Portal:Current events/2010 April 28
April 28, 2010 (Wednesday)
- Niger faces total crop failure worse than that of 2005, according to United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes. (BBC) (Reuters)
- A Thai soldier dies in a flareup of tensions in the ongoing conflict between pro- and anti-government factions in Thailand. (Wall Street Journal)
- The United States Coast Guard plans a controlled burn to remove spilled oil in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon disaster. (MarketWatch)
- Russia posts once classified documents relating to the Katyn massacre online. (The Guardian)
- President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has applied for a visa to visit the United States next week for the Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference, and State Department spokesman Philip Crowley has said they will likely be approved, although "a face-to-face meeting between a US diplomat and an Iranian diplomat is highly unlikely" (BBC) (AFP) (AP) (The Star)
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict:
- Israeli soldiers open fire on protesters who approached the Israeli border from Gaza, killing a 20-year-old Palestinian man. The Israeli military says the demonstrators were throwing stones at soldiers and setting fires. (Haaretz) (New York Times) (Al Jazeera) (Press TV)
- Four Palestinians die in a tunnel beneath the Egyptian border with the Gaza Strip, possibly after the tunnel was filled with gas or blown up. (BBC) (Ynetnews)
- A report blames pilot error for the 2007 crash of Kenya Airways Flight 507 in Cameroon. (BBC) (CBC) (Reuters Africa)
- United States Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar approves Cape Wind, the nation's first off-shore wind farm. (BBC News)
- Team China is stripped of a 2000 Olympics bronze medal in women's gymnastics after it is revealed that one member of the team was underage. (NY Times)
- UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown is described as "mortified" after an open-mic incident during general election campaigning recorded him describing a Rochdale voter as a "bigoted woman". (BBC News)