Portal:Current events/2015 April 5
April 5, 2015 (Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Garissa University College attack
- Kenyan Air Force planes bomb two al Shabaab bases in response to last week's attack on Garissa University College. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
International relations
- Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven says that neither he nor any other of his cabinet-level ministers will be attending the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II in Moscow due to Russia's actions in Ukraine. Sweden joins a large group of European countries unofficially boycotting the May 9th Victory Day parade. (The Local)
Law and crime
- Dozens of Chinese taxi drivers attempt a mass suicide in Beijing to protest the way taxi companies renewed their vehicle leases. (The New York Times) (The Telegraph)
- Rolling Stone magazine retracts "A Rape on Campus", a discredited story claiming an alleged gang rape at the University of Virginia. (The Independent)
Science and technology
- Giant pandas Xi Mei and Lu Lu break the record for the longest mating session ever recorded at the Sichuan Giant Panda Research Center, lasting 18 minutes and three seconds. (The Telegraph) (The Straits Times)
- The Large Hadron Collider at CERN centre in Geneva, Switzerland has been restarted after a two-year conversion. (The Guardian)