April 16, 2015 (2015-04-16) (Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
Arts and culture
Disasters and accidents
- More than 40 people have drowned as a migrant boat sinks travelling between Libya and Italy. In a separate incident, 15 Muslim migrants from another Italy-bound boat have been arrested, after allegedly throwing 12 Christian migrants overboard. (BBC)
International relations
Law and crime
- Five people are found dead after a business dispute in Phoenix, Arizona. (AP)
- Five are shot in Toronto, Ontario, in a neighbourhood with children around playing, two critically and one in life-threatening condition, having been shot by the police. Four suspects detained. (CP24)
- One year after the Sinking of the MV Sewol, police blockade a memorial in response to public anger at inactivity by the government to rescue or salvage the bodies of victims from the ship's wreck. (Amnesty.org)
Sports