Portal:Current events/2007 April 16
April 16, 2007 (Monday)
- Winners of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize are announced. Author Ray Bradbury and jazz saxophonist John Coltrane receive special citations. (CBC)
- Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, the Secretary-General of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, calls for an end of fighting between the Philippines government and the Moro National Liberation Front, which has killed at least 12 people over the past few days. (AP via IHT)
- At least 33 coal miners are trapped in a mine in Baofeng county, Henan province, China. (BBC)
- Sudan agrees to allow 3,000 United Nations troops in Darfur to support a 7,000 strong African Union force. (BBC)
- A series of shootings at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (commonly referred to as Virginia Tech) campus in Blacksburg, Virginia, United States, leaves at least 33 people (including the gunman) dead and 29 others wounded, making it the country's deadliest school shooting incident ever. (CBS) (CNN) (BBC) (Reuters)
- The offices of the Prosperous Armenia political party in Yerevan are bombed. No one is killed and no one has claimed responsibility. (RFE/RL)
- The United States, Japan and India carry out a joint naval exercise in the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to increase strategic cooperation. (AHN) (Hindu)
- Kalyk Imankulov, the former Chairman of the Kyrgyz National Security Service, joins the United Front For A Worthy Future For Kyrgyzstan political alliance. The alliance is staging its sixth day of protests as it calls for the resignation of President Kurmanbek Bakiyev. (Interfax) (EurasiaNet)
- Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boskovski and his ex-bodyguard Johan Tarculovski face trials for war crimes at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia at The Hague. (BBC)
- Wal-Mart retakes the #1 position on the 2007 Fortune 500 list with US$351.1 billion in revenue for F/Y 2006, beating previous #1 ExxonMobil by $3.9 billion. (Fortune Magazine)
- At least 11 people die in southern India as a passenger train runs into a minibus carrying local officials near the village of Thirumatpur in Tamil Nadu. (AP via Houston Chronicle)
- At least ten Afghan police die in a suicide bombing in Kunduz in northeastern Afghanistan. (BBC)