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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. (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. (BBC)
The European Parliament votes to allow
Bulgaria and Romania to join the European Union in 2007. (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. (Al Jazeera) (BBC)
Al Jazeera broadcasts a video of the civilian
contractor, Jeffrey Ake, abducted in Iraq earlier this week.
(BBC) (Al Jazeera)
Japan increases the already boiling tension
with China as Japan's 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. (BBC)
The College of American Pathologists asks
laboratories worldwide to destroy a flu sample they sent in their
testing kits. The Canadian National Microbial Laboratory identified
it as a strain of Asian flu virus that killed millions in 1957.
People born after 1969 would have no antibodies to resist it.
The World Health Organization supports the plea. (CNN) (Yahoo)
(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.
(Reuters) (New York Times)
The death toll in the collapse of a factory
in Dacca, Bangladesh increases to 30. (The Hindu) (Reuters AlertNet)
Mount Talang volcano erupts in Sumatra,
Indonesia. 27,000 residents are evacuated. (Jakarta Post) (Indonesia
Relief) (Reuters)
In Nigeria, former education minister Fabion
Osuji, former senate president Adolphus Wabara and five others
are charged with corruption. (Vanguard) (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. (Deutsche Welle) (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. (Radio Australia)
(SBS) (BBC)
Burundi's last rebel group, Hutu Forces
for National Liberation, states that they are ready to negotiate
with the government. (Reuters SA) (BBC)
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