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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