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4 April 2006 (Tuesday)

• Thailand legislative election, 2006: Thaksin Shinawatra resigns as Prime Minister of Thailand despite his ruling Thais Love Thais party wins an overwhelming majority in the House of Representatives. (BBC)
• A security expert testifies to an inquest that film director James Miller was shot by an Israeli soldier while making a film in a Palestinian refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. (The Independent) (BBC)
• Former Majority Leader Tom DeLay announces his resignation from the United States House of Representatives. (TIME)

3 April 2006 (Monday)

• The jury in the first phase of the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui has decided that he is eligible for the death penalty. (CNN)
• A large air force C-5 Galaxy military cargo jet crashed when landing at Dover Air Force Base in the U.S. state of Delaware. (CNN)
• Judge Anand Satyanand has been appointed to succeed Dame Silvia Cartwright as Governor-General of New Zealand. He will take up office on August 4 2006. (Beehive)

2 April 2006 (Sunday)

• In Thailand, the 2006 legislative election is held. All three major opposition parties have announced they are boycotting the election. (Indep. UK)
• The Human Rights Protection Party wins Samoa's general election. The HRPP was already the ruling party, and its leader Tuila'epa Sailele Malielegaoi the Prime Minister, but the party did better in the election than polls had indicated. (Radio NZ)
• After about 3 months captivity as a hostage in Iraq, American journalist Jill Carroll returns to American soil in Boston, Massachusetts. (CNN)

1 April 2006 (Saturday)

• Marcos Pontes, Brazil's first astronaut, reaches the International Space Station. (CNN)
• A small aircraft goes missing whilst in flight towards Rio de Janeiro, Brazil with 19 people onboard. It is found to have crashed near Saquarema, about 100 km from Rio. There are no survivors. (BBC)
• The Serious Organised Crime Agency, dubbed the 'British FBI', is created in the United Kingdom. (BBC)