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April 10, 2005
An earthquake of magnitude 6.7 occurs near Padang, West Sumatra,
Indonesia at 10:18 UTC. (BBC)
The Mainland Affairs Council of the Republic
of China (Taiwan) bans reporters from the People's Daily and
Xinhua from Taiwan, saying the mainland's state-controlled media
"tried to present their people with a distorted image of
Taiwan". (BBC)
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao pushed for cooperation
between India and the PRC to dominate high-tech industries. Urging
the historical rivals to forget past tension, Wen said cooperation
"will signify the coming of the Asian century of the IT
industry." (ABC News)
Former South African President FW de Klerk
has called for a new political party to be set up following the
dissolution of the New National Party. (BBC)
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict:
Israel arrests Hamas leader Sheikh Hassan Yousef on his return
home after he illegally makes his way from Ramallah to the Al-Aqsa
Mosque to deliver a sermon. (UPI) (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.
(BBC) (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. (BBC) (Al Jazeera)
Militant Palestinian extremists again fire
mortars at settlements in the Gaza Strip. They are believed to
have been fired by Islamic Jihad. (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. (Al Jazeera)
American spammer Jeremy Jaynes is sentenced
for nine years in prison. The sentence is suspended until further
appeals. (Spamfo) (E-Commerce News) (CNN)
A magnitude 6.1 earthquake strikes Tokyo.
There are no reports of serious damages. (Japan Times) (Reuters)
British carmaker MG Rover receives a loan
of £6.5 million from the British government. (BBC) (Bloomberg)
(Financial Times)
Spanish police seize an ETA cache of explosives
in Hernani, near San Sebastián. (EITB) (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. (AGI) (ITH)
In Mexico, Raúl Gibb Guerrero, editor
of La Opinión newspaper, who covered Mexican drug cartels
is killed. (Prensa Latina) (Reuters AlertNet) (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. (Haiti Action Committee)
(Reuters)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_2005
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