Events in April 2006
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Apr. 2
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Thai voters cast ballots in snap general election boycotted by Opposition parties. |
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Apr. 5
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Thailand Prime Minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, resigns and Chidchai Vanasatidya named interim Premier. |
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Apr. 6
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Seventy persons are killed as a vessel sinks off the coast of Djibouti. |
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Nepali Opposition launches a general strike against King Gyanendra’s rule. |
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Apr. 7
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Seventynine persons are killed as three suicide attackers wearing women’s robes blow themselves up in a Shia mosque in Baghdad. |
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Apr. 8
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Belarussian President, Alexander Lukashenko, is sworn in for a third term in the capital Minsk. |
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Apr. 9
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Italians cast votes in presidential polls. |
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Apr. 10
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The European Union halts aid to the Hamas Government. |
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Apr. 11
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The Israeli Cabinet declares Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, permanently incapacitated. |
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The euro 220-million Venus Express craft enters orbit. |
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Romano Prodi wins the Italian presidential polls in a photo-finish. |
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Apr. 13
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The Iraqi Vice-President, Tariq al-Hashimi’s brother Mahmoud al-Hashimi is shot dead while driving in eastern Baghdad. |
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Apr. 14
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Li Guoxing (30), undergoes a partial face transplant at a Chinese hospital after he was disfigured in a bear attack in 1997. |
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Apr. 17
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Fiftyseven persons are killed as a bus plunges into a ravine in Mexico. |
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The Times-Picayune of New Orleans and Sun Harold of Gulport, Mississippi are awarded Pulitzer prizes for public service for their coverage of the Hurricane Katrina. |
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Apr. 19
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The Italian Supreme Court confirms Romano Prodi’s victory in Lower House election. |
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Apr. 21
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Nepal’s King Gyanendra agrees to cede power to the people yielding to mass protests. |
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Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II celebrates her 80th birthday. |
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Several villages are wiped out in a massive earthquake that rocks Russia’s north-eastern Kamchatka peninsula. |
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Apr. 22
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Jalal Talabani is elected Iraqi President for a second term. Shia leader Jamad al Maliki is endorsed as Premier. Mahmoud Al-Mashhadani, a Sunni Arab becomes Speaker. |
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Apr. 23
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The Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, holds bilateral talks with the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, in Hannover. Germany-India Joint Statement is issued. |
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Apr. 24
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Nepal’s King Gyanendra agrees to reinstate the Parliament dissolved in May 2002, following 19 days of violent protests in Kathmandu. |
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Apr. 26
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“ Terrorism is a menace that must be fought collectively,” says the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, at a banquet hosted by the Uzbekistan President, Islam Karimov in Tashkent. The two sides sign seven pacts. |
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Adventure sports enthusiast Ajeet Bajaj becomes the first Indian to ski to the North Pole. |
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Apr. 28
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The Nepalese Parliament reconvenes after four years and a resolution calling for elections to a Constituent Assembly is tabled. |
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Taliban militants kidnap Indian engineer Kasula Suryanarayana in Zabal province of southern Afghanistan. |
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The Hyundai chairman Chung Mong-koo is arrested on charges of embezzlement in Seoul. |
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Apr. 30
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Indian engineer Kasula Suryanarayana’s body is found between Qalat and Ghazni in the southern part of Afghanistan. |
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Girija Prasad Koirala is sworn in Nepal Prime Minister by King Gyanendra at the Narayanhiti Palace in Kathmandu. Parliament passes resolution calling for elections to a Constituent Assembly. |
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