Main News of April 11

 

WORLD

 

* The blast which tore through a rush-hour Minsk metro station was a terrorist attack, prosecutors said

 

* One person was killed and four injured when a magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck northeastern Japan

 

* Besieged Ivory Coast leader Laurent Gbagbo was detained in the west African state’s main city of Abidjan and taken to the headquarters of his elected successor, Alassane Ouattara.

 

RUSSIA

 

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his Polish counterpart Bronislaw Komorowski paid a visit to the site of the plane crash that killed Polish leader Lech Kaczynski and 95 other people last year

 

* Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin on Monday announced his resignation as chairman of the board of the Rosneft oil company