Saturday, April 26th, 2025 

Wisconsin circuit court judge Hannah Dugan is arrested by United States federal law enforcement on obstruction charges after allegedly helping an undocumented immigrant evade arrest. (CNBC) 

Indian and Pakistani military troops exchange gunfire across the Line of Control during an ongoing diplomatic crisis caused by a terrorist attack in India-administered Kashmir. (Al Jazeera) 

Severe flooding is reported along the Jhelum River in Azad Kashmir after Indian authorities release a large amount of water without prior warning. The incident follows the suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty by the Indian government. (24 News HD) 

China seizes the disputed Sandy Cay Reef in the Spratly Islands of the South China Sea. (Financial Times) 

The funeral of Pope Francis is held in St. Peter’s Square, Vatican City. 400,000 people are in attendance, including more than 130 world leaders. (ABC News) (CNN) (The Guardian) 

The Israel Defense Forces say they have intercepted a ballistic missile launched from Yemen by Houthi forces. (Reuters) 

Twelve Nigerien troops are killed in clashes with militants near the village of Sakoira, Niger. (Reuters) 

At least fourteen people are killed and over 700 others are injured in an explosion at the Port of Shahid Rajaee in Bandar Abbas, Iran. (AP) 

Friday,  April 25th, 2025 

Lieutenant general Yaroslav Moskalik, deputy head of the Main Operations Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, is assassinated in a car bombing in Balashikha, Moscow Oblast, Russia. (CNN) 

The German government cuts its economic growth forecast to zero, with the Deutsche Bundesbank estimating a future recession. Minister of Economic Affairs Robert Habeck accuses U.S. President Donald Trump’s Liberation Day tariffs of being the primary reason for Germany’s continued economic crisis. (DW) 

The World Food Programme (WFP) claims that their entire food stock inside the Gaza Strip is empty due to the Israeli blockade of humanitarian aid. WFP aid kitchens are expected to run out of food in a few days, and thousands of Palestinians are expected to die from starvation. The United Nations Office for Humanitarian Affairs calls the situation “probably the worst” since the beginning of the war in October 2023. (DW) 

Cardinals seal the coffin of Pope Francis in a private liturgical rite led by Camerlengo Kevin Farrell at St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City. (CNN) 

A man is killed and two women are wounded as an 80-year-old driver loses control over his car and plunges into a group of people celebrating the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Italy in Lanciano, Province of Chieti.  (Chicago Tribune) 

A Royal Thai Police Viking DHC-6 Twin Otter aircraft crashes while conducting a test flight for parachuting training near Hua Hin Airport in Prachuap Khiri Khan, Thailand, killing all six people on board. (The Nation) 

A M_w 6.3 earthquake strikes Esmeraldas, Ecuador, shutting down power, damaging 800 buildings and injuring 32 people. (Philippine Daily Inquirer) 

Former Brazilian president Fernando Collor de Mello is arrested following a corruption conviction by Supreme Federal Court justice Alexandre de Moraes. (AP) 

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Friday,  April 25th, 2025 

The Shenzhou 20 spacecraft launches successfully from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China, carrying three astronauts on a six-month mission to install space debris protection in the Tiangong space station and carry out scientific experiments on solar and cosmic ray radiation on planarians. (Reuters) (DW) 

Four people are killed and four others are injured, including one critically, when a dump truck crashes into six pedestrians working on powerlines in Eden, North Carolina, United States. (WFMY-TV) 

24-year-old Robert E. Crimo is sentenced to 21 life sentences for killing seven people and injuring 48 others in a mass shooting during the 2022 Independence Day parade in Highland Park, Illinois, United States. (CNN) 

Thursday, April 24th, 2025 

Israeli settlers in the West Bank shoot and injure five Palestinians and set fire to several homes and farmland. (Al Jazeera) 

Three children are killed and several others are injured after an Israeli airstrike hits a tent encampment in the Nuseirat refugee camp, resulting in a fire which spread through parts of the camp. Altogether, at least 45 people are killed from today’s attacks. (Al Jazeera) 

Twelve people are killed and around 90 others, including children, are injured in a Russian KN-23 ballistic missile strike on Kyiv, Ukraine. (Reuters) 

Al-Shabaab militants seize the town of Wargaadhi and its military base in Middle Shabelle, Somalia. More than 40 militants and twelve clan fighters are killed in related combat. (Al Jazeera) 

The Beninese government announces that 54 soldiers were killed in an attack by Jama’at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin (JNIM) in the north of the country last week, after previously announcing only eight soldiers were killed. JNIM claims 70 soldiers were killed in the attack. (BBC) 

Pakistan closes its land border and shared airspace with India indefinitely following the attack on tourists in Pahalgam, India-administered Kashmir, several days prior, and India’s executive actions against Pakistan yesterday. (DW) 

A joint commission of the Mexican Senate approves a proposal submitted by President Claudia Sheinbaum that would grant the government the power to block and censor digital platforms, including social networks, websites, and apps, indefinitely and without a court order. The proposal will be sent to the government-aligned majority in Congress for further approval. (Milenio) 

A 19-year-old is arrested and charged with arson on suspicion of starting an ongoing large wildfire that has burned 15,000 acres in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States. (ABC News) 

One student is killed and three others are critically injured in a mass stabbing at a private school in Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France. A 15-year-old student is detained. (Daily Mirror) 

Nine people are killed and 63 others, including six children, are injured by a missile strike on Kyiv, Ukraine. (NDTV) 

Former South Korean President Moon Jae-in is indicted on charges of alleged corruption and bribery for receiving ₩217 million (US$152,000) in connection with his son-in-law’s employment at airline Eastar Jet in Thailand. (DW) 

The Palestinian Central Council votes 170–1 to establish the position of Vice President of the State of Palestine. (Reuters) 

In American football, the NFL draft is held at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin, with the Tennessee Titans selecting quarterback Cam Ward from the Miami Hurricanes as the first overall pick. (The Washington Post) 

The International Coral Reef Initiative announces that over 84% of the world’s coral reefs are affected by a coral bleaching event since 2023, considered the most intense on record. (AP) 

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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025 

The Jordanian interior ministry bans all activities of the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood organization in the country, seizes the organization’s assets, and closes all of its offices, including its political wing in the country, the Islamic Action Front. The Jordanian government links the group to sabotage plots and accuses it of “destabilizing” the country. (DW) 

The International Coral Reef Initiative announces that over 84% of the world’s coral reefs are affected by a coral bleaching event since 2023, considered the most intense on record. (AP) 

The body of Pope Francis is moved from Domus Sanctae Marthae to St. Peter’s Basilica, and lies in state for a 3-day public viewing. (CBS News) 

Roughly 5,000 residents are evacuated, the Garden State Parkway is shut down and a business is destroyed after a large wildfire burns 12,500 acres (51 km²) in Lacey Township, New Jersey, United States. (NBC News)

Russian forces launch a drone strike on a bus in Marhanets, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine, killing nine people. (The Guardian) 

A M_w 6.2 earthquake with an epicenter in the Sea of Marmara strikes İstanbul, Turkey, injuring at least 359 people. (AP) 

India announces several measures targeting Pakistan including closing the main border crossing linking the two countries, suspending the Indus Water Treaty, and expelling Pakistani diplomats after the attack on tourists in Indian-administered Kashmir yesterday. (BBC News) 

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Tuesday,  April 22nd, 2025 

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says that the staff of the U.S. State Department will be cut by 15 percent, and that the office of the Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights will be abolished. (NPR) 

Cardinal Farrell, as Camerlengo, becomes the acting head of Vatican City until the next papal conclave in May. (NPR) 

Syria detains two senior members of the paramilitary organization Palestinian Islamic Jihad. (Reuters) 

ARK Invest becomes the first US-based asset manager to gain exposure to the Solana blockchain through an ETF investment after Canada approves several spot Solana ETFs. (Coin Market Cap) 

Israeli airstrikes kill at least 25 people across the Gaza Strip. (RTÉ News) 

At least 28 people are killed and dozens of others are injured when separatists open fire on people in Pahalgam, Anantnag district, Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir. (The New Indian Express) (The Guardian) 

Russian guided bombs target Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, killing one person and wounding 26 others, according to regional governor Ivan Fedorov. (Reuters) 

Seven people are killed in a mass stabbing when a man enters a bakery and attacks sleeping employees in Antipolo, Rizal, Philippines. (GMA Network) 

Interpol rescues 33 West Africans, including people from Benin, Togo, Burkina Faso, and Ghana, from human trafficking rings in the Ivory Coast. (AP) 

Main opposition leader Tidjane Thiam is disqualified from the 2025 Ivorian presidential election. (BBC News) 

The Islamic State claims responsibility for a series of deadly attacks targeting Christians and security forces in Borno and Adamawa, Nigeria earlier this month that killed at least nine people and injured several others. (Reuters) 

Klaus Schwab steps down as leader of the World Economic Forum, which he founded in 1971. (DW) 

Marathon Monday,  April 21st, 2025 

In long-distance running, Kenyan road runner John Korir wins the men’s competition at the Boston Marathon with a time of 2:04:45 which, along with his brother Wesley Korir‘s win in 2012, makes them the first and only set of brothers to win the event. Fellow Kenyan athlete Sharon Lokedi wins the women’s competition with a time of 2:17:22 and sets the new course record, surpassing Buzunesh Deba‘s record in 2014.  (WBZ-TV) 

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Marathon Monday,  April 21st, 2025 

In long-distance running, Kenyan road runner John Korir wins the men’s competition at the Boston Marathon with a time of 2:04:45 which, along with his brother Wesley Korir‘s win in 2012, makes them the first and only set of brothers to win the event. Fellow Kenyan athlete Sharon Lokedi wins the women’s competition with a time of 2:17:22 and sets the new course record, surpassing Buzunesh Deba‘s record in 2014.  (CBS News) 

Following Pope Francis’s death, cardinal Kevin Farrell, the Camerlengo, becomes the acting head of Vatican City until the next papal conclave in May. (NPR) 

The Camerlengo announces that Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic Church, has died at the age of 88 years old early on Easter Monday. (Euronews)  

The perpetrator of the racially motivated shooting that killed 23 people and injured 22 others at a Walmart building in El Paso, Texas, United States, in 2019, 26-year-old Patrick Wood Crusius, pleads guilty to state charges and is sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole to avoid the death penalty. (USA Today) 

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announces that the Trump administration is ready to abandon diplomatic efforts and “move on” if it is not possible to end the war in “a matter of days”. (CNN) 

U.S. federal authorities charge a student at Boston’s University of Massachusetts with unlawful possession of a destructive device and malicious damage by fire after the student is arrested for setting fire to two Tesla Cybertrucks and damaging charging stations in Kansas City. (The Independent) 

U.S. authorities arrest a man in Colorado Springs for his “Declaration of War” threatening Elon Musk, Tesla owners, and members of Donald Trump’s cabinet. The declaration, sent to various media outlets, detailed specific attack methods and aimed at Musk’s elimination. (CBS News) 

At least 178 people are arrested in Pakistan after over 10 group attacks on KFC restaurants occur during protests against United States support for Israel in the Gaza war, with one employee shot dead. (Al Jazeera)

At least one person, the perpetrator, is killed and six others are injured, in an arson attack when a man sets fire to an apartment building with a flamethrower in Bongcheon-dong, Seoul, South Korea. (Yonhap) 

The rebel Houthis group claims that twelve people are killed and thirty others are injured in airstrikes on a market and a residential zone in Farwa District, Sanaa, Yemen. (Le Monde) 

The South Sudan People’s Defence Forces capture the town of Nasir in Upper Nile State from the Nuer White Army. (Reuters) 

Sunday, April 20th, 2025 

The death toll from drownings during the week across Australia increases to seven after a fisherman was killed after being swept off rocks near Sydney. Three people remain missing and one other was injured. (Philippine Daily Inquirer) 

The death toll of the capsized Hong Hai 16 off Occidental Mindoro, Philippines, rises to nine. Two others are still missing. (Manila Bulletin) 

Hugo Calderano of Brazil wins the Table Tennis World Cup over Lin Shidong by 4–1 sets, becoming the first athlete from the Americas to win the competition. (CNN Brazil) 

Three people are killed and ten others are injured, including one critically and four firefighters, in a large house fire in Jamaica Estates, Queens, New York, United States. (WABC-TV)

Saturday, April 19th, 2025 

The death toll from clashes between cattle herders and farmers earlier this week in Benue State, central Nigeria, rises to 56. (Barron’s) 

Four people are killed when a Cessna 180 Skywagon aircraft clips powerlines and crashes into a field southwest of Coles County Memorial Airport in Trilla, Illinois, United States. (WCIA) 

The death toll of the capsized Hong Hai 16 sand barge four days ago off Occidental Mindoro, Philippines, rises to seven. Four others are still missing. (Philippine Daily Inquirer) 

Two people are killed and three others are rescued after two vehicles are swept off a road during flooding in southeast Moore, Oklahoma, United States. (KWTV-DT) 

Four executives at a company building the State Audit Office skyscraper in Bangkok, Thailand, are arrested on suspicion of breaching the Foreign Business Act. (CTV News) 

A tavern owner is killed and four others are injured in a mass shooting during a live music performance at a tavern in Marble Hall, Limpopo, South Africa. No arrests were made. (SABC) 

Seven people are killed when a passenger jeepney on a family tour crashes into a roadside canal in Boac, Marinduque, Philippines. (Xinhua)

Three people, including a lay minister, are killed and seventeen others are injured when a car driven by an Indian national driving under the influence hits a tricycle and crashes into a procession in Bacolod, Philippines. (Philippine Daily Inquirer) 

Friday,  April 18th, 2025 

The Houthis say that American airstrikes targeted the Ras Isa port in Yemen, killing 74 people and wounding 171 others. This marks the single-deadliest known attack under President Donald Trump’s new campaign targeting the Houthis. (AP) 

One man is killed in Karachi, Pakistan, after a mob of radical Islamists belonging to Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan attack the Ahmadiyya community after Friday prayer. (DW) 

The death toll of the fire and capsizing of the wooden boat HB Kongolo on the Congo River in Democratic Republic of the Congo three days ago rises to 148. Hundreds of others remain missing. (Reuters) 

At least three people are killed when a small plane crashes into the Platte River in Omaha, Nebraska, United States. (KLKN) 

The death toll of the capsized Hong Hai 16 sand barge three days ago off Occidental Mindoro, Philippines, rises to six. Five others are still missing. (GMA) 

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Wednesday, April 16th, 2025

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Spanish Civil Guard arrest two Russian citizens in Manacor, Mallorca, for alleged breeding and sales of exotic cats, and recover a caracal, two servals, and sixteen felid hybrids. (DW) 

China and Vietnam sign 45 agreements, including deals on rail links and supply chains, during President Xi Jinping‘s state visit to Vietnam as part of his broader tour across Southeast Asia in response to tariffs imposed by the United States. Vietnam also approves jet purchases from China, with China’s Comac signing a deal with Vietjet. (Reuters) 

China orders its airlines to stop taking deliveries of jets from American aviation company Boeing and to suspend purchases of aircraft-related equipment and parts from U.S. companies. (NDTV) 

4chan is hacked and goes offline, with the website’s source code and the usernames, IP addresses, and email addresses of its staff leaked by far-right imageboard Soyjak.party. (Dailydot) (Cybernews) (MSN) 

A doctor is arrested in Germany for killing fifteen patients between 2021 and 2024 in Berlin. He is also accused of trying to cover up the evidence by starting fires in their homes. (AP) 

The leader of the Sudanese Rapid Support Forces, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, announces the establishment of the Government of Peace and Unity, a rival government to the country’s armed forces. (BBC News) 

The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom rules that legal gender is based upon biological sex for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010. (BBC) 

Authorities recover the remains of a Filipino crew member from the sand barge that capsized off Occidental Mindoro, Philippines, yesterday, bringing the total death toll to two. Nine others are reportedly still missing. (GMA News) 

Tuesday,  April 15th, 2025 

At least 3,747 people are hospitalized with breathing difficulties and airports are closed after a dust storm in Iraq. (France 24) 

Four Russian journalists linked to the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny are convicted of extremism and sentenced to five years and six months imprisonment in a penal colony. (CNN) 

Ukrainian military leader Volodymyr Artyukh is fired from his position as Sumy Oblast Governor following condemnation for organizing a military ceremony in the densely populated Sumy city center, which was later targeted by a Russian airstrike. (The Kyiv Independent) 

A Chinese crew member is killed when Chinese sand barge vessel M/V Hong Hai 16 capsizes off Rizal, Occidental Mindoro, Philippines. A search and rescue operation is launched by the Philippine Coast Guard for missing crew members, which includes seven Filipinos and three Chinese. (The Philippine Star) 

The European Commission approves the use of Lecanemab, a monoclonal antibody medication that targets amyloid beta peptides, to treat the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease via intravenous therapy. This is the first drug to be approved to treat the disease in Europe, and was approved by the Federal Drug Administration in the United States in 2023. (DW) 

The European Union and its member states pledge €522 million (US$590 million) and the United Kingdom pledges £120 million (US$141 million) in humanitarian aid to Sudan to deliver food and supplies to over 650,000 internally displaced Sudanese people affected by the fighting between the Rapid Support Forces and the Sudanese Armed Forces. The two groups also call for an immediate ceasefire to end the war. (DW) (AP) 

France expels twelve Algerian diplomatic officials from the country after Algeria expelled twelve French officials yesterday over the arrest of an Algerian consular official in a kidnapping case. France also recalls its ambassador from Algiers. (AP) 

According to a report by the International Maritime Bureau, piracy has risen by almost 35% in 2025 with 45 cases in the first quarter compared to the same period in 2024, particularly in the Singapore Strait between Singapore and Indonesia. (DW) (Seatrade Maritime News) 

A court in Lima, Peru, sentences former president Ollanta Humala and his wife Nadine Heredia to 15 years in prison for laundering funds from Brazilian company Odebrecht to finance his 2006 and 2011 presidential campaigns.  (BBC News) 

At least three Balochistan Police officers are killed and 16 others are injured when a roadside bomb hits a bus carrying police personnel in Mastung District, Balochistan, Pakistan. (DW) 

Four people are injured in a vehicle-ramming attack after a person drives a sedan onto a pedestrian walkway on the Toronto Metropolitan University campus near Yonge Street and Gerrard Street in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (CBC News) 

At least four students are injured in a school mass shooting at Wilmer-Hutchins High School in Dallas, Texas, United States. (BNO News) 

The Parliament of the Maldives votes in favor of an amendment to the Immigration Act, banning the entry into Maldives for those traveling on Israeli passports. (The Edition) 

Monday,  April 14th, 2025 

A 5.2 magnitude earthquake strikes Julian, California, United States. The earthquake, felt throughout Southern California and Baja California, caused several rockslides on California State Route 76 and the demolition of an office façade in Tecate, Baja California, Mexico due to risk of collapse caused by earthquake. (The San Diego Union-Tribune) (La Jornada) 

President Donald Trump suggests deporting United States citizens to the controversial Terrorism Confinement Center prison in El Salvador, despite the unconstitutionality of the proposal. (NBC News) 

According to official data, the population of Japanese citizens dropped to a record low of 120.3 million by October 2024, following a 14-year trend of record lows and the largest drop since records began in 1950. (DW) (Government of Japan) 

Blue Origin NS-31 A Blue Origin New Shepard launch vehicle makes a brief sub-orbital spaceflight, carrying six female space tourists, marking the first all-female spacecraft since 1963’s Vostok 6 which had Valentina Tereshkova as the pilot and the spacecraft’s solo passenger. (NPR)

President of Indonesia Prabowo Subianto tours the Middle East to seek support from the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Egypt, Qatar, and Jordan for his proposed plan to temporarily evacuate 1,000 Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to Indonesia. (Indonesia Business Post) 

The European Union announces a €1.6 billion (US$1.8 billion) three-year financial support package for Palestinians aiming to “stabilize” Gaza and the West Bank. (DW) 

The United Kingdom sends £752 million ($990 million) to Ukraine for the purchase of surface-to-air missiles, artillery and spare parts for fighter aircraft, as part of an international loan programme funded primarily through seized Russian financial assets. (Reuters) 

At least 51 people are killed in escalating clashes between rival herders in Plateau State, Nigeria, while another 2,000 people are displaced, according to Amnesty International. (Reuters) 

The Hellenic Coast Guard finds two bodies and 39 survivors when a boat carrying migrants capsizes off the coast of Farmakonisi in the Dodecanese islands of Greece. (Greek City Times) 

A court in Dhaka, Bangladesh, along with the Anti-Corruption Commission, issues an arrest warrant for Tulip Siddiq, a United Kingdom MP who is the niece of ousted former leader Sheikh Hasina, for corruption allegations. Siddiq has rebuked the arrest warrant and called it a “smear campaign” against her. (DW) (BBC News) 

The Hungarian government passes several constitutional changes that affect LGBTQ rights, including a provisional law that says people can only be male or female and codifying a law that bans LGBTQ events, including Budapest Pride. (DW) 

President of Indonesia Prabowo Subianto tours the Middle East to seek support from the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Egypt, Qatar and Jordan for his proposed plan to temporarily evacuate 1,000 Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to Indonesia. (Indonesia Business Post) 

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