current Events

• Moro conflict
  • The Philippine Army has killed Nawapi Abdulsaid, an Abu Sayyaf militant, during a shootout two days ago in Hadji Mohammad Ajul, Basilan, Philippines. Abdulsaid was involved in fifteen beheadings, including those of ten marines in Al-Barka in 2007 and two Vietnamese sailors near Sumisip in 2016. He was also involved in attacks against government forces in 2022 and a bombing in November 2023 that killed two pro-government militiamen and wounded two others in Basilan. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• A fire at a guesthouse in Porto Alegre, Brazil kills at least ten people. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• A court in Ukraine orders the arrest of agriculture minister Mykola Solskyi on a charge of illegal acquisition of land worth $7 million. (Reuters)

• Israel–Hamas war
  • Israel intensifies strikes on Rafah. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Kenya floods
  • Floods caused by weeks of heavy rains in Kenya have killed at least 38 people, according to the Red Cross. (Reuters) (The Washington Post)
  • Floods and landslides have killed at least 155 people in Tanzania, according to Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa. (BBC News)

International relations

• Russia–NATO relations
  • Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov warns that Russia will make NATO nuclear weapons in Poland one of its primary targets if they are deployed there. (The Jerusalem Post)

Law and crime

• Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse cases
  • The New York Court of Appeals overturns former American film producer Harvey Weinstein's 2020 conviction in the state for rape by a vote of 4–3, and orders a new trial. However, Weinstein will still remain in prison on a 2022 conviction in California for rape. (AP) (CNN)

Politics and elections

• Haitian crisis
  • Ariel Henry formally resigns as Prime Minister of Haiti and is replaced by the Transitional Presidential Council. (AP) (France 24)
• The Scottish National Party's coalition in the Scottish government with the Scottish Greens collapses as the Scottish National Party withdraws, although the party announces its intention to continue as a minority government. In response, the Scottish Conservatives call a no confidence vote against First Minister Humza Yousaf. (Reuters) (BBC News)
• International reactions to the Israel–Hamas war
  • April 2024 Israel–Hamas war protests on university campuses
    • The University of Southern California cancels its main commencement ceremony due to safety concerns. (Reuters)
  • The Arabic language spokesperson of the United States Department of State resigns in opposition to U.S. Gaza policy. (Reuters)

Sports

• 2024 NFL draft
  • The NFL draft is held in Detroit, Michigan, U.S., with the Chicago Bears taking former USC quarterback Caleb Williams with the first overall pick. (Chicago Tribune)

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
    • The United States announces a $61 billion aid package for Ukraine as part of a bill that was recently approved after being stalled in the US Congress for months. The package includes ammunition for artillery and air defense systems, along with armoured fighting vehicles. (CNN)

Business and economy

• The union representing air traffic controllers in France cancels a planned 24-hour strike on Thursday, although a majority of flights have already been cancelled. (Euronews)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Kenya floods
  • Widespread flooding occurs in Nairobi, Kenya, with tens of thousands of people affected. (BBC News)

Law and crime

• National Security Act, 2024
  • Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act
    • US President Joe Biden signs the PAFACA Act into law. The act could result in video sharing platform TikTok being sold or banned in the United States. (Reuters)
• AMIA bombing
  • Argentina issues an arrest warrant via Interpol for Iranian interior minister Ahmad Vahidi in connection with the 1994 bombing of a Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires. Vahidi is currently believed to be in Sri Lanka. (BBC News)
• Human rights in Colombia
  • The Government of Colombia issues a formal apology to the indigenous communities of the Amazon basin for their enslavement and mistreatment during the Amazon rubber boom in the 19th and 20th centuries. (El Espectador)
• Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi is sentenced to death for supporting the Mahsa Amini protests. (BBC)
• Moldova announces that it has brought a criminal case against Gagauzia governor Evghenia Guțul for using Russian funds to finance the now-banned Șor Party. (Reuters)
• Three people are injured in a stabbing at the Ysgol Dyffryn Aman school in Ammanford, Wales. The suspect is arrested. (ITV News) (The Guardian)
• Russian Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov is arrested on suspicion of bribery. (CNN)

Politics and elections

• Thousands of people protest in Buenos Aires, Argentina, against reductions in funding for universities made by President Javier Milei. (BBC News)
• Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez says that he is considering resigning from office after the launch of a judicial investigation into his wife after accusations by a right-wing legal platform. (AP)

• Israel–Hamas war
  • Israel–Hezbollah conflict
    • An Israeli Air Force airstrike kills two people and injures six others in Hanine, Lebanon. (Reuters)
  • Nasser Hospital mass graves, Nasser Hospital siege
    • United Nations human rights chief Volker Türk calls for an international investigation after hundreds of bodies are discovered in mass graves near the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip. (The New York Times)

Business and economy

• The United States Federal Trade Commission votes to ban nearly all employment agreements that prevent workers from joining competing businesses. (NPR)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Lumut mid-air collision
  • Two Royal Malaysian Navy helicopters collide in mid-air during a rehearsal parade in Lumut, Malaysia, killing all ten people on board. (CNA)
• English Channel migrant crossings
  • Five migrants drown while attempting to cross the English Channel and 49 others are rescued. (Reuters)
• At least 21 migrants die after their boat capsizes off the coast of Djibouti. (Reuters)
• A Douglas DC-4 crashes into the Tanana River in Alaska, United States, shortly after takeoff from Fairbanks, killing two people on board. (Anchorage Daily News)

International relations

• International recognition of the State of Palestine, International reactions to the Israel–Hamas war
  • Jamaica becomes the 140th UN member state to recognize the State of Palestine. (Jamaica Observer)
• North Korea and weapons of mass destruction
  • North Korea claims that it tested a new command-and-control system in a simulated nuclear counterstrike. (CNN)

Politics and elections

• Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Rishi Sunak announces that he plans to increase the United Kingdom's defence budget to 2.5% of its GDP by 2030, totaling around £85 billion. (The Guardian) (Reuters)

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Eastern Ukraine campaign
    • The Russian Ministry of Defence claims control over the village of Novomykhailivka in Donetsk Oblast. (Reuters)
  • Military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
    • The United Kingdom announces its largest ever military support package for the Ukrainian military, pledging 400 vehicles, including 162 MXT-MVs, 60 boats, 1,600 air defence missiles, 4 million rounds of firearm ammunition, and an additional £500 million in funding. (The Guardian)
  • Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
    • Russia strikes the Kharkiv TV Tower with a Kh-59 cruise missile, causing the upper half of the tower to collapse and disrupting the broadcasting signal in Kharkiv, Ukraine. (Reuters)
• Israel–Hamas war
  • Siege of Khan Yunis
    • Israeli troops and tanks raid Khan Yunis in Gaza after abruptly withdrawing from the city earlier this month. (Reuters)
• Islamic State insurgency in the North Caucasus
  • Two police officers are killed and another is injured during a mass shooting of a police squad in Karachay-Cherkessia, Russia. (Tass)
• Moro conflict
  • Twelve Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters militants are killed and seven soldiers are wounded during a shootout in Datu Saudi Ampatuan, Maguindanao del Sur, Philippines. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Guangdong floods
  • Four people are killed and ten are missing during floods caused by heavy rain in Guangdong Province, China. Around 110,000 people are evacuated. (BBC News)

International relations

• China–Japan relations
  • Controversies surrounding Yasukuni Shrine
    • China objects to an offering that Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida made at Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine on Sunday. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• Israel–Hamas war
  • 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel
    • The head of the Military Intelligence Directorate of Israel Aharon Haliva resigns for failing to prevent the Hamas offensive on Israel on October 7, 2023. (AP)
• 2024 Maldivian parliamentary election
  • President Mohamed Muizzu's party, the People's National Congress, is declared the winner of the election. (Reuters)

Science and technology

• NASA announces that it has received decipherable data from the Voyager 1 space probe for the first time in five months. (CNN)

• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Israel–Hamas war
    • Bombing of the Gaza Strip
      • Twenty-two people are killed, including 18 children, in overnight Israeli strikes in Rafah in the Gaza Strip, according to local health officials. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Fox Hill Supercross race crash
  • A car veers off the track during the international Fox Hill Supercross motor race in Diyatalawa, Sri Lanka, and crashes into a group of spectators, killing seven people and injuring 21 others. (BBC News)

Politics and elections

• 2024 Ecuadorian constitutional referendum
  • Ecuadorians vote in a referendum on proposed constitutional changes. (Al Jazeera)
• 2024 Maldivian parliamentary election
  • Maldivians elect the members of the parliament. (The Hindu)
• 2024 North Kosovo referendum
  • A referendum on whether to remove ethnic Albanian mayors from office in Serb-majority North Kosovo is boycotted by most Serbs, who demand that the mayors resign. (Reuters)

• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Israel–Hamas war
    • Israeli attacks in the West Bank during the Israel–Gaza war
      • Fourteen Palestinians are killed in an Israeli attack in the West Bank. (Reuters) (Times of Israel)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • The Governor of Smolensk Oblast, Russia, says that a Ukrainian drone attack caused a fire at a fuel depot in Kardymovsky. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Bangui river disaster
  • A river boat en route to a funeral capsizes in the Mpoko River in Bangui, Central African Republic, killing at least 58 people. (DW)

International relations

• Military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War, United States support for Israel in the Israel–Hamas war
  • The U.S. House of Representatives passes a series of bills that would provide $95 billion in military aid to countries including Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. (ABC News)

Law and crime

• Israel–Hamas war protests
  • Israel–Hamas war protests in the United States
    • American college students plan demonstrations in solidarity with pro-Palestinian Columbia University protesters arrested in New York City earlier this week. (CNN)
• Mass shootings in the United States
  • Two people are killed and six more are injured in a shooting at a block party in Memphis, Tennessee. (ABC News)
• Protests occur in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, against mass tourism in the Canary Islands which is allegedly increasing house prices for locals. (Reuters)