Thursday, April 27th, 2023 

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy seizes a Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker in international waters of the Gulf of Oman, according to the United States Navy. (AP) 

One person is killed and 23 others are injured as a result of Russian Kalibr missile strike in Mykolaiv. (Euronews) 

The Prime Minister of Poland, Mateusz Morawiecki, officially opens the new Warsaw Radom Airport in Radom, which has been under construction since May 2019. It is estimated that the airport initially will be able to serve around 1 million passengers, and in the future around 3 million. (Polish News) (Poland Posts English) 

The Moscow City Court orders the closure of the SOVA Center, which monitored nationalist and racist movements in Russia. (The Moscow Times) 

The Ministry of Defense of Saudi Arabia begins the recruitment of women for the military, allowing both genders to join for the first time. (Al Arabiya) 

Wednesday, April 26th, 2023 

Chinese leader Xi Jinping calls Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, with both countries announcing the dispatch of representatives to establish a diplomatic presence after the call. (NPR) 

Iranian ayatollah and Assembly of Experts member Abbas-Ali Soleimani is assassinated in a shooting at a bank in Babolsar, Mazandaran province. The perpetrator, a security guard at the bank, has been arrested by police. (BBC News) 

Six Iranian demonstrators are injured in clashes in Fanuj, Sistan and Baluchistan province, after a teenager was killed when his motorcycle collided with a police car. (RFE/RL) 

• Naxalite–Maoist insurgency 

Ten policemen and a civilian driver are killed when a bomb planted by suspected Maoist militants explodes in Dantewada district, Chhattisgarh, India. (Reuters)Pakistan reports their first case of mpox. (Al Jazeera) 

El Salvador opens a trial against former president Mauricio Funes for initiating a truce with street gangs during his presidency. Funes, who is currently living in Nicaragua, will not attend the trial. (AP) 

A Brazilian judge orders a temporary shutdown of social media app Telegram over its failure to provide information on Neo-Nazi chat groups to the Federal Police of Brazil. (AP) 

By a vote of 217–215, the United States House of Representatives passes a bill that would raise the United States debt ceiling by $1.5 trillion in exchange for spending restrictions. (AP) 

The House of Commons of the United Kingdom passes the Illegal Migration Bill by a vote of 289–230 despite opposition from some members of the ruling Conservative Party. (BBC News) 

Zooey Zephyr, the first openly transgender member of the Montana House of Representatives, is censured by the Republican-led chamber on a party-line vote following her protest of anti-transgender legislation. Zephyr will be barred from debate until the May legislative session. (KXLH-TV) 

In basketball, the eight seed Miami Heat defeat the Milwaukee Bucks, who held the greatest record of the season at 58-24, in five games. The loss was widely described as one of the greatest upsets in NBA history. (ESPN) 

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Wednesday, April 26th, 2023 

Singapore executes Tangaraju Suppiah for plotting to smuggle 1 kilo of cannabis into the country. His execution, the country’s first this year, drew significant pleas for clemency, including from the United Nations. (BBC News) 

Russia uses its T-14 Armata main battle tanks in combat against Ukrainian forces for the first time. (Reuters) 

Chinese leader Xi Jinping called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, over a month after Xi’s summit with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin. (National Public Radio) 

The United Kingdom’s Competition and Markets Authority blocks Microsoft’s $68.7bn (£55bn) acquisition of Activision Blizzard, saying the deal will leave video gamers with less choice and will reduce innovation. (BBC News) 

Thirteen suspected gang members are lynched and set on fire by residents in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (Al Jazeera) 

Hakuto-R Mission 1, an uncrewed lunar lander built by Japanese aerospace company ispace, is presumed lost after the company lost contact with the spacecraft during descent to the lunar surface. Onboard was the Emirates Lunar Mission rover Rashid, along with a transformable robot, SORA-Q, built by Tomy and JAXA. (CNN) 

Tuesday,  April 25^th, 2023  

A Russian S-300-type missile strike in Kupiansk, Kharkiv Oblast, kills at least one civilian and injures 10 others. (RFE/RL) 

Philippine President Bongbong Marcos approves a 90-day extension of mandatory registration of SIM cards, whose deadline is originally scheduled for the following day. (The Philippine Star) 

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Tuesday,  April 25th, 2023 

Fox News and host Tucker Carlson part ways. Less than an hour later, CNN fires host Don Lemon. (Politico) 

President Joe Biden formally announces his re-election campaign. (CNN) 

Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei pays an official visit to Taiwan to reaffirm support for Taiwan as one of the 13 countries which recognize Taiwan in the One-China policy dispute. China condemns Giammattei’s visit. (Reuters) 

A Russian missile strike on Kupiansk, Kharkiv Oblast, kills at least one civilian and injures 10 others. (RFE/RL) 

The United Kingdom begins a large-scale evacuation of British citizens from Sudan. (The Guardian) 

Monday,  April 24th, 2023 

A geomagnetic storm hits Earth, causing aurorae as far south as Alabama in the United States. The storm registers at a G5 (extreme), the highest on the scale. (San Francisco Chronicle) 

Russian forces in Crimea repel a drone attack on Sevastopol, according to governor Mikhail Razvozhaev, in the first attack on the peninsula since February. (The Guardian) 

Switzerland suspends all diplomatic operations at its embassy in Khartoum. (Reuters) 

Iranian workers in major industries continue Workers Strike.iranintl 

Brazil, South Africa, Niger and Mexico evacuate more than 100 citizens from Sudan.  (ABC News) 

Seventeen people are killed and more than 50 others are injured after explosive material in the basement of a police station in Kabal Tehsil, Swat District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, catches fire, causing explosions. (Al Jazeera) 

Five people are injured when a 39-year-old Palestinian man rams his car into a crowd of people on a street in Jerusalem. He is later killed by an armed citizen. (Reuters) 

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Sunday, April 23rd, 2023 

According to the Institute for the Study of War and various Russian military bloggers, the Ukrainian military have taken up positions on the east bank of the Dnieper river north of the town of Oleshky. (Novaya Gazeta Europe) 

Syria suspends all of its flights to Sudan, following the deaths of 11 Syrians in the country. (NPA Syria) 

Many countries, including the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, and Canada, evacuate their nationals and some civilians from Khartoum, or announce plans to do so. (BBC News) 

Canada and the United States suspend all diplomatic operations in Sudan due to the ongoing conflict.  (Washington Times) 

Sudan reports a large internet outage across the entire country during the night. (Al Jazeera) 

American retailer Bed Bath & Beyond files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. (NPR) 

Former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo is extradited from the United States and is taken to prison on charges related to money laundering. (Reuters) 

Forty-seven members of the Good News International Church are found dead in Malindi, Kenya. (BBC News) 

The United Kingdom launches its UK Emergency Alert System, sending a test emergency population warning to all 4G and 5G mobile phones for the first time. Many people do not receive the alert, particularly users of the Three mobile network. The Cabinet Office acknowledges that the emergency alert did not reach some people, saying that it is “reviewing the test”. (BBC News) 

In North Kosovo, heads of four municipalities are elected amid a boycott by Serbian parties and a record low turnout of 3.5%. All four elected mayors are ethnic Albanians, although there is a dominant Serb population in the municipalities. (RFE/RL) 

Saturday, April 22nd, 2023 

Japan places its Self-Defense Forces on high alert as defence minister Yasukazu Hamada says that Japan could potentially shoot down the North Korean reconnaissance satellite that is expected to be launched by Pyongyang if it falls in Japanese territory. (Reuters) 

Russia announces the expulsion of several German diplomatic personnel in a tit-for-tat decision following the expulsion of Russian personnel from Germany. (RFE/RL) 

A Malian Air Force attack helicopter crashes into a residential area of Bamako while returning from operations against jihadists near the Mauritanian border. Three people on board killed and six on ground injured. (MENA FN) (AA France) 

France and Saudi Arabia announce that they will evacuate their citizens from Sudan, joining the United States and the United Kingdom in doing so. (The Washington Post) (Gulf News) 

Friday,  April 21st, 2023 

Latvian Defence Minister Ināra Mūrniece announces that Latvia will send all of its FIM-92 Stinger missile sytems to Ukraine, following a meeting with NATO allies at Ramstein Air Base in Germany. (Yahoo! News) 

A court in Macau sentences Levo Chan Weng-lin, the former chair of the city’s second largest casino VIP room operator, to 14 years in prison for illegal gambling and criminal association. (SCMP) 

The Belgian head of the EU humanitarian mission to Sudan, Wim Fransen, is shot in Khartoum. (The Telegraph) 

Leaders of the Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans, a communion of conservative Anglican churches representing approximately 85% of the global Anglican population, reject the leadership of Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby as the head of global Anglicanism over his stance on same-sex marriage. (ChurchTimes) 

Wreckage of the Imperial Japanese Navy ship SS Montevideo Maru, sunk during World War II, is found after 81 years in the South China Sea, off the coast of Luzon Island. The ship, which was carrying over 1,000 prisoners of war, including 850 Australian POWs, represented the largest loss of life for the Australian armed forces during the Second World War. (CNN) 

Twitter drops the “state-affiliated” and “government-funded” labels used for the accounts of media organizations. (Al Jazeera) 

A court in Paris, France, sentences Lebanese Canadian lecturer and professor Hassan Diab to life in prison over the bombing of a Parisian synagogue in 1980. Diab was tried in absentia and he remains in Canada under the request of arrest and extradition from French authorities. (The Guardian) 

UK Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Secretary Dominic Raab resigns from both positions following investigations into claims of him bullying staff members. Oliver Dowden and Alex Chalk are selected to replace him as Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Secretary respectively. (Al Jazeera) 

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