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April 2011 was the fourth month of that common year. The month, which began on a Friday, ended on a Saturday after 30 days.

This is an archived version of Wikipedia's Current events Portal from April 2011.

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  • Police investigating the murder of Sian O'Callaghan have identified human remains found at a second site as those of Swindon woman Becky Godden-Edwards, who had been missing for eight years. (BBC)

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  • Almost all of 169 Chinese Christians detained on Sunday, after they tried to hold an outdoor prayer session, are released; the unofficial Chinese church vows to hold more services. (MSN Malaysia News) (BBC)

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    • Geoffrey Matai of Kenya sets a new record for the fastest time to run the Boston Marathon, completing its 26-mile course with a time of 2:03:02. (New York Times)
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A powerful EF4 tornado strikes St. Louis, Missouri, injuring 5 and causing $250 million in damage.

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Constellation Energy Group in a stock swap valued at $7.9 billion. (Reuters)

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  • Air India pilots continue a strike for a third successive day with 120 flights cancelled. (Hindustan Times)
  • Unemployment figures in Spain increase to a 14-year high; nearly 5,000,000 people are unemployed. (BBC)
  • Demand for Samsung Electronics products plummets again, with the company only managing net profits of $2.6 billion for the first three months of 2011. (BBC)

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  • The French Football Federation (FFF) announces an internal inquiry over allegations of a secret racial quota targeting blacks and Arabs and supported by its own officials. (BBC News)
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  • Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning, imprisoned by the United States on charges of disclosing government information to the general public, is found competent to stand trial by a "panel of experts", despite having earlier been thought of as a "suicide risk" and having his clothes removed. (The Hindu)
  • 6 major U.S. tobacco companies, accused of delivering an "unreasonably dangerous" product, defeat a lawsuit taken by 37 hospitals in the U.S. state of Missouri. The hospitals were looking for financial assistance with the treatment of illnesses caused by smoking. (BBC) (Bloomberg / The Irish Times)

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  • Ministers in Uganda disagree over the arrest of opposition leader Kizza Besigye. (Daily Nation)
  • Current U.S. officials and former president Jimmy Carter disagree over allegations that the U.S. is deliberately keeping food aid from North Korea despite severe food shortages among people there. (BBC)

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  1. ^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_St._Louis_tornado
  2. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-03-14. Retrieved 2011-04-25.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)