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This article covers daily news and events in April 2021 . An overview of articles on thematic "long-running hits" and on longer-lasting events can be found on the page on current events .

Daily events

Thursday April 1, 2021

Friday April 2, 2021

  • Berlin / Germany : The STIKO recommends that people under the age of 60 who have already been vaccinated against the coronavirus with the AstraZeneca vaccine should be vaccinated with an mRNA vaccine for the second vaccination .
  • Kidal / Mali : Four Chadian UN soldiers are killed in an attack by jihadists on a MINUSMA base in Adjelhoc near the border with Algeria .
  • Seattle / United States : Amazon reiterates allegations that their drivers have to urinate in bottles and admits that this could happen because of a lack of time and toilets. Amazon had previously denied the allegations.
  • Vatican City : Pope Francis starts a second Easter during the COVID-19 pandemic with Good Friday Mass . Around 200 participants are present at the mass in St.
  • Washington, DC / United States : In front of the US Capitol, a man runs over two police officers in a car and then rams a police cordon. One of the policemen is killed, the other is injured. After the driver armed with a knife got out of the car and did not listen to warnings, he was shot by a police officer. The US Capitol will be cordoned off after the incident.
  • Xiulin / Taiwan : An express train that collided with an inadequately secured construction site vehicle derailed when entering a tunnel . According to initial information, 50 people die and 118 are injured.

Saturday 3rd April 2021

  • Amman / Jordan : After an alleged plot against King Abdullah II , 20 people are arrested and his half-brother Prince Hamzah is placed under house arrest.
  • Cairo / Egypt : In a solemn procession, accompanied by costumed performers, 22 mummies of former pharaohs are transported through Cairo to the newly inaugurated National Museum of Egyptian Civilization (NMEC).
  • Mogadishu / Somalia : Ten people are killed in a suicide attack caused by a car bomb in the Somali capital. At least nine soldiers are killed and eleven injured in several terrorist attacks involving car bomb explosions and mortar shelling by Islamists of the Shabaab militia on various Somali armed forces bases in the Shabeellaha Hoose region in southern Somalia . 76 terrorists are killed in the attacks.

Sunday 4th April 2021

Vjosa Osmani (2021)

Monday April 5, 2021

Nguyễn Xuân Phúc (2019)

Tuesday April 6, 2021

Wednesday April 7th 2021

  • Belfast / United Kingdom : During clashes between violent youths and police forces, rioters set a bus on fire and attack a journalist.
  • Kiev / Ukraine : In Ukraine, certain cannabis products are legalized for medical use.
  • Salamiyya / Syria : Dozens of people are captured in an attack by Islamic State terrorists on the police station in the city of al-Saan in the Salamiyya district in central Syria, including eight soldiers. One person is killed in the attack. This attack represents the most violent attack by the Islamic State in Syria in the past three years.
  • Zurich / Switzerland : The World Football Association is suspending the participation of Chadian football teams in international tournaments due to government interference .

Thursday April 8, 2021

Friday April 9, 2021

Saturday April 10th 2021

  • Baidoa / Somalia : Four people are killed, including three Wardheres' bodyguards, and six others are injured in the attack by a suicide bomber on a café in which the governor of the southern Somali region of Bay , Ali Wardhere, was a guest. Wardhere escapes unharmed. Another attack in Mogadishu kills a soldier.
  • Malang / Indonesia : At least seven people are killed in a magnitude 6.0 earthquake in the province of East Java . Some buildings are destroyed.

Sunday April 11, 2021

Guillermo Lasso
  • Bishkek / Kyrgyzstan : A constitutional referendum is passed in Kyrgyzstan, which has made it possible to downsize parliament, expand power and give the president a further term.
  • Changji / China : Through a flooding in 1200 meters depth 21 miners in a mine in Hutubi in the district of Changji in Xinjiang trapped in northwest China.
  • Lima / Peru : presidential elections
  • Natanz / Iran : After problems in the power grid of the Natanz nuclear facility , Iran accuses unspecified perpetrators of nuclear terrorism to be responsible for the incident.
  • N'Djamena / Chad : presidential elections
  • Porto Novo / Benin : presidential elections
  • Quito / Ecuador : The center-right candidate Guillermo Lasso wins the runoff election for the office of president against the socialist Andrés Arauz.

Monday April 12, 2021

  • Paris / France : The MPs pass a law according to which domestic flights are only to be made possible on routes whose comparable travel time by rail takes longer than 2.5 hours.

Tuesday April 13th 2021

  • Berlin / Germany : The Chaos Computer Club is calling for no more tax money to be spent on the Luca app , justifying this, among other things, with the app's security problems and the government's questionable awarding practice when purchasing app licenses.
  • Farah / Afghanistan : At least three civilians are killed in the explosion of a vehicle loaded with explosives near a police station by a suicide bomber in Farah, western Afghanistan. Several terrorist attacks in northern Afghanistan kill at least 10 Afghan soldiers.
  • Niamey / Niger : 20 preschool children between the ages of 3 and 8 are killed in a fire in a school on the outskirts of the Nigerien capital Niamey.
  • Ouagadougou / Burkina Faso : Former Burkinabe President Blaise Compaoré is being tried in absentia for involvement in the murder of his predecessor Thomas Sankara .
  • Tokyo / Japan : Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announces that he intends to discharge over a million tonnes of treated, but still tritium- contaminated cooling water from the damaged Fukushima nuclear reactor diluted into the sea over a long period of time. Environmentalists, fishermen and farmers are protesting against this decision.

Wednesday April 14, 2021

Thursday April 15, 2021

  • Karlsruhe / Germany: The Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe has declared the Berlin rent cap to be unconstitutional; Legislative power in this regard lies exclusively with the federal government, due to the rental price limit that was decided there - as early as 2015 .
  • Paris / France : The members of the National Assembly unanimously decide to introduce an age of consent of 15 years for sexual intercourse with minors in the case of many absent MPs.
  • Sadr City / Iraq : In the explosion of a vehicle laden with explosives parked near a market in a Shiite stronghold near the Iraqi capital, four people are killed and 17 others are injured.
  • Wellington / New Zealand : New Zealand's Minister of Health, Ayesha Verall, announces plans that the statutory minimum age for purchasing tobacco products will increase annually so that those born in 2004 and later will no longer be allowed to legally purchase tobacco products. In addition, the possibility of purchasing tobacco products is to be severely restricted.

Friday April 16, 2021

Saturday 17th April 2021

  • Prague / Czech Republic : Prime Minister Andrej Babis announces that 18 Russian diplomats will be expelled from the country on charges of espionage. The background is evidence that Russian military agents were involved in a large explosion in the Vrbětice ammunition depot in 2014.

Sunday April 18, 2021

  • Banha / Egypt : When a train derails near Toukh in al-Qalyubiyya Governorate , 11 people are killed and 98 injured.
  • N'Djamena / Chad : After the advance of the rebel organization Front for Change and Concord in Chad (FACT) north of the Chadian capital, parts of the US embassy are evacuated. Meanwhile, incumbent Idriss Déby is in the lead.
  • Praia / Cape Verde : parliamentary elections
  • Tillabéri / Niger : At least 19 civilians are killed in an attack by dozen armed men in the village of Gaigorou in the Tillabéri region in western Niger .

Monday, April 19, 2021

Miguel Díaz-Canel (2015)

Tuesday, April 20, 2021

Wednesday April 21, 2021

Thursday April 22, 2021

Friday 23 April 2021

Saturday April 24th 2021

Sunday April 25, 2021

Chloé Zhao (2015)

Monday, April 26, 2021

Thursday April 29, 2021

See also

Web links

Commons : April 2021  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  51. Conservative banker Lasso wins presidential election. In: Spiegel online. April 12, 2021, accessed April 19, 2021 .
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  58. Japan wants to discharge one million tons of contaminated Fukushima water into the sea. In: Spiegel online. April 13, 2021, accessed April 19, 2021 .
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  106. Census Bureau announces 331 million people in US, Texas will add two congressional seats
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