April 10, 2013
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April 6, 2013
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April 3, 2013
April 2, 2013
April 1, 2013
- North Korea shuts down tourism from China as nuclear tensions mount, but business travel is allowed to continue. South Korea and the United States also raise their military watch alert to "vital threat" (level 2) ahead of an expected North Korean missile launch.
April 9, 2013
- Gunmen kill 12 United Nations peacekeepers and civilian staff in an ambush in Jonglei, South Sudan.
- A 6.1–magnitude earthquake rocks the Iranian towns of Khvormuj, Bandar Deyr and Kangan, killing 37 people and injuring over 850 people.
- North Korean authorities advise foreigners to leave South Korea soon, forecasting a possible conflict.
- At least 13 people are killed and another three injured after a man goes on a spree shooting in the village of Velika Ivanča near the Serbian capital Belgrade.
- At least 15 people are stabbed and wounded at Lone Star College–CyFair in Cypress, Texas, United States, with student Dylan Quick named as a suspect
- Kenya officially swears in their new president, Uhuru Kenyatta
April 8, 2013
- A car bomb explodes in the center of the capital, Damascus, killing at least 15 people and wounding 53 others
- Tribal violence in Darfur, Sudan, kills at least 163 people and displaces 50,000 others.
- Margaret Thatcher, former British Prime Minister (first and only female Prime Minister of Britain), dies of a stroke at the age of 87 in London.
April 7, 2013
- Syrian War: An air strike on Aleppo by the Syrian Air Force kills 15 people, including nine children
- An airstrike conducted by NATO kills at least 12 people in the Afghan province of Kunar.
- 12 Nigerian policemen are missing and presumed dead after their boat was ambushed by militants in the Niger Delta region
April 6, 2013
- Indian rescuers end the search for survivors of the 2013 Thane building collapse that killed 72 people.
- At least 22 people are killed and more than 60 others injured when a suicide bomber blows himself up in a busy election campaign tent in the Iraqi city of Baquba.
- 11 people are killed in a gun and machete attack in a village of Midlu in Northern Nigeria.
- 2013 Mystery Meat: Ikea withdraws moose meat lasagna, sold in its worldwide stores. Unlabeled pork is found after increased scrutiny from the scandal
- In Bangladesh, thousands of protesters call for blasphemy laws that would include death penalty for bloggers who insult Islam, the majority religion of the country
April 5, 2013
- Mexican Drug War: Recent report from Stratfor indicates that at least 60 people were killed in Tamaulipas in March, after the Gulf Cartel leaders, Miguel 'El Gringo' Villarreal and Mario Ramírez Treviño fought for control of the organization.
- Eight people are killed when Buddhists and Muslims from Myanmar brawl in a detention center in Indonesia.
- At least 46 people are killed when an illegally constructed building collapses in the Mumbai, India suburb of Thane.
- A sixth person dies in the People's Republic of China from the Influenza A virus subtype H7N9, after the closure of poultry markets in the city of Shanghai and a mass culling of 20,000 birds.
- At least 60 people die in Nigeria following a collision between a bus and a petrol tanker on the Benin-Ore expressway.
April 4, 2013
- A man goes on a rampage with an ax, killing nine people in Chhattisgarh state in central India.
- The death toll of the floods in Argentina reaches 59, with more than 1500 displaced.
- One of the Grozny-City Towers, the tallest building in Chechnya, Russia, is damaged in a large fire.
- At least 24 people are killed when a bus traveling to pick up the coffin of a villager crashes in Papua New Guinea's Western Highlands.
- Uganda's military orders army units hunting for Joseph Kony, the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army in the Central African Republic to return to their bases, following political instability in the Central African Republic. Meanwhile the United States has offered a $5 million bounty for information leading to his capture.
April 3, 2013
- At least 46 people are killed and more than 100 injured following an attack by Taliban militants armed with suicide vests on a courthouse in Farah, Afghanistan.
- Subaru recalls around 200,000 vehicles in the United States to fix a defect which could lead to corrosion of the brake lines.
- More than 50 people are killed in major floods in Buenos Aires and La Plata, Argentina, due to heavy rain.
- At least 24 people are killed and two are critically injured after a bus carrying tribesmen plunges off a cliff near Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea.
- According to a new study, more than one million people per year die prematurely due to the air pollution in China
April 2, 2013
- The Mexican police find 9 mutilated bodies inside a SUV with Texas license plates in the northern state of Tamaulipas, Mexico.
- At least 7 people are killed in an attack by militants, suspected to be Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, on a power station in the Pakistani city of Peshawar. Ten hostages are reportedly taken by the militants.
- The Muppets co-creator Jane Henson dies at the age of 78.
- A quarry accident in Arusha, Tanzania, leaves at least 13 people dead.
- Thirteen children are killed in a fire at a mosque in Yangon, Burma.
April 1, 2013
- A suicide attacker blows up a tanker lorry at the police headquarters in the Iraqi city of Tikrit, killing at least nine people. Three people are killed in a separate shooting in Baghdad.
- Eli Reimer, aged sixteen, becomes the first teenager with Down syndrome to climb to Mount Everest's Base Camp.
- At least six people are killed in a explosion at a coal mine near Baishan, China
- Pirates drown 16 fishermen in southern Bangladesh in order to steal their boats.