Portal:Current events/2007 April 28
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April 28, 2007 (Saturday)
- Australia wins its third consecutive Cricket World Cup with a victory over Sri Lanka in the 2007 ICC Cricket World Cup finals in Barbados. (ABC) (BBC)
- Human rights in Tajikistan: Two police officers in Dushanbe, Tajikistan are found guilty of beating and torturing a 16-year-old boy while in police custody. They are sentenced to two years in prison. (RFE/RL)
- A bombing occurs at a mosque in Karbala, Iraq, killing 55. (BBC)
- A suicide bombing in Pakistan kills at least 22 and injures Interior Minister Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao. (BBC) (CNN)
- Turkey's army warns against questioning the country's secular system after a disputed first-round presidential vote in parliament. (BBC)
- An earthquake of magnitude 4.3 on the Richter scale strikes Kent, England. (BBC)
- President of Ireland Mary McAleese dissolves the 29th Dáil and calls for a general election on 24 May 2007. (Irish Examiner) (BBC)
- 80,000 people gather throughout the United States joining 'Displace Me' to raise awareness of displaced refugees in Northern Uganda. (KOMO4)