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Azzi Fudd
- A nightclub roof collapse in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, kills more than 220 people.
- In basketball, the UConn Huskies win the NCAA Division I women's championship (Most Outstanding Player Azzi Fudd pictured) and the Florida Gators win the men's championship.
- In the National Hockey League, Alexander Ovechkin breaks Wayne Gretzky's record for most goals scored.
- In horse racing, Nick Rockett, ridden by Patrick Mullins, wins the Grand National.
- South Korea's Constitutional Court removes Yoon Suk Yeol as the president of South Korea, following his earlier declaration of martial law.
April 12, 2025 (Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Sudanese Civil War
- Siege of El Fasher
- Zamzam and Abu Shouk refugee camp massacres
- At least 100 people, including 20 children, are killed after paramilitary attacks on Al-Fashir and two nearby famine-hit camps in North Darfur, Sudan, according to the United Nations. (Hindustan Times)
- Zamzam and Abu Shouk refugee camp massacres
- Siege of El Fasher
- Gaza war
- Rafah offensive
- The Israel Defense Forces announces the completion of the Morag Corridor, completely cutting off the city of Rafah from the rest of the Gaza Strip and effectively turning it into an Israeli security zone. (Al Jazeera)
- Rafah offensive
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- A Ukrainian Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon is downed during combat operations against Russian forces, with the 26-year-old pilot killed in action. (Ukrinform)
Business and economy
- Tariffs in the second Trump administration
- China–United States trade war
- U.S. president Donald Trump's administration exempts smartphones and computers from all tariffs, including the base 10% on all countries and the 125% levies imposed on Chinese imports. (BBC News)
- China–United States trade war
- Steel Industry (Special Measures) Act 2025
- The British government passes emergency legislation to control some management decisions at British Steel in order to prevent the closure of the Jingye Group-owned Scunthorpe Steelworks. (BBC News)
International relations
- Iran–United States relations
- Iran and the U.S., represented by foreign minister Abbas Araghchi and special envoy Steve Witkoff, hold their first round of indirect talks in Muscat, Oman, and agree to continue the negotiations. (The Jerusalem Post)
Law and crime
- Three prison officers sustain life-threatening injuries in a mass stabbing and burn attack when Hashem Abedi, the brother of Islamic terrorist Salman Abedi, the perpetrator of the Manchester Arena bombing in 2017, attacks prison officers at HM Prison Frankland in County Durham, England, with hot cooking oil and home made stabbing weapons. (BBC News)
April 11, 2025 (Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Gaza war
- Gaza Strip evacuations
- Indonesia indicates that it is ready to temporarily accept the "first wave" of around 1,000 Palestinian evacuees from the Gaza Strip until conditions improve. (Haaretz) (Tempo)
- Gaza Strip evacuations
- Terrorism in Greece
- A bomb explodes outside the offices of Greece's main railway company Hellenic Train in Athens, Greece. No casualties were reported. (CTV News)
Business and economy
- Tariffs in the second Trump administration
- China–United States trade war
- China increases its tariffs on U.S. imports from 84% to 125% in response to U.S. duties on Chinese goods of 145%. (Reuters)
- China states that it will not respond to any further U.S. tariff increases, as U.S. goods have already been priced out of the Chinese market by existing tariffs, but may still impose other economic measures. (CNBC)
- China–United States trade war
Disasters and accidents
- A Cessna 310 crashes into Interstate 95 near Boca Raton Airport in Boca Raton, Florida, United States, killing all three occupants of the plane and injuring one other on the ground. (NBC News) (Boca News Now)
- Three people are killed when a Mooney M20 crashes in the Cherokee National Forest near Reliance, Tennessee, United States. The Federal Aviation Authority and National Transportation Safety Board are currently investigating the crash. (WRCB)
International relations
- Panama–United States relations
- An agreement is signed by top security officials from Panama and the U.S. allowing U.S. military personnel to deploy to Panama-controlled facilities. (France24)
- Russia–United States relations
- The U.S. president's special envoy Steve Witkoff meets with Russian president Vladimir Putin to discuss settlement options for the Russo-Ukrainian war and a potential meeting between Donald Trump and Putin. (CBS News)
Law and crime
- Illegal immigration to the United States
- 26-year-old Yaquelin Dominguez-Nieves is sentenced to seven and a half years imprisonment for her part in a people smuggling operation that killed 16 and injured two Cuban undocumented migrants in a shipwreck in South Florida, United States, on November 16, 2024. (CTV News) (United States Attorney's Office)
- Immigration to Italy
- The Italian government sends 40 asylum seekers to an internment camp in Albania after their asylum applications were rejected, preparing them to be deported. Migrants can be held for a maximum of 18 months under Italian law. (DW)
- Capital punishment in the United States
- American spree killer Mikal Mahdi, who killed three people, including an off-duty police officer, in July 2004, is executed by firing squad at the Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia, South Carolina. (NBC News)
April 10, 2025 (Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Syrian civil war
- Western Syria clashes
- 2025 massacres of Syrian Alawites
- The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reports a marked re-escalation of extrajudicial killings of civilians in Alawite-dominated coastal Syrian regions, with sixteen civilians executed in 72 hours. Several civilian homes in Tartus Governorate are seized by government-affiliated forces. (SOHR) (SOHR 2)
- 2025 massacres of Syrian Alawites
- Western Syria clashes
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- War crimes in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- A video leaked by Ukrainian officials and verified by the Associated Press shows Russian soldiers summarily executing four Ukrainian prisoners of war last month in Piatykhatky, Zaporizhzhia Oblast. (AP)
- War crimes in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Papua conflict
- Seventeen people are killed by West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) militants in Yahukimo Regency, Highland Papua, Indonesia. The TPNPB alleges that they attacked Indonesian Army soldiers disguised as gold miners, while the Indonesian government rejects the claim. (AP)
Business and economy
- Tariffs in the second Trump administration
- China–United States trade war
- The White House clarifies the tariff rate on China, stating that a 145% tariff on all imports to the United States is in effect. The 20% addition came from China's alleged role in supplying synthetic opioids, including fentanyl, to the United States. (The New York Times)
- The European Union announces a 90-day pause on counter measures against the U.S. tariffs on European goods. (BBC News)
- China–United States trade war
- Land reform in Zimbabwe
- Zimbabwe begins issuing the first financial compensation payments to White Zimbabwean farmers whose farms were seized by Robert Mugabe's government between 2000 and 2002. A total of 740 farmers will be compensated as per the 2020 agreement with the Commercial Farmers' Union. (BBC News)
- The United Kingdom's Cabinet Office announces it will cut around 2,100 jobs from its department, about a third of its total workforce, as part of wider government spending cuts. (BBC News)
Disasters and accidents
- 2025 Hudson River helicopter crash
- A Bell 206 sightseeing helicopter crashes into the Hudson River off Lower Manhattan, New York, United States, killing Siemens Spain CEO Agustín Escobar, his family of four, and the pilot. (AP) (ABC News)
- Jet Set nightclub roof collapse
- The number of deaths caused by the roof collapse of the Jet Set nightclub in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, rises to 221, as rescue operations reach the end. (CTV News)
Health and environment
- Hungary's Minister of the Prime Minister's Office Gergely Gulyás suggests a biological attack could be the source of a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in the country. (Reuters)
International relations
- Russia–United States relations
- A Russian-American citizen arrested in Yekaterinburg in early 2024 and a dual German-Russian citizen arrested in Cyprus in 2023 are released in a prisoner swap between Russia and the United States. (BBC News)
- South Korea–Syria relations
- South Korea formally establishes diplomatic relations with Syria. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- 2025 Turkish protests
- The government of Turkey releases 127 people on bail, most of which are university students, after they were arrested for taking part in protests calling for the release of Istanbul mayor and opposition figure Ekrem İmamoğlu. (AP)
- Turkish police detain two journalists, one from BirGün and one from Cumhuriyet, and raid their offices, accusing them of making threats and blackmail after they reported on the arrest of İmamoğlu. Reporters Without Borders condemn the arrests as an infringement on freedom of information. (DW)
Politics and elections
- Presidency of Javier Milei
- Argentine syndicates organize a 24-hour nationwide general strike against the Javier Milei administration for the third time. According to the government, this constitutes an "attack against the republic". (The Straits Times) (Yahoo News)
- The German governing coalition announces it will abolish the expedited 3-year naturalization path for "integrated" immigrants who are spouses of German citizens or have completed the Integrationskurs. The path requiring 5 years of continuous residency will remain. (DW)
April 9, 2025 (Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russo-Ukrainian war
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2025 Russian spring offensive
- Ukrainian commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrskyi reports that Russia has commenced a new spring offensive, launching intensified attacks across multiple sections of the frontline. (Kyiv Independent)
- 2025 Russian spring offensive
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Gaza war
- Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
- Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip kill at least 35 Palestinians, including at least 23 in an apartment building in Shuja'iyya, Gaza City. (AP) (Al Jazeera) (Channel 4)
- Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
- Red Sea crisis
Business and economy
- Tariffs in the second Trump administration, Executive orders in the second presidency of Donald Trump
- Executive Order 14257, China–United States trade war
- The second of two tariff rounds go into effect in the United States containing country-specific tariffs on goods into the country, including a 104% tariff on Chinese imports. The first round of 10% blanket tariffs previously came into effect on April 5. (Reuters)
- China's finance ministry announces an increase from the previous 34% tariff to an 84% tariff on all goods imported from the U.S. (BBC News)
- U.S. president Donald Trump announces he will be raising tariffs on Chinese goods entering the U.S. to 125% up from 104%, while other countries will have only 10% for 90 days. (BBC News)
- Amazon begins suspending orders on various products manufactured in China and other Asian economies amid trade war fears. (Bloomberg)
- Canada announces a 25% tariff on certain vehicle imports from the U.S. as retaliation against a previous similar measure from the U.S. (BBC News)
- European Union officials announce a set of retaliatory duties on U.S. imports from 10% to 25% on some U.S. goods. (NBC News)
- Executive Order 14257, China–United States trade war
- Universal Destinations & Experiences formally announces that they have chosen a site near Kempston Hardwick in Bedfordshire, England, as the location for their Universal Studios United Kingdom resort. The theme park will officially open in 2031 and will be the largest theme park in the UK upon completion. (AP)
Disasters and accidents
- Jet Set nightclub roof collapse
- The number of deaths caused by the roof collapse of the Jet Set nightclub in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, rises to 136. (BNO News) (Diario Libre)
- One girl is killed and another is missing after a fire destroys six homes in Millville, New Jersey, United States. (AP) (WPVI-TV)
Law and crime
- Mass shootings in the United States
- One person is killed and five others are injured, including one critically, in a mass shooting during an anti-violence meeting at an office park in Memphis, Tennessee, United States. (BNO News)
Politics and elections
- 2025 German federal election
- Friedrich Merz announces the formation of a grand coalition government between the CDU/CSU and Social Democratic Party in order to freeze out the far-right Alternative for Germany. (The Guardian)
Sports
- 2028 Summer Olympics
- The International Olympic Committee announces the program for the upcoming Olympic Games in Los Angeles with new events in multiple sports and mixed gender events. (USA Today)
April 8, 2025 (Tuesday)
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)
- 2025 Belgorod Oblast incursion
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)
April 7, 2025 (Monday)
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)
- 2025 massacres of Syrian Alawites
- Western Syria clashes
- 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)
- Israeli occupation of the Gaza Strip
- 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)
- Executive Order 14257
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 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship game
April 6, 2025 (Sunday)
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)
- 2025 Sumy Oblast incursion
- 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)
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- 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)
- March–April 2025 United States attacks in Yemen
- 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)
- 2025 Shabelle offensive
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.
- 2025 NCAA Division I women's basketball championship game
- 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)
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