Portal:Current events/2006 April 10
April 10, 2006 (Monday)
- Preliminary results from the general election in Peru shows Ollanta Humala leading, but certain to face a runoff election in late May or early June. Alan García is narrowly leading Lourdes Flores for second place and a spot in the runoff. (Bloomberg) (BBC)
- Non-violent demonstrations for immigrant rights are held in dozens of U.S. cities today in opposition to H.R. 4437, which would classify illegal aliens as felons. (Reuters) (New York Times) (AP via Wired)
- Shedden massacre: Ontario Provincial Police announce that five people have been arrested and charged with first-degree murder in connection with the slaying of eight people found dead in southwestern Ontario, Canada. The OPP also confirms that the deaths were connected to an "internal cleansing" of the Bandidos biker gang. (CBC)
- Matthias Platzeck resigns from the Chair of Germany's Social Democratic Party (SPD) after suffering a major hearing loss in March 2006 because of occupational stress. The next SPD chairman will be Kurt Beck (Minister President of Rhineland-Palatinate). (BBC)
- Italian general election, 2006: Romano Prodi declares victory in a tight election as preliminary results show L'Unione (The Union) ahead of Silvio Berlusconi's House of Freedoms by 0.1 percent in the Chamber of Deputies, but Berlusconi refuses to concede. (BBC) (La Stampa)
- The government of France announces the withdrawal of its youth employment law. The proposed law had catalyzed more than a month of sometimes-violent protests on the streets of Paris and other cities. (Washington Post) Archived 2012-10-19 at the Wayback Machine
- Sri Lankan Civil War: a claymore mine explodes in northern Jaffna, killing five soldiers on patrol and two civilians working for the Caritas Internationalis aid agency. (BBC)
- Pakistan's foreign office declares that the United States did not keep it fully informed about the Indo-US nuclear deal as the information shared initially with it did not match the final agreement. (Pakistan Link) (The Dawn, Pakistan)
- 2006 Kenya plane crash: A Kenyan military plane crashed killing a number of politicians. (Al Jazeera)