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2025 April 08

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)

2025 April 07

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)

2025 April 06

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)

2025 April 05

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)

2025 April 04

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)

2025 April 03

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)

2025 April 02

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 MW 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)

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