Portal:Current events/2015 April 11

Current events of April 11, 2015 (2015-04-11) (Saturday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Yemeni Civil War (2015)
  • Heavy Saudi Arabian air strikes hit southern Yemen resulting in at least 20 deaths of Houthis soldiers and two members of rival militias. Saudi Arabia claims to have killed 500 rebels since the start of military operations in March. (Reuters), (CNN)
  • India evacuates 5600 people including 960 foreign nationals from Yemen under Operation Raahat. Several flights were allowed to take off and land in Yemen despite the no-fly zone declared on the country. (NYT)
• Turkey–PKK conflict
  • Turkey sends additional troops and aircraft into Agri Province after four soldiers are injured in clashes with PKK insurgents. (Reuters)

Business and economy

• Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena, the beneficiary of a controversial bail-out from the Bank of Italy in 2013 admits that its exposure to Nomura Holdings is greater than the regulatory limit. (Bloomberg)

International relations

• The President of the United States Barack Obama and the President of Cuba Raul Castro meet at the sidelines of the Summit of the Americas in Panama. This marks the first meeting of the leaders of the two countries since the Cuban Revolution. (ABC News America)

Law and crime

• An Egyptian court sentences the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood Mohamed Badie and fourteen other people to death for inciting violence. (CNN)
• Bangladeshi Jamaat-e-Islami leader Muhammad Kamaruzzaman is executed for war crimes committed during the 1971 Liberation War. (The Hindu)

Politics and elections

• Voters in Nigeria go to the polls for gubernatorial and state Assembly elections. At least nine people are killed in election day violence, most of them in Rivers State. (BBC), (Deutsche Welle)

Sports

• 2015 Grand National
  • The 168th annual running of the Grand National steeplechase race occurs at Aintree Racecourse near the English city of Liverpool. Many Clouds ridden by Leighton Aspell is the winner. (Sky News)
• The Boat Races 2015
  • Rowing teams from University of Oxford and University of Cambridge meet on the River Thames with Oxford successful in both the men's and women's races. (BBC), (BBC)