Portal:Current events/2015 April 1

Current events of April 1, 2015 (2015-04-01) (Wednesday)

Disasters and accidents

• Two United States Marine Corps F-18 fighters make a precautionary landing at Taiwan's Tainan Air Force Base. (Focus Taiwan) (The Washington Times)
• Flames engulf a Mexican state-run Pemex oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico, killing four workers. (AP)
• The Russian trawler Dalniy Vostok with 132 crew sinks off of the Kamchatka peninsula leaving at least 54 dead and 15 missing. (AP) (BBC)
• The governor of California Jerry Brown orders mandatory water restrictions. (AP)

Law and crime

• Turkish police shoot two attackers outside Istanbul’s central police headquarters, killing one of them. The exchange of fire wounds two officers. (The Guardian)
• An apparent murder and suicide leaves four dead in Tulsa, Oklahoma. (AP)
• A federal grand jury indicts New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez on corruption charges. (AP)
• A court convicts eleven Atlanta, Georgia teachers as part of a mass cheating scandal. (BBC)
• The Obama Administration targets overseas cyber attackers with a sanctions program. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• Thailand's junta escalates their control from martial law to absolute power. (AP)