Portal:Current events/2004 April 17
- His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama begins a visit to Canada. (Toronto Star)
- Rangoon headquarters nearly a year after the government closed it down. (VOA)
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict:
- An suicide bombing attack at the Erez Crossing in northern Gaza. Hamas and Fatah claim responsibility. (INN)
- Socialist Party leader José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero is sworn in as Spain's prime minister. (CNN)
- 15th Annual Thunder Over Louisville is held in Louisville, Kentucky.