Portal:Current events/2008 April 3
April 3, 2008 (Thursday)
- An Antonov An-28 operated by Blue Wing Airlines crashes upon landing in Benzdorp, Suriname. All nineteen on board are presumed dead. (BBC News)
- Zimbabwean presidential election, 2008:
- Police in riot gear surround a hotel in Harare housing foreign journalists. New York Times correspondent Barry Bearak, Daily Telegraph correspondent Stephen Bevan, and two others are arrested. (The Christian Science Monitor)
- MDC Secretary-General Tendai Biti reports that police have begun raiding opposition party offices in an apparent "crackdown". (AP via MSNBC)
- Bagatur is named the acting Chairman of Inner Mongolia, succeeding Yang Jing, who is the new minister in charge of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission.(Xinhua)
- Jules Verne, the first European Automated Transfer Vehicle, successfully performs a fully automated docking with the International Space Station. (ESA)
- In a procedural decision, the European Court of Justice overturns the addition of the Kurdish rebel organization PKK to the EU's terrorist blacklist. (BBC News)
- Serbian Minister on Kosovo Slobodan Samardžić submits to UNMIK a plan suggesting Kosovo's division into cantons along ethnic lines. (Tanjug via Portalino)
- Greek and Turkish Cypriots open a crossing at Ledra Street, a main shopping street in Cyprus' divided capital Nicosia that has come to symbolize the island's ethnic partition. (AP via The International Herald Tribune)
- The Iraqi military says a suicide bomber has attacked a checkpoint near Mosul, killing 7 people and wounding 12. (AP via Google News)[permanent dead link]
- At its summit in Bucharest, NATO invites Albania and Croatia to join the alliance. (Washington Post)