Tuesday,  April 8th, 2025 

Colossal Biosciences announce they have bred three genetically modified wolf pups which approximate anatomical features of extinct dire wolves. (TIME)

At least 79 people, including former Major League Baseball players Tony Blanco and Octavio Dotel, are killed and 150 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) 

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, Mexico. (Reuters) 

About 50 hippos are killed by Anthrax poisoning at Virunga National Park in Democratic Republic of Congo, the oldest national park in the county. (CTV News) 

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) 

Three U.S. citizens are commuted of their crime of attempting a coup against the Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi in 2024 and 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) 

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reports that Ukrainian armed forces captured two Chinese citizens fighting for the Russian military in Donetsk, with Ukrainian intelligence reporting several more Chinese soldiers present. The report marks the first official allegation of direct Chinese government involvement in providing manpower for Russia against Ukraine. (BBC) 

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirms the presence of Ukrainian troops active in Russia’s Belgorod Oblast. (BBC News) 

Three people are killed and three others are injured in a mass shooting in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, United States. (Fox News) 

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) 

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“. (The Hill) 

Monday,  April 7th, 2025 

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) 

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) 

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) 

President of Taiwan 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) 

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) 

Israel reportedly controls over half of the land in the Gaza Strip after razing multiple Palestinian properties to expand its buffer zone. (CNN) 

An Israeli airstrike hits near a charity kitchen in Gaza where displaced Palestinians gather for food, killing more than 30 people. (AP) 

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) 

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) 

U.S. President Donald Trump announces plans to impose a 50% tariff on China, escalating to a total of 104% if China does not revoke its 34% retaliatory tariff on all American goods within a day. China dismisses the plans and does not remove its reciprocal tariffs. (CNBC)  

Algeria bans flights to and from Mali in response to “recurrent violations” of Algerian airspace by Malian military drones. (Reuters) 

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) 

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

The first birth of a baby in the United Kingdom to a person 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) 

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