*[[The Washington Post]] wins four awards when the [[2010 Pulitzer Prize]]s are awarded. [http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/12/washington-post-wins-four-pulitzers-new-york-times-gets-three/ (The New York Times)]
*[[The Washington Post]] wins four awards when the [[2010 Pulitzer Prize]]s are awarded. [http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/12/washington-post-wins-four-pulitzers-new-york-times-gets-three/ (The New York Times)]
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Revision as of 22:56, 12 April 2010
Current events of April 12, 2010 (2010-04-12) (Monday)
Retired Italian bishop Giacomo Babini says the Jews are to blame for "powerful and refined" attacks on Benedict, quoted on the Roman Catholic Pontifex website. (The Times)
The Vatican has handled damaging child abuse cases in an “exemplary” manner, according to the editor-in-chief of Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore RomanoGiovanni Maria Vian, who also hails Benedict as a “great communicator”. (National Post)
Benedict's security is increased for his visit to Malta after the island's population of sexually abused announce plans to protest at his handling of the scandal and posters promoting his weekend trip receive Adolf Hitler-style moustaches and the word "paedophile". (The Daily Telegraph)
The Vatican says it is overhauling its rules on handling sexual abuse accusations, though neglects to give any details. (CNN)
Benedict is to meet the College of Cardinals for lunch and a "a cosy chit-chat" in the Vatican on 19 April as part of the celebrations for his fifth anniversary of being elected as Pope. (The Irish Times)
The centre-right Hungarian Civic Union (Fidesz) wins all 119 individual seats in the first round of Hungary's parliamentary elections. Their total of 206 seats gives them an outright majority in the National Assembly, with 121 seats still in play in the second round on April 25.
His funeral and burial and that of his wife who died with him are to take place on Saturday. (CNN)
The search for body parts continues at the crash site, with only 14 corpses easily identified by relatives and 20 others by forensic experts, with DNA testing necessary to identify the rest of the corpses. (RIA Novosti)
Poland's President is to review travel rules for military officials after the President and all his army generals die in one plane crash. (BBC)
U.S. President Barack Obama opens a summit of 47 countries for nuclear security talks aimed at developing a strategy to keep nuclear weapons out of the hands of potential nuclear terrorists(Voice of America)
The Labour party launches its manifesto, which states that it will halve the budget deficit within four years through a mixture of spending restraint and tax increases, mainly for the higher paid, that failing police forces will be taken over by successful ones, that every primary-school child who needs it will get one-to-one tuition and that there will be no switch to the euro without a referendum. [1]
SNP leader Alex Salmond urges the Scots to vote for an "alternative vision of the future" as he launched the party's election campaign. The Scottish first minister attacks Labour and the Tories for cuts which he said posed a danger to public services. [2]
Welsh Assembly Government ministers are accused of "abuse of position" by announcing £17.5 miles in tourism grants during the general election campaign. Welsh Conservative leader Nick Bourne says Heritage Minister Alun Ffred Jones and Environment Minster Jane Davidson must "face questions". [3]
The Copenhagen Conference was destroyed from the start by the leak of the "Danish draft" negotiating text to The Guardian, the Indian environment minister said this weekend in a warning that the breakdown of international trust would continue to undermine climate talks this year. (The Guardian)
