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Apr. 2	Thai voters cast ballots in snap general election boycotted by Opposition parties.	Full Story
Apr. 5	Thailand Prime Minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, resigns and Chidchai Vanasatidya named interim Premier.	Full Story
Apr. 6	Seventy persons are killed as a vessel sinks off the coast of Djibouti.
	Nepali Opposition launches a general strike against King Gyanendra's rule.	Full Story
Apr. 7	Seventynine persons are killed as three suicide attackers wearing women's robes blow themselves up in a Shia mosque in Baghdad.	Full Story
Apr. 8	Belarussian President, Alexander Lukashenko, is sworn in for a third term in the capital Minsk.	Full Story
Apr. 9	Italians cast votes in presidential polls.	Full Story
Apr. 10	The European Union halts aid to the Hamas Government.	Full Story
Apr. 11	The Israeli Cabinet declares Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, permanently incapacitated.	Full Story
	The euro 220-million Venus Express craft enters orbit.	Full Story
	Romano Prodi wins the Italian presidential polls in a photo-finish.	Full Story
Apr. 13	The Iraqi Vice-President, Tariq al-Hashimi's brother Mahmoud al-Hashimi is shot dead while driving in eastern Baghdad.
Apr. 14	Li Guoxing (30), undergoes a partial face transplant at a Chinese hospital after he was disfigured in a bear attack in 1997.	Full Story
Apr. 17	Fiftyseven persons are killed as a bus plunges into a ravine in Mexico.	Full Story
	The Times-Picayune of New Orleans and Sun Harold of Gulport, Mississippi are awarded Pulitzer prizes for public service for their coverage of the Hurricane Katrina.
Apr. 19	The Italian Supreme Court confirms Romano Prodi's victory in Lower House election.
Apr. 21	Nepal's King Gyanendra agrees to cede power to the people yielding to mass protests.	Full Story
	Britain's Queen Elizabeth II celebrates her 80th birthday.	Full Story
	Several villages are wiped out in a massive earthquake that rocks Russia's north-eastern Kamchatka peninsula.	Full Story
Apr. 22	Jalal Talabani is elected Iraqi President for a second term. Shia leader Jamad al Maliki is endorsed as Premier. Mahmoud Al-Mashhadani, a Sunni Arab becomes Speaker.	Full Story
Apr. 23	The Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, holds bilateral talks with the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, in Hannover. Germany-India Joint Statement is issued.	Full Story
Apr. 24	Nepal's King Gyanendra agrees to reinstate the Parliament dissolved in May 2002, following 19 days of violent protests in Kathmandu.	Full Story
Apr. 26	" Terrorism is a menace that must be fought collectively," says the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, at a banquet hosted by the Uzbekistan President, Islam Karimov in Tashkent. The two sides sign seven pacts.	Full Story
	Adventure sports enthusiast Ajeet Bajaj becomes the first Indian to ski to the North Pole.	Full Story
Apr. 28	The Nepalese Parliament reconvenes after four years and a resolution calling for elections to a Constituent Assembly is tabled.	Full Story
	Taliban militants kidnap Indian engineer Kasula Suryanarayana in Zabal province of southern Afghanistan.	Full Story
	The Hyundai chairman Chung Mong-koo is arrested on charges of embezzlement in Seoul.
Apr. 30	Indian engineer Kasula Suryanarayana's body is found between Qalat and Ghazni in the southern part of Afghanistan.	Full Story
	Girija Prasad Koirala is sworn in Nepal Prime Minister by King Gyanendra at the Narayanhiti Palace in Kathmandu. Parliament passes resolution calling for elections to a Constituent Assembly.	Full Story
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