April 1, 2015 (2015-04-01) (Wednesday)
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- Thailand's military junta repeals martial law in favor of an imposed constitutional provision that allows the leader of the government to make extra-constitutional orders. (AP)
April 2, 2015 (2015-04-02) (Thursday)
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April 3, 2015 (2015-04-03) (Friday)
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April 4, 2015 (2015-04-04) (Saturday)
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April 5, 2015 (2015-04-05) (Sunday)
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- Devastating floods in northern Chile leave at least 25 dead and more than 100 missing. (CNN)
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April 6, 2015 (2015-04-06) (Monday)
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- Basketball
- In basketball, Dick Bavetta, John Calipari, Spencer Haywood, Lisa Leslie, Dikembe Mutombo and Jo Jo White are announced as 2015 inductees to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. They will be formally inducted alongside five figures announced in February, Louie Dampier, Lindsay Gaze, Tom Heinsohn (already inducted as a player but now entering as a coach), John Isaacs, and George Raveling, on September 11. (ESPN)
- In basketball, Duke defeats Wisconsin 68–63 to win the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship. (USA Today)
April 7, 2015 (2015-04-07) (Tuesday)
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April 8, 2015 (2015-04-08) (Wednesday)
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April 9, 2015 (2015-04-09) (Thursday)
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- A gunman attacks the Palace of Justice in Milan, killing three people, including a judge. A fourth person found dead at the scene apparently died from a heart attack. (AP) (The Telegraph)
- Former Chinese Communist Party official Liao Shaohua is sentenced to 16 years in prison after being convicted of bribery and abuse of power. (Global Times)
- A fire on April 1 that disrupted power and internet access throughout London is now suspected to have been part of a robbery at the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Company. (The Register)
April 10, 2015 (2015-04-10) (Friday)
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- A head-on collision between a semi-trailer truck and a bus carrying a delegation of young athletes in southern Morocco on Friday killed 33 people and injured seven. (ABC News)
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April 11, 2015 (2015-04-11) (Saturday)
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April 12, 2015 (2015-04-12) (Sunday)
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April 13, 2015 (2015-04-13) (Monday)
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- An American man working at Managua's U.S. embassy provokes a security scare in Nicaragua; the country's health ministry quarantines the Ebola suspect and asks that he be removed from the country immediately. (BBC)
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April 14, 2015 (2015-04-14) (Tuesday)
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April 15, 2015 (2015-04-15) (Wednesday)
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April 16, 2015 (2015-04-16) (Thursday)
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- More than 40 people have drowned as a migrant boat sinks travelling between Libya and Italy. In a separate incident, 15 Muslim migrants from another Italy-bound boat have been arrested, after allegedly throwing 12 Christian migrants overboard. (BBC)
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- Five people are found dead after a business dispute in Phoenix, Arizona. (AP)
- Five are shot in Toronto, Ontario, in a neighbourhood with children around playing, two critically and one in life-threatening condition, having been shot by the police. Four suspects detained. (CP24)
- One year after the Sinking of the MV Sewol, police blockade a memorial in response to public anger at inactivity by the government to rescue or salvage the bodies of victims from the ship's wreck. (Amnesty.org)
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April 17, 2015 (2015-04-17) (Friday)
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- Univisión announce that Sábado Gigante, the longest-running television variety series in history, will end after 53 years on September 19, 2015. (THR)
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April 18, 2015 (2015-04-18) (Saturday)
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April 19, 2015 (2015-04-19) (Sunday)
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April 20, 2015 (2015-04-20) (Monday)
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April 21, 2015 (2015-04-21) (Tuesday)
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- Somali Civil War (2009–present)
- A deadly explosion in a Mogadishu restaurant kills at least four people and injures ten others. (Al Jazeera)
- Yemeni Civil War
- Forty armed men in camouflaged uniforms and speaking Albanian take several police officers hostage in northern Macedonia, the armed men are apparently calling for the creation of "an Albanian state". The incident was reminiscent of an insurgency in Macedonia in 2001 when Skopje's security forces battled rebels demanding greater rights for the former Yugoslav republic's large ethnic Albanian minority. (Reuters)
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April 22, 2015 (2015-04-22) (Wednesday)
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- Australian east coast low
- The storm in Australia's New South Wales is declared a "catastrophe" with four deaths, heavy flooding and disruption of transport to the state's largest cities Sydney and Newcastle. (The Australian) (WA Today)
- Twelve areas of NSW are declared as disaster zones including Dungog, Maitland, Cessnock Gosford, Great Lakes Council, Lake Macquarie, Newcastle, Pittwater Council, Port Stephens, Singleton, Warringah and Wyong. (WA Today)
- Sinking of the MV Sewol
- The Calbuco volcano erupts in southern Chile forcing the evacuation of 4000 residents. (Reuters via Yahoo! Canada) (Wall Street Journal)
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April 23, 2015 (2015-04-23) (Thursday)
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April 24, 2015 (2015-04-24) (Friday)
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April 25, 2015 (2015-04-25) (Saturday)
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April 26, 2015 (2015-04-26) (Sunday)
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April 27, 2015 (2015-04-27) (Monday)
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April 28, 2015 (2015-04-28) (Tuesday)
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April 29, 2015 (2015-04-29) (Wednesday)
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- Scientists discover the first known dinosaur with membranous wings, Yi Qi. (NY Times)
April 30, 2015 (2015-04-30) (Thursday)
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