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April 20, 2015
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2015-04-20
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Somali Civil War (2009–present)
Nine people have been killed in
a bomb attack
on a convoy carrying food supplies to a
United Nations
compound in
Garowe
in the Somali region of
Puntland
.
(Reuters)
Sinai insurgency
A roadside bomb hits an armoured vehicle near the border town of
Rafah
in the northern
Sinai Peninsula
killing three people.
(AP via ABC News America)
Yemeni Civil War (2015–present)
An airstrike on an alleged
Scud missile
base in
Sana'a
causes a huge explosion.
(Reuters via
Daily Star
)
The
United States
sends
aircraft carrier
USS
Theodore Roosevelt
and cruiser
USS
Normandy
to block an
Iranian
convoy heading towards
Yemen
.
(Fox News)
Arts and culture
2015 Pulitzer Prize
The
Pulitzer Prize
awards are presented, with the
The Post and Courier
of
Charleston, South Carolina
winning the prestigious gold medal for public service for a series on
domestic violence
in the US state of
South Carolina
.
(
New York Times
)
Anthony Doerr
's
World War II
novel
All the Light We Cannot See
wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
(CNN)
Elizabeth Kolbert
's
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
was a winner of the
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
Disasters and accidents
A strong 6.8 magnitude earthquake occurs off the east coast of
Taiwan
.
(Reuters via
Daily Mail
)
At least three people are dead after a boat carrying dozens of migrants runs aground on the
Greek
island of
Rhodes
.
(
The Independent
)
Two people are missing in the
Hunter Region
of
New South Wales
as an
Australian east coast low
causes widespread flooding, gale force winds and the loss of power to 140,000 properties.
(ABC News Australia)
Health
Blue Bell Creameries
recalls all of its products in the
United States
due to a
Listeria monocytogenes
outbreak.
(CNN)
Law and crime
A 13-year-old boy uses a home-made
crossbow
to kill a teacher and wound four other people at his school in the city of
Barcelona
.
(BBC)
List of killings by law enforcement officers in the United States, April 2015
Police officers in the city of
Baltimore, Maryland
are placed on leave while an investigation is held into the
death of Freddie Gray
.
(
Baltimore Sun
)
Sports
2015 Boston Marathon
Runners in the American city of
Boston
take part in the annual
Boston Marathon
for the 119th time.
Lelisa Desisa
of
Ethiopia
wins
the men's race while
Caroline Rotich
of
Kenya
wins the women's race.
(CBS)
(
New York Times
)
(Boston Marathon)
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