca forsi lu Papa havi ricivutu la strema unzioni doppu ca l'ufficiali dû Vaticu ficiru n'annùnziu ca suffrìa di na frevi auta di na nfizzioni dû trattu urinariu. 
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'''2 di aprili, sabbatudìa ''' 
* Vaticanu: Lu Papa Giuvanni Paulu II mori ê 21.37 (ura siciliana) - la Cresia Cattolica è in bìsitu. Natu Karol Józef Wojtyla (a Wadowice, appressu Cracovia, Polanda, lu 18 di maiu 1920), era lu Papa pi 26 anni tra 1978 e 2005, lu terzu cchiù longu in termini di tempu.  Veni ricanusciutu avennu na granni nfluenza supra la furtuna pulitica dâ Polanda, spiciarmenti la cascata dû cummunismu ntâ sò terra d'uriggini, chi facirmenti havi avutu la nfluenza cchiù larga ntê banni di l'Europa livanti.
**Li cchiù brevi 
* Zimbabbui: La partita dû prisidenti di Zimbabui, Robert Mugabe, havi addicchiaratu na maggiuranza parliamintaria nta n'alizzioni chi veni già discritta a essiri cumpretamenti libbira d'iddu e chiddi chi cci sunnu culligati.
'''3 di aprili, duminicadìa '''
* australiani morinu doppu na svintura d'elicottiru, aiutannu li vittimi dûn tirrimotu in Indunisia di l'urtimi iorna.
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'''6 di aprili, mercuridìa '''
* Principatu di Monacu. Mori lu principi Ranieri di Monacu a l'età di 81 anni.
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'''8 di aprili, venniridìa '''
* Lu finirali di Papa Giuvanni Paulu II.
'''9 di aprili, sabatuddìa '''
* Carlu, Principi di Galles, si sposa cu Camilla Parker Bowles.
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'''12 di aprili, martidìa '''
* Italia: Na partita di cauciu tra AC Milan e Inter Milan s'appi a essiri abbannunata.
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'''15 di aprili'''
* Iraq: Un clericu sunni mpurtanti addimanna a prisidenti novu a lassari iri libbiri e pirdunari li milli di rivurtisti tinuti ntê priciuni Iraqi. 

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'''17 di aprili'''
* Cina: Novi prutesti cinesi contra lu Giappuni e lu fattu c'ancora lu cuvernu giappunisi nun ammitti l'atrucitati dâ secunna guerra munniali. 

'''18 di aprili'''

'''19 di aprili, martidìa'''
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'''20 di aprili, meircuridìa'''
* Roma Doppu quattru anni di cuviernu, Silviu Berlusconi si dimetti di la carica di primu ministru.
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'''24 di aprili, duminicadìa
*Roma - In Italia, Silviu Berlusconi forma nu cuviernu novu.

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===Deaths in April===
• 1: Harald Juhnke <br>
• 2: Pope John Paul II <br>
• 5: Dale Messick <br>
• 5: Saul Bellow <br>
• 6: Prince Rainier III <br>
• 9: Andrea Dworkin<br>
• 16: Marla Ruzicka<br>
• 23: Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen<br>
• 23: John Mills<br>
• 24: Ezer Weizman<br>
• 26: Augusto Roa Bastos<br>
* ''Other deaths''

===Ongoing events===
WrestleMania 21 took place in LA

===Ongoing armed conflicts===
• ''None listed''

=== Election results in April===
• ''None listed''

=== Ongoing trials ===
ICTY: Slobodan Milošević<br />
Iraq: Iraqi Special Tribunal<br />
&mdash; Saddam Hussein, among others

===Related pages===
Year 2005 in ...<br />
|}

==Events==
For the details of one day at a time, click date; April 1 includes worldwide 'April-the-first' hoaxes.''

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===April 1, 2005===
* Islamic Jihad have declared, in principle, their intention to join the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO). [http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/736/fr3.htm (Al Ahram)]
* A (Wikinews)
* Google doubles the storage space of its Gmail service to two gigabytes. [http://www.internetnews.com/xSP/article.php/3494491 (internetnews.com)]
* John Paul II is on the verge of death as a result of his recent health problems. The Vatican announces that the pope has suffered cardiovascular collapse and Vatican denies "unsourced" media reports claiming he has already died. [http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=KD0W50ASN23AYCRBAEKSFFA?type=topNews&storyID=8064930 (Reuters)]
* The United Nations Security Council votes to refer those suspected of war crimes in Darfur to the International Criminal Court. [http://www.sudantribune.com/article.php3?id_article=8815 (Sudan Tribune)] [http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/HRW/d683f36699bb29b8486d9f7dc488dd17.htm (Reuters AlertNet)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4399487.stm (BBC)]
* opposition party Movement for Democratic Change amidst claims of dis-enfranchisement and fraud. [http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/Home/0,,2-11-1662,00.html (News24)] [http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=ay.W2xaTXYb4&refer=top_world_news (Bloomberg)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4399501.stm (BBC)]
* Indian security forces launch an offensive against the United Liberation Front of Assam.  [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4399823.stm (BBC)]
* The World Bank agrees to fund a controversial hydroelectric dam project in Laos. [http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/30185/story.htm (Planet Ark)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4399587.stm (BBC)]
* The Minuteman Project starts a month-long patrolling of the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona for illegal immigrants, with about 100 volunteers, some of them armed. [http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=633980 (ABC News)]
* The government of Argentina delays the restructuring of its debt by the exchange of old bonds for new because of a decision by a federal court judge in the United States that froze the processing of the old bonds in the possession of the Bank of New York pending a hearing before the appeals court. [http://news.ft.com/cms/s/b5a61d88-a302-11d9-b4e8-00000e2511c8.html (Financial Times)]
* Japanese girl group Zone (band) played final concert as a band.
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===April 2, 2005===
* John Paul II passes away at 9:37 p.m. Vatican time ((Wikinews)
* Sumatran earthquake: Nine Sea King helicopter crash on the (Wikinews)
* Scientists at the California Institute of Technology devise a method to weigh the smallest mass ever, a cluster of xenon atoms weighing a few zeptograms, or billionths of a trillionth of a gram. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4394947.stm (BBC)] [http://www.aip.org/pnu/2005/split/725-1.html (AIP Bulletin)]
* Riccardo Muti resigns as music director of La Scala opera house, Milan after 18 years, following a vote of no-confidence by 700 orchestra members and staff last month. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/4403819.stm (BBC)]
* In France, radical wine producers attack the offices of agriculture ministries in Montpellier and Carcassonne with dynamite. A group calling itself ''Comité Régional d'Action Viticole'' (Crav) takes responsibility.[http://www.couponmountain.ca/index.html (BBC)] [http://news.wine.co.za/News/News.aspx?NEWSID=6764&Source=HomePage (WineNews, SA)] [http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=625568 (Independent)]
* In Nepal, former prime minister Girija Prasad Koirala is released from house arrest and demands the return to democracy. [http://www.newkerala.com/news-daily/news/features.php?action=fullnews&id=93291 (New Kerala)] [http://www.telegraphindia.com/1050403/asp/nation/story_4567700.asp (Telegraph, India)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4404029.stm (BBC)]

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===April 3, 2005===
* Iraqi insurgents attacks American soldiers and 12 Iraqi prisoners are injured, but the US Army says it has put down the assault. [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/03/international/middleeast/03ghraib.html (NYT)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4405337.stm (BBC)]
* Various world leaders express their condolences for the death of Queen Elizabeth II, John Howard, Tony Blair, George W. Bush, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi and Lawrence Gonzi. [http://afr.com/articles/2005/04/04/1112489383753.html (AFR)]
* John Paul II lies in state in the Clementine Room of the Apostolic Palace for a private viewing, a ceremony to confirm and certify the death of the ''Pontifex Maximus''. [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,152298,00.html (Fox News)]
* Deposed president of Kyrgyzstan Askar Akayev agrees to officially resign. [http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/04/04/015.html (Moscow Times)] [http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=8069867 (Reuters)] [http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/04/03/news/resign.html (IHT)]
* A man wielding a Tamil church congregation in Stuttgart, Germany, kills a woman and seriously injures three other people. [http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000100&sid=aEqwBpRN8qhE&refer=germany (Bloomberg)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4406821.stm (BBC)]
* The Italian female physician in Uige. [http://www.recombinomics.com/News/04030501/Marburg_Pace.html (Recombinomics)] [http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/News/0,,2-11-1447_1684580,00.html (News24)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4407461.stm (BBC)]
* In Thailand, two bombs explode in Hat Yai and one in Songkhla. Two are dead and dozens injured. [http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/140760/1/.html (Channel News Asia)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4406721.stm (BBC)] [http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000080&sid=a4Eki2_otnvY&refer=asia (Bloomberg)]

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===April 4, 2005===
* Israel is to begin dumping 10,000 tonnes of rubbish in the West Bank every month. This move is believed to be a breach of international treaties, and may also pollute the main Palestinian water supply. [http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/EVIU-6B5H33?OpenDocument (Relief Web)] [http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=560433&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y (Haaretz)] [http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=626484 (Independent UK)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4409543.stm (BBC)]
* A UNDP report, the third Arab Human Development Report criticizes the United States for their actions in the Middle East, particularly in Iraq. [http://tv4.se/visa/?ID=379966 (TV4 Nyheterna - in Swedish)] [http://cfapp2.undp.org/rbas/ahdr_2004/AHDR_2004_Executive_Summary.pdf (Executive Summary of the Report)]
* The United States awards its highest military award, the Medal of Honor, to Paul Ray Smith, who was killed in fighting at the Baghdad airport in 2003.  This is the first presentation of the award since 1993 and only the third since the Vietnam War. [http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=542&e=1&u=/ap/20050404/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/medal_of_honor_6 (AP)]
* The Vatican announces that funeral is to take place on the morning of crypt of Saint Peter in the Vatican. [http://www.guardian.co.uk/pope/story/0,12272,1451919,00.html (Guardian)]
* The wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles, also scheduled for Friday, April 8, will be postponed one day to avoid a time conflict and allow Prince Charles to attend the Papal funeral. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4407347.stm (BBC)]
* John Paul II. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4408197.stm (BBC)]
* Darfur atrocities. [http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=638255 (ABC)]
* Afghanistan: 
** Aid groups are accused of "squandering" large amounts of Afghan aid money. [http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=reutersEdge&storyID=8070307 (Reuters)] 
** Six to ten people are killed in a Taliban strike in southern Afghanistan. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4404661.stm (BBC)]
** The United Kingdom makes plans to withdraw 5,500 troops from Iraq and place them in Afghanistan to hunt for Osama bin Laden and other Al-Qaeda members. [http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=354212005 (The Scotsman)] [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/04/03/nirq03.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/04/03/ixnewstop.html (Telegraph.co.uk)]
* The Iraqi National Assembly elects Sunni Arab Hajim al-Hassani as its speaker. Shiite Hussain Shahristani and Kurd Aref Taifour are elected as his top deputies. The selections are the result of protracted debates between Iraq's top political parties. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4405643.stm (BBC)]
* Vandals deface the grave of Leah in the national cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, Israel, spray painting them with slogans. [http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/560440.html (Ha'aretz)] [http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=79495 (Arutz Sheva)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4407589.stm (BBC)]
* executed and 7,395 sentenced to death in 2004. [http://news.amnesty.org/index/ENGACT500112005 (Amnesty International)] [http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=626479 (Independent)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4409857.stm (BBC)]
* President corruption in a housing scandal. [http://www.reuters.co.za/locales/c_newsArticle.jsp?type=topNews&localeKey=en_ZA&storyID=8079457 (Reuters SA)] [http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=68&art_id=qw1112627341784B252 (IOL)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4410109.stm (BBC)]
* The UN and French peacekeepers in Côte d'Ivoire. [http://www.reuters.co.za/locales/c_newsArticle.jsp?type=topNews&localeKey=en_ZA&storyID=8067009 (Reuters SA)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4408055.stm (BBC)] 
* South African president Thabo Mbeki hosts a meeting between rebels and the Côte d'Ivoire government in his presidential palace. [http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/News/0,,2-11-1447_1685042,00.html (News24)] [http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=86&art_id=vn20050404065153507C190642 (IOL)]
* The Moldovan parliament re-elects president Vladimir Voronin. [http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=8080583 (Reuters)] [http://en.rian.ru/rian/index.cfm?prd_id=160&msg_id=5488648&startrow=1&date=2005-04-04&do_alert=0 (RIA Novosti)]
* Sreten Lukić surrenders to the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague. He is charged for connection with killings of Kosovo Albanians in 1999 when he was a head of paramilitary group MUP. [http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=8075313 (Reuters)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4408607.stm (BBC)] [http://kosovareport.blogspot.com/2005/04/top-serb-war-crimes-suspect-arrives-at.html (Kosovareport commentary)]
* Jörg Haider, the former leader of Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ), together with almost all of FPÖ's parliamentary representatives, leaves the party to found a new party Alliance for Austria's Future.  [http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000100&sid=aBYNQGz0UN18&refer=germany (Bloomberg)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4409953.stm (BBC)]
* Brazilian police arrest 11 men over the Rio Massacre last Thursday when 30 people were killed. [http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=8080441 (Reuters)]

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===April 5, 2005===
* The government of schoolbooks. The complaint alleges the textbooks whitewash Japan's "imperialist" past, and question Korean sovereignty of the disputed Liancourt Rocks. [http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2005/04/06/200504060007.asp (Korea Herald)] [http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20050406a1.htm (Japan Times)]
* General Election in the United Kingdom for May 5 2005, on the same day as the local elections. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4409935.stm (BBC)]
* Five Guatemalan politicians are convicted of racial discrimination for taunts hurled at Rigoberta Menchú. [http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N04478001.htm (Reuters AlertNet)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4411207.stm (BBC)]
* Preliminary results of the Italian regional elections show heavy losses for the parties in Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right coalition. [http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000085&sid=a6JPk9o62lYY&refer=europe (Bloomberg)] [http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=8083019 (Reuters)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4409583.stm (BBC)]
* American newscaster Peter Jennings states that he has lung cancer and will begin chemotherapy. [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/06/business/media/06jennings.html (New York Times)]
* Rwandan official Aloys Mutabingwa, a representative at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, says that 100 Rwandans connected to the Rwandan genocide are "comfortably living in France". [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4414619.stm (BBC)]
* Mumbai, India police investigate a fire in which 21 circus animals died. They suspect that the Russian Circus on Ice intentionally abandoned the animals. [http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/009200504060302.htm (The Hindu)] [http://www.telegraphindia.com/1050406/asp/nation/story_4579671.asp (Calcutta Telegraph)] [http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=123931 (Mumbai Newsline)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4413567.stm (BBC)]
* In Egypt, thousands of university students demonstrate for reform. [http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=13144 (Middle East Online)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4413843.stm (BBC)]
* bribe from the education minister. [http://allafrica.com/stories/200504050969.html (AllAfrica)] [http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/55a25c68e13134a6ed8b24a78072b90b.htm (Reuters AlertNet)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4412135.stm (BBC)]

<div id="6_April_2005"> </div>
===April 6, 2005===
* Warring factions sign a elections. [http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050406.wivoryz0406/BNStory/International/ (Globe&Mail)]
* The opposition party in parliamentary elections that kept Robert Mugabe and the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union - Patriotic Front in office. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4416311.stm (BBC)] [http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=574&ncid=574&e=3&u=/nm/20050406/wl_nm/zimbabwe_election_dc_3 (Reuters via Yahoo!News)]
* At least 16 people are killed in U.S. military Chinook province of Ghazni. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4416683.stm (BBC)]
* The conclave for a papal election to select a successor to Pope John Paul II. [http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/04/06/pope.main/index.html (CNN)]
* The world famous painting of Leonardo da Vinci, the Mona Lisa, is taken to its original location, the Salle des Etats, in the Louvre, Paris. [http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-13322681,00.html (SKY News)]
* Hong Kong's government asks Beijing to intervene in a dispute over the term to be served by new Chief Executive. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4415257.stm (BBC)] 
* President. [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,152590,00.html (FOX News)]
* The United Nations is looking at the allegations that some UN staff added false details to a UN document about the conflict of Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo. William Church, former UN employee and US intelligence analyst, says that some UN staff added false information about Rwandan military incursions to Congo last year. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4415061.stm (BBC)]
* Murdered British banker Alistair Wilson is buried in Nairn. The murderer is still at large. [http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4357688 (Scotsman)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/4413333.stm (BBC)]
* Prince Rainier III dies at age 81. [http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Obit-Rainier.html?hp (NYT)]
* In Brazil, members of Landless Workers' Movement (MST) occupy 12 farms trying to pressure the government to speed up land reform. [http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N05522307.htm (Reuters AlertNet)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4415205.stm (BBC)]
* A court on Guernsey in the English Channel blocks the release of papers that would name alleged backers of an aborted coup in Equatorial Guinea last year, due to bank secrecy in that jurisdiction. [http://www.thisisguernsey.com/code/shownewsarticle.pl?ArticleID=012771 (This Is Guernsey)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4415669.stm (BBC)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4415669.stm (Reuters SA)]
* Togolese police clash with demonstrators of the opposition party the Union of Forces for Change, who are demanding that presidential elections be postponed so that they would have more time for campaigning. [http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L06701314.htm (Reuters AlertNet)] [http://www.republicoftogo.com/fr/news/news.asp?newsID=9533 (Republic of Togo)]
* The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, by a 3-2 vote, adopts a set of rules designed to create a ''National Market System.'' The dissenting commissioners describe the measure as 'anticompetitive'. [http://www.sec.gov/news/press/2005-48.htm (SEC press release)]

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===April 7, 2005===
* The Mexican Chamber of Deputies votes by 360 to 127 to suspend the executive immunity of Mayor criminal charges. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4420765.stm (BBC)] [http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=586&e=5&u=/nm/20050408/wl_nm/mexico_dc (Reuters)]
* Israeli-Palestinian conflict:
** A PA's lack of action. This is the first rocket fired inside the carrot-shaped "Green line" since late January. [http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/562460.html (Haaretz)]
** Two Jews are arrested on suspicion of planting fake bombs in Jerusalem in an attempt to disrupt the planned Israeli pullout from the Gaza Strip. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4420875.stm (BBC)]
** Environmental groups condemn a plan by Israeli settlers from endangered turtles and around 100 gazelle. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4419751.stm (BBC)] [http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/562313.html (Haaretz)]
* The last British mass car manufacturer administration after a £1 Billion deal with Shanghai Automotive fails to materialise. It's Longbridge plant in Birmingham UK was once the largest manufacturing site in the world and still the largest in western Europe when it collapsed.
* Ibrahim Jaafari, a Shia, has replaced Iyad Allawi as the interim prime minister of Iraq. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4420971.stm (BBC)]
* Passenger buses set out from India to Pakistan across the Indian Kashmir barrier through the troubled and controversial Kashmir region in a symbolic "Caravan of Peace." Some attacks on the buses were reported in the militant-occupied area, but none were successful, according to local media outlets. [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7413326/ (MSNBC)]
* The President of the Republic of China (Taiwan) Chen Shui-bian will be accompanied by his foreign minister as well as Roman Catholic and Muslim religious figures for the trip to attend the funeral of Pope John Paul II. [http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/04/06/taiwan.pope.ap/index.html (CNN)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4416301.stm (BBC)] [http://tw.news.yahoo.com/050407/39/1oc6r.html (TVBS)]
* Representatives of the government of Canada withdraw from a business conference with Iran in protest of the case of deceased journalist Zahra Kazemi. Kazemi died in Iranian police custody and Iranian refugee doctor Shahram Azam says that she had extensive injuries and had been tortured. Iranian officials deny the charges. Canada has unsuccessfully demanded return of Kazemi's body. [http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1112815017379_16/?hub=Canada (CTV)] [http://www.iranmania.com/News/ArticleView/Default.asp?NewsCode=30684&NewsKind=Current%20Affairs (IranMania)] [http://www.iranmania.com/News/ArticleView/Default.asp?NewsCode=30705&NewsKind=Current%20Affairs (IranMania)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4418907.stm (BBC)]
* In The Sun'' smuggled a fake bomb into grounds of Windsor Castle. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4418917.stm (BBC)]
* IRA to stop violence. [http://today.reuters.co.uk/News/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-04-07T003845Z_01_JON651546_RTRUKOC_0_IRISH.xml (Reuters UK)] [http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=8107813 (Reuters)] [http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/front/2005/0407/2228363515HM1ADAMS.html (Irish Times)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/vote_2005/northern_ireland/4419009.stm (BBC)]
* In National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) of the country, 42 people die in clashes between Maoist rebels and villagers [http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=8109586 (Reuters)]. Nepalese radio begins to block BBC World Service [http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/7598_1309071,000500020003.htm (Hindustan Times)] [http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=22713 (Asia Pacific Media Network)]  
* The Swiss cabinet intends to outlaw English-sounding names of government departments. [http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=106&sid=5661499&cKey=1112796067000 (SwissInfo)]
* The prime ministers of Malaysia and Australia announce that they intend begin talks of free trade agreement [http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000081&sid=aJYGCExCIPJU&refer=australia (Bloomberg)] [http://www.abc.net.au/ra/news/stories/s1340187.htm (Radio Australia)] [http://biz.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2005/4/5/business/10581841&sec=business (Malaysian Star)]
* Police in the smuggled Chinese asylum seekers and sold them for cheap labor. [http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=19&story_id=18843&name=The+price+of+a+new+life (Expatica)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4421245.stm (BBC)]
* The crust, and that it is poised to break through to the mantle, in search of the Mohorovicic discontinuity.  [http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=96&e=14&u=/space/holedrilledtobottomofearthscrustbreakthroughtomantlelooms SPACE.com]

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===April 8, 2005===
* The funeral of Pope John Paul II takes place. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4424477.stm (BBC)]
* Eric Rudolph agrees to plead guilty to four bombings including the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in exchange for four life sentences. [http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=4&u=/ap/20050408/ap_on_re_us/eric_rudolph&sid=84439559 (AP/Yahoo! News)]
* Islamic insurgents kill 14 people in an attack outside Algiers, trapping the victims at a fake roadblock, then killing them and burning their vehicles. [http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3069916,00.html (AP\Ynet News)]
* A score of bystanders. A group called "Islamic Pride Brigades" claims responsibility. [http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/562463.html (Haaretz)], [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4423423.stm (BBC)]
* settlements will not be demolished after the cemeteries will be dismantled and transferred inside the "Green line". [http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=562538&contrassID=2&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0 (Haaretz)], [http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3069481,00.html Ynet News]
* Scientists at Manchester's Christie Hospital claim a cure for cancer could be available in 5 years. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/england/manchester/4423847.stm (BBC)]
* In an interview with the Financial Times, a Hezbollah leader announces that the group would be willing to discuss potential disarmament after Israel withdraws from the Shebaa Farms. Lebanon and Syria maintain that the Shebaa Farms are Lebanese territory, while the rest of the world community insists that the farms are part of the Golan Heights, thus part of Syrian territory occupied by Israel. [http://news.ft.com/cms/s/b54a17a8-a781-11d9-9744-00000e2511c8.html (Financial Times)] [http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/562751.html (Haaretz)]
* Presidential elections begin in Djibouti. Incumbent president Ismail Omar Guelleh is the only candidate. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4421515.stm (BBC)]

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===April 9, 2005===
* A zircon crystal, thought to be the oldest piece of Earth at about 4.4 billion years old, goes on a one-day display at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4429099.stm (BBC)]
* Anti-Japanese demonstrations in China: Chinese atrocities. (Wikinews) 
* The New National Party, successor to the National Party which governed in the apartheid era, votes to dissolve itself following poor results in last year's elections. Its elected representatives are expected to join the governing African National Congress. [http://www.dailynews.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=502&fArticleId=2475143 (Daily News (South Africa)]
* The World Health Organization announced a worsening of the Marburg virus in Angola. Doctors have suspended casualty counts due to worsening conditions; medical personnel are under increasing attacks by residents who blame doctors for the virus's spread. [http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/04/09/marburg.angola.reuters.reut/index.html (CNN)]
* Islamic Jihad have announced that they are to "re-evaluate" their cease-fire after IDF fire, and that the group of five youths were mortar shells are then fired at the settlements. A AP as saying the boys deaths would be "avenged". [http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/562862.html (Haaretz)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4428351.stm (BBC)] [http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/84DEC331-B3BD-4A1C-B2F2-186AF5683714.htm (Al Jazeera)] [http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=OS2G2G5XGBULGCRBAE0CFEY?type=worldNews&storyID=8132889 (Reuters)] [http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4375940 (Scotsman)]
* Windsor Guildhall, which is followed by a blessing at St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4426993.stm (BBC)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4428161.stm (BBC)]
* Conflict in Iraq:
** 15 Iraqi soldiers have been killed following an insurgent attack near the town of Latifiya. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4427151.stm (BBC)]
** Tens of thousands of Iraqis have staged an anti-American protest in Firdus Square, where Saddam Hussein's statue was toppled on April 9 2003. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4427151.stm (BBC)]
* President ODI, Kashmir, and not cricket, was on top of his agenda. [http://www.hindu.com/2005/04/10/stories/2005041004610800.htm (Hindu)]
* Calling for the abolition of death penalty, the Dalai Lama, currently on a visit to Japan, says criminals must be treated with compassion and made to feel part of the society. [http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=World_News&subsection=Rest+of+the+World&month=April2005&file=World_News2005041010576.xml  (Peninsula On-Line)]

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===April 10, 2005===
* An Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia at 10:18 UTC. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4430255.stm (BBC)]
* The Xinhua from mainland's state-controlled media "tried to present their people with a distorted image of Taiwan". [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4431461.stm (BBC)]
*Chinese Premier past tension, Wen said cooperation "will signify the coming of the Asian century of the IT industry." [http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=657151 (ABC News)]
* Former President FW de Klerk has called for a new political party to be set up following the dissolution of the New National Party. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4429307.stm (BBC)]
* Israeli-Palestinian Conflict:
** Al-Aqsa Mosque to deliver a sermon. [http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=a3e65d51d114273b (UPI)] [http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/563123.html (Haaretz)]
** A large security operation in Jerusalem appears to have prevented Israeli Zionist extremists from staging a rally at the Temple Mount, also known as the Haram al-Sharif. The rally was to be in opposition to the proposed Israeli pull-out from the Gaza Strip. The police are also able to quell a stone-throwing Arab counter-demonstration. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4429421.stm (BBC)]  [http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/563123.html (Haaretz)]
** Israeli Zionist extremists block a road near Tel Aviv during rush hour. Protesting the proposed Israeli pull-out from the Gaza Strip, they set tires alight and sit down on the road. Several are arrested and police are able to end the blockade within minutes. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4429421.stm (BBC)]  [http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/5027FA54-B20A-4914-BC75-E7DBC49367FD.htm (Al Jazeera)]
** Militant mortars at settlements in the Islamic Jihad. [http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/13C96025-4D49-4C36-8705-BAC0C079E788.htm (Al Jazeera)]
** Al Jazeera states that Palestinian sources report that Israeli Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz has apologised to Palestinian Authority Interior Minister Nasr Yusuf for the deaths of 3 Palestinian teenagers on April 9.  [http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/FE5205CE-3950-4FEC-B21A-2D238708F74B.htm (Al Jazeera)]
* American spammer Jeremy Jaynes is sentenced for nine years in prison. The sentence is suspended until further appeals. [http://www.spamfo.co.uk/component/option,com_content/task,view/id,313/Itemid,2/ (Spamfo)] [http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/news/42136.html (E-Commerce News)] [http://edition.cnn.com/2005/TECH/internet/04/08/spam.sentence.ap/ (CNN)]
* A magnitude 6.1 earthquake strikes Tokyo. There are no reports of serious damages. [http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20050411x1.htm (Japan Times)] [http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=8136399 (Reuters)]
* British carmaker MG Rover receives a loan of £6.5 million from the British government. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/vote_2005/frontpage/4429663.stm (BBC)] [http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000102&sid=ae6.tRog7cus&refer=uk (Bloomberg)] [http://news.ft.com/cms/s/27902cee-aa25-11d9-aa38-00000e2511c8.html (Financial Times)]
* Spanish police seize an Hernani, near San Sebastián. [http://www.eitb24.com/noticia_en.php?id=51868 (EITB)] [http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L10693416.htm (Reuters AlertNet)]
* Italian deputy prime minister Marco Follini calls for an early general election after the centre-right coalition of prime minister Silvio Berlusconi lost in a regional ballot last week. [http://www.agi.it/english/news.pl?doc=200504051639-1187-RT1-CRO-0-NF82&page=0&id=agionline-eng.italyonline (AGI)] [http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/04/10/news/italy.html (ITH)]
* In Mexico, Raúl Gibb Guerrero, editor of ''La Opinión'' newspaper, who covered Mexican drug cartels is killed. [http://www.plenglish.com/Article.asp?ID=%7BEB88740B-DC2D-47E0-A8AC-D989DA446519%7D&language=EN (Prensa Latina)] [http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N10393469.htm (Reuters AlertNet)] [http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/mexico/20050409-0903-mexico-journalistkilled.html (San Diego Tribune)]
* A Haitian police team and UN peacekeepers kill a prominent gang leader Grenn Sonnen (Jean Anthony Rene) and five of his supporters in a shootout. [http://www.haitiaction.net/News/AHP/2005/04/10/01.html (Haiti Action Committee)] [http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=8135786 (Reuters)]

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===April 11, 2005===
* Nazi Major, Karl Plagge.  Plagge saved around 1,200 Jews, mostly women and children, from execution during the Holocaust by putting them in forced labor positions at a vehicle workshop. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4432075.stm (BBC)]
* At least 54 Hindu pilgrims have been killed when a dam in the Madhya Pradesh state in India is apparently opened by mistake. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4432347.stm (BBC)]
* Lebanese political and militant organisation, flies another unmanned drone plane over Israel.  Hezbollah claims the ''"reconnaissance mission''" was in retaliation for alleged Israeli violations of Lebanese Airspace.  Israel quickly retaliates by sending jets to fly at a low altitude over southern Lebanon and caused <!--Emit?--> sonic booms. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4434505.stm (BBC)]
* The election of a new secretary general of the Organization of American States ends in an unprecedented stalemate after five rounds of voting. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4434231.stm (BBC)]
* U.S. President Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for his "''courageous initiative''" to pull all Israeli settlements out of the Gaza Strip, however Bush also told Sharon not to expand other existing settlements. The two leaders met in Texas, USA. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/news_web/video/41022000/nb/41022529_nb_16x9.asx (BBC Video)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4431583.stm# (BBC)] [http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/04/11/bush.mideast/index.html (CNN)]
* President Askar Akayev. [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,153040,00.html (Fox News)]
* Anti-Japanese demonstrations in China: 20,000 Japan's imperialist past. ([http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/04/10/china.japan.protest/index.html CNN])
* spammer, is sentenced to nine years imprisonment. [http://www.idg.se/ArticlePages/200504/11/20050411081330_IW/20050411081330_IW.dbp.asp?s=02222222222222223333333333333300122222222222222333333333333330133333333333333&nolimit=true (IDG)], [http://www.spamfo.co.uk/component/option,com_content/task,view/id,313/Itemid,2/ (Spamfo.co.uk)]
* The invaded its territory and committed human rights violations. [http://allafrica.com/stories/200503240960.html (AllAfrica)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4431301.stm (BBC)]
* Liberal MP David Tollner urges people to kill poisonous cane toads with cricket bats and golf clubs. The toads have become a nuisance in the Northern Territory. Animal rights groups prefer freezing them to death. [http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200504/s1342444.htm (ABC)] [http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/SYD282526.htm (Reuters AlertNet)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4431645.stm (BBC)]
* A 9-story factory building collapses in Dhaka, Bangladesh; five deaths are reported. [http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/SP261570.htm (Reuters AlertNet)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4431731.stm (BBC)]
* The World Health Organization announces that 203 people have died in Angola from the Marburg virus.  [http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,12829873-23109,00.html News.com.au]
* A court in Madonna''.  [http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1014681.ece (Afternposten)] [http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=entertainmentNews&storyID=2005-04-11T190042Z_01_L11525640_RTRIDST_0_ENTERTAINMENT-NORWAY-MUNCH-DC.XML (Reuters)]
* Nepal allows United Nations Human Rights Commission to send monitors to the country to investigate claims of human rights abuses. [http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1075025.cms (Times of India)] [http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000080&sid=aG5Lt5ptbpdI&refer=asia (Bloomberg)] [http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L11362346.htm (Reuters AlertNet)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4433691.stm (BBC)]

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===April 12, 2005===
* A 15-year Palestinian boy was caught in Hawara checkpoint (near Nablus), hiding five pipe bombs under his coat. He apparently tried to ignite them with a match when the soldiers apprehended him. Soldiers later pose for photographs with the boy. His brother says he did so in order to study for his high-school matriculation exams in an Israeli prison. [http://www.ynetnews.com/PicServer2/01082004/539688/NAB01D_m.jpg] [http://web.israelinsider.com/Static/Binaries/Article/hawarapipebomber_0.jpg] [http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/564145.html (Haaretz)]
*Prime Minister, following the 24 March resignation of former Prime Minister Juhan Parts. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4437605.stm (BBC)]
* Four girls who were held hostage for four hours are freed from a house in Ennepetal, in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.  [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4436979.stm (BBC)]
* settlements on the Gaza Strip have chained shut 167 schools and nurseries in Tel Aviv as part of their protest. The Fire Service quickly cut through the chains. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4436019.stm (BBC)] [http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1113272264671 (Jerusalem Post)] [http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/564043.html (Haaretz)]
* The death toll in the collapse of a factory in Dacca, Bangladesh rises to 21 and hundreds are still trapped. [http://www.newkerala.com/news-daily/news/features.php?action=fullnews&id=96671 (New Kerala)] [http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=8146307 (Reuters)]
* Anti-Castro militant asylum in the terrorist. [http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7BC4B1D2AA-4B98-4E5B-B272-CEA5B719CCDA%7D&language=EN (Prensa Latina)] [http://wireservice.wired.com/wired/story.asp?section=Breaking&storyId=1017510&tw=wn_wire_story (Wired)]
*booted up for the first time in the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain. [http://www.businessweek.com/ap/tech/D89DVEIO0.htm?campaign_id=apn_tech_down (BusinessWeek)]
*In Hungary, a group of people that claim descent from Attila the Hun demand minority status. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4435181.stm (BBC)]
* Three British men are indicted by a Prudential building in New Jersey, and the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C..  The U.S. claims that one is a senior Al-Qaeda member. [http://wireservice.wired.com/wired/story.asp?section=Breaking&storyId=1017869&tw=wn_wire_story (Wired)] [http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=663216 (ABC News)]
* Same-sex marriage in Canada: The Canadian government's Bill C-38 survives a vote on a wrecking amendment which would have defined marriage as a union between a man and a woman, introduced by the Conservative Party of Canada. [http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/04/12/samesexvote050412.html (CBC)]
* According to report of the Human Rights Watch, young veterans of wars in West Africa have been recruited to fight in other conflicts because they have had no other means of support. [http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/04/13/liberi10476.htm (Human Rights Watch)] [http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/HRW/01becf3c27a03837156c65c8795760ce.htm (Reuters AlertNet)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4438497.stm (BBC)]
* The Iranian parliament approves abortion in cases where mother's life is in danger or the fetus is deformed. The bill still needs the approval of the Guardian Council. [http://www.iranmania.com/News/ArticleView/Default.asp?NewsCode=30835&NewsKind=Current%20Affairs (IranMania)] [http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2005-04-12T161147Z_01_DEN258147_RTRUKOC_0_HEALTH-IRAN-ABORTION.xml (Reuters UK)] [http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=13201 (Middle East Online)] [http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/article_6334.shtml (Persian Journal)]
* In Israel, Mordechai Vanunu is charged with 21 counts of violating the terms of his parole. [http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/564195.html (Ha'aretz)] [http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=80124 (Arutz Sheva)] [http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=8158062&type=worldNews (Reuters)]
* In forcing women marry against their will is against Islam. [http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1&section=0&article=62065&d=13&m=4&y=2005 (Arab News)] [http://www.aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=7898 (Al Jazeera)] [http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=13208 (Middle East Online)]
* The Indonesian army promises to give up its businesses within two years. [http://www.thejakartapost.com/detaillatestnews.asp?fileid=20050412195521&irec=0 (Jakarta Post)] [http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000080&sid=aZRA1w19c.2w&refer=asia (Bloomberg)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4437685.stm (BBC)]
* genetically modified. This decision was prompted by a Ventria Bioscience plan to grow 200 acres (800,000 m²) of genetically engineered rice in Missouri. [http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050412/ap_on_bi_ge/beer_genetic_crops_1  (AP)]

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===April 13, 2005===
* Canada's most prominent white supremacist and founder of the Heritage Front, Wolfgang Droege, is shot to death in his apartment. One suspect is arrested at the scene. [http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1113430343180_108839543/?hub=Canada (CTV)]
* Omar Karami resigns his position as the Prime Minister of Lebanon after he fails to form a government. Without a government to call them, no elections can take place in Lebanon. Elections are due this May. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4441357.stm (BBC)]
* The European Parliament votes to allow Bulgaria and Romania to join the European Union in 2007. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4440755.stm (BBC)]
* Conflict in Iraq: 
** At least nine Iraqi police have been killed by insurgents in Kirkuk.  The police were defusing a decoy bomb, when another nearby bomb detonated and killed them. [http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/B4F836CF-591A-45B1-8316-84FFBBF130C9.htm (Al Jazeera)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4439489.stm (BBC)]
** Al Jazeera broadcasts a video of the civilian contractor, Jeffrey Ake, abducted in Iraq earlier this week. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4441021.stm (BBC)] [http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/CBACAB0D-1FAE-4BBE-9565-A34B59144DD1.htm (Al Jazeera)]
* Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry begins allowing Japanese companies rights to drill for oil in a part of the East China Sea claimed by both nations. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4439171.stm (BBC)]
* The Canadian National Microbial Laboratory identified it as a strain of antibodies to resist it. The World Health Organization supports the plea. [http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/04/12/flu.recall/ (CNN)] [http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=7&u=/ap/20050412/ap_on_he_me/pandemic_flu_labs (Yahoo)] [http://www.cbc.ca/story/science/national/2005/04/12/flu-vials050412.html (CBC)]
* The National Geographic Society and IBM support a project to take DNA samples from various people all over the world to track migration of ''Homo sapiens'' from Africa. [http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=scienceNews&storyID=8163095 (Reuters)] [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/13/national/13gene.html (New York Times)]
* The death toll in the collapse of a factory in Dacca, Bangladesh increases to 30. [http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/003200504122066.htm (The Hindu)] [http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/DHA174160.htm (Reuters AlertNet)]
* Mount Talang volcano erupts in Sumatra, Indonesia. 27,000 residents are evacuated. [http://www.thejakartapost.com/detaillatestnews.asp?fileid=20050412141048&irec=0 (Jakarta Post)] [http://www.indonesia-relief.org/mod.php?mod=publisher&op=viewarticle&cid=24&artid=656 (Indonesia Relief)] [http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=8151891 (Reuters)]
* In Nigeria, former education minister Fabion Osuji, former senate president Adolphus Wabara and five others are charged with corruption. [http://www.vanguardngr.com/articles/2002/headline/f113042005.html (Vanguard)] [http://nigeriaworld.com/articles/2005/apr/112.html (NigeriaWorld)]
* In Germany, Armin Meiwes appeals for the reduction his sentence of eight years for cannibalism. His defense says that the killing was a mercy killing, eligible only for five years. State prosecutors appeal as well so he could retried for murder. [http://www.dw-world.de/dw/briefs/0,1574,1551248,00.html (Deutsche Welle)] [http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=629167 (Independent)]
* A group of Indigenous Australians threaten to disrupt the Commonwealth Games next year unless prime minister John Howard and others are charged with genocide. [http://www.abc.net.au/ra/news/stories/s1344677.htm (Radio Australia)] [http://www9.sbs.com.au/theworldnews/region.php?id=109519&region=7 (SBS)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4440641.stm (BBC)]
* Burundi's last rebel group, Hutu Forces for National Liberation, states that they are ready to negotiate with the government. [http://www.reuters.co.za/locales/c_newsArticle.jsp;:425bfd13:a1879be1994a8aaa?type=topNews&localeKey=en_ZA&storyID=8158591 (Reuters SA)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4441679.stm (BBC)]

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===April 14, 2005===
*Microsoft Encarta launches a Nupedia-like version of its encyclopedia where anonymous users can submit their new or edited entries to be approved by a paid staff of editors. Server problems delayed the launch. [http://www.smh.com.au/news/Breaking/Encarta-seeks-free-information/2005/04/14/1113251721051.html (FairfaxDigital)] [http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D89ESGN01.htm?campaign_id=apn_tech_down (Business Week)] [http://spaces.msn.com/members/Encarta/Blog/cns!1pKov6pW19gvfZD4bZjOEp7A!143.entry (Encarta Blog)]
* The claim that traces of the deadly poison British official. [http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002241023_ricin14.html (Seattle Times)] [http://politics.guardian.co.uk/attacks/comment/0,1320,1459178,00.html (Guardian Unlimited)] 
* Researchers from the executed by U.S. may have been aware of what was happening to them. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4444473.stm (BBC)]
* Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: 
** raid into the Palestinian town of Nablus. Palestinians maintain that a special unit disguised as Arabs carried out the act. Israeli Defence Forces say the man was a "ticking bomb" and that soldier shot only after he opened fire on them. Witnesses from the Balata camp, however, say the Israelis opened fire without warning and then took the body away. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4444859.stm (BBC)] [http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/565171.html (Haaretz)] [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/15/international/middleeast/15mideast.html?oref=login (NY Times)]<!-- That source needs a Registration, but contains the word "Witness" so as to suit Jay -->
** The British James Miller is cleared of any wrongdoing by an Israeli Judge, meaning the soldier will not be prosecuted.  Miller's family accuse the Israel Defense Forces of a coverup and threaten to sue. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4444781.stm (BBC)]
* capital of Baghdad. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4443409.stm (BBC)]
* In demonstrators and strikers that protest against the government of president Lucio Gutiérrez. Congress replaced the entire supreme court last December and has not come to an agreement with the political opposition. [http://www.reuters.com/financeNewsArticle.jhtml?type=bondsNews&storyID=8171506 (Reuters)] [http://www.wpherald.com/Latin_America/storyview.php?StoryID=20050413-100406-8179r (World Peace Herald)]
* The Czech coalition government agrees to form a new cabinet. Jan Kohout is expected to succeed Stanislav Gross as the new prime minister.  [http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000085&sid=aH1PLVExi3Hc&refer=europe (Bloomberg)] [http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/04/13/czech.politics.reut/ (CNN)] The deal collapses later in the day when the Social Democrats reject it. [http://www.praguepost.com/P03/2005/Art/0407/news1.php (Prague Post)] [http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000085&sid=a6.qpWR7XwL8&refer=europe (Bloomberg)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4442987.stm (BBC)]
* China arrest 15 people involved with illegal blood trade that may have contributed to the spread of AIDS. [http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-04/14/content_434024.htm (China Daily)] [http://english.people.com.cn/200504/14/eng20050414_181008.html (People's Daily)] [http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=8175563 (Reuters)] [http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4936157,00.html (Guardian)]
* According to Amnesty International, prisoners of the Black Beach prison in the Equatorial Guinea are starving. [http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/document.do?id=80256DD400782B8480256FE1003B7665 (Amnesty International USA)] [http://www.reuters.co.za/locales/c_newsArticle.jsp?type=topNews&localeKey=en_ZA&storyID=8168769 (Reuters SA)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4442867.stm (BBC)]
* Three Diana and Dodi Al-Fayed when they died face a new trial in France. [http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/04/13/news/briefs.html (IHT)] [http://today.reuters.co.uk/News/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-04-13T181926Z_01_HOP365934_RTRUKOC_0_FRANCE-DIANA-PAPARAZZI.xml (Reuters UK)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4442659.stm (BBC)]
* Funding difficulties threaten the Murray-Darling Basin river system in Australia. [http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,12839231%255E2702,00.html (The Australian)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4443175.stm (BBC)]
* The trial of Schapelle Corby, an Australian facing drug smuggling charges in Indonesia, is adjourned after she collapses in the Bali courtroom. [http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200504/s1345433.htm (ABC News)]
* criminal prosecution of five nurses from Bulgaria for an HIV outbreak among Benghazi children. [http://www.bgnewsnet.com/story.php?lang=en&sid=20014 (Bulgaria News Network)]
* Jack Straw in order to highlight Straw's alleged use of false confessions extracted by CIA torture in Uzbekistan. [http://politics.guardian.co.uk/election/comment/0,15803,1459093,00.html (Guardian Unlimited)] [http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/03/24/news/uzbek.html (Background: International Herald Tribune)]
* In the face of the spread of the funerary practice of kissing and hugging the dead for farewell. The death toll is already over 210. [http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=healthNews&storyID=8181352 (Reuters)] [http://edition.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/conditions/04/13/angola.virus/ (CNN)]
* South Korean Tongsun Park, Texas oilman David Chalmers and two others are indicted for bribery in the oil for food scandal. [http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=8186105 (Reuters)] [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54645-2005Apr14.html (Washington Post)]
* Operation Falcon between 10. [http://www.usdoj.gov/marshals/falcon/index.html (Operation Falcon website)] [http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=671486 (ABC)] [http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=8186497 (Reuters)]
* In British journalists, ''visas and released on bail. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4444915.stm (BBC)] [http://allafrica.com/stories/200504140707.html (AllAfrica)] [http://today.reuters.co.uk/News/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-04-14T204900Z_01_DEN474712_RTRUKOC_0_ZIMBABWE-JOURNALISTS.xml (Reuters)]
* Three students of MIT successfully submit a paper "Rooter: A Methodology for the Typical Unification of Access Points and Redundancy" into World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics. The paper was made of computer-generated nonsense. [http://business.bostonherald.com/technologyNews/view.bg?articleid=78365 (Boston Herald)] [http://edition.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/04/14/mit.prank.reut/ (CNN)] [http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/scigen/ (SciGen)]
* Indian police arrest 16 people in a case where more than US$400,000 was transferred from Citibank accounts to fraudulent accounts in India. [http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1076023.cms (Times of India)] [http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=8185214 (Reuters)]

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===April 15, 2005===
* NASA reports that the Gulf Stream is slowing.  The resulting colder climate could cause severe climatic and economic distruption in Northern Europe. [http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NasaNews/2004/2004041516838.html (NASA)]
* The ongoing anti-Japanese demonstrations in China might have been scripted and manipulated by the Chinese government as a bargaining tool against its neighbor in the recent Sino-Japanese energy and territory disputes. [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/15/international/asia/15china.html?ex=1114228800&en=56a7d2bc9637f864&ei=5070 (NY Times)]. Personal announcements appeared on blogs [http://blog.yesky.com/Blog/somewindows/archive/2005/04/14/108080.html] [http://heart.pdx.cn/blog/diary,181320.html] attempting to stage massive anti-Japanese riots not only in the capital but also in 17 major Chinese cities, responding to the Japanese Foreign Minister to Beijing, and the 86th anniversary of the May Fourth Movement. 
* UN Britain of not accepting enough responsibility for the Oil for Food Scandal. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4447165.stm (BBC)] [http://canberra.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?class=news&subclass=international&category=general%20news&story_id=386604&y=2005&m=4 (Canberra)]
* A IDF outpost near the border. The outpost commander manages to disarm the gunman and arrest him. The IDF will investigate how the 21 year old man, draped in a Palestinian flag, managed to penetrate so deep without being detected earlier. [http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/565532.html (Haaretz)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4448233.stm (BBC)]
* A Human Rights Watch report states that the United States, Britain, the Netherlands and Canada rely on "flimsy" diplomacy in attempts to send foreign terror suspects back to countries that routinely use torture against their Prisoners. [http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/world/11401023.htm (AP Wire)]
* Soyuz TMA-6 lifts off at dawn from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan carrying the Expedition 11 crew to the International Space Station. [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,153539,00.html (Fox News)] [http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050415/wl_nm/space_russia_launch_dc (Yahoo! News)]
* Prince Rainier is buried in Monaco. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4446965.stm (BBC)] [http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/04/14/monaco.funeral/ (CNN)]
* In France, 20 people die in a fire at the Paris-Opera Hotel. [http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=8190598 (Reuters)] [http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/04/15/france.fire/ (CNN)]
* In Raymond Williams, former CEO of insurance company HIH Insurance, is jailed for 4 and half years.  [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4447149.stm (BBC)]
* Federal Court of Appeal denies Chinese businessman China wants him for large-scale smuggling. [http://www.canada.com/national/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=10dbd00c-aee0-4926-bead-a4b49019622f (National Post, Canada)] [http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-04/15/content_2833470.htm (Xinhua)]
* UK passport applicants must give fingerprints. Preparation for ID cards goes ahead without parliament. [http://politics.guardian.co.uk/homeaffairs/story/0,11026,1457298,00.html (Guardian Unlimited)]
* Greens Party of England and Wales unveil radical manifesto aiming at measures against climate change. [http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/index.php?feed=Science&article=UPI-1-20050412-14461000-bc-britain-greenmanifesto.xml (Science Daily)]
* biometric ID cards in 2007. [http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/04/12/HNfrenchbiometriccards_1.html (Infoworld)]
* The European Union denies ruling out lifting an EU arms embargo on the People's Republic of China before June. [http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,12868976%255E28737,00.html (The Australian)]