Portal:Current events/2009 April 16
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April 16, 2009 (Thursday)
- Sweden's National Museum of Science and Technology publicly displays a confiscated Pirate Bay server. (The Local)
- China's economy grows by 6.1% in the first quarter of 2009, the lowest increase since 1999. (Xinhua)
- The Naxalite movement kills 17 people as India's general election begins. (Times Online)
- A landslide in Kyrgyzstan kills at least 16 people. (BBC)
- Bolivian police kill three people - Hungarian Eduardo Rózsa-Flores, Irishman Michael Martin Dwyer, and Romanian Magyarosi Arpak - and arrest two others over an alleged plot to assassinate President Evo Morales and Vice President Álvaro García Linera. (RTÉ) (BBC)