Portal:Current events/2008 April 1
April 1, 2008 (Tuesday)
- A human rights group in Sri Lanka has blamed local security forces for the massacre of 17 aid workers in 2006 and accused the government of a cover-up. (BBC News)
- The Swedish national postal service will merge with its Danish counterpart, the new group will be based in Stockholm. (Reuters)
- Finland's Foreign Minister Ilkka Kanerva is forced to resign after a scandal involving 200 text messages sent to a stripper. (AP via CNN.com)
- India warns the Dalai Lama not to anger the People's Republic of China. (BBC News)
- Delays in releasing the official results of parliamentary and presidential elections in Zimbabwe are met with widespread speculation and concerns over possible vote rigging. (CNN) (BBC News)
- In Rijeka, Croatia, University of Rijeka officially founded Department of Biotechnology, Department of Informatics, Department of Mathematics, Department of Physics.