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April 23

Politics and elections

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Rishi Sunak announces that he plans to raise the United Kingdom's defence budget to 2.5% of its GDP by 2030, totaling around 85 billion pounds.
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Armed conflicts and attacks

United Nations human rights chief Volker Türk calls for an international investigation after hundreds of bodies are discovered in mass graves around Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip.
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An Israeli Air Force airstrike kills two people and injures six others in Hanine, Lebanon.
Source: Reuters external link
The United States announces it is preparing a $1 billion aid package to Ukraine in an Israel-Ukraine aid bill yet to be signed.
Source: Reuters external link
North Korea claims it has tested a new command-and-control system in a simulated nuclear counterstrike.
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Disasters and accidents

Two helicopters of the Royal Malaysian Navy collide mid-air during a rehearsal parade in Lumut, Malaysia, killing ten people on board.
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Five migrants drown in the English Channel and 49 are rescued.
Source: Reuters external link
At least 21 migrants die after their boat capsized off the coast of Djibouti.
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Science and technology

After five months with communication problems, NASA receives decipherable data from .
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April 22

Armed conflicts and attacks

The Russian Ministry of Defence claims control over the village of Novomykhailivka in Donetsk Oblast.
Source: Reuters external link
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.
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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.
Source: Reuters external link
Israeli troops and tanks attack Khan Yunis in Gaza after abruptly withdrawing from the city earlier this month.
Source: Reuters external link
Twelve Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters militants are killed and seven soldiers are wounded during a shootout in Datu Saudi Ampatuan, Maguindanao del Sur, Philippines.
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Two police officers are killed and another is injured during a mass shooting of a police squad in Karachay-Cherkessia, Russia.
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Politics and elections

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.
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President Mohamed Muizzu's party, the People's National Congress, is declared the winner of the election.
Source: Reuters external link

International relations

China objects to an offering that Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida made at Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine on Sunday.
Source: Reuters external link

Disasters and accidents

Four people are killed and ten are missing during floods caused by heavy rain in Guangdong Province, China. Around 110,000 people are evacuated.
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April 21

Politics and elections

Ecuadorians vote in a referendum on proposed constitutional changes.
Source: Al Jazeera external link
Maldivians elect the members of the parliament.
Source: The Hindu external link
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.
Source: Reuters external link

Disasters and accidents

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.
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Armed conflicts and attacks

Twenty-two people are killed, including 18 children, in overnight Israeli drone attacks in Rafah in the Gaza, according to local health officials.
Source: AP external link

April 20

Disasters and accidents

A river boat en route to a funeral capsizes in the Mpoko River in Bangui, Central African Republic, killing at least 58 people.
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Armed conflicts and attacks

Fourteen Palestinians are killed in an Israeli attack in the West Bank.
Source: Times of Israel external link
The Governor of Smolensk Oblast, Russia, says that a Ukrainian drone attack caused a fire at a fuel depot in Kardymovsky.
Source: Reuters external link

Law and crime

American college students plan demonstrations in solidarity with pro-Palestinian Columbia University protesters arrested in New York City earlier this week.
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Two people are killed and six more are injured in a shooting at a block party in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Protests occur in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, against mass tourism in the Canary Islands which is allegedly increasing house prices for locals.
Source: Reuters external link

International relations

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.
Source: ABC News external link