Portal:Current events/2015 April 1

April 1, 2015 (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)

Health

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 military junta repeals martial law in favor of an imposed constitutional provision that allows the leader of the government to make extra-constitutional orders. (AP)