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Current events of
April 11, 2012
(
2012-04-11
)
(Wednesday)
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Armed conflict and attacks
2012 South Sudan–Sudan border conflict
:
Sudan
says that after a battle
South Sudan
controls Heglig, its largest oil field.
(BBC)
A bomb on a bus kills at least two people in the
Philippines
town of
Carmen
in
Cotabato Province
.
(AP)
Disasters
Indonesian earthquakes:
An
earthquake
occurs off the coast of
Aceh
in
Indonesia
with a preliminary magnitude of 8.6 and a
tsunami
warning issued. There are five indirect fatalities.
(NineMSN)
An 8.2 magnitude
aftershock
occurs soon after.
(News Limited)
Two
US service personnel
and another two are injured in a helicopter crash in
Morocco
.
(Reuters)
Nine
miners
are rescued from a collapsed
copper
mine in southern
Peru
.
(AFP via
Herald Sun
)
International relations
Vessels from the
Philippine Navy
and Chinese maritime surveillance are at a standoff after the
Philippines
attempted to arrest
Chinese
fishermen in the
South China Sea
.
(AP)
Law and crime
A looter who started a fire at a
House of Reeves
store during
last year's riots in London
is jailed for eleven and a half years.
(BBC)
A
Florida
special prosecutor charges
George Zimmerman
with murder in the second degree in relation to the death of
Trayvon Martin
.
(CNN)
Politics and elections
Voters in
South Korea
go to the polls for a
legislative election
with the governing
Saenuri Party
retaining control of the
National Assembly of South Korea
.
(CNN)
(Voice of America)
Kim Jong Un
is named as the First Secretary of the
North Korean Workers Party
with his late father
Kim Jong Il
declared as its "eternal" General Secretary.
(AP via Yahoo News)
First
President
of
Algeria
Ahmed Ben Bella
dies at the age of 95.
(
The Guardian
)
Lucas Papademos
resigns as the
Prime Minister of Greece
, calling an
election
for May 6.
(AFP via
The Australian
)
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