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Business and economics The meeting in Doha, Qatar, of the world's top oil producers, from both OPEC and non-OPEC countries, fails to agree on an output freeze. Oil analysts say the failure was due to Iran's non-participation, and Saudi Arabia linking its cooperation to Iran's inclusion. Oil prices drop in early Asian trading and on the New York Mercantile Exchange. (AFP via Bangkok Post) (CNBC ...
The 2016 United States women's college basketball national championship will be decided when two former Big East Conference foes meet at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis at 8:30 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, April 5, 2016. Connecticut topped Oregon State 80–51, and Syracuse claimed an 80–59 win over Washington in Sunday's semifinals.
Disasters and accidents 2016 Kumamoto earthquakes A second earthquake hits southern Japan with a magnitude of 7.1 killing at least 32 people with the death toll from both earthquakes rising to 42. The new quake traps even more people. In Kumamoto a landslide occurs as well as a bridge collapse. (AFP via Yahoo! News) [permanent dead link ] (AP) (AP via Yahoo! News) A new aftershock with a ...
Law and crime Ebru Umar, a Dutch journalist of Turkish descent, is arrested in Kuşadası, Turkey, for tweets deemed critical of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. This comes as a political storm erupted this week over reports that the Turkish consulate asked Turkish organizations in the Netherlands to forward emails and social media posts which insult Erdoğan or Turkey. (The Guardian) Israeli ...
(ABC News Australia) (Sydney Morning Herald) Italian oil drilling referendum, 2016 The Italian referendum proposes repealing the law that allows oil drilling concessions extracting Hydrocarbon within 12 nautical miles of the Italian coast to be prolonged until the exhaustion of the useful life of the fields.
William O'Connell Bradley (1847–1914) was the 32nd Governor of Kentucky and a U.S. senator.The first Republican to serve as governor of the state, he became known as the father of the Republican Party in Kentucky.
2016 (Monday) 2015 (Saturday) April 18 is the 108th day of the year (109th in leap years) in the Gregorian ... [24] 1958 – Gabi Delgado-López, Spanish-German ...
Disasters and accidents 2016 Kumamoto earthquake The death toll from yesterday's earthquake rises to nine with eight dead in the town of Mashiki. Eight hundred people have been injured including over 50 seriously injured. (AP) At least two people are killed and five missing after a building collapses in Tenerife in the Canary Islands. (France 24) [permanent dead link ] A tornado hits the ...