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*[[2018 United States gun violence protests]] |
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**Students participate in the National School Walkout Day. [http://fortune.com/2018/04/19/national-school-walkout-april-20/ (Fortune)] |
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**American actor [[Robert De Niro]] has written excuse letters for students participating in the walkout. [http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2018/04/19/robert-deniro-student-excuse-letter-national-school-walkout/ (CBS DFW)] |
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*[[List of offenders executed in the United States in 2018]] |
*[[List of offenders executed in the United States in 2018]] |
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**[[Alabama]] executes 83-year-old [[Walter Moody]] via lethal injection, who assassinated [[United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit]] judge [[Robert Smith Vance]] on December 16, 1989. Moody is the oldest prisoner to be executed in the U.S. since the death penalty was reinstated by the Supreme Court in 1976. [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43836864 (BBC)] |
**[[Alabama]] executes 83-year-old [[Walter Moody]] via lethal injection, who assassinated [[United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit]] judge [[Robert Smith Vance]] on December 16, 1989. Moody is the oldest prisoner to be executed in the U.S. since the death penalty was reinstated by the Supreme Court in 1976. [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43836864 (BBC)] |
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Revision as of 12:26, 20 April 2018
April 20, 2018 (Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Syrian Civil War
- ISIL agree to hand over control of Yarmouk Camp in southern Damascus to the Syrian Army in return for safe passage to ISIL-held territory in the Syrian Desert, bringing the predominantly Palestinian refugee district under government control for the first time since 2012. (The Washington Post)
- International military intervention against ISIL
- Iraq drops a series of air strikes against a ISIL target in Syria. (Yahoo News)
Disasters and accidents
- Around 40 people are injured when two passenger trains collide at Salzburg, Austria. (Reuters)
- Around 10,000 people are evacuated from central Berlin, Germany, while bomb disposal experts defuse a 500kg (1,100lb) World War II-era British bomb at a construction site. (BBC)
Law and crime
- List of offenders executed in the United States in 2018
- Alabama executes 83-year-old Walter Moody via lethal injection, who assassinated United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit judge Robert Smith Vance on December 16, 1989. Moody is the oldest prisoner to be executed in the U.S. since the death penalty was reinstated by the Supreme Court in 1976. (BBC)