April 2006

This page presents a chronology of the events which occurred or which were to occur during the month of April 2006.

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Saturday the 1st er April 2006

  • France: National coordination, bringing together students and high-school pupils fights about it against precariousness (in particular the Loi for the equal opportunity, CNE and the redundancies in the state education) met Saturday and Sunday on the Université of Lille III in order to decide action to be taken to the movement. Next national coordination will take place on Lyon the next weekend.
  • Italy: Abdul Rahman arrives at Rome and thanks the pope Benoît XVI and the Italian government to have accommodated it whereas it was death threat in his country.

Sunday April 2nd 2006

Concert “Not with disposable immigration” in Paris: several tens of thousands of participants.

Sunday April 2nd 2006

  • France: Several tens of thousands of participants in the concert " Not with immigration jetable" in Paris.

Tuesday April 4th 2006

Wednesday April 5th 2006

  • the United States: Delphi Corporation, the second larger manufacturer in the world of automobile spare parts, announced a restructuring plan.
  • Canada: The Canadian government has cold its assistances with the Palestine.
  • Colombia: According to HCR the indigenous communities are threatened.
  • Somalia: Somalia and the East Africa have faced the worst dryness for 10 years.

Thursday April 6th 2006

Saturday April 8th 2006

  • Palestine: The the United States and the European Union have in their turn suspended all direct aids with the Palestinian Autorité after the formation of a government by the Hamas.

Sunday April 9th 2006

  • Peru: Presidential election. No candidate obtained more than 50% of the votes. A second turn will take place next May.
  • Terrorism, Attacks of July 7th, 2005 in London: To observe of this day, reveals that according to a report/ratio having to be returned with the Ministry for the Interior British and published in its final version in a few weeks, Al-Quaida did not play any part in these attacks. Libre Belgique

Monday April 10th 2006

  • France: withdrawal of the law on the contracts first engages .
  • France, CPE: Jacques Chirac and Dominique de Villepin withdrew Monday the CPE after more than two months of Crise political and social, a decision greeted like a victory by the Syndicat S and the parliamentary opposition. (AFP dispatch of the 4/10/2006 to 13:34)
  • Italy: Results of the election members of Parliament 2006 in Italy.

Sunday April 9th 2006

The Peruvian are convened to elect the President, the members of the Congress and the members of the Andean Parliament.

Sunday April 9th and Lundi April 10th 2006

Italian legislative Élections which opposes the Union, the left coalition of Romano Prodi, with the Maison of freedoms, the coalition of right-hand side of the President of the outgoing Council Silvio Berlusconi. All on April and 2006

Monday April 3rd 2006

  • France, the United States: Yesterday, Lucent Technologies and Alcatel announced their fusion.
  • Guinea-Bissao: At least 60 soldiers bissau-Guineans were killed and several others wounded since the beginning of the confrontations, the last March 14th, between the bissau-Guinean army and the armed wing of the Mouvement of the democratic forces of Casamance (MFDC).

Tuesday April 11th 2006

  • Italy: legislative elections in Italy . Official Victoire of the coalition of the Union, directed by Romano Prodi.
  • France: Disappearance of the actor Daniel Rialet.
  • France: Countryside of Vaccination against the Méningocoque B responsible for a form of Meningitis.
  • World: The governments American and English reject any plan of nuclear attack on Iran.
  • the United States: immigrants again in the street in more than 130 American cities claiming vast a reform of immigration and the regularization of without-papers .

Wednesday April 12th 2006

  • France: Towards a total ban to smoke in the public places in France.
  • French Polynesia: vote by the Council of Ministers of a moratorium on hunting for the Requin S prohibiting the finning (drives out with the sharks for the ailerons) and the feeding (nourrissage of the sharks in the lagoons). This moratorium is valid for 2006 and 2007

Sunday April 16th 2006

Thursday April 13rd 2006

  • France: Burden with the journalists of France-Evening.
  • Brussels, Belgium: Murder of Joe Van Holsbeeck at the central station for a reader Mp3.
  • occupied Palestinian Territories: Into the Gaza Strip, 1.000 Israeli shells fell in a few days, as several missiles which made a score of died including 3 children and many casualties. (F. Leblon AFPS)

Monday April 17th 2006

  • Mexico: A transporting coach of the Mexican tourists fell from the top of a cliff of almost 200  m in the State de Veracruz, making at least 57 dead.
  • Israel: A Attack-suicide perpetrated in front of the old coach station of Tel-Aviv makes 9 dead and 62 wounded. He is asserted by the Brigades of the Al-Aqsa martyrs and the Islamic Jihad. The Hamas qualifies this act of legitimate defense, while Mahmoud Abbas condemns and made call using the international community.

Thursday April 20th 2006

Tuesday April 25th 2006

  • UNO: The Safety advice of the the United Nations adopts the resolution 1671 (2006) authorizing the temporary deployment of a force of the European Union (“Eufor R.D Congo”) intended to support the MONUC during the period surrounding the elections in Democratic republic of Congo.

Friday April 28th 2006

The album Sang-froid of Sinik is likely to be prohibited of sale.

Saturday April 29th 2006

4th edition of the alternative Festival BetiZFest with Cambric: " From Deathcore to DIGITAL Hardware-core ".

Sunday April 30th 2006

  • Death of Jean-François Revel.
  • Serbia: End of the Ultimatum of the European Union (EU) on the capture of Ratko Mladic and its handing-over with international justice. Ratko Mladic is shown of Génocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity when he was the military chief of Serb of Bosnia during the Guerre in Bosnia between 1992 and 1995. The principal facts complained of are those which were held at the time of the massacre of surroundings 8  000 Moslem with Srebrenica. According to the International penal court for ex-Yugoslavia (TPIY) in load of the file, Ratko Mladic hides in Serbia, under the protection of certain members of the army and lived with seen of all in Belgrade until 2002, always protected by the army. The end of this ultimatum announces the suspension of the negotiations on an agreement of association between Serbia and the EU, which is the first stage of adhesion at the EU. Olli Rehn, the police chief with Widening declared the April 28th after a meeting with Vuk Draskovic, the chief of the Serb diplomacy, that it appreciate the committed efforts by the Serb government to attack the support network of Ratko Mladic, but it is high time to complete the work and to locate, stop and transfer Ratko Mladic to $the Hague without delay . For its part, Zoran Stojkovic, the Minister for Serb Justice declared that the capture sulfur of engineering problems and nonpolitical. It is also to note that the Bosnia-Herzégovine is also under pressure for the capture of another fugitive, Radovan Karadzic.

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