Portal:Current events/2012 April 29

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;Armed conflicts and attacks

Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia kill four members of Colombian Army on a mission to destroy cocaine laboratories in Caquetá Department with another four soldiers, a police officer and a French journalist missing. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-17885090 (BBC)]
African church attacks:
Several explosions are reported near a Christian service at Bayero University Kano in the northern Nigerian city of Kano, with at least 16 people killed. [http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ggOyDCOcHRigCtOrYdFOF81ko1TA?docId=64d227fefe974eb8be3622de0fa4d9cd (AP via Google News)] [https://web.archive.org/web/20120503121033/http://hosted2.ap.org/ALDEC/TDNational/Article_2012-04-29-AF-Nigeria-Violence/id-44429706d3bc40eda0c07f85d357897e (AP)]
At least five people are killed in an attack on a Church of Christ in the Nigerian city of Maiduguri, the spiritual home of the Boko Haram radical Islamist sect. [https://web.archive.org/web/20120503121033/http://hosted2.ap.org/ALDEC/TDNational/Article_2012-04-29-AF-Nigeria-Violence/id-44429706d3bc40eda0c07f85d357897e (AP)]
One person is killed and 10 injured in a grenade attack at a church in Nairobi, Kenya. [http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jm09ohRDg6J-ZdGNKtkd_RldPWGw?docId=CNG.babfefb58a04bf7ad1203dbc54c1f351.1f1 (AFP via Google News)]
Four officials are killed in rebel attacks in northern Burma. [http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/breaking-news-old/four-dead-in-burma-rebel-attacks/story-fn3dxity-1226342063127 (The Australian)]
Seven people are killed in a three-way shootout between rival drug cartels and the authorities in the Mexican state of Sinaloa, the home-state of Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the country's most-wanted drug lord. [https://web.archive.org/web/20120429163417/http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/killed-clash-mexican-state-sinaloa-16235782#.T52cLMRYvDE (Fox News)]
Lebanon confiscates a shipment of arms and ammunition meant for Syrian rebels and arrests 11 crewmembers. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-17885085 (BBC)]

;Disasters

At least seven people die following a bus crash in Japan's Gunma Prefecture north of Tokyo. [http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/20120429_07.html (NHK World)]{{Dead link|date=August 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
Seven people are killed, including three children, when a vehicle they were in flipped over on the Bronx River Parkway in The Bronx, New York City. [http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/29/us/new-york-fatal-crash/index.html?hpt=hp_t1 (CNN)]

;International relations

The final deadline (no more extensions) for the total destruction of chemical weapons stockpiles under the international Chemical Weapons Convention is reached. [http://en.rian.ru/russia/20120429/173121387.html (RIA Novosti)]
The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visits Burma. [http://edition.cnn.com/2012/04/29/world/asia/myanmar-un-visit/ (CNN)]
2012 Malian coup d'état: Mali coup leader Amadou Haya Sanogo rejects a decision by the Economic Community of West African States to deploy troops to the country. [http://www.france24.com/en/20120429-mali-coup-leader-rejects-ecowas-troop-deployment-sanogo-west-africa-traore (France 24)]
Ana Maria Gomes, a Member of the European Parliament, is denied access to Bahrain. [https://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/29/bahrain-protests-airport-idUSL5E8FT19B20120429 (Reuters)]

;Law and crime

Sudan arrests four foreigners in the disputed border region with South Sudan on accusations of spying. [https://web.archive.org/web/20120429124833/http://arabnews.com/world/article621514.ece (Arab News)]
Chinese authorities begin to round-up associates of human rights activist Chen Guangcheng in light of his escape from house arrest. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-17885372 (BBC)] [http://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/China/China-police-detain-friend-of-fugitive-activist/Article1-847965.aspx (Hindustan Times)]

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