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April 24

Armed conflicts and attacks

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.
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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.
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Politics and elections

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

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.
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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.
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Moldova announces that they have brought a criminal case against Gagauzia governor Evghenia Guțul for using Russian funds to finance the now-banned Șor Party.
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Three people are injured in a stabbing at the Ysgol Dyffryn Aman school in Ammanford, Wales. The suspect is arrested.
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Disasters and accidents

Widespread flooding occurs in Nairobi, Kenya, with tens of thousands of people affected.
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April 23

International relations

Jamaica becomes the 140th UN member state to recognize the State of Palestine.
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North Korea claims that it tested a new command-and-control system in a simulated nuclear counterstrike.
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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.
Source: Reuters external link

Disasters and accidents

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

Business and economy

The United States Federal Trade Commission votes to ban nearly all employment agreements that prevent workers from joining competing businesses.
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Armed conflicts and attacks

An Israeli Air Force airstrike kills two people and injures six others in Hanine, Lebanon.
Source: Reuters external link
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.
Source: The New York Times external link

April 22

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.
Source: BBC News 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

Science and technology

NASA announces that it has received decipherable data from the space probe for the first time in five months.
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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.
Source: The Guardian external link
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 raid Khan Yunis in Gaza after abruptly withdrawing from the city earlier this month.
Source: Reuters external link
Two police officers are killed and another is injured during a mass shooting of a police squad in Karachay-Cherkessia, Russia.
Source: Tass 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.
Source: AP external link

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