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This article covers breaking news and events in April 2017.

Daily events

Saturday 1st April 2017

• Asunción / Paraguay : After hours of rioting, demonstrators stormed the parliament building and set it on fire. The background to this was a vote by the Senate in favor of the re-election of President Horacio Cartes . A new start in 2018 is not planned according to the constitution.
• Mocoa / Colombia : After crossing three rivers, several landslides occur in the town of Putumayo province , killing at least 254 people. (See Friday March 31. ) Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos declared a state of disaster the day after .
• San Marino : For the first time, two women are running the state of San Marino at the same time: Vanessa D'Ambrosio and Mimma Zavoli take up their post as Capitano Reggente (until September 30, 2017).

Sunday April 2, 2017

• Belgrade / Serbia : presidential election . The incumbent Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić ( SNS ) wins with an absolute majority.
• Budapest / Hungary : Several thousand people demonstrate against the new higher education law planned by the government and for the preservation of the Central European University .
• Hobyo / Somalia : Pirates hijack the ship MSV Al Kausar sailing under the Indian flag in the Gulf of Aden .
• Yerevan / Armenia : parliamentary election
• Mogadishu / Somalia : At the request of the Somali government, the United States is sending around 40 soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division as part of a permanent training and advisory mission of the Somali security forces and AMISOM in the fight against the Islamist al-Shabaab militia.
• Sargodha / Pakistan : At least 20 people die in a violent confrontation in a Sufi shrine.
• Quito / Ecuador : runoff of the presidential election. The voters can choose between Lenín Moreno and Guillermo Lasso . The former receives 51.14% of the votes cast and thus wins the election.

Monday 3rd April 2017

Saint Petersburg in April 2017

• Seoul / South Korea : Opening of the 555 meter high Lotte World Premium Tower .
• Saint Petersburg / Russia : At least 14 people die and 51 people are injured in an explosion in the Saint Petersburg metro .

Tuesday April 4, 2017

New 50 euro banknote

• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : The European Central Bank (ECB) is putting the new 50 euro banknote into circulation. In a first step, there will be a total of around 5.4 billion pieces via ATMs, bank counters and cash register systems.
• Chan Shaichun / Syria : In an attack by the Syrian army, over 50 people are believed to be killed and more people are injured. Chemical warfare agents are said to have been used. Syria and its ally Russia denied the use of such weapons and referred to a rebel weapons depot that had been hit.
• Tikrit / Iraq : At least 31 people died and 40 others were injured in an attack by suspected Daesh fighters on a police station in Al-Zihoor district .

Wednesday April 5, 2017

• Lahore / Pakistan : At least 6 people are killed and another 18 are injured in an attack on a Pakistani armed forces vehicle by a suicide bomber .
• Sepidsang / Iran : In an earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale, at least two people die in the Razavi-Khorasan province and at least 11 buildings are damaged.

Thursday April 6, 2017

• Golweyn / Somalia : When a land mine detonated in the Shabeellaha Hoose region, at least 19 passengers in a coach died.
• Banjul / Gambia : In the parliamentary elections, the UDP of Ousainou Darboe won the absolute majority with 31 of 53 seats and replaced the APRC of ex-President Yahya Jammeh and party leader Fabakary Jatta as the strongest force. Five seats also went to Mamma Kandeh's new Gambia Party for Democracy and Progress (GPDC) . The turnout was just 42 percent.

Friday 7th April 2017

One of the 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles launched aboard the USS Ross

• Homs / Syria : As a reaction to the alleged use of chemical weapons by Syria against rebels in Khan Shayhun , 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles are shot down by the US destroyers USS Ross and USS Porter operating in the eastern Mediterranean at the Syrian military airfield at Ash-Schairat . At least six soldiers die in the process. The runways remained largely intact, however.

The truck in Åhléns shopping center

• Stockholm / Sweden : In central Stockholm, a truck is driven into a crowd, as a result of which several people were injured and killed. The local authorities suspect a terrorist background. See also the attack in Stockholm 2017 .

Saturday April 8, 2017

• Barcelona / Spain : The Basque underground organization Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) begins handing over their weapons. She had announced this step the day before.
• Moscow / Russia : After the US air strike on the Asch-Schaʿirat military airfield , Russian President Vladimir Putin sends the frigate Admiral Grigorovich from the Black Sea off the coast of Syria. She is supposed to stay there for more than a month.
• Paris / France : The director of the Islamic Center in Geneva , Hani Ramadan , is deported from France to Switzerland.

Sunday April 9, 2017

• Mogadishu / Somalia : A suicide bomber from the Islamist al-Shabaab militia blows himself up in a vehicle near the Ministry of Defense and kills at least 15 soldiers from the Somali armed forces.
• Tanta , Alexandria / Egypt : At least 41 people were killed and 120 injured in a detonation and a suicide bomber attack in the Egyptian cities of Tanta and Alexandria on two Coptic churches. The terrorist organization Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack.

Monday April 10, 2017

• Cairo / Egypt : One day after two attacks on Coptic churches , a state of emergency is declared in Egypt for three months.
• Mogadishu / Somalia : A suicide bomber from the Islamist al-Shabaab militia blows himself up in a vehicle in front of a military training camp and kills at least nine soldiers from the Somali armed forces.
• Washington, DC / United States : Conservative lawyer and federal appeals judge Neil Gorsuch was sworn in as a Supreme Court Justice in the Rose Garden of the White House .

Tuesday April 11, 2017

• Berlin / Germany : According to the German headquarters for addiction issues (DHS), based in Hamm , up to 1.9 million people in Germany are dependent on drugs and around 1.77 million people are considered to be alcohol-dependent .
• Diyarbakir / Turkey : Three people are killed and 12 others injured in a bomb attack by the militant Kurdish PKK on the special police building in the Baglar district.
• Dortmund / Germany : The player Marc Bartra and a policeman are injured in an explosive attack on the team bus of the Borussia Dortmund football club . The quarter-final of the 2016/17 UEFA Champions League against AS Monaco will then be postponed for one day.

Wednesday April 12, 2017

• Kabul / Afghanistan : Five people are killed and three others injured in a suicide attack near several ministries in the center of the Afghan capital. The terrorist organization Islamic State (IS) is committed to the attack.
• San Diego / United States : The US semiconductor manufacturer Qualcomm and the Canadian telecommunications equipment manufacturer Blackberry come to an agreement at the US arbitration court in San Diego . Qualcomm then pays Blackberry 814.9 million US dollars (the equivalent of 768.3 million euros) plus interest and legal fees.
• Tagbilaran / Philippines : During a deployment by the Philippine armed forces in the island province of Bohol , the commander of the Islamist Abu Sajaf Muamar Askali alias Abu Rami is shot. Five terrorists, three soldiers and one policeman died in the fighting.

Thursday April 13, 2017

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US video of the GBU-43 / B MOAB explosion in Afghanistan.

• Achin / Afghanistan : In a US air strike against supporters of the Islamic State (IS) in a tunnel system in the Achin district of the Nangarhar province south of Jalalabad , the largest non-nuclear bomb GBU-43 / B available in the US arsenal is used for the first time in combat MOAB used. According to the US, at least 36 IS fighters were killed.
• Berlin / Germany : Opening of the International Garden Exhibition 2017 in the Marzahn Recreation Park .
• Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas / Mexico : When a tour bus collides with a tanker truck on the highway, an explosion occurs that kills at least 24 people.
• Washington, DC / United States : T-Mobile US secures 45 percent of the transmission frequencies offered between 617 and 698 MHz for around 7.99 billion US dollars (around 7.5 billion euros) at an auction by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ). The competitors, the satellite television operator Dish Network pays 6.2 billion US dollars, the largest cable operator Comcast around 1.7 billion US dollars and the telecommunications company AT&T around 900 million US dollars.
• Las Vegas / United States : In a major fire in a row of shops in the Bellagio Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip , 77 firefighters deploy. No one was injured in the incident shortly before midnight. The property damage is estimated at $ 450,000.

Friday April 14, 2017

• Medina Gonassé / Senegal : At the annual Muslim spiritual Daaka Festival of Tijaniyyah in Medina Gonassé in the region Kolda die 24 people in a major fire and another 102 are injured. According to local media reports, the flames spread rapidly through the straw shelters for the meeting.

Saturday 15th April 2017

• Aleppo / Syria : In Raschidin west of Aleppo, at least 126 people, including 68 children, as well as aid workers and evacuated Shiite rebel fighters, die in a car bomb attack on a bus convoy . In Raschidin around 5000 people from the places Al-Fu'ah (الفوعة) and Kafriya (كفريا) in the Idlib governorate are waiting for their onward journey to Aleppo and are in the civil war area controlled by the Islamist Haiʾat Tahrir asch-Scham .
• Colombo / Sri Lanka : In Meethotamulla in the suburb of Kolonnawa, a landfill landslide in a poor neighborhood, killing at least 26 people and destroying 145 houses.
• Verbania / Italy : With the Italian Emma Morano , the last known person dies at the age of 117, who demonstrably was born before 1900.

Sunday April 16, 2017

• Ankara / Turkey : Referendum in Turkey to amend 18 constitutional articles with the aim of changing from a parliamentary system of government to a presidential system . 51.41% vote in favor of the referendum. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan could then presumably rule with far-reaching powers until 2029.

Monday April 17, 2017

• Ramallah / Palestine : According to the Palestinian Authority and the Palestinian Prisoners Club organization, around 1,500 Palestinian prisoners have started a hunger strike in Israeli prisons and are protesting for better prison conditions (including the abolition of solitary confinement) and accelerated indictment proceedings. The hunger strike will end on May 27, 2017 following an agreement between the Palestinian Prisoners' Association and the Israeli prison authorities.
• Seoul / South Korea : Ex-President Park Geun-hye , who is in custody , is officially charged with bribery in a criminal court.
• Cascais / Portugal : A Piper PA-31T small aircraft registered in Switzerland from the company SYMBIOS Orthopédie SA with the destination Marseille crashes after taking off from Cascais airport near a discounter. Three inmates from France, one person from Switzerland and a Portuguese truck driver die on the ground.

Tuesday April 18, 2017

• The Hague / Netherlands : The international police organization Interpol and the European Europol with the Joint Cybercrime Action Taskforce (J-CAT) announce the breaking up of an international pedophile ring . According to the Spanish National Police, there were around 38 arrests in 15 countries at the end of March 2017 as a result of the investigation into "Operation Tantalio". The members were active in a total of 18 countries and exchanged child pornography in around 25 groups within the WhatsApp messenger service .
• Dra Abu el-Naga / Egypt : Egyptian archaeologists announce the discovery of a well-preserved tomb with several mummies and colorful wooden sarcophagi. The tomb is about 3,500 years old and dates from the 18th dynasty (1550–1295 BC) and later, during the 21st dynasty , more mummies are said to have been added. In addition to the large finds, the researchers also discovered numerous small figures as grave attachments.
• Ma'rib / Yemen : The crash of a transport helicopter of the Saudi armed forces of the type S-70 Blackhawk come during the military operation in Yemen 12 soldiers killed.
• New York / United States : The Brazilian conglomerate Odebrecht is sentenced by a US district court to a fine of 2.6 billion US dollars for bribery and is based on an agreement with the judicial authorities of several countries as part of the investigation against the group. Of the fine, $ 2.4 billion went to Brazil, $ 116 million to Switzerland and $ 93 million to the United States.
• Tunceli / Turkey : The crash of a transport helicopter of the type S-70A Blackhawk the Jandarma come seven police officers, a judge, a sergeant and three crew members were killed.

Wednesday April 19, 2017

Johanna Mikl-Leitner

• Berlin / Germany : The party leader of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), Frauke Petry , renounces her top candidacy in the federal election campaign due to the disagreement of her own party.
• London / United Kingdom : British MPs voted for new elections in the lower house. In the early elections on June 8, the aim is to strengthen the position in the United Kingdom's exit from the EU .
• St. Pölten / Austria : Johanna Mikl-Leitner is the Lower Austrian provincial woman as successor of Erwin Pröll was sworn in , at the same time has a new provincial government started work.

Thursday April 20, 2017

• Ivrea / Italy : The judicial authority publishes a judgment of the ordinary court in Ivrea on April 11, 2017 in which for the first time a connection is made between the use of a mobile phone and a brain tumor disease and recognition as an occupational disease. The complaint was made by 57-year-old Roberto Romeo, who, as an employee of Telecom Italia , made regular calls with a mobile phone for 15 years.
• Wenchang Cosmodrome / China : For the first time, the Chinese space transporter Tianzhou 1 (TZ-1 ) takes off from the Wenchang Spaceport with the Long March 7 (CZ-7) launch vehicle . On April 22, 2017, the cargo freighter successfully docked with fuel and supplies at the Tiangong 2 space station .
• Moscow / Russia : Jehovah's Witnesses have been classified by the Supreme Court as an extremist organization and banned. The property of the organization and all regional associations is confiscated.
• Paris / France : Around 9 p.m. there is an exchange of fire on the Champs-Élysées between a convicted attacker and several officers of the French police . The assassin and a police officer are fatally injured. A few hours after the shooting, the terrorist organization Islamic State confessed to the crime. The security authorities and the French President François Hollande suspect an act motivated by terrorism. (see attack in Paris on April 20, 2017 )
• Paris / France : The French Medicines Agency ANSM announces that, according to an initial estimate, up to 4,100 children in France were born with severe malformations because of the anti- epileptic valproate from the manufacturer Sanofi .

Friday April 21, 2017

• Badhaadhe / Somalia : In an offensive by Kenyan soldiers as part of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) in the Jubbada Hoose region against the Islamist Al-Shabaab militia, 52 suspected terrorists are killed near Badhaadhe.
• Baghdad / Iraq : After 16 months in captivity, 26 hostages from Qatar are released in Iraq . They were abducted in December 2015 while hunting with falcons in southern Iraq . Among them are eleven members of the Qatari Al Thani family. The basis is supposed to be the agreement in Syria between the Syrian government there and the Islamist rebels , mediated by Qatar and Iran .
• Balkh / Afghanistan : At least 140 soldiers are killed and another 60 soldiers are injured in an attack by the Taliban Islamist militia on a military base of the 209th Corps of the Afghan Armed Forces . The attackers broke through the first entrance gate with several cars. At a second entrance a driver blew himself up. The remaining attackers penetrated the military base and opened fire on the soldiers.
• Karlsruhe / Germany : Against the 28-year-old German-Russians Sergei V. an investigation is at the federal court opened. He is accused of having carried out the attack on the Borussia Dortmund team bus on April 11 .
• Moscow / Russia : At the request of the Ministry of Justice, the Russian Supreme Court has classified the religious community Jehovah's Witnesses as an extremist organization and therefore banned it. The property of the religious community is confiscated, its headquarters in St. Petersburg closed and the 395 regional associations dissolved.

Saturday April 22, 2017

• Hamburg / Germany : The news magazine Der Spiegel reports on espionage activities by the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) at the headquarters of the international police authority Interpol in Lyon, France and, since at least 2000, at liaison offices in Belgium, Denmark, Greece, Italy, Austria, Spain and the United States.
• Washington, DC / worldwide: March for Science
• Vienna / Austria : The 28th awarding of the Austrian TV and Film Prize Romy takes place in the Hofburg .

Sunday April 23, 2017

Election campaign in France

• Paris / France : In the first round of the presidential election , Emmanuel Macron ( En Marche! ) And Marine Le Pen ( Front National ) get the most votes and reach the runoff on May 7th. Former Prime Minister François Fillon ( Republican ) ranks third and is out.

Monday April 24, 2017

• Berlin / Germany : According to initial press information on police crime statistics (PKS) from the Federal Ministry of the Interior , the volume of violent crime registered by the police in Germany increased by 6.7% compared to 2015 to around 193,500 offenses. In contrast, the number of break-ins has fallen for the first time in 10 years.
• Ciudad del Este / Paraguay : In a robbery by a group of 50 attackers on a depot of the security service provider Prosegur with around 40 million US dollars, a previously unknown amount was stolen. The authorities speak of a robbery of the century. Armored vehicles, several explosive devices and an anti-aircraft gun were used and a police headquarters were attacked beforehand to distract them. The perpetrators are said to be members of the Brazilian criminal cartel Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) founded in 1993 .

Tuesday April 25, 2017

• al-Malikiya / Syria : The Turkish air forces bomb positions of the Kurdish People's Defense Units (YPG) supported by the United States . At least 18 YPG members are killed.
• Berlin / Germany : Start of the 2017 social elections for the self-governing bodies of the statutory social insurance carriers by May 31. For members of the Barmer Ersatzkasse , the election will only take place in September 2017.
• Busan / South Korea : The nuclear-powered submarine USS Michigan of Marine of the US Army reached the port of Busan. North Korea has threatened the United States and South Korea with a nuclear strike several times, and this trend has been increasing in the recent past .

Wednesday April 26, 2017

• Ankara / Turkey : The state news agency Anadolu reports about 1000 arrests of alleged supporters of the Gülen movement in 81 provinces. Including several police officers. The television stations NTV and CNN Türk report more than 3,200 arrest warrants. Around 8,500 police officers in the country took part in the raids.
• Landsberg am Lech / Germany : The food manufacturers Lutz meat products under the leadership of the associated company Paragon Partners in Munich is due to excessive indebtedness and insolvency at the district court Augsburg a bankruptcy petition .
• Manila / Philippines : The 30th summit of the ASEAN countries begins.

Thursday April 27, 2017

• Skopje / Macedonia : Unknown men storm the parliament and hit MPs. Around a hundred angry supporters of the elected national-conservative Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski broke into the parliament building to protest against the plan of the social democrat Zoran Zaevs to be elected prime minister with the Albanian minority.

Friday April 28, 2017

Ilir Meta is the new President of Albania

• Berlin / Germany : At the award ceremony of the 67th German Film Awards in the Palais am Funkturm is Toni Erdmann of director and screenwriter Maren Ade named best feature film.
• Lucerne / Switzerland : FC Basel becomes Swiss football champions 2017 with a 2-1 win on the seventh last matchday at FC Luzern . It is the eighth national championship title in a row for the club.
• Tirana / Albania : Ilir Meta ( LSI ) is elected by the parliament with 87 of 140 votes as the new president to succeed Bujar Nishani .

Saturday April 29, 2017

Logo of the Turkish language Wikipedia

• Ankara / Turkey : The Turkish Authority for Information and Communication Technologies (Bilgi Teknolojileri ve İletişim Kurumu; BTK) is blocking access to the Turkish-language Wikipedia from Turkish Internet platforms. Media reports justify this with content on "terror support" by the Turkish state. Once again, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan dismissed around 3,974 civil servants, mainly from the Ministry of Justice and the armed forces , by emergency decree 689 . In addition, an emergency decree banned 690 so-called “dome shows”, reality TV programs, as well as 18 foundations, 14 associations and 13 private companies in the healthcare sector.
• Washington, DC / United States : Nationwide demonstrations at the People's Climate March against US President Donald Trump's climate policy . Actor Leonardo DiCaprio , entrepreneur Richard Branson and former Democratic Vice President Al Gore attended the demonstrations on the deliberately selected 100th day of the term. Trump had, among other things, reversed the climate protection measures introduced by decree by his predecessor Barack Obama and appointed Scott Pruitt, a climate change skeptic, as head of the national environmental protection agency .
• Wolfsburg / Germany : The defending champion FC Bayern Munich becomes German football champion 2017 prematurely with a 6-0 win at VfL Wolfsburg on the fourth from last game day . It is the fifth national championship title in a row for the club.

Sunday April 30, 2017

• Bushehr / Iran : President Hassan Rohani opens a new refinery after around 10 years of construction and multiple delays due to international sanctions . This was built by Khātam al-Anbiyā (GHORB), the industrial conglomerate of the paramilitary revolutionary guards . According to the Iranian oil ministry, production will reach a total of 36 million liters of gasoline and 14 million liters of diesel per day within a year and the country will no longer be dependent on imports.
• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : The 54-year-old agent Daniel M. of the Swiss Federal Intelligence Service (NDB), who works in a security area of ​​a major Swiss bank, is arrested. He is apparently said to have spied on German tax investigators .
• Kathmandu / Nepal : The Swiss extreme mountaineer Ueli Steck dies trying to climb Mount Everest in under 48 hours. He slipped and fell in the process.
• Sidi Bouzid / Tunisia : A house raid in the Ouled Chebli district leads to a firefight between soldiers of the Tunisian National Guard and the terrorist group, the Okba Ibn Nafaa Brigade, an al-Qaida group in the Maghreb (AQIM). Two suspected extremists are killed and three others arrested.
• Dallas / United States : At least 14 people were killed in severe storms in the southern states . A series of tornadoes in Texas left four dead. Multiple floods occurred in the state of Missouri after heavy rainfall. Severe storms and deaths occurred in three other states. The governors of Oklahoma and Missouri declared a state of emergency to get aid more quickly.

See also

• Nekrolog April 2017 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

Commons : April 2017  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

 Wikinews: Articles Published April 2017  - News

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Paraguay: Protesters storm parliament. In: ORF.at , April 1, 2017.
2. ↑ At least 250 dead after landslide. (No longer available online.) In: Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk. Archived from the original on April 4, 2017 ; Retrieved April 2, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Thousands demonstrate for the preservation of Soros University. In: Spiegel Online. Retrieved April 3, 2017 . 
4. ↑ ReSomali pirates hijack Indian commercial ship in second attack in weeks. In: cne.gob.ec. Retrieved February 22, 2017 (Spanish). 
5. ^ Elections of the National Assembly, 2017. In: elections.am. Retrieved February 22, 2017 . 
6. ↑ 101st Airborne troops deploy to Somalia for training mission. In: stripes.com. Retrieved April 14, 2017 (English). 
7. ↑ Pakistan Sufi shrine: 20 murdered in Punjab. In: BBC News. Retrieved February 22, 2017 . 
8. ↑ Resultatos Elecciones 2017. (Not available online.) In: cne.gob.ec. Archived from the original on February 22, 2017 ; Retrieved February 22, 2017 (Spanish). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
9. ↑ St. Petersburg Metro blast. In: Russia Today. Retrieved February 22, 2017 . 
10. ↑ The new 50 euro note is coming. In: Deutsche Welle . March 19, 2017. Retrieved March 19, 2017 . 
11. ↑ Many dead after a «poison gas attack». In: NZZ , accessed on April 4, 2017.
12. ↑ IS fighters kill more than 30 people in Tikrit. In: Spiegel Online . Retrieved April 7, 2017 . 
13. ^ Blast in Pakistani city of Lahore kills at least six (en) . In: Reuters . 
14. ↑ Casualties Reported After Strong Quake Hits Northeastern Iran (en) . In: PayVand . 
15. ↑ 19 dead after bus explosion in Somalia . In: Lucerne newspaper . Archived from the original on April 8, 2017 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved April 7, 2017.  
16. ↑ Gambia's longstanding opposition wins parliamentary elections. In: Deutsche Welle . Retrieved April 12, 2017 . 
17. ↑ What did the US missiles hit - and what didn't? In: derbund.ch . April 10, 2017. Retrieved April 12, 2017 . 
18. ↑ Sweden: Truck races in a crowd. In: zeit.de. April 7, 2017. Retrieved April 7, 2017 . 
19. ^ New army chief survives deadly Mogadishu bomb blast. Al Jazeera, April 9, 2017, accessed April 12, 2017 . 
20. ^ Anna Osius: After attacks in Egypt: three months state of emergency. Tagesschau, April 10, 2017, accessed on April 12, 2017 . 
21. ^ Soldiers killed in Somalia training camp suicide attack. Al Jazeera, April 10, 2017, accessed April 12, 2017 . 
22. ↑ Judge Gorsuch sworn in: Trump's husband for the Supreme Court. Tagesschau, April 10, 2017, accessed on April 12, 2017 . 
23. ↑ press release on the DHS Yearbook Addiction 2017. (PDF): dhs.de . April 11, 2017. Retrieved April 12, 2017 . 
24. ↑ PKK is committed to the attack in Diyarbakir. In: euronews.de . April 12, 2017. Retrieved April 12, 2017 . 
25. ↑ Ingo Salmen: Explosions before the Champions League game: the attack on Borussia Dortmund puzzles investigators. In: tagesspiegel.de . Retrieved April 12, 2017 . 
26. ^ Dead in attack in the Afghan capital Kabul. In: Deutsche Welle. Retrieved April 12, 2017 . 
27. ↑ Chip maker pays nearly a billion dollars. In: Handelsblatt. Retrieved April 12, 2017 . 
28. ^ ASG leader behind foreigners' kidnap killed in Bohol. In: rappler.com. Retrieved April 12, 2017 . 
29. ↑ Drop over Afghanistan - USA detonate “mother of all bombs”. n-tv.de, April 13, 2017, accessed on April 13, 2017 . 
30. ↑ 24 dead in Mexico: tanker truck collides with coach. blick.ch , April 13, 2017, accessed on April 14, 2017 . 
31. ↑ T-Mobile US buys frequencies for eight billion dollars. FAZ.net , April 13, 2017, accessed April 13, 2017 . 
32. ↑ Major fire service: Fire in the "Bellagio" in Las Vegas. Tagesschau, April 14, 2017, accessed on April 21, 2017 . 
33. ↑ Damage from Bellagio fire estimated at up to $ 450,000. Las Vegas Sun, April 14, 2017, accessed April 21, 2017 . 
34. ↑ 24 morts, 102 blesses, 13 vehicules calcines, du betail et de l'argent brûles. In: sudonline.sn. April 14, 2017, accessed April 14, 2017 (French). 
35. ↑ Fire Tears Through Senegal Religious Festival, Killing at Least 22. nytimes.com, April 13, 2017, accessed on April 14, 2017 . 
36. ↑ The number of victims rises to at least 126 in Syria . In: Deutsche Welle . April 16, 2017. Retrieved April 16, 2017 . 
37. ↑ Syria: Attack on bus convoy. In: Telepolis . April 16, 2017. Retrieved April 16, 2017 . 
38. ^ New Year nightmare: Garbage dump turns into graveyard. In: The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka). April 16, 2017, accessed April 16, 2017 . 
39. ^ End of a long life: eldest woman died at the age of 117. In: Deutsche Welle . April 15, 2017. Retrieved April 16, 2017 . 
40. ↑ Law No. 6771 of January 21, 2017, Official Gazette No. 29976 of February 11, 2017 ( online , In: Resmî Gazete , Turkish )
41. ↑ 300 Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. April 17, 2017. Retrieved April 17, 2017 . 
42. ↑ Hundreds of imprisoned Palestinians end hunger strike. In: Deutsche Welle. May 27, 2017. Retrieved June 1, 2017 . 
43. ^ Indictment against South Korea's ex-president. (No longer available online.) In: ZDF heute. April 17, 2017, archived from the original on April 22, 2017 ; Retrieved April 17, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
44. ↑ Portugal: The plane did several pirouettes. In: 20min.ch. April 17, 2017. Retrieved April 17, 2017 . 
45. ↑ Child abuse: international pedophile ring smashed. In: Deutsche Welle. April 18, 2017. Retrieved April 18, 2017 . 
46. ↑ La Policía Nacional desmantela la mayor red internacional de distribución de pornografía infantil a través de WhatsApp. In: policia.es. April 18, 2017, Retrieved April 18, 2017 (Spanish). 
47. ↑ Excavations in Egypt: Archaeologists discover a millennia-old grave near Luxor. In: tagesanzeiger.ch. April 18, 2017. Retrieved April 18, 2017 . 
48. ↑ Saudi helicopter crashed in Yemen - twelve dead. In: Small newspaper. April 18, 2017. Retrieved April 18, 2017 . 
49. ↑ Odebrecht: Brazilian conglomerate has to pay billions in fine. In: Zeit Online . April 18, 2017. Retrieved April 18, 2017 . 
50. ↑ Portugal: The plane did several pirouettes. In: Spiegel Online. April 18, 2017. Retrieved April 18, 2017 . 
51. ↑ AfD boss: Petry renounces the top candidacy. Tagesschau, April 19, 2017, accessed on April 21, 2017 . 
52. ↑ London: House of Commons approves new election. (No longer available online.) Today show, April 19, 2017, archived from the original on April 21, 2017 ; accessed on April 21, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
53. ↑ Johanna Mikl-Leitner is the first governor in Lower Austria. vienna.at, April 19, 2017, accessed on April 21, 2017 . 
54. ↑ The court classifies brain tumors from cell phones as an occupational disease. Welt Online, April 21, 2017, accessed April 22, 2017 . 
55. ↑ hinas space freighter successfully docked with space laboratory. diepresse.com, April 22, 2017, accessed April 22, 2017 . 
56. ↑ https://themoscowtimes.com/news/jehovahs-witness-banned-in-russia-as-extremist-organization-57649
57. ↑ Russia: Supreme Court Bans Jehovah's Witnesses. Deutschlandfunk, April 20, 2017, accessed on April 21, 2017.
58. ↑ France: Assassin identified after shooting dead on Champs-Élysées. In: Spiegel Online . April 21, 2017. Retrieved June 9, 2018 . 
59. ^ IS claims attack in Paris for itself. tagesschau.de, April 20, 2017, accessed April 21, 2017 . 
60. Jump up ↑ Anti-terrorism department investigates - Policeman dies in shooting in Paris. n-tv.de, April 21, 2017, accessed on April 21, 2017 . 
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