Portal:Current events/2015 April 21
April 21, 2015 (Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 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
- Saudi Arabia announces that it is ending its bombing campaign in Yemen. (BBC)
- 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)
Arts and culture
- Pope Francis accepts the resignation of Robert Finn as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kansas City–Saint Joseph for failing to report a suspected child abuser. (AP via Yahoo! News)
Business and economy
- Israeli generics giant Teva Pharmaceutical offers $4 billion to acquire US rival Mylan. (Economic Times)
Disasters and accidents
- Australian east coast low
- Three people have died in floods in the Australian town of Dungog, New South Wales as heavy rains and cyclonic winds hits the state of New South Wales causing widespread flooding, loss of power to over 100,000 homes and disruption of transport services. (ABC News Australia)
Law and crime
- Former AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd pleads guilty to threatening to kill and drug possession charges in Tauranga, New Zealand. (AP via USA Today)
- April 2015 Mediterranean Sea migrant shipwrecks
- Italian police arrest the captain and crew member of a vessel that sank in the Mediterranean Sea on Sunday drowning as many as 900 people. (AP)
- An American man Tommy Schaefer is sentenced to 18 years imprisonment in Bali for the murder of his mother-in-law Sheila von Wiese Mack last year. (Sky News Australia)
- An Egyptian court sentences former President Mohammed Morsi to twenty years imprisonment for involvement in the killing of protesters when he was in power. (BBC)
- The U.S. Justice Department has charged Navinder Singh Sarao with commodities fraud and related offenses, alleging that he played a part in the flash crash of May 2010. (Reuters)
- Death of Freddie Gray
- The United States Department of Justice announces a federal investigation into the death of Freddie Gray in police custody in the city of Baltimore, Maryland. (AP via The Republic)[permanent dead link]
- Michele Leonhart announces her retirement as the Administrator of the United States Drug Enforcement Administration with concerns raised about her leadership following a prostitution scandal involving Agency officers having sex with prostitutes provided by drug cartels. (CNN)