Portal:Current events/2007 April 10
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April 10, 2007 (Tuesday)
- A Somali committee estimates the death toll of recent fighting between Ethiopian and Somali Government forces and insurgents in Mogadishu at more than 1,000. (Reuters Alertnet)
- The United States authorises $59 million worth of aid for the Palestinian Authority. (CNN)
- Sudan claims that an attack from Chad on its territory led to the loss of 17 Sudanese soldiers. Chad denies the allegations but claims that it repulsed an attack from Sudan. (Reuters Alertnet)
- Iraq War: United States military begins construction of a wall around the Sunni district of Baghdad (Guardian)
- Iraq War: United States and Iraqi forces backed by attack helicopters fight gunmen in Baghdad in the heaviest fighting since the launch of a security crackdown in February 2007. (Reuters via ABC News Australia)
- Seven French doctors will face charges related to the deaths of 110 patients who developed Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease after taking growth hormones in the 1980s. (AFP via News Limited)
- India's largest private airline, Jet Airways, has restarted talks to purchase Air Sahara. (Forbes)
- Serbia's war crimes court has jailed four Serb paramilitaries who were filmed as they shot dead six captured young Bosnian Muslims.(BBC)
- Ethiopia acknowledges that it has detained 41 suspected international terrorists from 17 countries and claims that foreign investigators were given permission to interrogate them. (AP via International Herald Tribune)
- Two suspected militants die in a security operation in Casablanca, Morocco. (BBC)
- At least 17 people die in Sri Lanka as a bus collides with a truck 80 km south of Colombo. (BBC)
- The government of Japan extends economic sanctions against the North Korean government by an additional six months, citing a lack of progress in resolving kidnapping cases of Japanese citizens. (Bloomberg)
- Australian Prime Minister John Howard announces that 300 soldiers from the Australian Special Air Service Regiment will be sent to Orūzgān Province, Afghanistan to combat the Taliban. (ABC News Australia)
- Johnny Cash's Nashville Home destroyed by a fire. (SFGate.com)