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This article covers breaking news and events in April 2019.

Daily events

Monday 1st April 2019

• Hanover / Germany : Opening of the Hanover Fair with this year's partner country Sweden .
• Kiev / Ukraine : The friendship treaty between Russia and Ukraine, which has existed since 1999, with the obligation of both sides to preserve territorial integrity and the existing borders , is expiring and will not be renewed by Ukraine due to the Crimean crisis and the conflict in eastern Ukraine .

Tuesday 2nd April 2019

• Algiers / Algeria : President Abd al-Aziz Bouteflika gives up his office. The trigger for this are the weeks-long protests in Algeria against his renewed candidacy in the upcoming presidential elections . Abdelkader Bensalah will initially take over the office as interim president.
• Frankfurt am Main / Germany: Reinhard Grindel resigns from his position as President of the German Football Association due to allegations of corruption .
• Mountain View / United States : The social network Google+, founded in 2011 by the US Internet company Google LLC, is ceasing to operate.
• Ottawa / Canada : In connection with a bribery affair involving the construction company SNC Lavalin , the former ministers Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott are expelled from the ruling Liberal Party .
• Stockholm / Sweden : The Belgian writer Bart Moeyaert is awarded the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Prize , the world's most valuable award for children's and youth literature .

Wednesday 3rd April 2019

• Bandar Seri Begawan / Brunei : Due to a new legal reform in Brunei, which comes into force from today, it is now possible for homosexuality to be punished with death . The Southeast Asian country is thus aligning its laws closer to Sharia law . This project has met with international criticism.
• Brussels / Belgium : The European Union is initiating further infringement proceedings due to the judicial reform in Poland , as the European Commission considers the independent judiciary to be at risk. Another case against Poland has been running since 2016 .
• Istanbul / Turkey : A few days after the local elections in Turkey , the ballot papers in the constituencies of Istanbul are counted and checked again. The objection due to forgeries and irregularities in the voting slips of the ruling AKP was granted.
• Boca Chica (Texas) / United States : First engine ignition of the Starhopper , the first test rocket for the new large rocket Starship and Super Heavy .

Thursday April 4, 2019

• Menlo Park / United States : Another data leak becomes known on Facebook . According to information, a total of 540 million user data was stored on publicly accessible cloud servers.
• Washington, DC / United States : NATO foreign ministers meet on the 70th anniversary of the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty

Friday 5th April 2019

• Bonn / Germany : The Federal Office of Justice is preparing for the first time a lawsuit against a previously unknown social network . The reason for this is the failure to take measures against hate comments and fake news on the said network. This violates the Network Enforcement Act , which actually obliges networks to remove reported content within 24 hours.
• Marl / Germany : The 55th Grimme Prize is awarded in the theater of the city of Marl .
• Munich / Germany : The chairman of the AfD parliamentary group in the Bavarian state parliament , Markus Plenk , resigns from his office and leaves the party.
• Seoul / South Korea : Due to forest fires in the northeastern province of Gangwon , the government has declared a national emergency. So far, one person has died in the fires and several others have been injured. Around 500 hectares of forest are on fire.
• Washington, DC / United States : The United States is withdrawing the entry visa from the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Fatou Bensouda . The reason for this is the investigation by the chief prosecutor against American soldiers and secret service employees who are said to have committed war crimes in the war in Afghanistan .

Saturday 6th April 2019

• Ahvaz / Iran : Due to persistent rainfall and the resulting increased risk of flooding, authorities in the Iranian province of Khuzistan are ordering the evacuation of several cities . There has been heavy persistent rainfall in this region for weeks . As a result, 70 people have died since the start of the disaster .
• Malé / Maldives : General election in the Maldives
• Washington, DC / United States : The Democrats in the US House of Representatives are now taking legal action against the national emergency of US President Donald Trump . They are suing a court in Washington, DC because they see the state of emergency as unconstitutional because the president wants to bypass Congress in funding the border wall with Mexico .

Sunday 7th April 2019

• Andorra la Vella / Andorra : Elections for Consell General de les Valls .
• Bellinzona / Switzerland : Election to the Ticino Cantonal Council .
• Rome / Italy : According to an estimate by the United Nations World Food Program, the grain harvest in the agricultural year 2018/19 will not be sufficient to meet the global grain demand. The reason for this is the drought in summer 2018 , which has a negative impact on the harvest.

Monday April 8, 2019

• Bucharest / Romania : The Prosecutor General of Romania is bringing charges against former President Ion Iliescu and two other ex-politicians. The trigger for this is the clarification of the question of who is responsible for the deaths of several hundred civilians after Nicolae Ceaușescu fled .
• Washington, DC / United States : US President Donald Trump announces that the elite unit of the Islamic Republic of Iran , the Revolutionary Guards , will be classified as a terrorist organization. This is the first time that the United States has classified a military unit from another state as a terrorist organization. This measure is intended to prevent financial aid for the Revolutionary Guards.

Tuesday April 9, 2019

• Brussels / Belgium : 21st EU - China summit.
• Jerusalem / Israel : early parliamentary elections
• Washington, DC / United States : David Malpass begins his five-year term as President of the World Bank .

Wednesday April 10, 2019

• New York City / United States : According to a report by the United Nations Population Fund , 214 million women currently have no access to modern contraceptives . This corresponds to about every fourth woman of childbearing age. Women in poorer countries in particular do not have access to these funds.
• Rio de Janeiro / Brazil : At least 10 people die in the Brazilian city ​​in floods and landslides due to heavy rainfall . The city then declared a state of emergency.
• Worldwide : Scientists are presenting a picture of a black hole for the first time at a total of 6 locations . The image was taken using radio telescopes in Arizona , Chile , Mexico , Spain , the South Pole and Hawaii and shows the supermassive black hole, which is located in the center of the galaxy M87 .

Thursday April 11, 2019

• Amsterdam / Netherlands : The Dutch Foundation World Press Photo publishes the press photo of the year 2019. The photo taken by the American photographer John Moore shows a crying toddler whose mother is currently being checked by US border guards. The photo was taken in connection with a migration train from Central America to the Mexican-American border in which many children were separated from their parents at the border.
• Mare Serenitatis / Moon : The landing of the Israeli lunar probe Beresheet fails.
• Khartoum / Sudan : President Umar al-Bashir is deposed from the country's military .
• London / United Kingdom : Internet activist and former WikiLeaks spokesman Julian Assange is arrested at the Ecuadorian embassy.
• New Delhi / India : First day of parliamentary elections (until May 19) and election of the parliaments of the states of Andhra Pradesh , Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim .
• San Antonio / United States : Basketball player Dirk Nowitzki ended his career as an active athlete with an away game of his Dallas Mavericks at the San Antonio Spurs .

Friday April 12, 2019

• Cottbus / Germany : Flooding of the Cottbus-Nord opencast mine begins in the Lusatian lignite mining district . The resulting Cottbus Baltic Sea will be the largest artificially created lake in Germany after completion.
• Kennedy Space Center / United States : The world's most powerful launch vehicle, Falcon Heavy, launches the Arabsat 6A satellite , making its first commercial flight.

Saturday 13th April 2019

• Batumi / Georgia : Last day of the European Weightlifting Championships
• Mojave Desert / United States : With its maiden flight, the Scaled Composites Stratolaunch surpasses the 72-year record of the Hughes H-4 as the aircraft with the largest wingspan ever flown.
• Ramallah / Palestine : The new government under Prime Minister Mohammed Shtajjeh takes office.
• Vienna / Austria : The 30th award of the Austrian TV and Film Prize Romy takes place in the Hofburg .

Sunday April 14, 2019

• Espoo / Finland : Final game of the women's ice hockey world championship
• Helsinki / Finland : general election

Monday April 15, 2019

• Brussels / Belgium : The controversial copyright reform of the European Union has now been finally decided by the Council of the European Union . The reform triggered a lot of protest on the Internet , as so-called upload filters are inevitable due to the reform text, although they often work incorrectly. The EU member states now have two years to convert the reform into national law.
• Geneva / Switzerland : According to a report by the World Health Organization , the number of measles cases has so far increased by 300% compared to the previous year. While 28,000 cases were reported from January to March 2018 , there were 112,000 cases in January, February and March 2019, with the number of unreported cases being higher according to the report. The organization sees the reasons for this increase in the increasing number of people who oppose vaccination and the inaccessibility of vaccines in poorer countries .
• Paris / France : A fire causes major damage to the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral .
• Tripoli / Libya : Fighters from General Khalifa Haftar , who ruled in the east of the country, are advancing into the southern districts of the capital Tripoli. At least two civilians are killed in artillery fire. Haftar launched an offensive on the capital earlier this month, but the push has gotten stuck on the capital's outskirts.

Tuesday April 16, 2019

• Bukavu / Democratic Republic of the Congo : A ship with up to 200 passengers capsizes on Lake Kiwu . Several dozen people are found dead, around 100 are still missing.

Wednesday 17th April 2019

• Athens / Greece : The Greek parliament passes a bill with a large majority calling on the Greek government to initiate all possible diplomatic and legal channels to demand reparation payments from Germany for the damage suffered by the German occupation during the Greek campaign . From the perspective of the German government , all of Greece's reparation claims have expired as a result of the Two Plus Four Treaty . It says that no further reparations are planned.
• Caniço / Portugal : At least 29 people die in a bus accident on the island of Madeira , all of them German tourists.
• Heilbronn / Germany : Opening of the Federal Horticultural Show 2019 .
• Jakarta / Indonesia : presidential and parliamentary elections.
• Tallinn / Estonia : Six and a half weeks after the election , the Estonian parliament confirms the previous Prime Minister, Jüri Ratas, in office. He is now head of a coalition government of his center party with the conservative Isamaa and the right-wing populist EKRE .

Thursday April 18, 2019

• Derry / United Kingdom : The journalist Lyra McKee is shot dead in the context of militant clashes with the police in Northern Ireland .
• Mumbai / India : The largest private Indian airline Jet Airways is temporarily ceasing its flight operations due to insolvency . The airline plans to resume flight operations in May 2019.
• Paris / France : The organization Reporters Without Borders publishes its annual ranking of press freedom and criticizes the fact that in Europe too the climate towards journalists has worsened. Germany is in 13th place and has improved by 2 places compared to the previous year, even if Reporters Without Borders noted increasing violence against reporters in Germany. The Switzerland lost three, Austria equal to ten seats. No. 1 on the rankings is Norway , in last place Turkmenistan .

Friday 19th April 2019

• Minatitlán / Mexico : When a children's party is attacked, gunmen cause a bloodbath: 13 people are shot, including a small child. Almost all victims come from one family.

Saturday 20th April 2019

• Cairo / Egypt : The Egyptians vote with an overwhelming majority in a referendum for an extension of the term of office and an extension of the powers of President Abd al-Fattah as-Sisi .
• Cape Canaveral / United States : SpaceX's first Crew Dragon spaceship explodes during an engine test.

Sunday April 21, 2019

• Budapest / Hungary : Opening of the 64th World Table Tennis Championships .
• Colombo / Sri Lanka : At least 253 people were killed and 485 others were injured in a series of six bomb attacks .
• Kiev / Ukraine : Volodymyr Selenskyj wins the runoff election of the presidential election against incumbent Petro Poroshenko .
• Skopje / North Macedonia : presidential election.

Monday April 22, 2019

• Bamako / Mali : The previous finance minister Boubou Cissé is appointed prime minister. He succeeds Soumeylou Boubèye Maïga , who resigned with his entire cabinet on April 18.

Tuesday April 23, 2019

• Alcalá de Henares / Spain : The Uruguayan poet Ida Vitale is awarded the Cervantes Prize on the premises of the university .

Wednesday April 24, 2019

• Edinburgh / United Kingdom : Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon calls for another independence referendum . This should take place before the parliamentary elections in 2021 . In order for the referendum to be held, the British government in London must approve it, which has so far been considered unlikely.
• Moscow / Russia : Russian President Vladimir Putin signs a decree which gives citizens of the occupied territories of eastern Ukraine easier access to Russian passports. This decree is a violation of the Minsk Agreement of 2015 , which came about through the mediation of France and Germany.

Thursday April 25, 2019

• Vienna / Austria : In the popular theater that finds Amadeus Awards 2019 held. The First General insecurity is awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award, Album of the Year will Klee by Ina Rain , Song of the Year Cordula Green of Josh.
• Vladivostok / Russia : At the first joint summit between North Korean President Kim Jong-un and Russia's President Vladimir Putin , both sides emphasized their will to improve cooperation.

Friday April 26, 2019

• Berlin / Germany : Beginning of the FDP federal party conference in the STATION-Berlin exhibition center .

Saturday April 27, 2019

• San Diego / United States : When a right-wing extremist attacked the synagogue of the orthodox Chabad movement on the Passover festival in Poway, California , one person was killed and several injured.

Sunday April 28, 2019

• Cotonou / Benin : Election to the National Assembly
• Jakarta / Indonesia : After the election in Indonesia , 272 election workers died as a result of the efforts and efforts of the election . Another 2000 are sick. A total of 200 million citizens elected their president , parliament and regional representatives.
• Madrid / Spain : general election

Monday April 29, 2019

• London / United Kingdom : At the International Opera Awards 2019 in Sadler's Wells Theater, Charles Castronovo will be honored as best singer and Asmik Grigorian as best singer, Leontyne Price will be awarded the Lifetime Achievement Prize , and the Vlaamse Opera will be the best opera house .
• Nyon / Switzerland : UEFA Youth League final in the Center sportif de Colovray .

Tuesday April 30, 2019

• Tokyo / Japan : abdication of the Japanese emperor Akihito and with it the end of the Heisei era .
• Banjul / Gambia : With the ratification of the African free trade agreement by Gambia , 22 countries have deposited their instruments of ratification with the African Union (AU) and thus reached the threshold for the agreement to come into force, which will now take place on May 30, 2019. The largest free trade zone in the world in terms of area will open from June 7, 2019.

See also

• Nekrolog April 2019 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 2019  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

 Wikinews: Articles Published April 2019  - News

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bouteflika submits immediate resignation. In: tagesschau.de. April 3, 2019, accessed April 24, 2019 . 
2. ^ After allegations of corruption: DFB President Reinhard Grindel resigns . In: Spiegel Online . April 2, 2019 ( spiegel.de [accessed April 2, 2019]).
3. ^ SNC-Lavalin affair: Trudeau expels 'whistleblower' MPs. BBC, April 3, 2019, accessed the same day. (English)
4. ↑ Sharia criminal law comes into force. In: tagesschau.de. April 3, 2019, accessed April 24, 2019 . 
5. ↑ EU takes action against Poland again. In: tagesschau.de. April 3, 2019, accessed April 24, 2019 . 
6. ^ Votes in Istanbul are counted anew. In: tagesschau.de. April 3, 2019, accessed April 24, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Chris Gebhardt: Starhopper conducts Raptor Static Fire test. In: Nasaspaceflight.com. April 3, 2019, accessed June 21, 2019 . 
8. ↑ Another massive data breach on Facebook. April 4, 2017, Retrieved April 25, 2019 . 
9. ↑ Justice Department sues against social network. April 5, 2019, accessed April 24, 2019 . 
10. ^ Spiegel Online: Grimme Prize 2019: "Bad Banks", "Boot" and Jan Böhmermann nominated . Article dated January 17, 2019, accessed January 17, 2019.
11. ↑ South Korea declares a national emergency. April 5, 2019, accessed April 24, 2019 . 
12. ↑ USA revoke chief prosecutor's visa. In: tagesschau.de. April 5, 2019, accessed April 24, 2019 . 
13. ^ Iran orders the evacuation of six cities. In: spiegel.de. April 6, 2019, accessed April 25, 2019 . 
14. ↑ Democrats complain against building the wall. In: tagesschau.de. April 6, 2019, accessed April 25, 2019 . 
15. ↑ Grain harvest does not cover consumption. In: tagesschau.de. April 7, 2019, accessed April 25, 2019 . 
16. ↑ The revolution of 1989 comes to court. In: tagesschau.de. April 8, 2019, accessed April 25, 2019 . 
17. ↑ USA classify Iranian Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organization. In: spiegel.de. April 8, 2019, accessed April 25, 2019 . 
18. ↑ 214 million women lack contraception. In: tagesschau.de. April 10, 2019, accessed April 25, 2019 . 
19. ↑ Dead in floods in Rio. In: tagesschau.de. April 10, 2019, accessed April 25, 2019 . 
20. ↑ First picture of Black Hole published. In: tagesschau.de. April 10, 2019, accessed April 25, 2019 . 
21. ↑ Crying girl at the US border is press photo of the year. April 11, 2019, accessed April 25, 2019 . 
22. ↑ Kurier: The KURIER ROMY is celebrating its 30th anniversary opulently . Article dated February 25, 2019, accessed February 25, 2019.
23. ^ Controversial copyright reform finally decided. In: spiegel.de. April 15, 2019, accessed April 26, 2019 . 
24. ↑ The number of measles cases increased by 300 percent worldwide. In: spiegel.de. April 15, 2019, accessed April 26, 2019 . 
25. ^ Fire in Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. In: orf.at. April 5, 2019, accessed April 15, 2019 . 
26. ↑ Heavy shelling in Tripoli. In: tagesschau.de. April 17, 2019, accessed April 25, 2019 . 
27. ↑ https://www.trtworld.com/africa/death-toll-from-drc-boat-accident-rises-to-40-26035
28. ↑ Greece wants to demand reparations. In: tagesschau.de. April 17, 2019, accessed April 26, 2019 . 
29. ↑ Jet Airways ceases operations. In: aerotelegraph.com. April 17, 2019, accessed April 26, 2019 . 
30. ↑ Less freedom of the press in Europe. In: tagesschau.de. April 18, 2019, accessed April 27, 2019 . 
31. ↑ 13 dead in attack on children's party in Mexico. In: rtl.de. April 17, 2019, accessed April 25, 2019 . 
32. ↑ Al-Sisi gets even more power. In: tagesschau.de. April 23, 2019, accessed April 25, 2019 . 
33. ↑ Dragon spaceship explodes during test. In: Golem.de . April 1, 2019, accessed June 22, 2019 . 
34. ↑ Bild.de: That is why the authorities were wrong about the death toll
35. ↑ tagesschau.de: Sri Lanka: Number of dead rises to 359. Accessed on April 24, 2019 . 
36. ↑ Volodymyr Selenskyj wins presidential election. In: zeit.de. April 22, 2019, accessed April 25, 2019 . 
37. ↑ The Cervantes Prize goes to a woman for the fifth time. ORF, April 23, 2019, accessed on the same day
38. ↑ Scottish head of government calls for new independence referendum. In: spiegel.de. April 24, 2019, accessed April 24, 2019 . 
39. ^ Russian passports for citizens of Eastern Ukraine. In: dw.com. April 24, 2019, accessed April 25, 2019 . 
40. ↑ orf.at: Who should win the FM4 Award at Amadeus 2019? . Article dated February 8, 2019, accessed February 8, 2019.
41. ↑ derStandard.at: Two "Amadeus" awards for the EAV . Article dated April 26, 2019, accessed April 26, 2019.
42. ↑ Vladimir Putin wants to mediate in the dispute between North Korea and the USA. In: zeit.de. April 25, 2019. Retrieved April 25, 2019 . 
43. ↑ Shots in the synagogue - at least one dead. In: spiegel.de. April 27, 2019, accessed May 1, 2019 . 
44. ↑ "We fled from the fire and ended up in the fire". In: spiegel.de. April 28, 2019, accessed May 1, 2019 . 
45. ↑ Hundreds of election workers die of overwork. In: tagesschau.de. April 28, 2019, accessed May 1, 2019 . 
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48. ↑ Landry Signé and Colette van der Ven: Keys to success for the AfCFTA negotiations. In: Brookings. May 30, 2019, Retrieved May 31, 2019 (American English).