Portal:Current events/April 2025

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • Gaza war
    • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
      • UNICEF reports that over 332 children have been killed and 609 injured by the new Israeli military offensive across the Gaza Strip since the resumption of the war after the breakdown of the 2025 ceasefire. (BBC News) (UNICEF)
  • Israel–Hezbollah conflict
    • 2024 Israel–Lebanon ceasefire agreement
      • Four people are killed, including Hassan Bdeir, a high-ranking Hezbollah official, and seven others are injured by an Israeli airstrike on a building in Dahieh, Beirut, Lebanon. (Reuters) (Al Jazeera)
  • Red Sea crisis
    • March 2025 United States attacks in Yemen
      • The Houthis claim that they shot down a U.S. military-operated MQ-9 Reaper drone in Marib Governorate, Yemen. (AP)
      • U.S. missile strikes on Hodeidah, Yemen, hit a water management facility, killing at least four people, according to the Houthi-run Al-Masirah network. (Al Jazeera)
      • The U.S. announces it is sending a second aircraft carrier strike group, the USS Carl Vinson group, to the region. (Al Jazeera)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Eastern front of the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • The Russian ministry of defence says that Russian forces have captured Rozlyv [uk] in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (Al Arabiya)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Gujarat factory fire
  • At least 21 people are killed in an explosion at an illegal fireworks factory in Deesa, Gujarat, India. (Barron's)
• 2023–2025 Sundhnúkur eruptions
  • Seismic activity increases near Grindavík, Iceland, with the Icelandic Meteorological Office reporting that a volcanic eruption has occurred and a earthquake is being registered. People visiting the Blue Lagoon are evacuated rapidly. (The Watchers)
• 2025 Putra Heights pipeline fire
  • At least 305 people are injured after a gas pipeline owned by Petronas explodes and ignites a fire in Putra Heights, Selangor, Malaysia. (Malay Mail)
• A small airplane crashes into a lake in Os near Bergen, Norway, killing the two people onboard. (Sunnmørsposten)

International relations

• Cross-strait relations
  • The Chinese PLA Navy and Air Force conduct large-scale military exercises around Taiwan. At least 19 Chinese warships are deployed, including the aircraft carrier Shandong, marking its closest ever approach to the island. (The Guardian) (Financial Times)

Politics and elections

• Cory Booker's marathon speech
  • U.S. Senator Cory Booker delivers the longest speech in United States Senate history, breaking the previous record set by Strom Thurmond in 1957. (AP News)
• Denise Bronzetti and Italo Righi are sworn in as the new Captains Regent of San Marino. (San Marino RTV)

Science and technology

• Private spaceflight
  • SpaceX successfully launches four humans into orbit over Earth’s poles for the first time for the human spaceflight mission Fram2. The journey will last three to five days. (The New York Times)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Kharkiv strikes
      • Russian forces target Kharkiv with at least 13 Geran-2 drones, causing fires in industrial and residential areas and injuring eight people, including a child. (Ukrainska Pravda)
    • Kryvyi Rih strikes
      • A Russian missile strike on an industrial park in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, kills at least four people and injures 14 others. (Reuters)
• Sudanese civil war
  • Siege of El Fasher
    • At least two civilians are killed in the artillery shelling of a displacement camp in El Fasher, North Darfur, Sudan, by the Rapid Support Forces. (AP)
• Middle Eastern crisis
  • Israeli invasion of Syria
    • The Israeli Air Force launches airstrikes in Syria targeting the remaining "military infrastructure", destroying much of Hama Air Base and Tiyas Air Base, including all remaining hangars and radars. The Barzah scientific research centre is also reportedly bombed. (The Times of Israel)
  • Gaza war
    • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
      • Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu announces the country's military will seize large areas of land in the Gaza Strip and establish a new occupation zone called the Morag Corridor, potentially stretching from Rafah to Khan Younis. (AP)
    • Israeli strikes have killed more than 30 Palestinians, due to Israel’s military operation in the Gaza Strip expanding to seize large areas. (The Hindu)
  • Iran–United States relations
    • The United States Air Force deploys 6 nuclear-capable B-2 stealth bombers to Diego Garcia, amid rising tensions with Iran over their nuclear program. (AP)
• Myanmar civil war
  • The Myanmar government declares a temporary ceasefire with the National Unity Government-in-exile and its various allied ethnic armed organizations to facilitate relief efforts following the M_W 7.7 earthquake in the country several days ago. The ceasefire is expected to last until April 22. (DW)
• M23 campaign (2022–present)
  • 2025 Walikale offensive
    • Wazalendo militias break through March 23 Movement (M23) positions in Kampala, DRC, and launch an attack on the M23 rebels in Walikale. (Critical Threats)
• Mexican drug war
  • An elder peasant is killed after the blasts of a landmine when was riding his motorcycle in a rural road in the community of Puerta de Alambre, Apatzingán municipality, Michoacán. (Proceso)

Arts and culture

• Archaeologists with the Vienna Museum announce the discovery of a mass grave in Simmering district in Vienna, Austria, of around 150 Ancient Roman soldiers from the 1st century who likely died in a battle. (DW) (Caledonian Record)
• In a deal with 20th Television Animation, Fox announces a four-season, 15-episode renewal for The Simpsons, Bob's Burgers and Family Guy, along with American Dad!, marking its return to the network since its 2005 debut, after an 11-year run on TBS. (Deadline)

Business and economy

• Tariffs in the second Trump administration
  • China–United States trade war, 2025 United States trade war with Canada and Mexico
    • Donald Trump's Liberation Day speech
      • U.S. president Donald Trump announces a universal 10% tariff on most imports into the United States, a 20% tariff on goods from the European Union, and a 34% tariff on all imports from China. The tariffs will take effect from April 5.
      • Exceptions include Canada, Cuba, Mexico, North Korea, and Russia. Canada and Mexico had tariffs placed on them in February, while Cuba, North Korea, and Russia are under U.S. sanctions. (BBC News) (France 24) (India Today)
      • In the 10% tariff, the U.S. lists the Australian territory of Heard Island and McDonald Islands near Antarctica, despite the fact that it has no human inhabitants, imports or exports. In response to finding these islands in the list, Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese commented that "Nowhere on earth is safe" for the tariff. (The Guardian)
    • The United States Senate votes 51–48 on a non-binding resolution to rebuke and reverse tariffs on Canada, with Republicans Rand Paul, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and Mitch McConnell voting for the resolution. (NPR)

Disasters and accidents

• Tornado outbreak of April 1–3, 2025
  • The Storm Prediction Center in the United States issues a high risk convective outlook over parts of the Mississippi River valley, ahead of an expected tornado outbreak. (Storm Prediction Center) (Nine News)
• Tropical cyclone naming
  • The World Meteorological Organization retires Beryl, Helene, Milton, and John from their rotating list of names for hurricanes for the North Atlantic and East Pacific basins. (WMO)
• A microbus collided head-on with a bus in Lohagara Upazila, Bangladesh, killing 10 and injuring three others. (bdnews24)
• Five people are killed and at least one other is critically injured when a private Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation bus collides head-on with two vehicles on the Khamgaon-Shegaon highway in Buldhana, Maharashtra, India. (News18 India)
• A Russian Air Force Tupolev Tu-22M strategic bomber crashes due to a technical malfunction in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, killing one crew member and injuring three others. (Reuters)

Health and environment

• The Slovak government approves a plan to cull 350 brown bears after a man was found mauled by a bear on March 30. The government had previously culled 144 bears in 2024. (AP)
• The Polish government increases border controls with Slovakia in response to the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease among Slovakia's and Hungary's livestock. (TVN24)

Law and crime

• War on drugs in Ecuador
  • A court in New York City indicts José Adolfo Macías Villamar, the leader of the organized crime syndicate Los Choneros, on seven counts of drug trafficking, conspiracy, arms trafficking, and illegal drug distribution in the United States. Villamar is not currently in U.S. custody. (AP)

Sports

• 2025 CFL season
  • TSN president Stewart Johnston is announced as the 15th commissioner of the Canadian Football League, replacing Randy Ambrosie who had served in the role since 2017. (CBC)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • Rafah offensive
      • The Israel Defense Forces retakes control of Rafah, prompting thousands of Palestinians to flee the city. (Reuters)
      • At least 100 Palestinians are killed and 70 others are injured, including some critically, in airstrikes across the Gaza Strip. One of the strikes killed at least 27 people, including 8 men, 14 women, and 5 children, at a sheltering school in the north. (AP News)
• M23 campaign
  • 2025 Walikale offensive
    • M23 spokesperson Lawrence Kanyuka claims that the group's withdrawal from Walikale, North Kivu Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, was to show goodwill for peace negotiations. (Critical Threats)
• Mexican drug war
  • At least five CJNG gunmen are killed and 116 explosive devices seized after a combined operation that took place in Apatzingán. In the same day, in the municipality of Parácuaro, an encounter between delinquents, the SEDENA and the National Guard leaves one gunman killed. (La Jornada) (Contramuro)
• A dispute between two groups of miners over access to gold deposits in La Paz Department, Bolivia, escalates into clashes with six people reportedly killed and several others missing. (Reuters)

Business and economy

• Tariffs in the second Trump administration
  • A 25% tariff on all automotive imports into the United States enters force. No exemptions are announced despite requests from several major trade partners, including Japan and the United Kingdom. (Reuters)
  • Multinational car manufacturer Stellantis announces it will lay off 900 workers across five of its U.S. factories and will pause production at assembly plants in Canada and Mexico in response to the tariffs. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• January 2025 Southern California wildfires
  • The death toll from wildfires in Southern California, U.S., increases to 30. (CTV News)
• Mediterranean Sea migrant smuggling
  • Two boats carrying migrants capsize in the early hours of the morning near Lesbos in the Aegean Sea, killing 16 people and leaving one more missing. More than 40 people are rescued by the Hellenic Coast Guard. (AP)
• Tornado outbreak of April 1–3, 2025
  • At least seven people are killed and thirteen others are injured by overnight severe weather including tornadoes, storms, hail and floods across Tennessee, Missouri, and Indiana in the United States. (NBC News)
• Eight people are killed after an Antonov An-12 crashes near El Fasher, Sudan. (Aviation Safety Network)

International relations

• Hungary–Israel relations
  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lands in Budapest, Hungary, a signatory of the International Criminal Court (ICC), for a state visit in defiance of the international arrest warrant against him for alleged war crimes. (The Jerusalem Post) (AP)
  • The Hungarian government announces it will withdraw from the ICC. (Reuters)
• China arrests three Filipinos suspected of espionage near Chinese military facilities as part of a network recruited by Philippine intelligence to gather sensitive information. The Philippines say the arrests are related to previous arrests of Chinese nationals for similar offences. (AFP via CNA) (Reuters)

Law and crime

• 2025 Turkish protests
  • Turkish National Police detain eleven people for spreading calls for and participating in shopping boycotts in the country as a protest against the arrest of Istanbul mayor and opposition presidential candidate Ekrem İmamoğlu. (DW)
• Canada convoy protests
  • The Ontario Court of Justice in Ontario, Canada, convicts Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, two leaders of the truck driver protest movement against COVID-19 vaccination in Canada, of criminal mischief. (AP)
• Mass shootings in the United States
  • Three people, including the perpetrator, are killed and two others are injured in a mass shooting when a 29-year-old man shoots his mother and at passing cars in Sabattus, Maine, United States. (ABC News)
• Seven people, including the perpetrator, are injured in a mass stabbing near Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., United States. A suspect was arrested. (The Independent)
• A 50-year-old man sets himself on fire inside of his car in a failed car bombing near the National Monument on Dam Square in Amsterdam, Netherlands, causing a small explosion and injuring himself. No bystanders were injured. (NDTV)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Kharkiv strikes, Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
      • Five people are killed, including a child, and 35 are injured in a Russian drone attack on a residential area in Novobavarskyi District of Kharkiv, Ukraine. (Ukrainska Pravda)
    • Kryvyi Rih strikes
      • A Russian ballistic missile strike on a residential area in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, kills 19 people, including nine children, and injures more than 50 others. The Russian Defence Ministry says its forces were targeting a military gathering in the city. (CNN) (BBC News) (Ukrainska Pravda) (Reuters)
• M23 campaign
  • 2025 Walikale offensive
    • The Congolese media reports that M23 rebels retreating from Walikale have arrived in Kibua in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Critical Threats)
• Syrian civil war
  • Syrian peace process
    • Groups of Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) militants withdraw from the two neighborhoods of Sheikh Maqsood and Achrafieh in Aleppo, Syria, as part of a deal with the Syrian government, which will eventually merge the SDF and the Syrian Armed Forces under one command. (AP)
• Gaza war
  • More than 30 people are killed in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza. (Channel 4 News)

Business and economy

• Tariffs in the second Trump administration
  • China–United States trade war
    • China responds to U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs with a 34% reciprocal tariff on imports of American goods. The tariffs will take effect on April 10. (CNN)
  • Donald Trump's Liberation Day speech
    • Multiple companies, including Klarna, StubHub, Nintendo, and Professional Sports Authenticator, pause price-sensitive business actions in the U.S. to evaluate the impact of the recent tariff announcements. (The Wall Street Journal) (IGN) (The Verge)
    • Stocks fall for the second consecutive day following Trump's recent tariff announcements. Over the past two days, the S&P 500 is down over 10%, while the FTSE 100 is down 6.97% for the week. (The Guardian)
• Democratic Republic of the Congo–United States relations
  • Lamuka opposition coalition spokesperson Prince Epenge criticizes the proposed minerals-for-security deal between the Democratic Republic of Congo and the United States, describing it as a "sell-off." (Critical Threats)

Disasters and accidents

• Kočani nightclub fire
  • The death toll from the fire at a nightclub in Kočani, North Macedonia, in March increases to 60 as a burn victim dies in the hospital. (AP)
• Ten people are killed when a landslide caused by torrential rains buries two vehicles in Mojokerto, East Java, Indonesia. (AP)
• A bus carrying students and faculty from the Federal University of Santa Maria veered off a highway in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, killing seven and injuring 20. (menafn.com.)
• A van fell off a 50-meter ravine into a river in Sadanga, Mountain Province, Philippines, killing five and injuring nine. (GMA)

Law and crime

• Impeachment of Yoon Suk Yeol
  • The Constitutional Court of Korea unanimously upholds former President Yoon Suk Yeol's impeachment in an 8–0 vote, removing him from office. (The Korea Times)

Politics and elections

• Deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia
  • United States federal judge for the District Court of Maryland Paula Xinis orders the Trump administration to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national from Maryland who was mistakenly deported and sent to the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador. (AP)
• Thousands of people demonstrate in Bangui, Central African Republic, to protest against President Faustin-Archange Touadéra's plans to run for a third term with the backing of the Russian-led Wagner Group, who has killed indiscriminately in the country. (AP)

Sports

• 2024–25 NHL season
  • In ice hockey, Washington Capitals forward Alexander Ovechkin scores his 894th career goal, tying the all-time goals record held by Wayne Gretzky. (ESPN)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Kryvyi Rih strikes
    • The Ukrainian government declares April 6 as a day of mourning following yesterday's Russian missile strike on Kryvyi Rih in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine, that killed twenty people, one of the deadliest strikes since the start of the invasion. (de Volkskrant)
• Somali Civil War
  • 2025 Shabelle offensive
    • Colonel Nur Farey, the senior Somali military commander of the 14th brigade, is assassinated by a man believed to be an al-Shabaab militant in Addow Dibille near Afgoye, Lower Shabelle, Somalia. (Hiiraan Online)

Business and economy

• Tariffs in the second Trump administration, Executive orders in the second presidency of Donald Trump
  • Executive Order 14257
    • The first of two tariff rounds go into effect in the United States, containing a 10% blanket tariff on every import into the country. The second round of country-specific tariffs is scheduled to go into effect on April 9. (Reuters)
    • UK-based multinational car manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover suspends vehicle exports to the United States for a month to evaluate the impact of Trump's tariffs on the automotive industry. (Fox Business)

Disasters and accidents

• Three vehicles collided in Bomet County, Kenya, killing 15 and injuring 14. (TUKO)
• A car veered off the Pan-American Highway and crashed into a tree near Del Viso, Argentina, killing five and injuring one. (Minutouno)
• A minibus crashed into a parked truck in Kalaburagi, India, killing five and injuring 11. Jagran)
• Two people are killed after a caravan catches fire at a campsite in Skegness, Lincolnshire, England. (Sky News)
• Two reporters are killed after a metal structure collapses during the Festival Ceremonia in Mexico City, Mexico. (USA Today)
• Two tour buses collide along the Chūō Expressway in Hachiōji, Tokyo, injuring 47 people. (Kyodo News)

International relations

• Israel–United Kingdom relations
  • Israel blocks two British Labour Party MPs from entering the country. (Reuters)
• South Sudan–United States relations, Immigration policy of the second Donald Trump administration
  • U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announces the revocation of all visas of South Sudanese passport holders, citing "the failure of South Sudan's transitional government to accept the return of its repatriated citizens in a timely manner." (BBC)

Politics and elections

• Protests against the second presidency of Donald Trump
  • "Hands Off" protests against President Donald Trump occur across the United States. (The New York Times)

Sports

• 2025 Grand National
  • In horse racing, Nick Rockett, rode by Irish jockey Patrick Mullins, wins the 2025 Grand National at Aintree Racecourse in England. (BBC Sport)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • 2025 Sumy Oblast incursion
    • Russian troops reportedly capture the village of Basivka in Sumy Oblast, Ukraine. (Reuters)
  • Kyiv strikes
    • A Russian airstrike in Darnytskyi District, Kyiv, Ukraine, kills one person and injures three others. (CTV News)
  • Kryvyi Rih strikes
    • The death toll from Friday's missile strike on Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, rises to 20 deaths, including several children, and 75 injuries. (CTV News)
• Gaza war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • At least 46 people are killed in Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip over the last 24 hours. (Al Jazeera)
• Red Sea crisis
  • March–April 2025 United States attacks in Yemen
    • Between four and 70 people are killed and at least 16 others are injured in overnight U.S. airstrikes targeting Houthi forces in Saada, Yemen. (CTV News)
• Somali Civil War
  • 2025 Shabelle offensive
    • At least eight civilians are injured after Al-Shabaab militants launch mortar shells for the second consecutive day targeting Aden Adde International Airport and the heavily fortified Halane compound in Mogadishu. Following the attack, Turkish Airlines and Egyptair cancel scheduled flights. (Garowe Online) (Hiiraan Online) (Garowe Online)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 South Korea wildfires
  • The death toll from the wildfires across South Korea rises to 32 after a Bell 206 firefighting helicopter crashes during operations to combat a wildfire in Daegu, killing the pilot. (Korea JoongAng Daily)
• Tornado outbreak and floods of April 2–7, 2025
  • The death toll from the severe weather in the United States rises to 18. (ABC News)
  • Kentucky governor Andy Beshear says that two people have died and 500 roads are closed in the state due to flooding. (Reuters)
• Around thirty people are killed from overnight heavy flooding caused by torrential rains and water overflowing from the banks of the Ndjili River in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Al Jazeera)
• An air ambulance helicopter crashes in the Tsushima Strait off the coast of Nagasaki Prefecture in southwestern Japan, killing three of the six occupants onboard. (AP) (NHK)

Health and environment

• 2025 Southwest United States measles outbreak
  • A child dies from measles complications at the UMC Health System in Lubbock, Texas, United States, becoming the third measles-related death amid outbreaks and the second unvaccinated child victim. (CTV News)

Law and crime

• Four children are injured in a mass stabbing inside a house in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States. The perpetrator was shot and critically injured by responding police officers. (NBC News)

Politics and elections

• 2025 French far-right protests
  • The National Rally party organizes a large demonstration in central Paris to protest Marine Le Pen's conviction in the National Front assistants affair rendering her ineligible to run in the 2027 French presidential election. (AP)

Sports

• 2025 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament
  • 2025 NCAA Division I women's basketball championship game
    • The UConn Huskies win the NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament, defeating the defending champion South Carolina Gamecocks 82–59. UConn's Azzi Fudd is named the Most Outstanding Player.
• 2024–25 NHL season
  • In ice hockey, Washington Capitals forward Alexander Ovechkin scores his 895th career goal, surpassing the all-time goals record held by Wayne Gretzky. (Reuters)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Syrian civil war
  • Western Syria clashes
    • 2025 massacres of Syrian Alawites
      • The number of mainly-Alawite Syrian civilians killed in ongoing sectarian reprisal massacres by pro-Syrian government forces and Sunni parties since March 6 rises to 1,767. (SOHR)
• Gaza war
  • Israeli occupation of the Gaza Strip
    • Israel reportedly controls over half of the territory of the Gaza Strip after razing multiple Palestinian properties to expand its buffer zone. (AP) (CNN)
  • An Israeli airstrike near a charity kitchen in Gaza where displaced Palestinians gather for food, kills more than 30 people. (AP)
• Herder–farmer conflicts in Nigeria
  • The National Emergency Management Agency reports that at least 52 people have been killed and over 2,000 others have been displaced from their homes in recent days in tit for tat attacks by rival herders over control of arable land in Plateau State, Nigeria. (Reuters)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • A Pakistan Army raid on a Pakistani Taliban militant hideout in Dera Ismail Khan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, kills nine militants, including a high-profile Taliban leader who coordinated recent attacks on Pakistani military facilities in the region. (AP)

Business and economy

• Tariffs in the second Trump administration, Executive orders in the second presidency of Donald Trump
  • Executive Order 14257
    • The Nikkei 225, SSE Composite Index, and Hang Seng Index experience substantial losses following Friday’s losses on the New York Stock Exchange as a result of U.S. president Donald Trump's tariffs. European markets also decline, particularly in banking and defense sectors. The ASX 200 in Australia and the Kospi in South Korea also closes lower. (BBC News)
    • European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen offers to negotiate with Trump to avoid a trade war and further economic panic, including a zero-for-zero tariff deal on all industrial goods. (Politico) (Euronews)
    • Taiwanese president Lai Ching-te states that he does not intend to implement retaliatory tariffs against the United States. He instead expressed Taiwan's intent to import more American exports and increase its investments in the U.S. economy, beginning with a proposal for a Taiwan–U.S. bilateral zero-tariff deal. (NBC News)
    • President Trump announces plans to impose a 50% tariff on China, escalating to a total of 104% if China does not revoke its 34% reciprocal tariff on all American goods within a day. China rejects the ultimatum, maintains its reciprocal tariffs, and states its intention to match any further escalation. (CNBC) (NBC News) (AFP via Barron's) (Reuters)

Disaster and accidents

• A bus lost control after a break faliure and overturned in Tharaka-Nithi County, killing seven. (Tuko)

International relations

• Algeria–Mali relations
  • Algeria bans flights to and from Mali in response to "recurrent violations" of Algerian airspace by Malian military drones. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• At least fifteen schools are closed in Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, due to violent threats from unknown far-right extremist individuals, totaling at least 17,000 children affected. (DW)

Politics and elections

• 2025 South Korean presidential election
  • South Korea announces a snap presidential election after the dismissal of former president Yoon Suk Yeol, scheduled for June 3. (Korea JoongAng Daily)

Science and technology

• Colossal Biosciences announce they have bred three genetically modified wolf pups named Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi which have approximate anatomical features of extinct dire wolves. (TIME) (Bloomberg News)
• The first birth of a baby in the United Kingdom to a woman with a transplanted womb is announced. The baby girl, delivered at Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital in London to a 36-year-old woman, is reported to be healthy. (BBC News)

Sports

• 2025 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament
  • 2025 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship game
    • In college basketball, the Florida Gators rally from a 12-point deficit to defeat the Houston Cougars, 65–63, at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas, U.S., to win their first championship since 2007. (Tampa Bay Times)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2025 Belgorod Oblast incursion
    • Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirms the presence of Ukrainian troops in Russia's Belgorod Oblast. (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• Jet Set nightclub roof collapse
  • At least 124 people, including Dominican politician Nelsy Cruz and former Major League Baseball players Tony Blanco and Octavio Dotel, are killed and 160 others are injured when the roof of a nightclub collapses during a performance by merengue singer Rubby Pérez, who is among the dead, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. (NBC News) (El País)
• The death toll from the heavy flooding in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, caused by overflow of the Ndjili River increases to 33 deaths. Hundreds of buildings are completely submerged and thousands of people are trapped in their homes. (NPR) (DW)
• About 50 hippos are killed by anthrax poisoning at Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (CTV News)

Health and environment

• 2020–2025 H5N1 outbreak
  • Mexico reports its first human death from bird flu subtype H5N1 which caused multiple organ failure in a three-year-old girl in Torreón, Coahuila. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• 2024 Democratic Republic of the Congo coup attempt, Democratic Republic of the Congo–United States relations
  • Three U.S. citizens have their sentences for attempting a coup against the Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi in 2024 commuted and are extradited back to the United States. They were previously sentenced to death along with 34 others for the failed attempt that killed six people, including the coup's leader Christian Malanga. (NPR)
• Mass shootings in the United States
  • Three people are killed and three others are injured in a mass shooting in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, United States. (Fox News)

Politics and elections

• Asylum in Germany
  • The German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees orders a temporary halt to a United Nations refugee resettlement program which it has participated in since 2012, citing the change in government. The new coalition government is expected to restart the program when a new interior minister is announced. (DW)
• Associated Press v. Budowich, Second presidency of Donald Trump
  • U.S. district judge for the District Court of D.C. Trevor N. McFadden orders the White House to restore the Associated Press's full access to cover presidential events on First Amendment grounds, overruling the Trump administration's previous order to ban the news agency after it refused to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America". (AP) (The Hill)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • 2025 Russian spring offensive
      • Ukrainian commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrskyi reports that Russia has commenced a new spring offensive, launching intensified attacks across multiple sections of the frontline. (Kyiv Independent)
• Gaza war
  • Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
    • April 2025 Shuja'iyya airstrike
      • Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip kill at least 35 Palestinians, including at least 23 in an apartment building in Shuja'iyya, Gaza City. (AP) (Al Jazeera) (Channel 4)
• Red Sea crisis
  • March–April 2025 United States attacks in Yemen
    • Overnight U.S. missile strikes on Hodeidah, Yemen, kill at least eight people, according to Houthi-run state television. (AP)

Business and economy

• Tariffs in the second Trump administration, Executive orders in the second presidency of Donald Trump
  • Executive Order 14257, China–United States trade war
    • The second of two tariff rounds go into effect in the United States containing country-specific tariffs on goods into the country, including a 104% tariff on Chinese imports. The first round of 10% blanket tariffs previously came into effect on April 5. (Reuters)
    • China's finance ministry announces an increase from the previous 34% tariff to an 84% tariff on all goods imported from the U.S. (BBC News)
    • U.S. president Donald Trump announces he will be raising tariffs on Chinese goods entering the U.S. to 125% up from 104%, while other countries will have only 10% for 90 days. (BBC News)
    • Amazon begins suspending orders on various products manufactured in China and other Asian economies amid trade war fears. (Bloomberg)
    • Canada announces a 25% tariff on certain vehicle imports from the U.S. as retaliation against a previous similar measure from the U.S. (BBC News)
    • European Union officials announce a set of retaliatory duties on U.S. imports from 10% to 25% on some U.S. goods. (NBC News)
• Universal Destinations & Experiences formally announces that they have chosen a site near Kempston Hardwick in Bedfordshire, England, as the location for their Universal Studios United Kingdom resort. The theme park will officially open in 2031 and will be the largest theme park in the UK upon completion. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• Jet Set nightclub roof collapse
  • The number of deaths caused by the roof collapse of the Jet Set nightclub in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, rises to 136. (BNO News) (Diario Libre)
• One girl is killed and another is missing after a fire destroys six homes in Millville, New Jersey, United States. (AP) (WPVI-TV)

Law and crime

• Mass shootings in the United States
  • One person is killed and five others are injured, including one critically, in a mass shooting during an anti-violence meeting at an office park in Memphis, Tennessee, United States. (BNO News)

Politics and elections

• 2025 German federal election
  • Friedrich Merz announces the formation of a grand coalition government between the CDU/CSU and Social Democratic Party in order to freeze out the far-right Alternative for Germany. (The Guardian)

Sports

• 2028 Summer Olympics
  • The International Olympic Committee announces the program for the upcoming Olympic Games in Los Angeles with new events in multiple sports and mixed gender events. (USA Today)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Syrian civil war
  • Western Syria clashes
    • 2025 massacres of Syrian Alawites
      • The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reports a marked re-escalation of extrajudicial killings of civilians in Alawite-dominated coastal Syrian regions, with sixteen civilians executed in 72 hours. Several civilian homes in Tartus Governorate are seized by government-affiliated forces. (SOHR) (SOHR 2)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • War crimes in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • A video leaked by Ukrainian officials and verified by the Associated Press shows Russian soldiers summarily executing four Ukrainian prisoners of war last month in Piatykhatky, Zaporizhzhia Oblast. (AP)
• Papua conflict
  • Seventeen people are killed by West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) militants in Yahukimo Regency, Highland Papua, Indonesia. The TPNPB alleges that they attacked Indonesian Army soldiers disguised as gold miners, while the Indonesian government rejects the claim. (AP)

Business and economy

• Tariffs in the second Trump administration
  • China–United States trade war
    • The White House clarifies the tariff rate on China, stating that a 145% tariff on all imports to the United States is in effect. The 20% addition came from China's alleged role in supplying synthetic opioids, including fentanyl, to the United States. (The New York Times)
  • The European Union announces a 90-day pause on counter measures against the U.S. tariffs on European goods. (BBC News)
• Land reform in Zimbabwe
  • Zimbabwe begins issuing the first financial compensation payments to White Zimbabwean farmers whose farms were seized by Robert Mugabe's government between 2000 and 2002. A total of 740 farmers will be compensated as per the 2020 agreement with the Commercial Farmers' Union. (BBC News)
• The United Kingdom's Cabinet Office announces it will cut around 2,100 jobs from its department, about a third of its total workforce, as part of wider government spending cuts. (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Hudson River helicopter crash
  • A Bell 206 sightseeing helicopter crashes into the Hudson River off Lower Manhattan, New York, United States, killing Siemens Spain CEO Agustín Escobar, his family of four, and the pilot. (AP) (ABC News)
• Jet Set nightclub roof collapse
  • The number of deaths caused by the roof collapse of the Jet Set nightclub in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, rises to 221, as rescue operations reach the end. (CTV News)

Health and environment

• Hungary's Minister of the Prime Minister's Office Gergely Gulyás suggests a biological attack could be the source of a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in the country. (Reuters)

International relations

• Russia–United States relations
  • A Russian-American citizen arrested in Yekaterinburg in early 2024 and a dual German-Russian citizen arrested in Cyprus in 2023 are released in a prisoner swap between Russia and the United States. (BBC News)
• South Korea–Syria relations
  • South Korea formally establishes diplomatic relations with Syria. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• 2025 Turkish protests
  • The government of Turkey releases 127 people on bail, most of which are university students, after they were arrested for taking part in protests calling for the release of Istanbul mayor and opposition figure Ekrem İmamoğlu. (AP)
  • Turkish police detain two journalists, one from BirGün and one from Cumhuriyet, and raid their offices, accusing them of making threats and blackmail after they reported on the arrest of İmamoğlu. Reporters Without Borders condemn the arrests as an infringement on freedom of information. (DW)

Politics and elections

• Presidency of Javier Milei
  • Argentines organize a 24-hour nationwide general strike against the Javier Milei administration for the third time. According to the government, this constitutes an "attack against the republic". (The Straits Times) (Yahoo News)
• The German governing coalition announces it will abolish the expedited 3-year naturalization path for "integrated" immigrants who are spouses of German citizens or have completed the Integrationskurs. The path requiring 5 years of continuous residency will remain. (DW)
• Brigitte Haas is sworn in as the first female Prime Minister of Liechtenstein. (Vaterland)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Gaza Strip evacuations
    • Indonesia indicates that it is ready to temporarily accept the "first wave" of around 1,000 Palestinian evacuees from the Gaza Strip until conditions improve. (Haaretz) (Tempo)
• Terrorism in Greece
  • A bomb explodes outside the offices of Greece's main railway company Hellenic Train in Athens, Greece. No casualties were reported. (CTV News)

Business and economy

• Tariffs in the second Trump administration
  • China–United States trade war
    • China increases its tariffs on U.S. imports from 84% to 125% in response to U.S. duties on Chinese goods of 145%. (Reuters)
    • China states that it will not respond to any further U.S. tariff increases, as U.S. goods have already been priced out of the Chinese market by existing tariffs, but may still impose other economic measures. (CNBC)

Disasters and accidents

• More than 100 people have died in the past three days after unseasonably heavy rain floods parts of India and Nepal. (Dawn)
• A boat smuggling immigrants capsized off St. Lucie Inlet in Florida. Four people are rescued by the United States Coast Guard while five others are killed. (WPBF)
• A Cessna 310 crashes into Interstate 95 near Boca Raton Airport in Boca Raton, Florida, United States, killing all three occupants of the plane and injuring one other on the ground. (NBC News) (Boca News Now)
• Three people are killed when a Mooney M20 crashes in the Cherokee National Forest near Reliance, Tennessee, United States. The Federal Aviation Authority and National Transportation Safety Board are currently investigating the crash. (WRCB)

International relations

• Panama–United States relations
  • An agreement is signed by top security officials from Panama and the U.S. allowing U.S. military personnel to deploy to Panama-controlled facilities. (France24)
• Russia–United States relations
  • The U.S. president's special envoy Steve Witkoff meets with Russian president Vladimir Putin to discuss settlement options for the Russo-Ukrainian war and a potential meeting between Donald Trump and Putin. (CBS News)
• Immigration policy of the second Donald Trump administration
  • The U.S. terminates the temporary protected status of Afghan and Cameroonian nationals. (BBC)

Law and crime

• Illegal immigration to the United States
  • Twenty-six-year-old Yaquelin Dominguez-Nieves is sentenced to seven and a half years imprisonment for her part in a people smuggling operation that killed 16 and injured two Cuban undocumented migrants in a shipwreck in South Florida, United States, on November 16, 2024. (CTV News)
• Immigration to Italy
  • The Italian government sends 40 asylum seekers to an internment camp in Albania after their asylum applications were rejected, preparing them to be deported. Migrants can be held for a maximum of 18 months under Italian law. (DW)
• Capital punishment in the United States
  • American spree killer Mikal Mahdi, who killed three people, including an off-duty police officer, in July 2004, is executed by firing squad at the Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia, South Carolina. (NBC News)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Sudanese Civil War
  • Siege of El Fasher
    • Zamzam and Abu Shouk refugee camp massacres
      • At least 100 people, including 20 children, are killed in Rapid Support Forces attacks on Al-Fashir and two nearby displacement camps in North Darfur, Sudan, according to the United Nations. (Hindustan Times)
• Gaza war
  • Rafah offensive
    • The Israel Defense Forces announces the completion of the Morag Corridor, completely cutting off the city of Rafah from the rest of the Gaza Strip and effectively turning it into an Israeli security zone. (Al Jazeera)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • A Ukrainian Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon is shot down by a S-400 missile during combat operations against Russian forces, with the pilot killed in action. (Ukrinform) (Defense Mirror)
• Sistan and Baluchestan insurgency
  • Eight Pakistani citizens are killed in a mass shooting by Baloch Nationalist Army gunmen in Mehrestan, Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran. (Al Jazeera)
• Three prison officers sustain life-threatening injuries in a mass stabbing and burn attack when Hashem Abedi, the brother of Islamic terrorist Salman Abedi, the perpetrator of the Manchester Arena bombing in 2017, attacks prison officers at HM Prison Frankland in County Durham, England, with hot cooking oil and shivs. (BBC News)

Business and economy

• Tariffs in the second Trump administration
  • China–United States trade war
    • U.S. president Donald Trump's administration exempts smartphones and computers from all "reciprocal" tariffs, including the base 10% on all countries and the 125% levies imposed on Chinese imports. White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller states that a separate 20% tariff on Chinese imports remains in effect for the products. (BBC News)
• Steel Industry (Special Measures) Act 2025
  • The British government passes emergency legislation to control some management decisions at British Steel in order to prevent the closure of the Jingye Group-owned Scunthorpe Steelworks. (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Copake plane crash
  • A Mitsubishi MU-2B aircraft en route from Westchester County Airport to Columbia County Airport crashes into a field in Copake, New York, United States, killing all six occupants onboard. (NBC News)

International relations

• Iran–United States relations
  • Iran and the United States, represented by foreign minister Abbas Araghchi and special envoy Steve Witkoff, hold their first round of indirect talks in Muscat, Oman, and agree to continue the negotiations. (The Jerusalem Post)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • 2025 Sumy airstrike
      • During Palm Sunday, two Russian Iskander-M ballistic missiles carrying cluster munitions strike the centre of Sumy, Ukraine, killing at least 35 people and wounding 117 others. (ABC News) (BBC News)
      • The Russian Defence Ministry says the strike targeted a military gathering in the city. Artem Semenikhin, the mayor of Konotop, Sumy, says regional Governor Volodymyr Artyukh planned an awards ceremony for the 117th Territorial Defense Brigade in Sumy on the same day. (AP) (The Kyiv Independent)
• Gaza war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • Israel destroys part of the last fully functional hospital in Gaza City, the Al-Ahli Arab Baptist Hospital, which is managed by the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem. No direct casualties are reported, but one child is killed due to interrupted medical care. (BBC News) (PCHR Gaza)
• Boko Haram insurgency
  • Eight people are killed and a dozen others are injured after a roadside bomb suspected to be planted by Islamic extremists hits a bus on the Damboa-Maiduguri highway in Borno State, Nigeria. (AP)

Arts and culture

• Expo 2025
  • The opening ceremony for the 2025 World Expo is held in Osaka, Japan, which includes pavilions for 160 countries. (‘’Japan Times’’)

Disasters and accidents

• Five people are killed and twelve others are injured in a fire at a hostel in Pszów, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland. (TVN24)
• Six people are injured, including two critically, and twenty-four homes are damaged after a two-story house explodes in Austin, Texas, United States. (Austin American-Statesman)

Law and crime

• Pennsylvania Governor's Residence fire
  • The Pennsylvania Governor's Residence is targeted in an arson attack. Governor Josh Shapiro and his family are evacuated and the fire was extinguished. A suspect was later arrested and charged with attempted murder, terrorism, aggravated arson and aggravated assault against an enumerated person. (NBC News) (CTV News)
• Security incidents involving Donald Trump
  • An American teen follower of the Order of Nine Angles previously charged with killing his parents is also accused of plotting to assassinate U.S. president Donald Trump. (NBC News)
• At least 46 people are injured and treated at the scene and one person is hospitalized when a tear gas canister leaks at Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg, Germany. The perpetrator behind the leak is unidentified. (DW)
• Two people are killed and nine others are injured in a mass shooting at a park in Conway, Arkansas, United States. (AP)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Gabonese presidential election
  • Gabonese military leader Brice Oligui Nguema wins the presidential election with more than 90% of the vote as an independent politician. (BBC News)
• 2025 Ecuadorian general election
  • Incumbent Ecuadorian president Daniel Noboa wins re-election for a full term in a rematch against Citizen Revolution Movement candidate and former assemblywoman Luisa González. (CNN)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Gaza Strip evacuations
    • Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto tours the Middle East to seek support from Egypt, Jordan, Qatar, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates for his proposed plan to temporarily evacuate 1,000 Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to Indonesia. (Indonesia Business Post)
  • International aid to Palestinians
    • The European Union announces a €1.6 billion (US$1.8 billion) three-year financial support package for Palestinians aiming to "stabilize" Gaza and the West Bank. (DW)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • United Kingdom and the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • The United Kingdom sends £752 million ($990 million) to Ukraine for the purchase of surface-to-air missiles, artillery and spare parts for fighter aircraft, as part of an international loan programme funded primarily through seized Russian financial assets. (Reuters)
• Herder–farmer conflicts in Nigeria
  • At least 51 people are killed in escalating clashes between rival herders in Plateau State, Nigeria, while another 2,000 people are displaced, according to Amnesty International. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• Mediterranean Sea migrant smuggling
  • The Hellenic Coast Guard finds two bodies and 39 survivors when a boat carrying migrants capsizes off the coast of Farmakonisi in the Dodecanese islands of Greece. (AP) (Greek City Times)
• A 5.2 magnitude earthquake strikes Julian, California, United States. The earthquake, felt throughout Southern California and Baja California, caused several rockslides on California State Route 76 and the demolition of an office façade in Tecate, Baja California, Mexico due to risk of collapse caused by earthquake. (The San Diego Union-Tribune) (La Jornada)

Health and environment

• Aging of Japan
  • According to official data, the population of Japanese citizens dropped to a record low of 120.3 million by October 2024, following a 14-year trend of record lows and the largest drop since records began in 1950. (DW) (Government of Japan)

International relations

• China–Vietnam relations
  • China and Vietnam sign 45 agreements, including deals on rail links and supply chains, during Chinese leader Xi Jinping's state visit to Vietnam as part of his broader tour across Southeast Asia in response to tariffs imposed by the United States. Vietnam also approves jet purchases from China, with China's Comac signing a deal with Vietjet. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Democratic backsliding in the United States, El Salvador–United States relations
  • U.S. President Donald Trump suggests deporting United States citizens to the controversial Terrorism Confinement Center prison in El Salvador, despite the unconstitutionality of the proposal. (NBC News)
• July Revolution
  • A court in Dhaka, Bangladesh, along with the Anti-Corruption Commission, issues an arrest warrant for Tulip Siddiq, a United Kingdom MP who is the niece of ousted former leader Sheikh Hasina, for corruption allegations. Siddiq has rebuked the arrest warrant and called it a "smear campaign" against her. (DW) (BBC News)
• LGBTQ rights in Hungary
  • The Hungarian government passes several constitutional changes that affect LGBTQ rights, including a provisional law that says people can only be male or female and codifying a law that bans LGBTQ events, including Budapest Pride. (DW)
• The Spanish Civil Guard arrests two Russian citizens in Manacor, Mallorca, for alleged breeding and sale of exotic cats, and recover a caracal, two servals, and sixteen felid hybrids. (DW)

Science and technology

• Blue Origin NS-31
  • A Blue Origin New Shepard launch vehicle makes a brief sub-orbital spaceflight, carrying six female space tourists, marking the first all-female spacecraft since 1963's Vostok 6 which had Valentina Tereshkova as the pilot and the spacecraft's sole passenger. (NPR) (USA Today)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • 2025 Sumy airstrike
    • Ukrainian military leader Volodymyr Artyukh is fired from his position as Sumy Oblast Governor following condemnation for organizing a military ceremony in the densely populated Sumy city center, which was later targeted by a Russian airstrike. (The Kyiv Independent)
• Sudanese civil war, Foreign aid to Sudan
  • Humanitarian impact of the Sudanese civil war
    • The European Union and its member states pledge €522 million (US$590 million) and the United Kingdom pledges £120 million (US$141 million) in humanitarian aid to Sudan to deliver food and supplies to over 650,000 internally displaced Sudanese people affected by the fighting between the Rapid Support Forces and the Sudanese Armed Forces. The two groups also call for an immediate ceasefire to end the war. (DW) (AP)
• Insurgency in Balochistan
  • At least three Balochistan Police officers are killed and 16 others are injured when a roadside bomb hits a bus carrying police personnel in Mastung District, Balochistan, Pakistan. (DW)

Business and economy

• Tariffs in the second Trump administration
  • China–United States trade war
    • China orders its airlines to stop taking deliveries of jets from American aviation company Boeing and to suspend purchases of aircraft-related equipment and parts from U.S. companies. (NDTV)

Disasters and accidents

• At least 3,747 people are hospitalized with breathing difficulties and airports are closed after a dust storm in Iraq. (France 24)
• A Chinese crew member is killed when Chinese sand barge vessel M/V Hong Hai 16 capsizes off Rizal, Occidental Mindoro, Philippines. A search and rescue operation is launched by the Philippine Coast Guard for missing crew members, which includes seven Filipinos and three Chinese. (The Philippine Star)

Health and environment

• The European Commission approves the use of Lecanemab, a monoclonal antibody medication that targets amyloid beta peptides, to treat the early stages of Alzheimer's disease via intravenous therapy. This is the first drug to be approved to treat the disease in Europe, and was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in the United States in 2023. (DW)

International relations

• Algeria–France relations
  • France expels twelve Algerian diplomatic officials from the country after Algeria expelled twelve French officials yesterday over the arrest of an Algerian consular official in a kidnapping case. France also recalls its ambassador from Algiers. (AP) (Bloomberg)
• Israel–Maldives relations, Visa policy of the Maldives
  • The Parliament of the Maldives votes in favor of an amendment to the Immigration Act, banning entry into the Maldives for those traveling on Israeli passports. (The Edition)

Law and crime

• Media freedom in Russia
  • Four Russian journalists linked to the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny are convicted of extremism and sentenced to five years and six months imprisonment in a penal colony. (CNN) (AP)
• Piracy in the 21st century
  • According to a report by the International Maritime Bureau, piracy has risen by almost 35% in 2025 with 45 cases in the first quarter compared to the same period in 2024, particularly in the Singapore Strait between Singapore and Indonesia. (DW) (Seatrade Maritime News)
• Aftermath of the Operation Car Wash
  • A court in Lima, Peru, sentences former president Ollanta Humala and his wife Nadine Heredia to 15 years in prison for laundering funds from Brazilian company Odebrecht to finance his 2006 and 2011 presidential campaigns. (AP) (BBC News)
• At least four students are injured in a school mass shooting at Wilmer-Hutchins High School in Dallas, Texas, United States. (BNO News)
• Four people are injured in a vehicle-ramming attack after a person drives a sedan onto a pedestrian walkway on the Toronto Metropolitan University campus near Yonge Street and Gerrard Street in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (CBC News)

Science and technology

• 4chan is hacked and goes offline, with the website's source code and the usernames, IP addresses, and email addresses of its staff leaked by imageboard Soyjak.party. (Dailydot) (Cybernews) (MSN)

Arts and Culture

• Events and ceremonies are held around the world marking the 113th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic.

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Kherson strikes
    • Russian artillery and glide bombs target Kherson, Ukraine, killing one person and injuring nine others. A sports facility, a supermarket, and residential buildings were among those hit. (AP)
  • Dnipro strikes
    • A large-scale drone attack on Dnipro, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, kills two people and injures 16 others. (Reuters)
• Somali Civil War
  • 2025 Shabelle offensive
    • Al-Shabaab militants capture the Adan Yabal District in Middle Shabelle, Somalia, as the group continues to advance towards the capital Mogadishu. (Reuters)

Business and economy

• Tariffs in the second Trump administration
  • California Governor Gavin Newsom and California Attorney General Rob Bonta file a lawsuit against U.S. President Donald Trump and his administration over the tariffs, making California the first U.S. state to do so. The lawsuit also targets the International Economic Emergency Powers Act, the law used by Trump to impose tariffs against Canada, China, and Mexico. (Politico)

Disasters and accidents

• Authorities recover the remains of a Filipino crew member from the sand barge Hong Hai 16 that capsized off Occidental Mindoro, Philippines, yesterday, bringing the total death toll to two. Nine others are reportedly still missing. (GMA News)
• The HB Kongolo traveling from Matankumu to Bolomba, carrying around 400 people, catches fire and capsizes on the Congo River near Mbandaka, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing at least 50 people and leaving hundreds more missing. (AP)
• Three people are killed and two others are injured when two boats collide on Lewis Smith Lake in Cullman County, Alabama, United States, during a Major League Fishing tournament. (ABC News)

Health and environment

• The United Kingdom suspends the import of cheese and meat products from the European Union to prevent the spread of foot-and-mouth disease. (BBC News)

International relations

• Brazil–Peru relations, Aftermath of the Operation Car Wash
  • Following her sentencing to 15 years in prison, former First Lady of Peru Nadine Heredia and her son Samin flee to Brazil's capital Brasília after the country grants their right of asylum. (AP)

Law and crime

• Democratic backsliding in Slovakia, 2025 Slovak protests
  • The Slovak government passes a law requiring non-governmental organizations to disclose their funding sources and the names of major donors. Opposition groups criticize the law as it could restrict civil society institutions. (DW) (Politico)
• Israeli–Lebanese conflict
  • The Lebanese military detains a group of people, including several Palestinians, for firing rockets towards Israel in two separate attacks. Hezbollah denies their involvement in the rocket attacks. (AP)
• Transgender rights in the United Kingdom, For Women Scotland Ltd v The Scottish Ministers
  • The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom rules that legal gender is based upon biological sex for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010. (BBC News)
• A German palliative care doctor is charged for allegedly killing fifteen patients between 2021 and 2024 in Berlin. He is being investigated in an additional 75 suspected cases and also accused of trying to cover up the evidence by starting fires in their homes. (AP) (Tagesschau)

Politics and elections

• Sudanese civil war
  • The leader of the Sudanese Rapid Support Forces, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, announces the establishment of the Government of Peace and Unity, a rival government to the country's armed forces. (BBC News)

Science and technology

• A research team at the University of Cambridge announces that the James Webb Space Telescope has detected dimethyl sulfide, a chemical thought to be produced in nature only by living organisms, on exoplanet K2-18b, a sub-Neptune planet around 124 light-years (38 pc) away from Earth. (BBC News)
• A colossal squid is filmed in the Southern Atlantic Ocean for the first time since the species was discovered in 1925. The 30 cm (12 in)-long juvenile was filmed by a team of scientists led by the University of Essex near the South Sandwich Islands at a depth of 600 m (2,000 ft). (BBC News)

Sports

• Women's World Chess Championship 2025
  • Chinese grandmaster Ju Wenjun wins her fifth consecutive Women's World Chess Championship title after defeating fellow Chinese grandmaster Tan Zhongyi with a score of 6.5–2.5. Ju becomes the first Chinese player to win the championship five times. (CNN)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Rafah offensive
    • The Israel Defense Forces begins the expansion of the recently-established Morag Corridor buffer zone to include the southern Gaza city of Rafah, intending to connect it with the Philadelphi Corridor. Witnesses report the Israeli demolition of structures in Rafah. (Al Jazeera) (RBC Ukraine)
    • At least 37 people, including children, are killed in a series of Israeli strikes against displaced Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, according to the Palestinian Civil Defence agency. (BBC News)
• Red Sea crisis
  • March–April 2025 United States attacks in Yemen
    • The United States Navy launches a wave of missile strikes across Houthi-controlled Yemen, killing at least one person in Sanaa. (AP)
• Somali Civil War
  • 2025 Shabelle offensive, American military intervention in Somalia
    • U.S. airstrikes kill twelve al-Shabaab insurgents in central Somalia, while a separate airstrike destroys an unflagged vessel suspected of carrying weapons for the militant group off the Somali coast. (Reuters) (Middle East Monitor)

Disasters and accidents

• Kočani nightclub fire
  • The death toll from the fire at a nightclub in Kočani, North Macedonia, in March increases to 62 as a burn victim dies in the hospital. (Sloboden Pečat)
• Monte Faito cable car crash
  • Four people are killed and one is injured after the collapse of an aerial tramway on the Monte Faito in Campania, Italy. (Il Messaggero)
• The death toll of the capsized Hong Hai 16 two days ago off Occidental Mindoro, Philippines, rises to four. Seven others are still missing. (Philippine News Agency)
• A middle school student is killed and several others are injured when a school bus returning from a field trip blows a tire, strikes a guard rail, and overturns on Interstate 77 in Chester County, South Carolina, United States. Two other buses travelling back from the field trip maneuvered to avoid crashing into it. Between the three buses, at least 35 students and four adults were injured. (ABC News)

Law and crime

• Tropic Air Flight 711
  • A hijacker is killed and three others are injured when a U.S. citizen hijacks a Tropic Air Cessna 208 Caravan and attacks passengers with a knife before being fatally shot by a passenger with a firearm at Philip S. W. Goldson International Airport in Belize City, Belize. (ABC News) (Airways)
• 2025 Florida State University shooting
  • At least two people are killed and six others are hospitalized in a mass shooting at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida, United States. The suspect is arrested by local police. (AP) (The New York Times) (NBC News)
• Illegal drug trade in Turkey
  • Turkish police detain 525 suspected drug dealers in Ankara, in what is the biggest narcotics operation in the country's history, involving thousands of officers, sniffer dogs, drones, and helicopters, according to the interior ministry. (AP) (Türkiye Today)
• The government of Myanmar pardons and releases 4,893 prisoners, including thirteen foreigners who will be deported from the country, and 22 political prisoners, ahead of the country's New Year. (DW) (Radio Free Asia)
• Two people are severely injured in a stabbing attack at an Aldi supermarket in Rochlitz, Saxony, Germany. (DW)

Politics and elections

• Deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia
  • U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen meets with Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador to push for his release after being denied a meeting hours earlier by the Salvadoran government. (Politico)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Red Sea crisis
  • US–UK airstrikes on Yemen
    • March–April 2025 United States attacks in Yemen
      • 2025 Ras Isa oil terminal airstrikes
        • The Houthis say that American airstrikes targeted the Ras Isa port in Yemen, killing 74 people and wounding 171 others. This marks the single-deadliest known attack under President Donald Trump's new campaign targeting the Houthis. (AP)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Peace negotiations in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announces that the Trump administration is ready to abandon diplomatic efforts and "move on" if it is not possible to end the war in "a matter of days". (CNN)
• Persecution of Ahmadis in Pakistan
  • One man is killed in Karachi, Pakistan, after a mob of radical Islamists belonging to Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan attack the Ahmadiyya community after Friday prayer. (DW)

Disasters and accidents

• The death toll of the fire and capsizing of the wooden boat HB Kongolo on the Congo River in Democratic Republic of the Congo three days ago rises to 148. Hundreds of others remain missing. (Reuters)
• Three people are killed when a Cessna 180 Skywagon crashes into the Platte River in Fremont, Nebraska, United States, just outside of Omaha. (KLKN)
• Three people, including a lay minister, are killed and seventeen others are injured when a car driven by an Indian national driving under the influence hits a tricycle and crashes into a procession in Bacolod, Philippines. (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
• The death toll of the capsized Hong Hai 16 sand barge three days ago off Occidental Mindoro, Philippines, rises to six. Five others are still missing. (GMA)

Law and crime

• Three children and an adult were shot at an apartment complex in Garland, Texas. A 15-year-old died at the hospital from their injuries. No arrests have been made. (KDFW)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Herder–farmer conflicts in Nigeria
  • The death toll from clashes between cattle herders and farmers earlier this week in Benue State, Nigeria, rises to 56. (Barron's)
• At least 178 people are arrested in Pakistan after over 10 group attacks on KFC restaurants occur during protests against United States support for Israel in the Gaza war, with one employee shot dead. (Al Jazeera) (Al Arabiya)

Disasters and accidents

• Eleven people are killed in the collapse of a residential building in New Delhi, India. (Barron's)
• Four people are killed when a Cessna 180 Skywagon aircraft clips powerlines and crashes into a field southwest of Coles County Memorial Airport in Trilla, Illinois, United States. (WCIA-TV)
• Seven people are killed when a passenger jeepney on a family tour crashes into a roadside canal in Boac, Marinduque, Philippines. (Xinhua) (Radyo Pilipinas)
• The death toll of the capsized Hong Hai 16 sand barge four days ago off Occidental Mindoro, Philippines, rises to seven. Four others are still missing. (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
• Two people are killed and three others are rescued after two vehicles are swept off a road during flooding in southeast Moore, Oklahoma, United States. (KWTV-DT)

Law and crime

• 2025 Tesla vandalism
  • U.S. federal authorities charge a student at the University of Massachusetts Boston with unlawful possession of a destructive device and malicious damage by fire after the student is arrested for setting fire to two Tesla Cybertrucks and damaging charging stations in Kansas City. (The Independent)
• U.S. authorities arrest a man in Colorado Springs for his "Declaration of War" threatening Elon Musk, Tesla owners, and members of Donald Trump's cabinet. The declaration, sent to various media outlets, detailed specific attack methods and aimed at Musk's elimination. (KCNC-TV)
• Four executives at a company building the State Audit Office skyscraper in Bangkok, Thailand, are arrested on suspicion of breaching the Foreign Business Act. (CTV News)
• A tavern owner is killed and four others are injured in a mass shooting during a live music performance at a tavern in Marble Hall, Limpopo, South Africa. No arrests were made. (SABC)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Red Sea crisis
  • US–UK airstrikes on Yemen
    • March–April 2025 United States attacks in Yemen
      • The Houthis report that twelve people are killed and thirty others are injured in airstrikes on a market and a residential zone in Farwa District, Sanaa, Yemen. (Le Monde)

Disasters and accidents

• The death toll from drownings during the week across Australia increases to seven after a fisherman dies after being swept off rocks near Sydney. Three people remain missing and one other was injured. (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
• The death toll of the capsized Hong Hai 16 off Occidental Mindoro, Philippines, rises to nine. Two others are still missing. (Manila Bulletin)
• Three people are killed and ten others are injured, including one critically and four firefighters, in a large house fire in Jamaica Estates, Queens, New York, United States. (WABC-TV) (WCBS-TV)

Law and crime

• At least one person, the perpetrator, is killed and six others are injured, in an arson attack when a man sets fire to an apartment building with a flamethrower in Bongcheon-dong, Seoul, South Korea. (Yonhap)

Sports

• In table tennis, Hugo Calderano of Brazil defeats Lin Shidong of China 4–1 sets, winning the ITTF World Cup and becoming the first athlete from the Americas to win the competition. (CNN Brasil)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Spillover of the Sudanese civil war
  • 2025 Nasir clashes
    • The South Sudan People's Defence Forces capture the town of Nasir in Upper Nile State from the Nuer White Army. (Reuters)
• Boko Haram insurgency
  • The Islamic State claims responsibility for a series of deadly attacks targeting Christians and security forces in Borno and Adamawa, Nigeria earlier this month that killed at least nine people and injured several others. (Reuters)

Business and economy

• ARK Invest becomes the first US-based asset manager to gain exposure to the Solana blockchain through an ETF investment after Canada approves several spot Solana ETFs. (Coin Market Cap)

International relations

• Death and funeral of Pope Francis
  • Cardinal Kevin Farrell, Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church, announces that Pope Francis has died early on Easter Monday, at the age of 88. (Euronews) (AP)
  • Cardinal Farrell, as Camerlengo, becomes the acting head of Vatican City until the next papal conclave in May. (NPR)
• Klaus Schwab steps down as leader of the World Economic Forum, which he founded in 1971. (DW)

Law and crime

• 2019 El Paso Walmart shooting
  • The perpetrator of the racially motivated domestic terrorist mass shooting attack that killed 23 people and injured 22 others at a Walmart building in El Paso, Texas, United States, in 2019, 26-year-old Patrick Wood Crusius, pleads guilty to state charges and is sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole to avoid the death penalty. (USA Today)

Sports

• 2025 Boston Marathon
  • In long-distance running, Kenyan road runner John Korir wins the men's competition at the Boston Marathon with a time of 2:04:45 which, along with his brother Wesley Korir's win in 2012, makes them the first and only set of brothers to win the event. (The New York Times)
  • Kenyan athlete Sharon Lokedi wins the women's competition with a time of 2:17:22 and sets the new course record, surpassing Buzunesh Deba's record in 2014. (WBZ-TV)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
    • Israeli airstrikes kill at least 25 people across the Gaza Strip. (RTÉ News)
• Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
  • 2025 Pahalgam attack
    • At least 28 people are killed and dozens of others are injured when terrorists open fire on people in Pahalgam, Anantnag district, Indian-controlled Jammu and Kashmir. (The New Indian Express) (The Guardian)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Zaporizhzhia strikes
    • Russian guided bombs target Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, killing one person and wounding 26 others, according to regional governor Ivan Fedorov. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• Jones Road Fire
  • Roughly 5,000 residents are evacuated, the Garden State Parkway is shut down and a business is destroyed after a large wildfire burns 12,500 acres (51 km²) in Lacey Township, New Jersey, United States. (WCAU-TV) (WPVI-TV)
• A truck carrying passengers fell off a ravine in Jamshoro District, Sindh, Pakistan, killing 16 and injuring 20. (AP) (IHA News)
• A fuel tanker and a bus collided head-on in Ghana, killing 11. (Modern Ghana)

Law and crime

• Palestine–Syria relations
  • Syria detains two senior members of the paramilitary organization Palestinian Islamic Jihad. (Reuters)
• Seven people are killed in a mass stabbing when a man enters a bakery and attacks sleeping employees in Antipolo, Rizal, Philippines. (GMA Network)
• Interpol rescues 33 West Africans, including people from Benin, Togo, Burkina Faso, and Ghana, from human trafficking rings in the Ivory Coast. (AP)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Ivorian presidential election
  • Main opposition leader Tidjane Thiam is disqualified from the 2025 Ivorian presidential election. (BBC News)
• U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says that the U.S. State Department will cut 15% of its staff and that the office of the Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights will be abolished. (NPR)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Russian forces launch a drone strike on a bus in Marhanets, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine, killing nine people. (The Guardian)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Istanbul earthquake
  • A M_w 6.2 earthquake with an epicenter in the Sea of Marmara strikes Istanbul, Turkey, injuring at least 359 people. (AP)
• Ten people are killed in a mine collapse in Kabare Territory, South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (AP News)

Health and environment

• 2023–2025 global coral bleaching event
  • The International Coral Reef Initiative announces that over 84% of the world's coral reefs are affected by a coral bleaching event since 2023, considered the most intense on record. (AP)

International relations

• Death and funeral of Pope Francis
  • The body of Pope Francis is moved from Domus Sanctae Marthae to St. Peter's Basilica, and lies in state for a 3-day public viewing. (CBS News)
• 2025 India–Pakistan diplomatic crisis, India–Pakistan relations
  • India announces several measures targeting Pakistan including closing the main border crossing linking the two countries, suspending the Indus Water Treaty, and expelling Pakistani diplomats after the attack on tourists in Indian-administered Kashmir yesterday. (BBC News)

Law and crime

• The Jordanian interior ministry bans all activities of the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood organization in the country, seizes the organization's assets, and closes all of its offices, including its political wing in the country, the Islamic Action Front. The Jordanian government links the group to sabotage plots and accuses it of "destabilizing" the country. (DW)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Gaza war
    • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
      • Attacks on refugee camps in the Gaza war, Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
        • Three children are killed and several others are injured after an Israeli airstrike hits a tent encampment in the Nuseirat refugee camp, resulting in a fire which spread through parts of the camp. Altogether, at least 45 people are killed from today's attacks. (Al Jazeera)
  • Israeli settler violence
    • Israeli settlers in the West Bank shoot and injure five Palestinians and set fire to several homes and farmland. (Al Jazeera)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Kyiv strikes
    • April 2025 Russian attack on Kyiv
      • Twelve people are killed and around 90 others, including children, are injured in a Russian KN-23 ballistic missile strike on Kyiv, Ukraine. (CTV News) (Reuters)
• Somali Civil War
  • 2025 Shabelle offensive
    • Al-Shabaab militants seize the town of Wargaadhi and its military base in Middle Shabelle, Somalia. More than 40 militants and twelve clan fighters are killed in related combat. (Al Jazeera)
• Islamist insurgency in the Sahel
  • The Beninese government announces that 54 soldiers were killed in an attack by Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin (JNIM) in the north of the country last week, after previously announcing only eight soldiers were killed. JNIM claims 70 soldiers were killed in the attack. (BBC News)
• Boko Haram insurgency
  • At least 20 people are killed in an attack by gunmen on the village of Gobirawa Chali in Zamfara State, Nigeria. (AP News)

Arts and culture

• 2025 in archaeology
  • Archaeologists from the University of Barcelona confirm that the remains discovered in Valls, Catalonia, Spain, correspond to the ancient Iberian city of Cissa, the scene of the Battle of Cissa during the Second Punic War. (RTVE)

Disasters and accidents

• Four people are killed and four others are injured, including one critically, when a dump truck crashes into six pedestrians working on powerlines in Eden, North Carolina, United States. (WFMY-TV)

International relations

• India–Pakistan relations
  • 2025 India–Pakistan diplomatic crisis
    • Pakistan closes its land border and shared airspace with India indefinitely following the attack on tourists in Pahalgam, India-administered Kashmir, several days prior, and India's executive actions against Pakistan yesterday. (DW)

Law and crime

• Censorship in Mexico
  • A joint commission of the Mexican Senate approves a proposal submitted by President Claudia Sheinbaum that would grant the government the power to block and censor digital platforms, including social networks, websites, and apps, indefinitely and without a court order. The proposal will be sent to the government-aligned majority in Congress for further approval. (Milenio)
• Highland Park parade shooting
  • 24-year-old Robert E. Crimo is sentenced to 21 life sentences for killing seven people and injuring 48 others in a mass shooting during the 2022 Independence Day parade in Highland Park, Illinois, United States. (CNN)
• Jones Road Fire
  • A 19-year-old is arrested and charged with arson on suspicion of starting an ongoing large wildfire that has burned 15,000 acres in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States. (ABC News)
• 2025 Nantes school stabbing
  • One student is killed and three others are critically injured in a mass stabbing at a private school in Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France. A 15-year-old student is detained. (Daily Mirror)
• The perpetrator is killed and at least four others are injured in a mass shooting at a used car dealership in the Glenvar Heights, Florida, United States. (WSVN) (WPLG)
• Former South Korean President Moon Jae-in is indicted on charges of alleged corruption and bribery for receiving ₩217 million (US$152,000) in connection with his son-in-law's employment at airline Eastar Jet in Thailand. (DW)

Politics and elections

• The Palestinian Central Council votes 170–1 to establish the position of Vice President of the State of Palestine. (Reuters)

Science and technology

• Chinese space program
  • The Shenzhou 20 spacecraft launches successfully from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China, carrying three astronauts on a six-month mission to install space debris protection in the Tiangong space station and carry out scientific experiments on solar and cosmic ray radiation on planarians. (Reuters) (DW)

Sports

• 2025 NFL draft
  • In American football, the NFL draft is held at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin, with the Tennessee Titans selecting quarterback Cam Ward from the Miami Hurricanes as the first overall pick. (The Washington Post)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Kashmir conflict
  • 2025 India–Pakistan border skirmishes
    • Indian and Pakistani military troops exchange gunfire across the Line of Control during an ongoing diplomatic crisis caused by a terrorist attack in India-administered Kashmir. (Al Jazeera)
• Gaza war
  • Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, Gaza Strip famine
    • The World Food Programme (WFP) claims that their entire food stock inside the Gaza Strip is empty due to the Israeli blockade of humanitarian aid. WFP aid kitchens are expected to run out of food in a few days, and thousands of Palestinians are expected to die from starvation. The United Nations Office for Humanitarian Affairs calls the situation "probably the worst" since the beginning of the war in October 2023. (DW)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Lieutenant general Yaroslav Moskalik, deputy head of the Main Operations Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, is assassinated in a car bombing in Balashikha, Moscow Oblast, Russia. (CNN)

Arts and culture

• Death and funeral of Pope Francis
  • Cardinals seal the coffin of Pope Francis in a private liturgical rite led by Camerlengo Kevin Farrell at St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City. (CNN)

Business and economy

• German economic crisis
  • The German government cuts its economic growth forecast to zero, with the Deutsche Bundesbank estimating a future recession. Minister of Economic Affairs Robert Habeck accuses U.S. President Donald Trump's Liberation Day tariffs of being the primary reason for Germany's continued economic crisis. (DW)

Disasters and accidents

• A man is killed and two women are wounded as an 80-year-old driver loses control over his car and plunges into a group of people celebrating the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Italy in Lanciano, Province of Chieti. (Chieti Today) (Chicago Tribune)
• A Royal Thai Police Viking DHC-6 Twin Otter aircraft crashes while conducting a test flight for parachuting training near Hua Hin Airport in Prachuap Khiri Khan, Thailand, killing all six people on board. (The Nation) (AP)
• A M_w 6.3 earthquake strikes Esmeraldas, Ecuador, shutting down power, damaging 800 buildings and injuring 32 people. (AFP via Philippine Daily Inquirer)

International relations

• Norway–Russia relations, Violations of non-combatant airspaces during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Norway reports that Russia has violated its airspace over the Barents Sea. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Former Brazilian president Fernando Collor de Mello is arrested following a corruption conviction by Supreme Federal Court justice Alexandre de Moraes. (AP)
• Wisconsin circuit court judge Hannah Dugan is arrested by United States federal law enforcement on obstruction charges after allegedly helping an undocumented immigrant evade arrest. (CNBC)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Islamist insurgency in the Sahel
  • Twelve soldiers are killed in clashes with militants near the village of Sakoira, Niger. (Reuters)
• Red Sea crisis
  • The Israel Defense Forces say they have intercepted a ballistic missile launched from Yemen by Houthi forces. (Reuters) (Times of Israel)
• Territorial disputes in the South China Sea
  • China seizes the disputed Sandy Cay Reef in the Spratly Islands of the South China Sea. (Financial Times)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 India–Pakistan diplomatic crisis
  • Severe flooding is reported along the Jhelum River in Pakistan-administered Azad Kashmir after Indian authorities release a large amount of water without prior warning. The incident follows the suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty by the Indian government. (24 News HD)
• Port of Shahid Rajaee explosion
  • At least twenty-five people are killed and over 800 others are injured in an explosion at the Port of Shahid Rajaee in Bandar Abbas, Iran. (AP)
• Three people are killed when a Mooney M20 crashes a mile south of Upper Cumberland Regional Airport in Tennessee, United States. (WKRN-TV)
• Two people are missing and a child is rescued after a boat capsizes on Maule Lake in Florida, United States. (Citizen)

International relations

• Death and funeral of Pope Francis
  • The funeral of Pope Francis is held in St. Peter's Square, Vatican City. 400,000 people are in attendance, including more than 130 world leaders. (ABC News) (CNN) (The Guardian)

Law and crime

• 2025 Vancouver car attack
  • Nine people are killed and several others injured, after a car is driven through a crowd at a Philippine-Canadian festival in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. (Al Jazeera)
• Two women are seriously injured in an attack on a road when a 38-year-old man attacks them with a crossbow and a firearm before shooting and injuring himself in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. Counter Terrorism Policing is currently investigating the incident. (BBC News)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
    • At least 51 Palestinians are killed by Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours, bringing the official death toll to 52,243 throughout the war. (AP)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • North Korean involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • North Korea confirms the deployment of its soldiers to Russia a day after Russia confirmed the presence of North Korean soldiers fighting alongside them. (Reuters)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • The Pakistani Armed Forces claims to have killed 54 Pakistani Taliban militants attempting to cross into Pakistan from Afghanistan near North Waziristan District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, allegedly to carry out high-profile terrorist attacks inside Pakistan. (CTV News)
• Israeli–Hezbollah conflict
  • Israel carries out airstrikes on several suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, despite a ceasefire agreement following the 2024 invasion. The Lebanese Civil Defense reports no casualties. (BBC News)
• Sudanese civil war
  • Rapid Support Forces militants kill over 31 civilians, including minors, in a mass shooting near al-Salha, Omdurman. (Sudan Tribune)

Arts and culture

• Induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
  • The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announces its 2025 inductees, including English band Bad Company, American groups Outkast and Soundgarden, artists Cyndi Lauper and Carol Kaye, and more. (NPR)

Business and economy

• Saudi Arabia and Qatar announce they will pay Syria's outstanding debt of $15 million to the World Bank that the country accumulated throughout its civil war from 2011, allowing Syria to work towards post-war recovery and reconstruction, which is estimated to cost at least $400 billion. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• Port of Shahid Rajaee explosion
  • The death toll from yesterday's explosion at the Port of Shahid Rajaee in Bandar Abbas, Iran, rises to 40 while the injury count increases to 1,205. (Iran International)
• A van veered off a road and plunged into a well in Madhya Pradesh India, after colliding with a bike, killing 12 and injuring four. (The Independant)
• An vehicle crashes in Cato Ridge, Durban, South Africa, killing five and injuring one. (SABC NEWS)
• At least one person is killed and at least 51 others are injured when a ferry transporting 42 people collides with a privately-owned recreational boat near the Memorial Causeway in Clearwater, Florida, United States. (IONTB) (ABC News)

International relations

• Death and funeral of Pope Francis
  • The tomb of Pope Francis at the Santa Maria Maggiore basilica in Rome, Italy, is opened for public viewing and photos are released by Vatican City. More than 13,000 people enter the basilica to view the tomb and pay their respects, while several thousand others remain outside. (ABC News)

Law and crime

• 2025 Vancouver car attack
  • The death toll from yesterday's vehicle-ramming attack at a street festival in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, rises to eleven with at least 20 others injured, making the attack tied for the deadliest vehicle-ramming attack in Canadian history. The British Columbia Prosecution Service charges the perpetrator with eight counts of second-degree murder, while investigators also rule out terrorism. (CTV News) (AP)
• Three people are killed and two are injured in a mass shooting after a quarrel outside a pizzeria in Monreale, Province of Palermo, Italy. (PalermoToday)
• Polish investigators start excavating a World War II mass grave in Puźniki [pl]. It contains victims of the Volhynia massacres, when Ukrainian nationalists murdered around 100,000 civilians who were predominantly Polish. (NOS)
• At least 114 people suspected of entering the United States illegally are detained in a raid by the DEA and ICE at a nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States, which had been investigated for drug trafficking and prostitution. (AP) (NPR)
• One person is killed and six others, including three students, are wounded in a school shooting during a university event at the historically black Elizabeth City State University in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, United States. (AP) (CNN)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Kashmir conflict
  • 2025 India–Pakistan border skirmishes
    • Pakistani Defence Minister Khawaja Asif says that a military incursion by India is imminent. (Reuters)
• Red Sea crisis
  • US–UK airstrikes on Yemen
    • 2025 Saada prison airstrike
      • The Houthis claim at least 68 people are killed and 47 others are injured in a U.S. airstrike on a prison holding African migrants in Saada Governorate, Yemen. (AP)
    • A sailor is injured when an F/A-18E fighter jet falls off the deck of the USS Harry Truman and sinks while the aircraft carrier engaged in evasive maneuvers to avoid a Houthi attack. (Politico)
• Boko Haram insurgency
  • Sixteen people are killed after the explosion of a roadside bomb between the towns of Rann and Gamboru in Borno State, Nigeria. (Al Jazeera)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • At least seven people are killed and 16 others are wounded when a bomb explodes outside an anti-Pakistani Taliban peace committee office building in Wana, South Waziristan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (AP)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Russian president Vladimir Putin declares a three-day ceasefire in Ukraine for May 8–10 to mark the World War II Victory Day. (CTV News)
• South Thailand insurgency
  • Three people are killed and another is severely injured overnight in two separate attacks by suspected Islamist insurgents in Bannang Sata district, Yala province, Thailand. (The Nation)
• Somali Civil War
  • Several mortars from alleged Al-Shabaab militants strike Aden Adde Airport and Halane Camp, the residences of the UNSOM, AUSSOM, and foreign embassies. (Hiiraan Online)

Business and economy

• 2025 European power outage
  • A widespread power outage is reported in Spain, Portugal, Andorra, and parts of France, shutting down airports, public transit systems, and many hospitals. (La Vanguardia) (El Mundo) (El Confidencial)
  • The government of Spain declares a national state of emergency and deploys over 30,000 police officers to maintain order. Portuguese prime minister Luís Montenegro rules out a cyberattack as the cause of the power outage. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• Four female students, ages 4 to 18, are killed and six others are injured when a car crashes through the wall of a daycare center in Chatham, Illinois, United States. The driver was not injured but was taken to a hospital for evaluation. (The Independent)
• 2025 Nushki oil tanker explosion
  • Three firefighters are killed and 70 others are injured when a fuel tanker explodes in the Nushki District, Balochistan, Pakistan. The driver of the tanker were also killed in the incident. (DAWN.COM)

Law and crime

• Tianjin Hospital stabbing
  • Two people are killed and four others are injured, including one seriously, in a mass stabbing attack at the Tianjin Hospital in Tianjin, China. All the victims were medical staff, including Luo Wei, an orthopedic doctor and deputy chief physician of the Second Department of Sports Trauma Arthroscopy. (Oriental Daily News)
• Six people are injured in a mass stabbing attack at a high school in Cheongju, South Korea. The attacker, a student, is arrested. (The Korea Herald)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Canadian federal election
  • Voters in Canada go to the polls to elect the 343 members of the House of Commons to the 45th Canadian Parliament. (BBC)
  • The Liberal Party under leader Mark Carney is projected to form government for the party's fourth consecutive mandate, with Carney remaining prime minister. (The Globe and Mail)
  • Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre and New Democratic Party leader Jagmeet Singh lose their seats, with the NDP also losing official party status in the House. Each make speeches conceding the election, with Singh announcing his intention to resign as party leader. (CTV News)
• 2025 papal conclave
  • The Vatican announces the 2025 papal conclave will take place starting on May 7 in the Sistine Chapel to elect Pope Francis's successor after his death on April 21. (NPR) (Vatican News)
• 2025 Trinidad and Tobago general election
  • Voters in Trinidad and Tobago go to the polls to elect the 41 members of the House of Representatives. (Radio Jamaica News)
  • The opposition United National Congress, led by Kamla Persad-Bissessar, wins a majority of seats. (The Gleaner)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Kashmir conflict
  • 2025 India–Pakistan border skirmishes
    • Pakistani Information Minister Attaullah Tarar says that India intends to launch a military strike on Pakistan within the next 24 to 36 hours. (Reuters)
• Rif Dimashq clashes (April 2025–present)
  • Gunmen reported to be aligned with the Syrian government engage in fatal clashes with armed Druze combatants in the Druze-majority city of Jaramana in southern Syria. At least 13 people are killed, and 12 others are injured. (Al Jazeera) (CTV News)
• Boko Haram insurgency
  • At least 26 people are killed when a truck hits a roadside bomb in Borno State, Nigeria. (Al Jazeera)
• A 38-year-old man suspected of seriously injuring two women on Saturday in a shooting and crossbow attack on the Otley Run pub crawl in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, succumbs to a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the hospital. It is confirmed that the perpetrator's motive was misogyny. (BBC News)

Business and economy

• 2025 European power outage
  • At least five fatalities are reported in Spain as a consequence of the power outage that affected the Iberian Peninsula the day before. (ABC.es)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Liaoning Liaoyang Hotel Fire
  • Twenty-two people are killed and three others are injured after a fire breaks out in a restaurant in Liaoyang, Liaoning, China. (CNA)
• Three people are killed and over 400000 lose power due to severe storms in Western Pennsylvania, United States. (CBS)
• Three people are killed and two others are injured when scaffolding collapses at a developing liquefied natural gas plant in Port Arthur, Texas, United States. (Times Now)
• Fifteen people are killed, including two children, and thirteen others are injured in a fire at a hotel in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. (Business Standard) (The Telegraph)
• Eighteen Russians are injured in a bus crash in Side, Turkey. (Telegrafi)

Law and crime

• 2025 Uppsala shooting
  • Three people are killed in a shooting at a hair salon in Uppsala, Sweden, with the perpetrator still at large. (BBC News)
• Jalisco extermination camp
  • Alejandro Gertz Manero, Attorney General of Mexico, concluded that the Izaguirre Ranch was used by the Jalisco New Generation Cartel as a recruitment camp between 2021 and 2024, but found no evidence that it served as an extermination site. (AP)
• Three people are killed and two others are seriously injured in a mass shooting in Minneapolis, Minnesota (Minnesota Public Radio)

Politics and elections

• President of Russia Vladimir Putin signs a decree restoring the "Stalingrad" name to the Volgograd Airport. (Reuters)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Red Sea crisis
  • US–UK airstrikes on Yemen
    • The Royal Air Force launches airstrikes on buildings they claimed were used by the Houthis to manufacture drones south of Sanaa, Yemen. (CTV News)
• Puntland–Somaliland dispute
  • Las Anod conflict, Puntland–Somaliland prisoner exchange
    • Puntland releases fifteen prisoners of war in exchange for Somaliland releasing eleven combatants captured during the conflict in the contested Sool region. This is the second prisoner exchange of prisoners captured during the conflict in Las Anod. (Hiiraan Online) (Horn Observer)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • North Korean involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • South Korean intelligence claims North Korean troops have suffered around 4,700 casualties, including about 600 fatalities among 15,000 soldiers. Their combat capability has also significantly improved, with increasing proficiency in new weapons such as drones. (CBC News)
• Colombian conflict
  • The Colombian government says fifteen police officers and twelve soldiers have been killed over the past two weeks in targeted attacks by the Gulf Clan cartel and other armed groups. (BBC News)

Business and economy

• Nigeria and the International Monetary Fund
  • Nigeria fully repays its US$3.4 billion debt to the International Monetary Fund that it borrowed during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is expected to pay some residual honorary charges for special withdrawing rights of US$30 million annually. (Jamaica Observer) (MSN)
• Ukraine–United States relations
  • The United States and Ukraine sign the Ukraine–United States Mineral Resources Agreement to share profits from the future sales of Ukraine's mineral and energy reserves. (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Israel fires
  • Wildfires rage out of control in at least 100 different locations throughout Israel and the West Bank, prompting the Israeli government to declare a state of emergency and forcing evacuations near Jerusalem. At least 40 people are reportedly injured due to the fires. (CNN)
• Five people are killed and six injured after a gas cylinder exploded in a shop in Lahore, India. (Samaa TV) (Dawn)

Law and crime

• Kenyan parliament member Charles Ong'ondo is shot to death in Nairobi by unknown gunmen on a motorcycle in an apparent assassination. (BBC News)
• Belarus–United States relations
  • An American citizen detained in Belarus after being accused of being part of a US-backed coup to oust Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko is released from the country. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirms the release. (KCRA)

Health and environment

• The world's oldest person, Brazilian nun Inah Canabarro Lucas, dies at the age of 116 years and 326 days. The new oldest living person is British supercentenarian Ethel Caterham, who is the last person born in the 1900s decade, the last living subject of King Edward VII, and the oldest British person ever. (BBC News) (The Telegraph)

International relations

• Foreign relations of Taiwan, Somaliland–Taiwan relations
  • Amid strengthening ties between Taiwan and Somaliland, the Somali government bans Taiwanese passport holders from Somalia, citing UN Resolution 2758 and the One China policy. Taiwan lodges a protest with Somalia and claims China instigated the ban. (BBC News) (Reuters)
• New Zealand–Philippines relations
  • New Zealand defence minister Judith Collins and Philippine defense secretary Gilbert Teodoro sign a visiting forces agreement in Manila. (The Washington Post)