30 April: US military confirms it will not punish soldiers who killed Italian agent Nicola Calipari, finding incident occurred "within the rules of engagement" and blaming Italian government for not coordinating rescue; Italy maintains US was fully informed of mission, route, and that vehicle slowed as requested at checkpoint...
20 April: Tom DeLay, (R-TX), has attacked Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, calling him "incredibly outrageous", for his reference to pertinent international laws, use of Internet for research...
18 April: IMF poverty plans considered ineffective, heavily criticized by African populations...
6 April: Jalal Talabani, Kurdish party leader, is named Iraq's first post-Hussein president, to oversee transitional period, writing of new constitution...
4 April: Israel Env. Min. gives permission for Nablus settlers to dump industrial waste in West Bank quarry; Israel gov't launches probe into recent vandalism of Rabin gravesite, right-wing extremists suspected...
2 April: UN votes to send Darfur war crimes suspects to International Criminal Court at Hague; US backed move with guarantee US would retain jurisdiction over its own peacekeeping personnel... To avoid bloodshed in gov't eviction of settlers from Gaza, full voluntary disarmament of all settlers, participating soldiers contemplated...
1 April: Pope John Paul II opts to stay in apartments at Vatican after suffering heart failure last night; he has received last rights, has named a number of new bishops, archbishops; aides describe him as serene; int'l press speculates, choice is to die at home... Zimbabwe's opposition currently leading in vote count, but leader Morgan Tsvangirai accuses Mugabe gov't of stealing election via massive fraud, fears final count will not show democratic will of people... Official gov't report says US WMD intel "dead wrong in almost all of its pre-war judgements", prompting Pres. Bush to vow serious reform, using language which seems to indicate centralization of intel agencies in store... Spanish gov't detains 12 suspects in Madrid for alleged connection to 11-M bombings of one year ago... Reports say thousand-year old Spiral Minaret, in Samarra, holy landmark of Iraqi, was partially destroyed by insurgents; US troops had used tower as lookout...
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