Portal:Current events/2008 April 3

April 3, 2008 (Thursday)

An Antonov An-28 operated by Blue Wing Airlines crashes upon landing in Benzdorp, Suriname. All nineteen on board are presumed dead. (BBC News)
Zimbabwean presidential election, 2008:
- Police in riot gear surround a hotel in Harare housing foreign journalists. New York Times correspondent Barry Bearak, Daily Telegraph correspondent Stephen Bevan, and two others are arrested. (The Christian Science Monitor)
- MDC Secretary-General Tendai Biti reports that police have begun raiding opposition party offices in an apparent "crackdown". (AP via MSNBC)
Bagatur is named the acting Chairman of Inner Mongolia, succeeding Yang Jing, who is the new minister in charge of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission.(Xinhua)
Jules Verne, the first European Automated Transfer Vehicle, successfully performs a fully automated docking with the International Space Station. (ESA)
In a procedural decision, the European Court of Justice overturns the addition of the Kurdish rebel organization PKK to the EU's terrorist blacklist. (BBC News)
Serbian Minister on Kosovo Slobodan Samardžić submits to UNMIK a plan suggesting Kosovo's division into cantons along ethnic lines. (Tanjug via Portalino)
Greek and Turkish Cypriots open a crossing at Ledra Street, a main shopping street in Cyprus' divided capital Nicosia that has come to symbolize the island's ethnic partition. (AP via The International Herald Tribune)
The Iraqi military says a suicide bomber has attacked a checkpoint near Mosul, killing 7 people and wounding 12. (AP via Google News)^{[permanent dead link]}
At its summit in Bucharest, NATO invites Albania and Croatia to join the alliance. (Washington Post)