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- 2025 Darul Uloom Haqqania bombing
- Five people, including Hamid Ul Haq Haqqani, the head of a faction of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (S) party and son of Sami-ul-Haq, are killed and twenty others are injured in a suicide bombing inside of a mosque in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (The Indian Express)
Business and economy
- 2025 United States federal mass layoffs
- The United States Social Security Administration announces it will layoff over 7,000 jobs to align with U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order, despite its workforce already at a 50-year low. (NPR)
Disasters and accidents
- 2024–25 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season
- Three people are killed as tropical cyclone Garance makes landfall in Réunion in the Indian Ocean. (AP)
- 2025 disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- At least 60 fatalities and nearly 1,100 symptomatic cases are reported to be a result of a disease outbreak of unknown etiology in the Province of Équateur, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (CBS News)
- At least 25 construction workers are trapped and 32 others are rescued after a group of 57 people are swept away by an avalanche near the Mana Pass, Uttarakhand, India. (CTV News)
International relations
- Ukraine–United States relations
- Peace negotiations in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2025 Trump–Zelenskyy meeting
- U.S. president Donald Trump, U.S. vice president JD Vance and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy end their talks early after their meeting in the White House turns into a "heated" exchange. Trump declares afterwards that Ukraine "is not interested in peace" and disrespected the United States. (Time) (AP)
- The US State Department terminates U.S. support of Ukraine energy grid restoration amid an ongoing energy crisis. (NBC)
- 2025 Trump–Zelenskyy meeting
- Peace negotiations in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Russia–United States relations
- Russia appoints Alexander Darchiev as its new ambassador to the U.S. following talks between the two countries in Istanbul on restoring regular diplomatic contacts and embassy staffs. The post has been vacant for several months. (Barron's) (Interfax)
- Democratic Republic of the Congo–Rwanda conflict
- The East African Community (EAC) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) indefinitely postpone the joint summit of their foreign ministers that would have agreed on a ceasefire plan for the conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The Congolese and Rwandan governments never received invitations to the meeting. (Critical Threats Project)
Politics and elections
- Greeks organize a 24-hour nationwide general strike on the second anniversary of the Tempi train crash, Greece's deadliest railway disaster. (Reuters)
- Following the 2024 quota reform movement in Bangladesh, students who led the protests announce the formation of a new political party, the National Citizen Party, led by Nahid Islam, a student activist and the chief coordinator of the Students Against Discrimination movement. (DW)
Science and technology
- Microsoft announces it will shut down Skype in May 2025 to focus its support and development on Teams. (DW) (Bloomberg News)
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