Portal:Current events/2007 April 22
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April 22, 2007 (Sunday)
- Turkey Christians tortured and murdered and Turkey's government, led by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a former Islamist, has expresses concern over the spread of Christian activity in Turkey, VOA reported [1].
- Israeli troops have shot dead three Palestinians in raids in the West Bank, the army and local residents say.(BBC)
- According to exit polls, Nicolas Sarkozy and Ségolène Royal will meet in the second round of the French presidential election on May 6. François Bayrou and Jean-Marie Le Pen are believed to have received the third and fourth most votes respectively. (BBC)
- War in Iraq: Gunmen kill 21 members of northern Iraq's Yezidi community after dragging them from a bus. (CNN)
- War in Somalia (2006–2009):
- More than 60 people are killed in the fourth day of heavy fighting between Ethiopian troops and Islamist militia in Mogadishu. (BBC)
- Eritrea pulls out of the east African Inter-Governmental Authority on Development after a disagreement with Ethiopia over Somalia. (Aljazeera)
- Avraham Hirschson, the Finance Minister of Israel, stands down for three months while the Israeli police investigate a claim that he failed to report an embezzlement case when he was working for a trade union. (AP via IHT)
- South Korea agrees to resume food aid to North Korea, sending 400,000 tons of food north. (BBC)
- In Zimbabwe investigating officer Wellington Ngena accuses the Government of South Africa's Scorpions intelligence department of training members of the Movement for Democratic Change in combat to overthrow the Government of Zimbabwe. (allAfrica)