Portal:Current events/2014 April 21

April 21, 2014 (Monday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

South Sudan conflict
- The
  ethnic origins in the town of Bentiu after South Sudanese rebels seized the oil hub last week. (Al Jazeera)

Syrian Civil War
:
Syrian Air Force air strikes in Aleppo, Syria, killing dozens of people; 14 others are killed by barrel bombing in the neighborhood of Baeedeen. (Reuters)
2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine
- According to pro-Russian militants, the bodies of two pro-Russian militants are pulled from the
  Seversky Donets River in Sloviansk, Ukraine, with both having multiple stab wounds. The claim could not be independently verified. (The Sun)

Thirty suspected al-Qaeda militants and six civilians are killed in a drone strike by the United States in Yemen. (CNN)
A car bomb in Mogadishu, Somalia, detonates, killing a member of the Federal Parliament of Somalia and injuring another. (BBC News)

Business and economics

Tony Caplin resigns from the UK Public Works Loan Board after it is revealed that he had gone bankrupt. (BBC News)
Birch Communications agrees to buy technology and communications equipment provider
$323 million. (AP via Yahoo! News)

2014 South Korean ferry capsizing
:
South Korean President
Sewol ferry on 16 April. (Reuters)

Four more crew members from the ferry are arrested for deserting the vessel as it was sinking. (KDVR)
A
Malaysian Airlines carrying 166 people makes an emergency landing after a tire on the main landing gear blew out. (ABC News)

A 16-year-old teenager stows away in the landing-gear compartment of a flight from San Jose International Airport to Kahului Airport, surviving a severe lack of oxygen and -80°F temperatures during a 5+ hour flight. (Los Angeles Times)
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
- A
  U.S. Navy submarine Bluefin-21 is on mission to find the wreckage. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

The
presidential election for June 3, with opposition groups calling it a "parody of democracy". (Reuters)

2014 Boston Marathon
- More than a million people gather to participate and watch the
  Boston Marathon bombings. (CNN)
- Thirty-eight-year-old American Meb Keflezighi wins the Boston Marathon men's competition, making him the first American in 31 years to do so. (USA Today)