Portal:Current events/2007 April 12
April 12, 2007 (Thursday)
- India's DRDO successfully tests its nuclear-capable Agni-III, a surface-to-surface ballistic missile with a range of more than 3000 km. (Reuters) (BBC) (NDTV)
- Italian riot police clash with hundreds of Chinese merchants in Milan after scuffles break out over traffic problems in Chinatown. (Reuters via the Melbourne Age)
- Governor of New Jersey Jon Corzine suffers numerous serious injuries resulting from a hit and run car accident on the Garden State Parkway in Galloway Township. (WPVI-ABC) (Reuters)
- Cuba-United States relations: Accused terrorist Luis Posada Carriles is released from jail and handed over to U.S. immigration officials. (AP via International Herald Tribune)
- The Bush administration admits that it may be missing e-mails related to the dismissal of eight United States Attorneys as the Senate Judiciary Committee authorises chairman Patrick Leahy to subpoena documents related to the issue. (International Herald Tribune)
- Paul Wolfowitz, the President of the World Bank, apologizes for his role in a pay scandal involving his girlfriend. (AFP via ABC News Australia)
- U.S. talk radio personality Don Imus is fired by CBS Radio after making racially offensive comments about the Rutgers University women's basketball team. His simulcasted television show "Imus in the Morning" on MSNBC is also cancelled. (MSNBC)
- Iraqi insurgency:
- An explosion in the cafeteria of the National Assembly of Iraq kills eight people, including MP Mohammed Awad, and wounds many others. (BBC) (News Limited)
- A truck bomb explodes on the al-Sarafiya Bridge in Baghdad, killing at least 10 people and putting cars into the Tigris River. (FOX) (BBC)
- Al Qaida claims responsibility for the bombings in Algiers, Algeria. (Channel 4)
- Several candidates in the first round of the East Timor presidential elections, including the Prime Minister José Ramos-Horta, have called for a recount amid allegations of voting irregularities. (BBC)
- North Korean leader Kim Jong-il dismisses Prime Minister Pak Pong-ju and appoints Kim Yong-il in his place. (News Limited) (KCNA)
- Premier of the People's Republic of China Wen Jiabao urges Japan to admit to their actions in World War II during a landmark address to the Diet of Japan. (BBC)
- The Kremlin vetoes an investigation into the death of Yuri Gagarin on the 46th anniversary of the first orbit of Earth. (MOSNEWS) (Belfast Telegraph)
- The anchor handling tug supply vessel Bourbon Dolphin capsizes in the North Sea. Three people are dead and four are missing. (BBC) (VG) (Aftenposten)