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This article covers breaking news and events in April 2015.

Daily events

Wednesday April 1, 2015

• Magadan / Russia : When the fishing trawler Dalniy Vostok sank in the Sea of ​​Okhotsk off the Kamchatka Peninsula , at least 56 seamen were killed, 63 crew members were rescued, and 13 others were missing. The most likely cause of the accident is the overloading of the ship with fresh catch.
• Sacramento / United States : On the occasion of an ongoing four years of drought assigns the Governor of California , Jerry Brown , stated that cities and towns have their water consumption by 25% throttle. The agriculture as the largest consumer of water is not initially affected by the restriction. The background to this is the groundwater level that has been falling for years and the lack of snowfall in the Sierra Nevada last winter.

Thursday April 2, 2015

• Garissa / Kenya : In an attack on Garissa University College , four fighters from the Islamist Shabaab militia kill at least 147 mostly Christian students and injure another 80 people. A night curfew has been imposed on four counties near the Somali border .
• Lausanne / Switzerland : Representatives of Iran as well as the permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany achieve a breakthrough in the negotiations on the Iranian nuclear program . While Iran has to submit to strict controls by the International Atomic Energy Agency , it can hope that the West will lift the economic sanctions.
• Ouagadougou / Burkina Faso : Due to the outbreak of the H5N1 virus of bird flu will be away for weeks 115,000 poultry animals in the central provinces Sanguié and Kadiogo killed.

Friday 3rd April 2015

• Jerusalem / Israel : The Israeli security cabinet criticizes the agreement on the Iranian nuclear program from the previous day as a threat to the region and the survival of the state of Israel.

Saturday 4th April 2015

• Naumburg / Germany : After a fire in the accommodation provided for the accommodation of asylum seekers in Tröglitz in the Burgenland district in Saxony-Anhalt, the police are investigating arson . At the beginning of March, the honorary mayor of the place resigned because of right-wing extremist hostility.
• Pozzallo / Italy : Ships of the Italian coast guard and navy as well as a ship of the Icelandic coast guard operating on behalf of the EU border agency Frontex save a total of more than 1800 boat refugees from distress in the Mediterranean between Sicily and the Libyan coast .

Sunday April 5, 2015

• Geneva / Switzerland : After a two-year conversion phase, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN is back in operation.

Monday April 6, 2015

• Ankara / Turkey : In order to prevent the distribution of a photo of an Istanbul public prosecutor who was kidnapped by left-wing extremists and perished in the course of his liberation , Turkish authorities temporarily block access to the social network Twitter and the video portal YouTube .
• Warsaw / Poland : With the construction of six watchtowers up to 50 meters high, Poland is increasing its surveillance on the border with the Russian exclave Kaliningrad . The construction costs are largely financed from an EU fund for securing the external borders of the European Union .

Tuesday April 7, 2015

• Swobodny / Russian Federation : With a hunger strike , workers deployed on the large construction site of the new Russian spaceport in Vostochny in the Amur region force the payment of wages and salaries that have been outstanding for months.

Wednesday April 8, 2015

• Boston / United States : Almost two years after the attack on the Boston Marathon , the surviving assassin Jochar Zarnajew is found guilty on all counts by a jury in a Massachusetts court .
• Chengdu / China : In protest against the politics of the People's Republic of China, a Tibetan nun lights herself in the Garzê district of the autonomous district of the same name in the Chinese province of Sichuan , part of the Tibetan cultural region of Kham , after the demand for freedom for Tibet and the return of the Dalai Lama from exile in front of a police station himself. According to human rights organizations, more than 130 Tibetans have set themselves on fire since 2009 in order to demonstrate against Beijing's policy of religious oppression of Tibetans and the immigration of Han Chinese into their living space.
• Kathmandu / Nepal : After the only international airport was closed for four days on the weekend due to the crash landing of a Turkish Airlines passenger plane , many of the 24,000 stranded tourists storm it in order to finally be able to leave.
• London / United Kingdom : The Dutch- British oil company Shell is planning to take over the British gas producer BG Group and has submitted an offer for just under 65 billion euros .

Thursday April 9, 2015

• Lhasa / China : The chairman of the Chinese Communist Party in Tibet , Chen Quangduo, demands that the Chinese flag be displayed on Tibetan monasteries as a sign of Chinese control over the Tibet region . However, this ideological demand contradicts the statements of the leadership of the People's Republic to grant the Tibetans religious freedom and autonomy.
• Beijing / China: China announces plans to extend the Qinghai-Tibet Railway from the Tibetan capital to Nepal . The plans are being coordinated with the neighboring country, which was expressed recently in visits by the Nepalese President Ram Baran Yadav to Lhasa and the Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Kathmandu . The mountain region of Mount Everest is to be tunneled under. In India , meanwhile, there is growing concern about greater Chinese influence in its immediate vicinity.

Friday April 10, 2015

• Augusta / Italy : The Italian coast guard rescues in the afternoon and night on Saturday in cooperation with the navy (patrol ship Orione ) as well as three merchant ships ( City of Hamburg , Maersk Regensburg , Cape Bon ) in the Strait of Sicily around 30 nautical miles from the Libyan one Coast 978 boat refugees from the Mediterranean Sea in distress .
• El Aaiún / Morocco : In the Moroccan-occupied part of the Western Sahara , 31 people die in a bus accident. Among them is a group of track and field athletes, including sprinter and 10 km runner Hassan Issengar.
• Ko Samui / Thailand : At least 10 people are injured when a car bomb explodes in the Central Festival Samui shopping center in the district of the same name on the island of the same name, which is also very popular with tourists.

Saturday April 11, 2015

• Panama City / Panama : On the sidelines of the 7th America Summit and the meeting of the Organization of American States (OAS), a political discussion between the US and Cuban presidents takes place for the first time since the Cuban Revolution . US President Barack Obama meets with Raúl Castro and sees a turning point in relations between the two countries.
• Valletta / Malta : In the seventh referendum on spring hunting for quail and lovebirds , which for the first time originated from a citizens' initiative, 50.4% of the 340,000 citizens eligible to vote vote in favor of continuing the hunt.
• Vatican City / Vatican: Pope Francis announces the beginning of an extraordinary year of jubilee for this year’s December 6th for conversion to the path of mercy .
• Zurich / Switzerland : The HC Davos secures with 4: 1 victories in the final series for the 31st time the Swiss championship in ice hockey .

Sunday April 12, 2015

• Abakan / Russian Federation : Uncontrolled burning of steppe grass causes severe forest and steppe fires in the southern Siberian republic of Khakassia . At least five people die and over 200 are injured. Around 900 houses in 42 locations are burned, thousands of pets are also killed. About 5000 helpers and several fire-fighting planes are in action. 700 soldiers support the extinguishing work with military technology.
• Vatican City / Vatican: At a mass in St. Peter's Basilica to commemorate the victims of the massacre of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire 100 years ago, Pope Francis describes this as "the first genocide of the 20th century to hit the Armenian people ". The Turkey protested angrily against it and ordered the ambassador to the Vatican in Ankara one.

Monday April 13, 2015

• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : As part of the monetary policy of quantitative easing, the European Central Bank (ECB) is buying up public debt for around 61.68 billion euros from March 9 to April 10, 2015, including Pfandbriefe and asset-backed securities .
• Khartoum / Sudan : In the presidential elections, President Umar al-Bashir , who has been in office since 1989, wins with 94.05 percent of the votes cast and a turnout of 46.4 percent. His closest confidante and fellow candidate Fadl el-Sajed Shuiab achieved 1.43 percent. The main opposition parties are boycotting the four-day elections.
• Vatican City / Vatican: Wilhelm Krautwaschl from Gleisdorf becomes the new diocesan bishop of Graz-Seckau and Werner Freistetter is appointed military bishop of Austria .

Tuesday April 14, 2015

• New York City / United States : The United Nations Security Council adopts Resolution 2216, tabled by Jordan , with 14 votes in favor and Russia abstaining . This includes an arms embargo against the Shiite Huthi -Rebellen in Yemen , as well as account lockouts and travel restrictions against the rebel leader Abdul-Malik al-Huthi and the son of former Yemeni president , Ahmed Ali Abdullah Saleh. In addition, the Security Council is calling for a withdrawal from the areas occupied by the Houthi rebels .

Wednesday April 15, 2015

• Brussels / Belgium : Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager and the EU Commission accuse Google of unfair competition through the abuse of its dominant position and threaten the search engine operator with a billion-dollar fine.
• Hamburg / Germany : Two months after the general election , the First Mayor Olaf Scholz ( SPD ) is re-elected with a large majority. He leads a red-green coalition .

Thursday April 16, 2015

• Al-Mukalla / Yemen : Amid the political chaos, Sunni fighters of the al-Qaida offshoot al-Qaeda are expanding their position of power on the Arab peninsula by taking the strategically important airport of Riyan Airport , the port and an oil depot of al-Mukalla under theirs Bring control.
• Kiev / Ukraine : In Ukraine, a pro-Russian journalist and a member of parliament and supporter of the former President Yanukovych are murdered within a very short time . The incumbent President Petro Poroshenko condemns the apparently politically motivated murders.

Friday 17th April 2015

• Yongshu Jiao / China : Satellite images show that the People's Republic of China is building a runway on the artificially raised reef of Yongshu Jiao, which is part of the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea . This exacerbates the territorial conflict there, since in addition to the People's Republic, Taiwan , the Philippines , Vietnam and Malaysia also claim at least parts of the archipelago and occupy the corresponding islands.

Saturday April 18, 2015

• Brandenburg / Germany : This year's Federal Horticultural Show opens. For the first time, this is taking place in a transnational region in Saxony-Anhalt and Brandenburg . The area is spread across Brandenburg an der Havel, Rathenow , Premnitz , Stölln and Havelberg .
• Jalalabad / Afghanistan : At least 33 people are killed and 100 others injured in a suicide attack near the New Kabul Bank in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad. President Ashraf Ghani blames the terrorist militia Islamic State for the attack. The radical Islamic Taliban denies any involvement in the attack.

Sunday April 19, 2015

• Curitiba / Brazil : The former deputy head of the Brazilian Grupo Camargo Corrêa , Eduardo Hermelino Leite, confesses to the public prosecutor's office that bribery payments of 110 million real (equivalent to 33 million euros) to the semi-public oil company Petrobras were made between 2007 and 2012.
• Helsinki / Finland : In the parliamentary elections , the Finnish Center Party will be the strongest party of the previous opposition with 21.1%, ahead of the National Collection Party , previously part of the government, with 18.2%. The previous opposition party, The Finns, followed with 17.6%, ahead of the Social Democratic Party of Finland with 16.5%, which previously belonged to the government. Eight parties are represented in the new parliament. The turnout is 66.8%.
• Lefkoşa / Northern Cyprus : None of the candidates achieved an absolute majority in the presidential elections . In a runoff election, the former mayor of Lefkoşas, Mustafa Akıncı , independent candidate of the Social Democracy Party , challenges incumbent Derviş Eroğlu , independent candidate of the National Unity Party and the Democratic Party .
• Tripoli / Libya : A fishing cutter with around 700 refugees on board capsizes on the way from Libya to Italy around 110 kilometers off the Libyan coast. Only 28 passengers can be rescued by the Portuguese container ship King Jacob . The Italian Guardia Costiera and the Marina Militare as well as emergency services from Malta and Frontex are on duty at the site of the accident.

Monday April 20, 2015

• Catania / Italy : 27 migrants rescued yesterday shipwreck, off Libya arrive in Sicily to Catania. Two tugs, including the Tunisian captain, are arrested there. You are charged with negligent homicide.

Tuesday April 21, 2015

JR Maglev on the Yamanashi test track

• Cairo / Egypt : The former President of Egypt Mohammed Morsi is sentenced by an Egyptian court to a prison term of 20 years for inciting violence against demonstrators. The verdict is not yet legally binding. Critics consider it politically motivated.
• Tokyo / Japan : With 603 km / h, the maglev scmaglev to a new high speed record. It is scheduled to run between the capital and central Japanese Nagoya from 2027 .

Wednesday April 22, 2015

Eruption of the Calbuco volcano

• Puerto Montt / Chile : The Calbuco volcano erupts explosively and an ash cloud rises over 15 kilometers. A state of emergency is declared for the area in the Región de los Lagos and the first evacuation measures are initiated within a radius of 20 kilometers. The neighboring Argentina also imposed a state of emergency in the region near the border.
• The Valley / Anguilla : In the general election, the Anguilla United Front wins six of the seven seats to be awarded. As the new head of government , Victor Banks takes office two days later.

Thursday April 23, 2015

• Bishkek / Kyrgyzstan : The Kyrgyz Prime Minister Djoomart Otorbaev submits his resignation. An agreement with the Canadian operator of the country's largest gold mine had previously failed.

Friday April 24, 2015

• Brussels / Belgium : The European Commission allows the import of 19 genetically modified organisms (GMOs), including varieties of maize , soybeans , rapeseed , cotton and types of cloves . So far, a total of 58 genetically modified organisms have been approved in the food sector and in feed in the European Union.
• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : Deutsche Bank announces that it will sell Postbank , which has been majority-owned since 2010 .
• Iqaluit / Canada : At the 9th meeting of the Arctic Council , agreements on environmental protection, mineral resources, economy and infrastructure are negotiated. The resentment between Russia and the western world caused by the war in Ukraine threatens to overshadow this meeting.
• Yerevan / Armenia : To commemorate the victims of the massacres of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire 100 years ago, the Presidents of France ( François Hollande ), Russia ( Vladimir Putin ) and Serbia ( Tomislav Nikolić ) will take part in addition to Armenia's President Serzh Sargsyan .

Saturday April 25, 2015

Dharahara tower from destruction

• Aden / Yemen : Air strikes under Saudi leadership and fighting between the Houthi rebels and government soldiers killed over 92 people over two days.
• Kathmandu / Nepal : An earthquake in Nepal has claimed over 5,000 lives so far. The Dharahara Tower , a popular tourist destination, built in 1832 , is completely destroyed.
• Lomé / Togo : incumbent Faure Gnassingbé triumphs in the presidential elections . The defeated challenger Jan-Pierre Fabre is calling for the election to be canceled due to irregularities.
• Vienna / Austria : At this year's Romy Awards , the German actor Til Schweiger will be honored for his role as actor and director in the film Honig im Kopf .

Sunday April 26, 2015

• Astana / Kazakhstan : As expected, Nursultan Nazarbayev, who has been in office since independence in 1990, wins the early presidential election in Kazakhstan with 97.7 percent of the votes cast and a turnout of 95.2 percent.
• Lefkoşa / Northern Cyprus : The runoff election for the office of President of Northern Cyprus surprisingly wins the Social Democrat Mustafa Akıncı with 60.5 percent of the votes, ahead of the incumbent Derviş Eroğlu with 39.5 percent. The turnout is 64.1 percent.
• Porto-Novo / Benin : Head of State Boni Yayi's party emerged as the strongest force in the parliamentary elections .
• Tikrit / Iraq : Fighters from the terrorist organization Islamic State (IS) storm a military base of the Iraqi armed forces 70 km north of Ramadi and execute 140 soldiers and officers. Another 45 soldiers are deported to Fallujah and executed there. The commander of the 1st Iraqi Division, Brigadier General Hassan Abbas Toufan, and three staff officers are among the dead.

Monday April 27, 2015

• Düsseldorf / Germany : The energy group E.ON announces the relocation of the company headquarters with the core divisions of renewable energy, networks and customer services to Essen . In addition, by the end of the year the company will be split up with the newly founded company Uniper for the electricity generation division (with the nuclear power plants and coal power plants) and energy trading and exploration based in Düsseldorf. E.ON will keep 40,000 employees and the new Uniper 15,000 employees.
• Idlib / Syria : In the Syrian civil war , the al-Qaeda- owned al-Nusra front and with its allies conquered the strategically important Qarmeed military base in a former brick factory south of Idlib. The city of Jisr el-Shughur is also taken. At least 73 people are killed in attacks by the Syrian air force in the governorate.

Tuesday April 28, 2015

MINUSCA blue helmets

• Baltimore / United States : After the death of the African American Freddie Gray on April 19, 2015 as a result of a spinal injury that he allegedly sustained in police custody, riots ensue with numerous looting, arson and clashes with the police. Larry Hogan , Republican governor of Maryland , declared a state of emergency on the city and deployed around 1,000 soldiers from the Maryland National Guard to secure it.
• Cilacap / Indonesia : The Indonesian government has eight perpetrators convicted of drug smuggling executed on the prison island of Nusakambangan . The convicts are two Australians , one Brazilian , one Ghanaian , one Indonesian and three Nigerians .
• Gorkha / Nepal : A landslide in the administrative zone of the same name destroys a large part of the town. Up to 200 people are buried in the process.
• New York / United States : The United Nations Security Council decides to expand the MINUSCA mission to stabilize the Central African Republic . Around 13,000 security guards are supposed to implement UN resolution 2217 on site.

Wednesday April 29, 2015

• London / Great Britain : The British newspaper The Guardian reports on the rape of children by French soldiers stationed in the Central African Republic between December 2013 and June 2014. Around 10 cases were reported by a United Nations employee through testimony at Bangui M'Poko International Airport documented. As part of Operation Sangaris, the French soldiers had been stationed parallel to the AU mission MISCA since December 2013 and from April 2014 as part of the EUFOR RCA mainly at the capital's airport.

Thursday April 30, 2015

• Borno / Nigeria : In cooperation with several South African mercenaries, the Nigerian army freed over 450 hostages from camps of the Islamist terrorist organization Boko Haram in the Sambisa swamps over two days . The freed hostages originally came from Bumsiri in the Damboa area.
• Ho Chi Minh City / Vietnam : The Unity Party , the Communist Party of Vietnam , celebrates the communist victory in the Vietnam War with a large military parade exactly 40 years ago.
• Munich / Germany : A ceremony will take place to mark the opening of the NS Documentation Center on the former site of the NSDAP party headquarters .
• Space : The MESSENGER space probe crashes almost eleven years after its launch from Earth and four years after entering orbit around the planet Mercury .

See also

• Nekrolog April 2015 for deaths this month
• List of annually recurring days of remembrance and action in April
• Category for commemorative days, public holidays or days of action in April

Web links

Lisbon in April 2015

Commons : April 2015  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

 Wikinews: Articles Published April 2015  - News

Individual evidence

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2. ↑ Wolfgang Merkel, Barbara Munker: California turns off the tap. Berliner Morgenpost , April 8, 2015, accessed on April 15, 2015 . 
3. ↑ Kenya is in mourning: worst Al-Shabaab massacre. Westfälischer Anzeiger , April 3, 2015, accessed on April 3, 2015 . 
4. ^ Stephan Löwenstein: Breakthrough in negotiations on the Iranian nuclear program. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , April 2, 2015, accessed on April 3, 2015 . 
5. ↑ Burkina Faso culls 115,000 Poultry over Bird Flu. Xinhua , April 3, 2015, accessed April 7, 2015 . 
6. ↑ Israel criticizes agreement: «Israel's survival» threatened. Ludwigsburger Kreiszeitung , April 3, 2015, archived from the original on April 10, 2015 ; Retrieved April 3, 2015 . 
7. ↑ Searching for perpetrators after attack on refugee home. Naumburger Tageblatt , April 5, 2015, accessed on April 7, 2015 . 
8. ↑ Over 1800 refugees rescued in the Mediterranean. Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine , April 5, 2015, accessed on April 7, 2015 . 
9. ↑ Restart of the «world machine»: search for dark matter. Weserkurier , April 5, 2015, accessed April 7, 2015 . 
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11. ↑ Poland makes the border with Kaliningrad safer. St. Galler Tagblatt , April 7, 2015, accessed April 7, 2015 . 
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13. ↑ Tsarnaev found guilty. Süddeutsche Zeitung , April 8, 2015, accessed on April 15, 2015 . 
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39. ^ Journalist and parliamentarian killed. (No longer available online.) Thurgauer Zeitung , April 16, 2015, archived from the original ; accessed on April 7, 2019 . 
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