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Current events of April 16, 2012 (2012-04-16) (Monday)

Israeli soldier's assault of Danish national:
- Video footage emerges of an Israeli soldier smashing a foreign activist in the face with his gun in an apparently unprovoked attack during a bicycle rally in the West Bank. The assault, which knocked the victim, believed to be Danish, to the ground draws international condemnation. (Al Jazeera) (Toronto Star) (Los Angeles Times)
- The Danish ambassador to Israel Liselotte Plesner demands an explanation from Israel over the assault by a senior officer. (The Guardian) (Haaretz)

The first ever challenge to the U.S. nominee for World Bank president is unsuccessful; the selection of Korean-American physician Jim Yong Kim draws criticism, such as the historical U.S. dominance of the post and the fact that Kim, a former director of the World Health Organization's HIV/AIDS department, is not an economist. (Al Jazeera)

The trial of confessed perpetrator of the 2011 Norway attacks, Anders Behring Breivik, starts in Oslo, Norway. (CNN)
The European Court of Human Rights rules that the Soviet Union violated the Rights of relatives of the victims in the 1940 Katyn Massacre, and describes the massacre as a war crime. Reuters