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April 2016
Ongoing events
Business
2016 Bangladesh Bank heist
Panama Papers
Health
Flint water crisis
Zika virus outbreak
Political
War in Afghanistan
Boko Haram insurgency
Brazil protests
Burundian unrest
Iraqi Civil War
Military intervention against ISIL
American-led
Iranian
Israeli–Palestinian conflict
Lebanese political deadlock
Macedonia protests
Moldova protests
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
Armenian–Azeri border conflict
Nepal blockade
PKK rebellion
Yemeni Civil War
Saudi Arabian-led intervention
Second Libyan Civil War
Sinai insurgency
South China Sea disputes
Syrian Civil War
American-led intervention
Russian military intervention
Venezuelan protests
War in Donbass
Russian military intervention in Ukraine
More details on
ongoing conflicts
below
Sports
2015–16 La Liga season
2016 NBA Playoffs
2016 NHL Playoffs
2015–16 Premier League season
2015–16 UEFA Champions League
2016 ATP World Tour
2016 Major League Baseball season
2016 WTA Tour
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Recent deaths
April
29
:
Renato Corona
29
:
Erediauwa
28
:
Conrad Burns
28
:
Jenny Diski
28
:
Joe Durham
27
:
Willie Williams
26
:
Winston Hill
26
:
Lucy Kibaki
26
:
Ozzie Silna
26
:
Harry Wu
25
:
Mei Baojiu
24
:
Zafar Ishaq Ansari
24
:
Ron Brace
24
:
Martin Gray
24
:
Inge King
24
:
Tommy Kono
24
:
Benjamin Manglona
24
:
Billy Paul
24
:
Papa Wemba
24
:
George Alexis Weymouth
23
:
Bill Sevesi
23
:
Madeleine Sherwood
23
:
Banharn Silpa-archa
22
:
Phife Dawg
22
:
Ariffin Mohammed
22
:
Dene Smuts
21
:
Lonnie Mack
21
:
Ferenc Paragi
21
:
Prince
20
:
Chyna
20
:
Velda González
20
:
Guy Hamilton
20
:
Leonie Kramer
20
:
Attila Özdemiroğlu
20
:
Qi Benyu
20
:
Giannis Voglis
20
:
Dwayne Washington
20
:
Victoria Wood
19
:
Ken Aldred
(death announced on this date)
19
:
Patricio Aylwin
19
:
Estelle Balet
19
:
Ronit Elkabetz
19
:
Walter Kohn
19
:
Mehrdad Oladi
19
:
Milt Pappas
18
:
Brian Asawa
18
:
William Campbell
17
:
Bruce Mansfield
17
:
Doris Roberts
16
:
Ron Bonham
16
:
Miloud Chaabi
16
:
Rod Daniel
16
:
William M. Gray
16
:
Charlie Hodge
16
:
Maurice Kenny
15
:
Frederick Mayer
15
:
A. A. Raiba
15
:
Richard Smith
14
:
Fred Hayman
14
:
David J. C. MacKay
14
:
Malick Sidibé
13
:
Manouchehr Sotodeh
13
:
Srinivas Aravamudan
13
:
Kurtis Haiu
13
:
Mariano Mores
13
:
Rex Patterson
13
:
Gareth Thomas
13
:
Ray Thornton
13
:
Nera White
12
:
Hector A. Cafferata, Jr.
12
:
Paul Carey
12
:
Gianroberto Casaleggio
12
:
David Gest
12
:
Balls Mahoney
12
:
Arnold Wesker
11
:
Ruth Gilbert
11
:
Ed Snider
10
:
Howard Marks
9
:
Arthur Anderson
9
:
Duane Clarridge
9
:
Tony Conrad
9
:
Will Smith
8
:
Wei Chueh
8
:
David Dore
8
:
Charles Hirsch
7
:
Freda Briggs
7
:
Frank E. Denholm
7
:
Vladimir Kagan
7
:
Blackjack Mulligan
6
:
Merle Haggard
6
:
Robert MacCrate
6
:
Ogden Mills Phipps
6
:
Murray Wier
5
:
Zyta Gilowska
5
:
Roman Gribbs
5
:
Mick Sullivan
4
:
Carlo Mastrangelo
4
:
Mike Sandlock
5
:
Barbara Turner
3
:
Abu Firas al-Suri
3
:
Erik Bauersfeld
3
:
Joe Medicine Crow
3
:
Bob Ellis
3
:
Lars Gustafsson
3
:
Cesare Maldini
2
:
Gato Barbieri
2
:
Amber Rayne
1
:
Tom Coughlin
1
:
Artur Górski
1
:
Denise Robertson
March
31
:
Béla Biszku
31
:
Ronnie Corbett
31
:
Hans-Dietrich Genscher
31
:
Zaha Hadid
31
:
Imre Kertész
31
:
Douglas Wilmer
30
:
Shirley Hufstedler
30
:
John King
30
:
Andy "Thunderclap" Newman
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Ongoing conflicts
Africa
Algeria, Tunisia and Niger
Maghreb insurgency
Central African Republic
Civil war
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Kivu conflict
ADF insurgency
Katanga insurgency
Ituri conflict
Lord's Resistance Army insurgency
Libya
Civil war
Mali
Northern Mali conflict
Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, and Niger
Boko Haram insurgency
Somalia
Civil war
South Sudan
South Sudanese Civil War
Sudan
War in Darfur
South Kordofan conflict
Americas
Colombian conflict
Internal conflict in Peru
Mexican War on Drugs
Asia
Afghanistan
Afghanistan War
China
Xinjiang conflict
India
Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
Insurgency in Northeast India
India and Pakistan
Kashmir conflict
Pakistan
War in North-West Pakistan
Balochistan conflict
Philippines
CPP-NPA-NDF rebellion
Moro conflict
Cross border attacks in Sabah
Southeast Asia
Internal conflict in Burma
Papua conflict
South Thailand insurgency
Europe
European Migrant Crisis
Georgia
Abkhaz–Georgian conflict
Georgian–Ossetian conflict
Chechen–Russian conflict
North Caucasus insurgency
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
Ukraine
War in Donbass
Russian military intervention in Ukraine
Middle East
Arab–Israeli conflict
Gaza–Israel conflict
Israeli–Lebanese conflict
Israeli–Palestinian conflict
Egypt
Sinai insurgency
Iran
Iran–PJAK conflict
Iraqi civil war
American-led intervention in Iraq
Iranian intervention in Iraq
Syrian Civil War
American-led intervention in Syria
Syrian Civil War spillover in Lebanon
Turkey
Turkey–PKK conflict
Turkey–ISIL conflict
Yemeni crisis
Houthi rebellion
Al-Qaeda insurgency
South Yemen insurgency
edit sidebar
Elections and Referendums
Recent
April
6:
Netherlands
,
EU referendum
8:
Djibouti
,
President (1st round)
10:
Chad
,
President (1st round)
10:
Comoros
,
President (2nd round)
10:
Peru
,
President, Congress
11:
Sudan
,
Darfur status referendum
13:
South Korea
,
National Assembly
13:
Syria
,
People's Council
17:
Italy
,
Oil drilling referendum
24:
Austria
,
President (1st round)
24:
Equatorial Guinea
,
President
24:
Serbia
,
National Assembly
Upcoming
May
9:
Philippines
,
President, Senate, House of Representatives
15:
Dominican Republic
,
President, Senate, Chamber of Deputies
22:
Cyprus
,
House of Representatives
22:
Tajikistan
,
Constitutional referendum
22:
Vietnam
,
National Assembly
edit sidebar
Trials
Recently concluded
Australia:
Brett Peter Cowan
,
Craig Thomson
,
Robert Hughes
Brazil:
Mensalão scandal
Canada:
Luka Magnotta
China:
Ji Jianye
,
Li Chuncheng
,
Jiang Jiemin
,
Liao Shaohua
,
Ni Fake
,
Chen Baihuai
,
Zhou Yongkang
,
Gu Junshan
Croatia:
Ivo Sanader
Egypt:
Hosni Mubarak
,
Peter Greste
,
Mohamed Morsi
Germany:
Bernie Ecclestone
,
Uli Hoeness
,
Christian Wulff
Iran:
Mohammad Reza Rahimi
Israel:
Hussam Qawasmeh
Jordan:
Abu Qatada
Philippines:
Joseph Scott Pemberton
Romania:
Liviu Dragnea
,
Dan Diaconescu
Russia:
Leonid Khabarov
,
Eston Kohver
,
Vladimir Kvachkov
South Africa:
Shrien Dewani
,
Oscar Pistorius
Turkey:
Kenan Evren
,
Tahsin Şahinkaya
United Kingdom:
Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale
,
Kweku Adoboli
,
Tony McCluskie
,
Kevin Hutchinson-Foster
,
Chris Huhne
,
Nicola Edgington
,
Vicky Pryce
,
Derek Rose
,
Mick Philpott, Mairead Philpott, Paul Mosley
,
Stuart Hazell
,
Mark Bridger
,
Andrew Lancel
,
Dale Cregan
,
Ray Wilkins
,
Liam Adams
,
R v Grillo and Grillo
,
Ian Watkins
,
William Roache
,
Dave Lee Travis
,
Nicholas Jacobs
,
Nigel Evans
,
Max Clifford
,
Stuart Hall
,
Dappy
,
Rebekah Brooks
,
Andy Coulson
,
Rolf Harris
,
Tulisa Contostavlos
,
Chris Denning
,
Ray Teret
,
Gary Glitter
,
Fred Talbot
,
Adam Johnson
United States:
Abu Hamza al-Masri
,
Michael Grimm
,
Jesse Jackson Jr.
,
Bob McDonnell
,
Vilma Bautista
,
Jared Lee Loughner
,
Lauryn Hill
,
Kermit Gosnell
,
George Zimmerman
,
Chelsea Manning
,
Ariel Castro
,
Whitey Bulger
,
Robert Bales
,
Nidal Malik Hasan
,
Jodi Arias
,
Anas al-Libi
,
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
,
James Eagan Holmes
,
Sheldon Silver
International
ECCC
:
Nuon Chea
,
Khieu Samphan
ICC
:
Germain Katanga
ICTY
:
Momčilo Perišić
,
Mladen Markač
,
Ante Gotovina
,
Zdravko Tolimir
,
Radovan Karadžić
Ongoing
China:
Yao Mugen
,
Guo Youming
,
Zhu Zuoli
Germany:
Beate Zschäpe
Iran:
Babak Zanjani
Netherlands:
Geert Wilders
Philippines:
Andal Ampatuan Jr.
,
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
,
Janet Lim-Napoles
,
Jovito Palparan
Romania:
Darius Vâlcov
,
Dan Șova
,
Elena Udrea
,
Radu Mazăre
,
Gheorghe Nichita
,
Marian Vanghelie
,
Cătălin Voicu
,
Relu Fenechiu
,
Gheorghe Ștefan, Gabriel Sandu, Dorin Cocoş, Dumitru Nicolae
Russia:
Alexei Navalny
South Korea:
MV
Sewol
crew members
United Kingdom:
Rolf Harris
United States:
Dean Skelos
International
ICTY
:
Ratko Mladić
PCA
:
China
Upcoming
China:
Wu Changshun
,
Ling Jihua
Estonia:
Edgar Savisaar
Libya:
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi
Spain:
Lionel Messi
United Kingdom:
Max Clifford
United States:
Paul Anthony Ciancia
,
Javaris Crittenton
,
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
,
Dylan Quick
,
Aaron Hernandez
,
Graham Spanier
,
Tim Curley
,
Gary Schultz
,
Justin Bieber
,
Chris Brown
,
Rick Perry
International
ICC
:
Laurent Gbagbo
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:
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
<
Portal:Current events
|
April 2016
Ongoing events
Business
2016 Bangladesh Bank heist
Panama Papers
Health
Flint water crisis
Zika virus outbreak
Political
War in Afghanistan
Boko Haram insurgency
Brazil protests
Burundian unrest
Iraqi Civil War
Military intervention against ISIL
American-led
Iranian
Israeli–Palestinian conflict
Lebanese political deadlock
Macedonia protests
Moldova protests
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
Armenian–Azeri border conflict
Nepal blockade
PKK rebellion
Yemeni Civil War
Saudi Arabian-led intervention
Second Libyan Civil War
Sinai insurgency
South China Sea disputes
Syrian Civil War
American-led intervention
Russian military intervention
Venezuelan protests
War in Donbass
Russian military intervention in Ukraine
More details on
ongoing conflicts
below
Sports
2015–16 La Liga season
2016 NBA Playoffs
2016 NHL Playoffs
2015–16 Premier League season
2015–16 UEFA Champions League
2016 ATP World Tour
2016 Major League Baseball season
2016 WTA Tour
edit sidebar
Recent deaths
April
29
:
Renato Corona
29
:
Erediauwa
28
:
Conrad Burns
28
:
Jenny Diski
28
:
Joe Durham
27
:
Willie Williams
26
:
Winston Hill
26
:
Lucy Kibaki
26
:
Ozzie Silna
26
:
Harry Wu
25
:
Mei Baojiu
24
:
Zafar Ishaq Ansari
24
:
Ron Brace
24
:
Martin Gray
24
:
Inge King
24
:
Tommy Kono
24
:
Benjamin Manglona
24
:
Billy Paul
24
:
Papa Wemba
24
:
George Alexis Weymouth
23
:
Bill Sevesi
23
:
Madeleine Sherwood
23
:
Banharn Silpa-archa
22
:
Phife Dawg
22
:
Ariffin Mohammed
22
:
Dene Smuts
21
:
Lonnie Mack
21
:
Ferenc Paragi
21
:
Prince
20
:
Chyna
20
:
Velda González
20
:
Guy Hamilton
20
:
Leonie Kramer
20
:
Attila Özdemiroğlu
20
:
Qi Benyu
20
:
Giannis Voglis
20
:
Dwayne Washington
20
:
Victoria Wood
19
:
Ken Aldred
(death announced on this date)
19
:
Patricio Aylwin
19
:
Estelle Balet
19
:
Ronit Elkabetz
19
:
Walter Kohn
19
:
Mehrdad Oladi
19
:
Milt Pappas
18
:
Brian Asawa
18
:
William Campbell
17
:
Bruce Mansfield
17
:
Doris Roberts
16
:
Ron Bonham
16
:
Miloud Chaabi
16
:
Rod Daniel
16
:
William M. Gray
16
:
Charlie Hodge
16
:
Maurice Kenny
15
:
Frederick Mayer
15
:
A. A. Raiba
15
:
Richard Smith
14
:
Fred Hayman
14
:
David J. C. MacKay
14
:
Malick Sidibé
13
:
Manouchehr Sotodeh
13
:
Srinivas Aravamudan
13
:
Kurtis Haiu
13
:
Mariano Mores
13
:
Rex Patterson
13
:
Gareth Thomas
13
:
Ray Thornton
13
:
Nera White
12
:
Hector A. Cafferata, Jr.
12
:
Paul Carey
12
:
Gianroberto Casaleggio
12
:
David Gest
12
:
Balls Mahoney
12
:
Arnold Wesker
11
:
Ruth Gilbert
11
:
Ed Snider
10
:
Howard Marks
9
:
Arthur Anderson
9
:
Duane Clarridge
9
:
Tony Conrad
9
:
Will Smith
8
:
Wei Chueh
8
:
David Dore
8
:
Charles Hirsch
7
:
Freda Briggs
7
:
Frank E. Denholm
7
:
Vladimir Kagan
7
:
Blackjack Mulligan
6
:
Merle Haggard
6
:
Robert MacCrate
6
:
Ogden Mills Phipps
6
:
Murray Wier
5
:
Zyta Gilowska
5
:
Roman Gribbs
5
:
Mick Sullivan
4
:
Carlo Mastrangelo
4
:
Mike Sandlock
5
:
Barbara Turner
3
:
Abu Firas al-Suri
3
:
Erik Bauersfeld
3
:
Joe Medicine Crow
3
:
Bob Ellis
3
:
Lars Gustafsson
3
:
Cesare Maldini
2
:
Gato Barbieri
2
:
Amber Rayne
1
:
Tom Coughlin
1
:
Artur Górski
1
:
Denise Robertson
March
31
:
Béla Biszku
31
:
Ronnie Corbett
31
:
Hans-Dietrich Genscher
31
:
Zaha Hadid
31
:
Imre Kertész
31
:
Douglas Wilmer
30
:
Shirley Hufstedler
30
:
John King
30
:
Andy "Thunderclap" Newman
edit sidebar
Ongoing conflicts
Africa
Algeria, Tunisia and Niger
Maghreb insurgency
Central African Republic
Civil war
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Kivu conflict
ADF insurgency
Katanga insurgency
Ituri conflict
Lord's Resistance Army insurgency
Libya
Civil war
Mali
Northern Mali conflict
Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, and Niger
Boko Haram insurgency
Somalia
Civil war
South Sudan
South Sudanese Civil War
Sudan
War in Darfur
South Kordofan conflict
Americas
Colombian conflict
Internal conflict in Peru
Mexican War on Drugs
Asia
Afghanistan
Afghanistan War
China
Xinjiang conflict
India
Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
Insurgency in Northeast India
India and Pakistan
Kashmir conflict
Pakistan
War in North-West Pakistan
Balochistan conflict
Philippines
CPP-NPA-NDF rebellion
Moro conflict
Cross border attacks in Sabah
Southeast Asia
Internal conflict in Burma
Papua conflict
South Thailand insurgency
Europe
European Migrant Crisis
Georgia
Abkhaz–Georgian conflict
Georgian–Ossetian conflict
Chechen–Russian conflict
North Caucasus insurgency
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
Ukraine
War in Donbass
Russian military intervention in Ukraine
Middle East
Arab–Israeli conflict
Gaza–Israel conflict
Israeli–Lebanese conflict
Israeli–Palestinian conflict
Egypt
Sinai insurgency
Iran
Iran–PJAK conflict
Iraqi civil war
American-led intervention in Iraq
Iranian intervention in Iraq
Syrian Civil War
American-led intervention in Syria
Syrian Civil War spillover in Lebanon
Turkey
Turkey–PKK conflict
Turkey–ISIL conflict
Yemeni crisis
Houthi rebellion
Al-Qaeda insurgency
South Yemen insurgency
edit sidebar
Elections and Referendums
Recent
April
6:
Netherlands
,
EU referendum
8:
Djibouti
,
President (1st round)
10:
Chad
,
President (1st round)
10:
Comoros
,
President (2nd round)
10:
Peru
,
President, Congress
11:
Sudan
,
Darfur status referendum
13:
South Korea
,
National Assembly
13:
Syria
,
People's Council
17:
Italy
,
Oil drilling referendum
24:
Austria
,
President (1st round)
24:
Equatorial Guinea
,
President
24:
Serbia
,
National Assembly
Upcoming
May
9:
Philippines
,
President, Senate, House of Representatives
15:
Dominican Republic
,
President, Senate, Chamber of Deputies
22:
Cyprus
,
House of Representatives
22:
Tajikistan
,
Constitutional referendum
22:
Vietnam
,
National Assembly
edit sidebar
Trials
Recently concluded
Australia:
Brett Peter Cowan
,
Craig Thomson
,
Robert Hughes
Brazil:
Mensalão scandal
Canada:
Luka Magnotta
China:
Ji Jianye
,
Li Chuncheng
,
Jiang Jiemin
,
Liao Shaohua
,
Ni Fake
,
Chen Baihuai
,
Zhou Yongkang
,
Gu Junshan
Croatia:
Ivo Sanader
Egypt:
Hosni Mubarak
,
Peter Greste
,
Mohamed Morsi
Germany:
Bernie Ecclestone
,
Uli Hoeness
,
Christian Wulff
Iran:
Mohammad Reza Rahimi
Israel:
Hussam Qawasmeh
Jordan:
Abu Qatada
Philippines:
Joseph Scott Pemberton
Romania:
Liviu Dragnea
,
Dan Diaconescu
Russia:
Leonid Khabarov
,
Eston Kohver
,
Vladimir Kvachkov
South Africa:
Shrien Dewani
,
Oscar Pistorius
Turkey:
Kenan Evren
,
Tahsin Şahinkaya
United Kingdom:
Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale
,
Kweku Adoboli
,
Tony McCluskie
,
Kevin Hutchinson-Foster
,
Chris Huhne
,
Nicola Edgington
,
Vicky Pryce
,
Derek Rose
,
Mick Philpott, Mairead Philpott, Paul Mosley
,
Stuart Hazell
,
Mark Bridger
,
Andrew Lancel
,
Dale Cregan
,
Ray Wilkins
,
Liam Adams
,
R v Grillo and Grillo
,
Ian Watkins
,
William Roache
,
Dave Lee Travis
,
Nicholas Jacobs
,
Nigel Evans
,
Max Clifford
,
Stuart Hall
,
Dappy
,
Rebekah Brooks
,
Andy Coulson
,
Rolf Harris
,
Tulisa Contostavlos
,
Chris Denning
,
Ray Teret
,
Gary Glitter
,
Fred Talbot
,
Adam Johnson
United States:
Abu Hamza al-Masri
,
Michael Grimm
,
Jesse Jackson Jr.
,
Bob McDonnell
,
Vilma Bautista
,
Jared Lee Loughner
,
Lauryn Hill
,
Kermit Gosnell
,
George Zimmerman
,
Chelsea Manning
,
Ariel Castro
,
Whitey Bulger
,
Robert Bales
,
Nidal Malik Hasan
,
Jodi Arias
,
Anas al-Libi
,
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
,
James Eagan Holmes
,
Sheldon Silver
International
ECCC
:
Nuon Chea
,
Khieu Samphan
ICC
:
Germain Katanga
ICTY
:
Momčilo Perišić
,
Mladen Markač
,
Ante Gotovina
,
Zdravko Tolimir
,
Radovan Karadžić
Ongoing
China:
Yao Mugen
,
Guo Youming
,
Zhu Zuoli
Germany:
Beate Zschäpe
Iran:
Babak Zanjani
Netherlands:
Geert Wilders
Philippines:
Andal Ampatuan Jr.
,
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
,
Janet Lim-Napoles
,
Jovito Palparan
Romania:
Darius Vâlcov
,
Dan Șova
,
Elena Udrea
,
Radu Mazăre
,
Gheorghe Nichita
,
Marian Vanghelie
,
Cătălin Voicu
,
Relu Fenechiu
,
Gheorghe Ștefan, Gabriel Sandu, Dorin Cocoş, Dumitru Nicolae
Russia:
Alexei Navalny
South Korea:
MV
Sewol
crew members
United Kingdom:
Rolf Harris
United States:
Dean Skelos
International
ICTY
:
Ratko Mladić
PCA
:
China
Upcoming
China:
Wu Changshun
,
Ling Jihua
Estonia:
Edgar Savisaar
Libya:
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi
Spain:
Lionel Messi
United Kingdom:
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