Portal:Current events/2009 April 1

• The 72-year-old CBS soap opera Guiding Light will broadcast its final episode on September 18. (Reuters)
• The United States and Russia begin Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. (The Australian)
• Local government in England undergoes structural changes. (BBC)
• Ukraine will hold a presidential election on October 25. (AFP via Google News)
• At least eight people are killed when a Eurocopter AS332 ditches into the North Sea. (AFP via Google News)
• Five thousand people protest in London as the G-20 begins its summit. (BBC)
• Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Avigdor Lieberman says that the Annapolis Conference "has no validity." (BBC)
• New South Wales, Australia, declares its flooded Mid North Coast a disaster area. (ABC News Australia)
• Albania and Croatia join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. (AFP via Google News)
• The United States' World War II steamboat City of Rayville is located near Australia. (The Age)
• Sweden's Parliament legalizes same-sex marriage. (AFP via Google News)

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