Portal:Current events/2009 April 13
April 13, 2009 (Monday)
- A fire destroys a homeless hostel and kills at least 22 people in Kamień Pomorski, Poland. (BBC)
- The Taliban's Students' Movement imposes sharia law in Swat, Pakistan. (Reuters)
- Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva says that anti-government protests in Bangkok are "under control". (BBC)
- Mass media in Fiji protest against government censorship. (Al Jazeera)
- China's government publishes a National Human Rights Action Plan. (Xinhua)
- An unmanned Palestinian fishing vessel explodes near an Israeli Navy patrol in the Gaza Strip. (Reuters)
- United States Representative Donald M. Payne comes under mortar fire at Aden Adde International Airport in Somalia. (Telegraph)
- Protests against Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili continue in Tbilisi. (RIA Novosti) (AFP)
- At least four Lebanese Ground Forces soldiers are killed near Baalbek in the Beqaa Valley. (Los Angeles Times)
- The U.S. federal government will rescind travel and gift restrictions to Cuba. (Miami Herald)
- The United Nations Security Council condemns North Korea's launch of Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2. (Sky News)