Portal:Current events/2012 April 29

April 29, 2012 (Sunday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia kill four members of Colombian Army on a mission to destroy cocaine laboratories in Caquetá Department with another four soldiers, a police officer and a French journalist missing. (BBC)
African church attacks:
- Several explosions are reported near a Christian service at Bayero University Kano in the northern Nigerian city of Kano, with at least 16 people killed. (AP via Google News) (AP)
- At least five people are killed in an attack on a Church of Christ in the Nigerian city of Maiduguri, the spiritual home of the Boko Haram radical Islamist sect. (AP)
- One person is killed and 10 injured in a grenade attack at a church in Nairobi, Kenya. (AFP via Google News)
Four officials are killed in rebel attacks in northern Burma. (The Australian)
Seven people are killed in a three-way shootout between rival drug cartels and the authorities in the Mexican state of Sinaloa, the home-state of Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the country's most-wanted drug lord. (Fox News)
Lebanon confiscates a shipment of arms and ammunition meant for Syrian rebels and arrests 11 crewmembers. (BBC)

Disasters

At least seven people die following a bus crash in Japan's Gunma Prefecture north of Tokyo. (NHK World)^{[permanent dead link]}
Seven people are killed, including three children, when a vehicle they were in flipped over on the Bronx River Parkway in The Bronx, New York City. (CNN)

International relations

The final deadline (no more extensions) for the total destruction of chemical weapons stockpiles under the international Chemical Weapons Convention is reached. (RIA Novosti)
The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visits Burma. (CNN)
2012 Malian coup d'état: Mali coup leader Amadou Haya Sanogo rejects a decision by the Economic Community of West African States to deploy troops to the country. (France 24)
Ana Maria Gomes, a Member of the European Parliament, is denied access to Bahrain. (Reuters)

Law and crime

Sudan arrests four foreigners in the disputed border region with South Sudan on accusations of spying. (Arab News)
Chinese authorities begin to round-up associates of human rights activist Chen Guangcheng in light of his escape from house arrest. (BBC) (Hindustan Times)