Portal:Current events/2005 April 13

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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)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080605070725/http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1113430343180_108839543/?hub=Canada |date=2008-06-05 }}
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. [https://web.archive.org/web/20051223033337/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)] [https://web.archive.org/web/20051223034515/http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/CBACAB0D-1FAE-4BBE-9565-A34B59144DD1.htm (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. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4439171.stm (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. [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/health/story/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. [https://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=scienceNews&storyID=8163095 (Reuters)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050415160000/http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=scienceNews&storyID=8163095 |date=2005-04-15 }} [https://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)] [https://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=8151891 (Reuters)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050413053200/http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=8151891 |date=2005-04-13 }}
In Nigeria, former education minister Fabion Osuji, former senate president Adolphus Wabara and five others are charged with corruption. [https://web.archive.org/web/20051123091447/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 be retried for murder. [https://web.archive.org/web/20050416183627/http://www.dw-world.de/dw/briefs/0,1574,1551248,00.html (Deutsche Welle)] [https://web.archive.org/web/20050426153421/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)] [https://web.archive.org/web/20050423043904/http://www9.sbs.com.au/theworldnews/region.php?id=109519®ion=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. [https://web.archive.org/web/20040413034406/http://www.reuters.co.za/locales/c_newsArticle.jsp (Reuters SA)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4441679.stm (BBC)]

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