April 14, 2009 (Tuesday)
- North Korea will depart the six-party talks and resume its nuclear program. (BBC)
- French fishing vessels institute blockades at Boulogne-sur-Mer and Dunkirk to protest the Common Fisheries Policy. (BBC)
- Somali pirates hijack the merchant vessels Irene of Greece and Sea Horse of Lebanon. (Sky News)
- The Camel Reproduction Center in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, announces the birth of Injaz, the first cloned camel. (Telegraph)