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- In the Myanmar civil war, the military junta's air force kills at least 130 civilians in Pazigyi.
- In golf, Jon Rahm (pictured) wins the Masters Tournament.
- Former U.S. president Donald Trump is arraigned on 34 charges of falsifying business records.
- Finland joins NATO as its 31st member.
- In the Andorran parliamentary election, the liberal coalition, led by Prime Minister Xavier Espot, wins an absolute majority of seats in the General Council.
April 14, 2023 (Friday)
April 13, 2023 (Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Battle of Bakhmut
- Foreign involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- The European Council agrees to donate one billion euros worth of ammunition to Ukraine through an EU financing instrument. (tagesschau)
- The German government approves a request by Poland for the export of former GDR MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine. (tagesschau)
- Myanmar civil war
Disasters and accidents
- 2022–23 Australian region cyclone season
- Cyclone Ilsa
- Cyclone Ilsa makes landfall near between De Grey and Pardoo Roadhouse in Western Australia, Australia, as a category five cyclone. (ABC)
- Cyclone Ilsa
Health and environment
- South Korea has announced that it will conduct radiation tests on 89 defectors from North Korea from May. (Yonhap)
International relations
- Japan–North Korea relations
- 2021–2023 North Korean missile tests
- North Korea launches a ballistic missile towards northern Japan, prompting evacuation orders in Hokkaido, before the missile fell into the sea. (Al Jazeera)
- 2021–2023 North Korean missile tests
Law and crime
- 2023 Pentagon document leaks
- The U.S. FBI arrests a 21-year-old Massachusetts Air National Guardsman for leaking the documents to a Discord gaming group. (NBC News)
- The Ugandan military kills notorious criminal Tom Lopusi, who led a massive jailbreak in Moroto District in September 2020. (Xinhua)
- A 38-year-old tech consultant from Emeryville, California, United States, is arrested for killing Cash App founder Bob Lee earlier in the month. (BBC)
Politics and elections
- The parliament of Malawi approves a new defence act, expanding its Defence Force with the creation of a fourth service. (NyasaTimes)
- The government of Bolivia calls on the armed forces to tighten border controls to prevent smuggling of state-subsidized fuel. (Reuters)
April 12, 2023 (Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Mali war
- The village of Tidermène is captured by the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara. (Defense Post)
Business and economy
- NPR announces that it will no longer use Twitter after the social media site labeled it and the BBC as "government-funded media". Shortly thereafter, Twitter CEO Elon Musk announces that the labelling of the BBC will be changed to "publicly-funded media". (BBC News) (CNBC)
Disasters and accidents
- Twenty-five people are killed and others are missing after a boat carrying migrants sinks off the coast of Tunisia. (Al Jazeera)
International relations
- Saudi Arabia–Syria relations
- Syrian foreign minister Faisal Mekdad meets with Saudi foreign minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in the first such visit between the two countries since the start of the Syrian civil war in 2011 in order to discuss the security situation in Syria and the return of Syrian refugees. (Al Jazeera)
Law and crime
- Four soldiers are killed in a mass shooting at a military base in Bathinda, Punjab, India. Authorities say that the shooting is not terror-related. (Al Jazeera)
- Drug liberalization
- The Federal Ministers Karl Lauterbach and Cem Özdemir present key points on the partial legalisation of cannabis in Germany. (taz)
April 11, 2023 (Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Myanmar civil war
- Pazigyi massacre
- At least 100 people are killed in an airstrike by the military junta in the village of Pazigyi, Kanbalu Township, Sagaing, in the third major attack against civilians since the junta's offensive in Sagaing began in February. It is the junta's deadliest attack since seizing power in 2021. (The New York Times)
- Pazigyi massacre
- Armenia–Azerbaijan border crisis
- Fighting occurs near the Armenian village of Tegh, resulting in the deaths of four Armenian and three Azerbaijani soldiers. (Associated Press)
- Insurgency in Balochistan
- Four police personnel and a terrorist are killed in an exchange of fire during a police operation in Kuchlak, Balochistan, Pakistan. (GNN)
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- A Palestinian National Security Forces member and another Palestinian man are killed by Israeli soldiers in Elon Moreh, West Bank. (Al Jazeera)
- Republican insurgency in Afghanistan
- The Taliban say that the 313 Central Corps carried out an operation in Parwan Province, killing eight rebels, including a commander, of the National Resistance Front. (Arab News)
Arts and culture
- Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu announces that Jews will be prohibited from visiting the Temple Mount for the remainder of Ramadan, following raids by Israeli forces on the al-Aqsa Mosque last week. National security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir condemns the decision. (Al-Monitor)
Disasters and accidents
- Richmond, Indiana facility fire
- A massive fire at a recycling plant in Richmond, Indiana, sends plumes of toxic smoke into the air and forces the evacuation of about 2,000 people in a half-mile radius of the fire. (CNN)
- The Shiveluch volcano in the Russian Far East erupts, sending ash up to 20 kilometres (12 mi) into the air. (DW)
- Hundreds of residents of Gangneung, South Korea, are forced to evacuate and a person is killed as more than 2,300 firefighters combat a spreading wildfire. (AP)
Health and environment
- The World Health Organization reports the first death from H3N8 in a 56-year-old woman in Guangdong Province, China, who died March 16. The virus has been circulating since 2002, when it first appeared in North American waterfowl. (The Guardian)
International relations
- Germany expels the ambassador of Chad, Mariam Ali Moussa, in a tit-for-tat decision following the expulsion of the German ambassador from Chad last week. (Reuters)
- Sweden announces the indefinite closure of its embassy in Pakistan. (The Pakistan Daily)
Law and crime
- President of Malawi Lazarus Chakwera pardons 200 prisoners, including a former minister convicted of corruption. (NyasaTimes)
Politics and elections
Sports
- 2022–23 NHL season
- In ice hockey, the Boston Bruins break the NHL record for the most points scored in a single season with 133, surpassing the 1976–77 Montreal Canadiens. This comes two days after winning their 63rd game, surpassing the 2018–19 Tampa Bay Lightning and 1995–96 Detroit Red Wings for the most wins in a regular season. (CBS Sports) (ESPN)
April 10, 2023 (Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Insurgency in Balochistan
- 2023 Kandahari Bazar bombing
- Four people are killed and 15 others are injured when a motorcycle bomb targeting a police vehicle explodes in Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan. (Al Jazeera)
- 2023 Kandahari Bazar bombing
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- A 15-year-old Palestinian boy is killed by Israeli soldiers in Jericho, in the occupied West Bank. (Al Jazeera)
Business and economy
- 2023 Rutgers University strike
- The staff of Rutgers University vote to go on the first strike by academics in the school's 257-year history, affecting over 67,000 students in the U.S. state of New Jersey. (NPR)
Disasters and accidents
- At least 10 people are killed and 25 others are injured in a bus crash in the Department of Lima, Peru. (Xinhua)
Law and crime
- 2023 Pentagon document leaks
- U.S. officials confirm that top secret U.S. government documents relating to the war in Ukraine have been leaked on social media, revealing details of Ukrainian military vulnerabilities. The Pentagon refers the leak to the Department of Justice, which has opened a criminal investigation into the leak. (Reuters)
- 2023 Louisville shooting
- Five people are killed and eight others are injured in a mass shooting at a bank in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. The perpetrator, who livestreamed the attack on Instagram, is also killed. (The New York Times)
- A people's court in Linshu County, Shandong, China, sentences prominent human rights and democracy activists Xu Zhiyong and Ding Jiaxi to 14 and 12 years in prison, respectively, for subverting state power. (The Guardian) (South China Morning Post)
Politics and elections
- 2023 Israeli judicial reform protests
- Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu reverses his decision to dismiss defense minister Yoav Gallant, after the latter had spoken out against the government's controversial judicial reform proposal. (Spiegel)
April 9, 2023 (Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Israeli–Syrian ceasefire line incidents during the Syrian civil war
- Israel launches retaliatory airstrikes on Syrian territory after several rockets were launched toward the Israeli-occupied Syrian Golan Heights. (The Guardian)
- Israeli–Syrian ceasefire line incidents during the Syrian civil war
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- A Russian missile strike on Zaporizhzhia destroys a residential building and damages dozens of other buildings, killing two civilians and injuring another. Russian attacks are also reported in other settlements, including Orikhiv and Huliaipole. (Reuters) (Anadolu Agency)
- Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Syrian civil war
- Eight people are killed by a land mine planted by Islamic State in Deir ez-Zor, Syria. (Reuters)
- Five people are killed after a convoy is ambushed in Agadez Region, Niger. (AP)
Disasters and accidents
- Marseille building collapse
- Six people are killed, two are missing and five more injured after a gas explosion causes two buildings to collapse in Marseille, France. (BBC News)
- Six people are killed and another is injured by an avalanche near Mount Blanc, in the French Alps. (BBC News)
Politics and elections
- 2023 Estonian parliamentary election
- Three parties (Reform, E200 and Social Democrats), led by Prime Minister Kaja Kallas, agree to a new government coalition, five weeks after the parliamentary elections in Estonia. (AP)
April 8, 2023 (Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- 2023 Khyber blast
- Two soldiers are killed after their vehicle hits a roadside bomb in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. In a separate incident, a police officer is killed and two more injured during a grenade attack in Swabi. The Pakistani Taliban claims responsibility for both attacks. (Associated Press)
- 2023 Khyber blast
Disasters and accidents
- At least ten people are killed in Migori, Kenya, when a truck loses control and crashes into pedestrians. (Pulse)
International relations
- Chad expels German ambassador Gordon Kricke after he criticises the government delaying the 2024 election. (Deutschlandfunk) (Al Jazeera)
Law and crime
- 2023 Pentagon document leaks
- Two sets of classified documents of the United States relating to the Russo-Ukrainian War are leaked online. The leaks also include intelligence that the United States holds on other nations, including North Korea, China, Iran, and the United Arab Emirates. (CNN)
- The documents are compiled from multiple sources, including the Central Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency, and the Bureau of Intelligence and Research of the State Department. (CNN)
- Police in Iran announce the installment of cameras in public places to identify and penalize women who do not observe dressing codes for hijabs, while also urging citizens to confront women who are not sufficiently covered. (Reuters)
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