Friday April 05, 2019

Holidays

• Saint Vincent Ferrer
• Saint Geeraard
• The last day of the tax year in the United Kingdom.
• Blessed Kreszentia Hoess
• Arbor Day in South Korea
• Qingming Festival in the Chinese calendar
• Mauritius: Ougadi.
• Saint Irena (d. 304)
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Events

• Libyan National Army troops reach the outskirts of the Libyan capital Tripoli, securing a key military checkpoint known as "Bridge 27". (AFP)
• The LNA captures several more towns in the Tripoli District, including Qasr bin Ghashir, Wadi Rabie and Suq al-Khamis, as well as the town of ‘Aziziya in the Jafara District, to the west of Tripoli. (Reuters) (The Economist)
• LNA forces say they have seized control of Tripoli International Airport. (Reuters)
• The United States, United Kingdom, France, and Italy issue a joint statement calling on Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar to end the offensive. (Euronews)
• Boeing 737 MAX groundings, Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302: The CEO for Boeing, Dennis Muilenburg, apologizes for the loss of lives in the two 737 MAX accidents, recognizing the role that the MCAS system played in the disasters. (Washington Post)
• The CEO for Boeing, Dennis Muilenburg, apologizes for the loss of lives in the two 737 MAX accidents, recognizing the role that the MCAS system played in the disasters. (Washington Post)
• The U.S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports the source of E. coli O103, that has infected 72 people in five states, has not been identified. Bill Marler, a food safety lawyer in Seattle, notes this O103 outbreak is by far the largest in recent memory. (The Washington Post via MSN.com)
• A 29-year-old man is charged with five counts of attempted murder after stabbing five people in "random attacks", including four people in a 10-hour period on March 30, in Edmonton, London. (BBC)
• An inquest finds that Jennifer and Sarah Hart intentionally killed themselves. In 2018, a vehicle with the couple and their six adopted children drove off a cliff in California, killing all of them. (MSN.com)
• A small 5-200 kilometer planetesimal, with a similar mineral composition to Earth, is found orbiting in the debris disk of a white dwarf star. This discovery is among the first of its kind and expected to provide insight into the future of our own planetary system. (Astronomy.com)
• JAXA space probe Hayabusa2 successfully fires a bullet at Apollo asteroid 162173 Ryugu, forming a crater which will be used to collect underground samples. (AP)
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News articles

• A Top Lawyer Will Plead Guilty in the College-Admissions Scandal Gordon Caplan, a former co-chairman of the firm Willkie Farr, was charged with paying $75,000 to help his daughter get into college. [..]
• Boeing to Cut Production of 737 Max After 2 Fatal Crashes The company also announced it would create a new board committee to review the design and development of new airplanes. [..]
• See all financial news of April 5th, 2019