Portal:Current events/2008 April 6
April 6, 2008 (Sunday)
- Mark Penn resigns as chief strategist for the Hillary Clinton 2008 presidential campaign. This comes in the wake of revelations that he performed lobbying work for the Colombian government, regarding a free trade pact that Senator Clinton opposes. (NPR)
- One man grabs the Olympic torch before police wrestle him to the ground as thousands of anti-China protesters disrupt the Olympic torch relay through London. (The Daily Telegraph) (BBC News)
- Iraq War:
- Gunmen kidnap 42 university students near the Iraqi city of Mosul. They are later released unharmed. (AP via Yahoo! News)
- Twenty people are killed and 50 injured in overnight clashes in Sadr City in Baghdad. (AP via Yahoo! News) (CNN)
- A rocket attack on the Green Zone in Baghdad results in the death of two United States Army soldiers and 17 injuries. (AP via Google News)[permanent dead link]
- President of the United States George W. Bush and President of Russia Vladimir Putin hold their final talks in their current positions. (AP via Google News)
- At least ten people including Government minister Jeyaraj Fernandopulle are killed in an explosion near Colombo, Sri Lanka. (BBC News)
- Vandals desecrate 148 Muslim graves in France's biggest World War I cemetery at Notre Dame de Lorette outside Arras in northern France. (Reuters)