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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

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)

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)

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

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

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

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.

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

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)

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

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)

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)