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Maoists win a plurality of seats in the Nepalese Constituent Assembly election, the first election in Nepal in nine years.
Researchers discover what is believed to be the first use of oil painting at Bamyan in Afghanistan, predating European oil painting by some six centuries.
Fernando Lugo (pictured) wins the presidential election in Paraguay, ending the Colorado Party's 61-year rule.
In auto racing, Danica Patrick wins the Indy Japan 300, becoming the first female driver to win an IndyCar race.
An airliner operated by Hewa Bora Airways crashes upon takeoff in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing at least 47 people.
An alliance led by Silvio Berlusconi of the People of Freedom party wins the general election in Italy.

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April 28, 2008 (Monday)

Two passenger trains collide in Xibo in Shandong province in eastern China resulting in the death of at least 43 people. (Press Association)

April 27, 2008 (Sunday)

Dignitaries including the President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai take cover as automatic gunfire breaks out at a ceremony in Kabul. (AP via Google News)
A father-and-son duo who owned and managed the factory that burnt down with 55 deaths yesterday in Casablanca have been arrested over serious safety violations. (AFP via Google News)

April 26, 2008 (Saturday)

The death toll from a fire in a mattress factory in the Hay Hassani district of Casablanca rises to 55. (Reuters via The Washington Post)
The 26 members of the Spanish FV Playa de Bakio are released by Somali pirates. (eiTB)
The sole provider of public transport in Toronto, Canada, the Toronto Transit Commission, is shut down by a strike. (Bloomberg News)
2008 Turkish incursion into northern Iraq: The Turkish Armed Forces attack Kurdistan Workers Party positions in northern Iraq. (Reuters via ABC News)
Nauruan elections are held after the dissolution of Parliament on April 18. (Radio New Zealand)

April 25, 2008 (Friday)

Some forty people are injured when the floor of a Mennonite church collapses during a Christian rock concert in Abbotsford, British Columbia. (CTV), (CBC)
Two people are killed and more than a dozen injured after a semitrailer crashes into a Chicago Transit Authority station during rush hour. (AP via International Herald Tribune)
Sri Lankan Civil War: At least 24 people are killed by a blast on a bus near Colombo. (BBC News)
Actor Wesley Snipes is sentenced to three years in prison for tax violations. (The New York Times)
A United States military-contracted vessel fires warning shots in front of two boats in the Persian Gulf, causing the boats to leave. (AP via MSNBC)
Students and their families in various locations across the United States participate in the nationally-recognized 13th annual Day of Silence. (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

April 24, 2008 (Thursday)

Operation Orchard: The United States claims North Korea helped Syria build a nuclear reactor at a site destroyed by Israeli forces in September 2007. (AFP via Google News)
Final results in the Nepal Constituent Assembly election show that the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) won double the number of seats of the next largest party. (AFP via Google News)

April 23, 2008 (Wednesday)

Sri Lankan Civil War: In fighting in the North of Sri Lanka, the military claims victory with 43 soldiers killed and 33 missing while killing over 100 Tamil Tigers. The rebels also claim victory, saying that they killed 100 soldiers and wounded 500 while only losing 16 of their own. (CNN) (BBC News)
Former President of the United States Jimmy Carter reiterates that no person from the United States Department of State ever asked him not to meet with representatives from Hamas or Syria. (Reuters)

April 22, 2008 (Tuesday)

Costa Rica rejects an application for political asylum by former Colombian Senator Mario Uribe following orders for Uribe's arrest on charges of ties with paramilitary groups. Uribe is then arrested. (AP via Google News) (AP via Fox News)
A U.S. federal grand jury in Las Vegas, Nevada, indicts a man on charges of possessing the toxin ricin and on weapons charges. (AP via Google News)
Ben-ami Kaddish, a former U.S. Army mechanical engineer, is arrested on charges of disclosing national defense information to Israel. (FOX News)
The United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says that former President of the United States Jimmy Carter was advised not to hold talks with Hamas. (Reuters)
Zimbabwe churches claim that people are being tortured, abducted and some murdered in a campaign of political retribution against the opposition Movement for Democratic Change. (AP via Google News)

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