Portal:Current events/April 2022

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Kyiv offensive
      • Battle of Bucha
        • Bucha, Kyiv Oblast, from Russian troops. (Ukrinform)
      • Battle of Irpin
        • Ukrainian forces recapture the city of Irpin after driving out the last Russian troops. Mayor Oleksandr Markushyn confirms that the city has been fully liberated. (BBC News)
      • The body of
        sixth journalist to be killed in the country since Russia invaded. (The Guardian)
    • Attack on Belgorod
      • attack helicopters firing rockets at a fuel depot in the city. (AP)
    • 2022 Russia–Ukraine peace negotiations
      • Ceasefire talks between the Russian and Ukrainian delegations resume via video link. (Times of Israel)
• Insurgency in the Maghreb
  • Mali War
    • insurgents in a major nine-day military operation from 23 March to April 1. (The Guardian)
• Afghanistan conflict
  • Two bombs explode at a playing field in Herat, Afghanistan, killing five people and injuring 25 more. (ABC News)
• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • A
    Palestinian man is shot dead by Israeli security forces in Hebron. (Jerusalem Post) (Al Jazeera)
• Yemeni Civil War
  • The
    Saudi-led coalition and the Houthis agree to a UN-brokered nationwide truce, the first in years, for two months to mark the start of Ramadan. As part of the deal, fuel shipments will be allowed to enter the Houthi-controlled port of Al Hudaydah and commercial flights will resume in the capital of Sanaa. (Reuters)

• 2022 Waheen Market Fire
  • A massive fire breaks out at the main marketplace in Hargeisa, Somaliland, injuring at least 28 people and completely destroying the market. (The Guardian)
• Eight people are killed and 20 more are injured during a coal mine collapse in Aleksinac, Serbia. (Al Jazeera)
• Four pilots are killed after two
  South Korean Air Force KAI KT-1 Woongbis crash into each other over a mountain northeast of Sacheon, South Korea. (Deutsche Welle)

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Russia
    • COVID-19 vaccination in Russia
      • The Russian Health Ministry announces that Russia has registered the nasal spray form of the Sputnik V vaccine, making Russia the first country to register a nasal spray COVID-19 vaccine. (TASS)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Italy
    • Italy ends its two-year state of emergency and begins to gradually lift attendance limits for outdoor and indoor sports venues, along with a requirement that anyone over the age of 50 should be vaccinated to enter their place of work. (Reuters)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Malaysia
    • Malaysia begins its transition from pandemic to endemic phase that shift the management of the pandemic from reliance on government-imposed standard operating procedures and existing laws to individual responsibility, and community solidarity. (The Star)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
    • The U.S. CDC announces that the Biden administration will end the usage of Title 42, a series of COVID-19 restrictions imposed by the Trump administration in order to prevent migrants from entering the United States. The measure will take effect on May 23. (CNBC)

International relations

• Canada–Holy See relations
  • Canadian Indian residential school system
    • Following a meeting with
      indigenous delegates from Canada, Pope Francis apologizes for the "deplorable conduct" by members of the Catholic Church for actions in the church-run residential school system. (CBC News)
• Ukraine–European Union relations
  • Russian invasion began. (Times of Malta)

• Sri Lankan economic crisis
  • 2022 Sri Lankan protests
    • civil unrest spreads across the country. Dozens of Sri Lanka Police officers have been injured in clashes with protesters and 52 people have been arrested. (Reuters)

• Oscar Mina and Paolo Rondelli are elected the new Captains Regents of San Marino. (San Marino TV)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Kyiv offensive
      • Battle of Bucha
        • War crimes in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
          • Hundreds of civilians are found dead on the streets in
            Russian military. (Times of Israel) (The Guardian) (The Kyiv Independent)
      • Battle of Chernobyl
        • The Ukrainian flag is raised over the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant following its recapture from Russian forces. A ceremony is held to honour the staff at the former plant who continued to work under Russian occupation. (CNN)
      • Ukraine retakes full control of the Kyiv Oblast as the last Russian troops return to Belarus. (Reuters)
    • Southern Ukraine offensive
      • Aftermath of the
        Siege of Enerhodar
        • Residents say that Russian occupiers have violently dispersed a pro-Ukrainian demonstration in Enerhodar. Several protesters are arrested. Russian troops are also alleged to have used explosions in order to disperse the crowd. (Reuters)
    • Eastern Ukraine offensive
      • Siege of Mariupol
        • Lithuanian documentary filmmaker Mantas Kvedaravičius is killed in Mariupol. (Reuters)
• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Three
    gunfight near Jenin in the West Bank. (BBC News)
  • Fighting erupts near the
    rioting. (Times of Israel)
• Yemeni Civil War
  • Ceasefire talks between the Houthis and Saudi Arabian forces begin in Yemen in an effort to end fighting. (France 24)

Business and economy

• raw materials, and to also reduce Australia's dependence on China after China placed sanctions on some Australian goods following several political disputes. (South China Morning Post)

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Nauru
    • President Lionel Aingimea announces Nauru's first positive cases of COVID-19 in two asymptomatic people who travelled from Brisbane on March 31. (RNZ)

International relations

• Enlargement of NATO
  • Prime Minister Sanna Marin says that a decision on Finland joining the NATO military alliance must be made before this summer, stating that "Russia is not the neighbor we thought it was". (Yle)

Law and crime

• Protests against the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • 2022 anti-war protests in Russia
    • More than 170 people are detained in anti-war protests across Russia. (The Moscow Times)
• Sri Lankan economic crisis
  • 2022 Sri Lankan protests
    • The
      Sri Lankan government imposes a state of emergency after the Mirihana Presidential Residence is targeted by local civilian protesters. (BBC News)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Southern Ukraine offensive
      • Battle of Odesa
        • Large explosions are reported in the port city of Odesa as residents are urged to seek shelter. Ukrainian officials say the Russian Air Force has fired missiles at the city, and that some missiles have been intercepted. (BBC News) (NDTV)
    • War crimes in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
      • Human Rights Watch, an independent human rights group, says that it has documented allegations of war crimes perpetrated by Russian forces in Ukraine against civilians, including rape, summary execution, and looting of civilian properties. (CNN)
      • The United States, the European Union, and NATO leaders react to emerging reports of the massacre in Bucha, accusing the Russian Armed Forces of war crimes and calling for more sanctions against Russia. (BBC News)
• Afghanistan conflict
  • One person is killed and several more are injured after a militant bombs a money exchange hub in Kabul, Afghanistan. While the Taliban says that ten people were injured, the city's emergency hospital counts an injury toll of 59. (Reuters)
• Allied Democratic Forces insurgency
  • Twenty-one people are killed during an ADF attack at the village of Masambo, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Reuters)

Arts and culture

• 64th Annual Grammy Awards
  • During the ceremony, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy makes a video appearance and delivers a pre-taped speech urging viewers to support his country during the invasion in "any way" they can. (The Hollywood Reporter) (The Washington Post)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in China
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Shanghai
      • Around 25 million residents in Shanghai are ordered to undergo COVID-19 testing in an effort to contain the current COVID-19 outbreak. (South China Morning Post)

Law and crime

• 2022 Sacramento shooting
  • Six people are killed and 12 others are injured during a mass shooting at a popular nightlife area in Sacramento, California, United States. (ABC News)
• 2022 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
  • Around ten people are injured in downtown Chapel Hill, North Carolina, after a series of riots broke out following UNC's victory against Duke in the Final Four. (CNN)

Politics and elections

• 2022 Hungarian parliamentary election
  • Voters in Hungary head to the polls to elect a new National Assembly. (The Guardian)
  • Fidesz, the party of current Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, wins most of the seats and retains its parliamentary supermajority, while opposition leader Péter Márki-Zay loses his home district of Hódmezővásárhely. (CNN)
• 2022 Serbian general election
  • Voters in Serbia head to the polls to vote in the presidential and parliamentary elections. (DW)
  • President Aleksandar Vučić is re-elected with 60.0% of the vote, and his party Serbian Progressive Party wins the most votes in the National Assembly at 42.9% though fail to win an overall majority of seats. (Reuters)
• 2022 Costa Rican general election
  • Voters in Costa Rica head to the polls to vote in the second round of the presidential election. (TSE)
  • Rodrigo Chaves Robles is elected President of Costa Rica. (Reuters)
• 2022 Pakistani constitutional crisis
  • Pakistani President Arif Alvi dissolves the National Assembly after Deputy Speaker Qasim Suri refused to hold a motion of no confidence against Prime Minister Imran Khan, who was widely expected to lose the motion. Khan previously accused the United States of conspiring with the opposition to remove him due to his opposition towards US foreign policy, which the US denies. (BBC News)
• 2022 Sri Lankan protests
  • The entire cabinet of Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa resigns following days of economic protests in Sri Lanka. (BBC News)
• Former Crown Prince of Jordan Hamzah bin Hussein announces on Twitter that he is renouncing his "Prince" title, saying that his "personal convictions" are not in line with the "modern methods of our institutions". Hamzah has been under house arrest since last March after he accused Jordanian leaders of corruption and incompetence. (BBC News)

Sports

• Homosexuality in association football
  • Qatar bans LGBT symbols at the 2022 FIFA World Cup. (Euronews) (NBC News)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Battle of Bucha
      • war crimes after more images emerge of the Bucha massacre. (CNN)
    • 2022 Russia–Ukraine peace negotiations
      • Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says that peace talks will continue despite the Bucha massacre. (BBC News)
• Kashmir conflict
  • An Indian Central Reserve Police Force officer is killed and another is wounded by militants in the Maisuma neighbourhood of Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir. (Times of India)

Business and economy

• International sanctions during the Russo-Ukrainian War
  • Lithuania bans Russian IT companies from relocating to Lithuania. (LRT)
  • Germany assumes control of Gazprom Germania, Gazprom's German subsidiary, after the German economy ministry declines to approve the subsidiary's acquisition by two entities with unclear beneficiaries. (Financial Times)
• Lebanese liquidity crisis
  • Deputy PM Saadeh Al Shami says that Lebanon and its central bank are bankrupt. (Anadolu Agency)

Disasters and accidents

• A train derails in Lualaba Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing seven people and injuring 14 others. (The Punch)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Europe
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Lithuania
      • Lithuania lifts requirements for masks in indoor spaces, except in public transport and medical facilities, and reduces the COVID-19 isolation period to five days. (LRT)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden, COVID-19 vaccination in Sweden
      • The Public Health Agency of Sweden recommends a fourth COVID-19 vaccine dose for people over age of 65 years, as well as other adults aged 18–64 with weak immune response. (The Local Sweden)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in mainland China
    • China reports 13,146 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, which is the highest single-day total of new cases since the height of the pandemic in Wuhan in February 2020. (France 24)

International relations

• Reactions to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Lithuania–Russia relations
    • Lithuania orders the closure of the Russian consulate in Klaipėda and downgrades diplomatic ties with Russia, ordering the Russian ambassador to leave the country. (LRT)
  • France–Russia relations, Germany–Russia relations, Latvia–Russia relations
    • war crimes in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, specifically the Bucha massacre. (Radio Free Europe) (Axios)
  • Russia–European Union relations, Iceland–Russia relations, Norway–Russia relations, Russia–Switzerland relations
    • Russia restricts diplomats, journalists, and politicians from the European Union, Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein from obtaining a visa by a simplified procedure. (Kommersant) (Reuters)

Law and crime

• 2022 Sacramento shooting
  • The Sacramento Police Department arrests a 26-year-old man in connection to yesterday's mass shooting that left six people dead and 12 others injured. (KTVU-TV)

Science and technology

• Discoveries of exoplanets
  • Astronomers announce the discovery of K2-2016-BLG-0005Lb, an exoplanet that is said to resemble Jupiter. The discovery was made using the now-retired Kepler space telescope. (ScienceAlert)
• The third part of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report is released, studying methods to mitigate climate change. (Met Office)
• Kyrgyz government. (Mining.com)

• 2022 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
  • In
    National Championship Game. This is the 4th championship for the Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team, and their first since 2008. (The New York Times)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Eastern Ukraine offensive
      • Siege of Mariupol
        • A Dominica-flagged vessel berthed at the port in Mariupol is hit by artillery from the Russian Navy. One person is injured, but all crew members are successfully evacuated. (Reuters)
• Insurgency in the Maghreb
  • Mali War
    • Siege of Moura
      • counter-insurgency operation in March. (The Guardian) (Human Rights Watch)
  • Jihadist insurgency in Burkina Faso
    • Militants raid a community of nuns in Kaya, Sanmatenga Province, Burkina Faso, kidnapping an American. (Reuters) (Barron's)
• Nigerian bandit conflict
  • At least 15 people are killed and more than a dozen others are injured in an attack at a military base in Birnin Gwari, Kaduna State, Nigeria. (Reuters)
• Imam Reza shrine stabbings
  • A
    Imam Reza Shrine in Mashhad, Iran. (The Washington Post)
• Ituri conflict
  • A
    UN peacekeeper from Nepal is killed in Djugu territory in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo by suspected militia members. (Reuters)

• Global minimum corporate tax rate
  • Poland blocks European Union's adoption of the 15% minimum corporate tax after previous holdouts have abandoned their opposition for the reform. (Politico)

Disasters and accidents

• Tornado outbreak of April 4–5, 2022
  • An ongoing tornado outbreak kills two people and produces a large tornado that hits Allendale, South Carolina, United States, prompting the National Weather Service to issue a rare tornado emergency. (The Weather Channel)
• Five people are killed and ten others are injured when a
  train collides with a pickup truck in Mindszent, Hungary. (Reuters)

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in mainland China
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Shanghai
      • Chinese authorities extend the lockdown in Shanghai after more than 13,000 people test positive for COVID-19. (NBC News)

International relations

• International reactions to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Denmark–Russia relations, Estonia–Russia relations, Italy–Russia relations, Latvia–Russia relations, Portugal–Russia relations, Romania–Russia relations, Russia–Slovenia relations, Russia–Spain relations, Russia–Sweden relations
    • Denmark, Estonia, Italy, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, and Sweden expel over 100 Russian diplomatic staff from their countries. Latvia closes the Russian consulates in Daugavpils and Liepāja, while Estonia closes the Russian diplomatic facilities in Narva and Tartu. These actions come as a reaction to the newly revealed Bucha massacre. (Politico) (Interfax Ukraine) (TASS) (National Post) (Al Arabiya)
  • Turkey–Ukraine relations
    • Turkey moves its embassy back to Kyiv from Chernivtsi. (Anadolu Agency)

Law and crime

• War in Darfur
  • Darfur genocide
    • The trial of Ali Kushayb, one of the suspects in the genocide in Darfur, Sudan, begins at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands. Kushayb pleads not guilty. (Deutsche Welle)
• 2022 Peruvian protests
  • fertiliser costs. (BBC News)
• Rule of Law Conditionality Regulation
  • The
    EU funds. (Politico)
• 2022 Sacramento shooting
  • The Sacramento Police Department announces the arrests of two additional people, ages 27 and 31, in connection to the mass shooting on Monday that killed six people and injured 12 others. (NBC News)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Eastern Ukraine offensive
      • Battle of Sievierodonetsk
        • high-rise buildings on fire. (The Guardian)
      • Four civilians are reported to have been killed by the Russian military in Vuhledar, Donetsk Oblast. (Reuters)
    • 2022 Russia–Ukraine peace negotiations
      • Russia says it will end its invasion if
        suspended operations in Kyiv as a "goodwill gesture" in order to promote peace talks. (Hindustan Times)
• Afghanistan conflict (1978–present)
  • A hand grenade is thrown into the Pul-e Khishti Mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan, killing at least one person and injuring five others. (La Prensa Latina) (Deutsche Welle)
• Iraqi conflict
  • Three missiles land near an
    American security personnel are injured. (Reuters)

• Four
  Europeans go missing after a diving trip off the coast of Mersing, in the Johor state of Malaysia. Authorities say that a search operation is ongoing and one person has since been rescued. (The Guardian) (ABC News)

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Washington, D.C.
      • U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland and U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo test positive for COVID-19 after attending the Gridiron Club's annual dinner in Washington, D.C.. Several other attendees also tested positive. (NBC News)

Law and crime

• A man dies after ramming his vehicle into the fence of the Russian Embassy in Bucharest, Romania and setting himself on fire. (Gazeta de Cluj) (Reuters)
• Former
  President of Burkina Faso Blaise Compaoré is found guilty of complicity in the murder of the country's first president, Thomas Sankara, and is sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment. Compaoré has been in exile in Ivory Coast ever since resigning to the presidency following the 2014 Burkina Faso uprising. (The Guardian)
• Poland arrests two Belarusian citizens on charges of spying for Minsk. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• 2019–2022 Sudanese protests
  • A protester is shot dead as security forces confront anti-coup
    Khartoum, Sudan. (Reuters)
• The governing coalition of Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett loses its majority in the Knesset after coalition whip Idit Silman of the Yamina party defects to the opposition Likud party, raising the possibility of new elections in Israel for the fifth time in four years. (Axios)

Sports

• 2022 boycott of Russia and Belarus
  • It is announced that Russian and Belarusian athletes will be banned from participating in the 2022 Boston Marathon due to the invasion. (Boston.com)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • The governor of Luhansk Oblast, Serhiy Haidai, reports that all hospitals in the province have been completely destroyed by the Russian Armed Forces. Russia denies the claim, accusing Ukraine of destroying their own hospitals. (CNN)
    • Mayor Borys Filatov requests that all women, children, and elderly leave the city of Dnipro in preparation for a possible Russian attack. (The Guardian)
• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • 2022 Tel Aviv shooting
    • Three people are killed and 11 more are injured during a mass shooting at a bar in Tel Aviv, Israel. The attacker is killed during a shootout in nearby Jaffa. (BBC News)

Business and economy

• Economic impact of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • 2022 boycott of Russia and Belarus
    • The United States House of Representatives votes 420–3 to pass legislation to suspend normal trade relations with Russia and Belarus following the invasion of Ukraine. Following this, the Senate also votes 100–0 to pass the legislation, sending it to President Joe Biden for approval. (San Francisco Chronicle) (Fox Business)
  • The
    war level after falling as low as 150 rubles per US dollar in early March. (Bloomberg)

• Eight people are killed and three more injured during an explosion at a bar in a military camp in Goma, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. The causes of the blast are unknown. (Reuters)
• Around two million people in
  power plants. (The Washington Post)
• A
  cargo plane breaks into two parts after making an emergency landing at the Juan Santamaría International Airport in San José, Costa Rica. No one is injured. (Reuters)
• At least 11 people are killed and a dozen injured in a landslide in Abriaquí municipality, Colombia. (CNN)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Cyprus
    • Travel during the COVID-19 pandemic
      • Cyprus will lift their COVID-19-related travel conditions from April 18, ending rules of two years of the pandemic. (Reuters)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Kazakhstan
    • Travel during the COVID-19 pandemic
      • Kazakhstan will lift their COVID-19 travel restrictions at the country's borders with Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Uzbekistan. (Astana Times)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Washington, D.C.
      • House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tests positive for COVID-19. (The New York Times)

International relations

• 2022 Russia–Ukraine peace negotiations
  • Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko says that Minsk should be included in negotiations aimed at ending the war. (The Moscow Times)
• International reactions to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • The
    the final year of Muammar Gaddafi's rule. (CNN)

• War crimes in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Former German
    Interior Minister Gerhart Baum file a complaint with German federal prosecutors accusing Russian President Vladimir Putin, all 32 members of the Security Council of Russia, and members of the Russian Armed Forces of committing war crimes in Ukraine. (ABC News)
• An unknown assailant throws
  Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty) (Reuters)

• 2022 Peruvian protests
  • The government of Pedro Castillo announces that they have deployed the Peruvian Army to highways amid protests against inflation in the country. (Reuters)
• Ketanji Brown Jackson is confirmed for the Supreme Court of the United States, following a 53–47 vote by the Senate. Jackson is the first black woman to be confirmed for this position and will replace justice Stephen Breyer after he retires in the court's summer session. (The New York Times)
• President of Yemen Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi resigns from office, dismisses vice president Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar and transfers both office's powers to the newly formed eight member Presidential Leadership Council chaired by Rashad al-Alimi. (BBC News)

Science and technology

• It is announced that over 5,000 new species of previously undiscovered
  RNA viruses were found in ocean-living organisms and proposed to group them into five new phyla, according to a paper published in Science. (The Independent)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russia-Ukraine War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Eastern Ukraine offensive
      • Kramatorsk railway station attack
        • A pair of
          railway station in Kramatorsk, killing at least 50 people and injuring at least 87 others. (Reuters) (Al Jazeera)
• Jihadist insurgency in Burkina Faso
  • At least 12
    army base in Namissiguima, Burkina Faso. (U.S. News & World Report)

• The
  food price index increases by 13% in March to an all-time record of 159.3 points amid fallout from the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The price of vegetable oils increases by 23% and the price of cereals increases by 17%. (Reuters)

• Government and intergovernmental reactions to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Japan–Russia relations
    • Japan expels eight Russian diplomats. (Jerusalem Post)

Law and crime

• Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping plot
  • Two defendants in the case of an apparent plot seeking to kidnap Governor of Michigan, United States, Gretchen Whitmer due to her COVID-19 policies in October 2020 are acquitted by the jury of the charges of conspiring to kidnap. The trial of the other two defendants ends in a hung jury. (NPR)
• The Russian Ministry of Justice revokes the registration of 15 foreign organizations, including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch (HRW), and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. No reason is given, but the revocations come days after HRW reported on war crimes committed by Russia during the invasion of Ukraine. (Reuters)

Science and technology

• HD1, the farthest known galaxy, is discovered 13.5 billion light-years away from Earth. (Astronomy.com) (The Harvard Gazette) (Forbes)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • 2022 Russia–Ukraine peace negotiations
      • Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says that Ukraine is still ready to continue peace negotiations with Russia. (RTÉ)
    • Eastern Ukraine offensive
      • Four people in
        Novomykhailivka, Marinka Raion, are killed by Russian shelling. Two people are injured. (Times of Israel)
    • Ukrainian
      Minister of Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories Iryna Vereshchuk announces that President Zelenskyy has ordered a third prisoner exchange with Russia, with 12 Ukrainian soldiers and 14 civilians returning to Ukraine. (RFerl)
• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • 2022 Tel Aviv shooting
    • Palestinian Islamic Jihad member is killed and 13 other people are injured. (Times of Israel) (Al Jazeera)
    • In retaliation for the Israeli raid, a group of around 100
      Palestinian rioters vandalize Joseph's Tomb in Nablus. The gravestone and some other objects are damaged in the attack. (The Jerusalem Post) (Ynet)
• Israeli–Syrian ceasefire line incidents during the Syrian civil war
  • The state-owned Syrian Arab News Agency says that Israeli airstrikes have hit the northwestern city of Masyaf. No casualties have been reported. (Times of Israel)

Business and economy

• 2022 Russian financial crisis
  • Russian government decided to use rubles to pay off its bondholders instead of using U.S. dollars as stipulated. However, S&P expects that Russia will still meet its other payment obligations. (Reuters)

• Earthquakes in 2022
  • A magnitude 5.2 earthquake hits the town of Pütürge in eastern Turkey. No casualties or serious damage are reported. (AP)
• European migrant crisis
  • At least 13 people are killed and 10 others are missing after two boats carrying African migrants sink off the coast of Sfax, Tunisia. At least 19 people have been rescued. (Reuters)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Asia
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Saudi Arabia
      • Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Hajj
        • The
          Ministry of Hajj and Umrah announces that Saudi Arabia will lift their COVID-19 restrictions on the hajj and will allow 1 million people to participate in the event for the first time since 2019. (Al Arabiya)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Azerbaijan
      • Azerbaijani Healthcare Minister Teymur Musayev announces that Azerbaijan will develop their own domestic vaccines to combat COVID-19. (AzerNews)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Washington, D.C.
      • U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack tests positive for COVID-19. (CNN)

International relations

• Foreign relations of Ukraine
  • EU High Representative Josep Borrell announces that the European Union and Italy will resume their diplomatic operations in Kyiv after temporarily relocating to Lviv. (The Hill)
• Law of "confrontation with human-rights violations and USA adventuresome and terrorist measures in the region"
  • Trump administration. (IRNA)

• Libyan peace process
  • Eastern Libya announce their refusal to take part in the 5+5 Libyan Joint Military Commission, urging warlord Khalifa Haftar to cut off oil exports and transport to the Western half of the country. (Reuters)
• 2022 Pakistani political crises
  • Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan and his government are ousted in a no-confidence vote put forward by the country's political opposition. (AP)

Sports

• 2022 Grand National
  • Noble Yeats, ridden by jockey Sam Waley-Cohen, wins the 2022 Grand National horse race at Aintree Racecourse in Merseyside, England. Noble Yeats was a surpise victor at 50–1, beating the favourite Any Second Now. (The Telegraph)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Kyiv offensive
      • A mass grave of Ukrainian civilians is discovered near the village of Buzova, Kyiv Oblast. (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty) (Reuters)
      • Prosecutor General of Ukraine Iryna Venediktova says that 1,222 bodies have been discovered so far in Kyiv Oblast. (Times of Israel)
    • Northeastern Ukraine offensive
      • Two people are killed and several others are injured by Russian shelling in the town of Derhachi, Kharkiv Oblast. (Reuters)
    • Dnipro International Airport is completely destroyed by Russian missile strikes. Five people are injured. (Reuters)
• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • The
    Raad Hazem are injured. (The Jerusalem Post)
  • An
    stabbing attack at the entrance to the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron. The attacker is killed. (Reuters)
  • A
    Israel Defence Forces in Husan. (AP)
  • A man is killed after reportedly throwing a Molotov cocktail at Israeli forces in Al-Khader, Bethlehem Governorate. (Times of Israel)
• Nigerian bandit conflict
  • 2022 Plateau State massacre
    • Fifty people are killed and 70 others kidnapped in a series of attacks in Plateau State, Nigeria. (Reuters)
• War in Darfur
  • Twelve people are killed and 10 more injured during a mass shooting at the Tangi and Bir Dagig villages in West Darfur, Sudan. (Dabanga)

International relations

• Spain–Western Sahara relations
  • The Polisario Front suspends all relations with Spain. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Two people are killed and ten others hospitalized in a mass shooting in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States. (USA Today) (KGAN)

Politics and elections

• 2022 French presidential election
  • Voters in
    polls to elect their next President. (The New York Times)
  • Incumbent President Emmanuel Macron wins the first round with 28.1% of the vote and will face Marine Le Pen, who has obtained 23.3% of the vote, in the second round on April 24. (elDiario.es)

Sports

• 2022 Nippon Professional Baseball season, Rōki Sasaki's perfect game
  • Chiba Lotte Marines pitcher Rōki Sasaki throws a perfect game, the first in 28 years and the 16th in NPB history, tying the existing NPB record by striking out 19 batters, and setting a new record by striking out 13 consecutive batters. (Kyodo News)
• 2022 Masters Tournament
  • American professional golfer Scottie Scheffler wins the Masters Tournament at the Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia. This win is Scheffler's first win at the tournament. (CBS Sports)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Eastern Ukraine offensive
      • Siege of Mariupol
        • Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announces that the city of Mariupol has been "completely destroyed", stating the death toll as "tens of thousands". (Washington Examiner)
      • Governor of Donetsk Oblast Pavlo Kyrylenko says that three people have been killed and eight more injured by rocket attacks in the region. (Reuters)
• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Two
    Palestinian rioters who were throwing stones at the tomb two days prior. (The Jerusalem Post) (BBC News)
  • Five people are injured when their car is stoned in East Jerusalem. (Times of Israel)
  • A
    Palestinian militant is shot dead after throwing an incendiary device at Israeli security forces in the West Bank. (CTV News)

• Economic impact of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • In response to the S&P's lowering of Russian foreign debt rating to "SD" (selective default), Finance Minister Anton Siluanov tells pro-Kremlin newspaper Izvestia that the government is preparing to sue in order to force the investors to accept their payments. (CNN)

Disasters and accidents

• 2022 Pacific typhoon season
  • At least 25 people are killed during floods and landslides caused by Tropical Storm Megi in the Philippines. (Reuters)
• Trikut cable car accident
  • At least three people are killed at the
    Trikut hills ropeway in Deoghar district, Jharkhand, India. (NDTV)
• 6 people, including 3 children, have been killed and 5 injured in a gas leak explosion in an apartment block in Moscow, Russia. (Radio Free Europe)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Pennsylvania
      • COVID-19 pandemic in Philadelphia
        • Philadelphia reinstates their indoor mask mandate amid an increase in the number of cases in the city, becoming the first major U.S. city to do so. The mandate will take effect on April 18. (ABC News)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in mainland China
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Shanghai
      • Shanghai eases their lockdown in several areas of the city. (Bloomberg.com)
• In Chile, Santiago governor Claudio Orrego announces that the national capital will ration water for the first time in its history, as the country enters its 13th year of drought. (The Guardian)

Law and crime

• Islamic terrorism in Europe, Terrorism in the United Kingdom
  • Murder of David Amess
    • Southend West David Amess. Ali is also convicted of preparing acts of terrorism. (BBC News)
• British Conservative MP for Wakefield Imran Ahmad Khan is convicted of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy in 2008. (BBC News)

Politics and elections

• 2022 Pakistani constitutional crisis
  • Over 100
    resign in protest of the no-confidence motion against Imran Khan, former Prime Minister of Pakistan. (Reuters)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Insurgency in the Maghreb
  • Mali War
    • The
      Siege of Moura in March. (Reuters)
  • Five soldiers are killed and several others are injured after a
    landmine planted by Islamic extremists explodes in Northern Pendjari National Park, Benin. (Reuters)
• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • U.S. President Joe Biden calls the Russian war in Ukraine a "genocide". (AP)
• 2022 New York City Subway attack
  • Seventeen people are injured during a mass shooting and smoke bomb attack at the 36th Street station in Brooklyn, New York City, United States. The attacker is at large. (BBC News)
• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • A police officer is stabbed and injured by a Palestinian militant in Ashkelon, Southern Israel. The attacker is shot dead. (The Guardian)
• Herder–farmer conflicts in Nigeria
  • Armed Fulani herdsmen kill 23 people in Benue State, Nigeria. (Channels TV)
• Western Sahara conflict
  • Algerian authorities accuse Morocco of attacking an Algerian vehicle convoy on Sunday. (Reuters)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Two officers and two
    Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. (AP)

• 2022 KwaZulu-Natal floods
  • Major flooding in South Africa, mainly in the city of Durban, kills at least 435 people and leaves many others missing. (BBC News)

• An explosion at an Amal Movement scout camp in Sidon, Lebanon, kills one person and injures seven others. According to the National News Agency the incident occurred due to an accident in a Hamas weapon depot. (Reuters)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Asia
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Mainland China
      • COVID-19 pandemic in Shanghai
        • lockdown restrictions would harm the economy. (Reuters)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan
      • Taiwan reports 551 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, which is the highest single-day figure of new cases this year. (Focus Taiwan)

International relations

• Cameroon–Russia relations
  • defence ministers of Russia and Cameroon sign a new military cooperation agreement, renewing a similar agreement signed in 2015. (Jeune Afrique)