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- Russo-Ukrainian War
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Kharkiv strikes
- Five people are killed, including a child, and 35 are injured in a Russian drone attack on a residential area in Novobavarskyi District of Kharkiv, Ukraine. (Ukrainska Pravda)
- Kryvyi Rih strikes
- A Russian ballistic missile strike on a residential area in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, kills 18 people, including five children, and injures more than 50 others. The Russian Defence Ministry claims its forces were targeting a "military gathering" in the city. (BBC News) (Ukrainska Pravda) (Reuters)
- Kharkiv strikes
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Syrian civil war
- Syrian peace process
- Groups of Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) militants withdraw from the two neighborhoods of Sheikh Maqsood and Achrafieh in Aleppo, Syria, as part of a deal with the Syrian government, which will eventually merge the SDF and the Syrian Armed Forces under one command. (AP)
- Syrian peace process
Business and economy
- Tariffs in the second Trump administration
- China–United States trade war
- China responds to U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs with a 34% reciprocal tariff on imports of American goods. The tariffs will take effect on April 10. (CNN)
- Donald Trump's Liberation Day speech
- Multiple companies, including Klarna, StubHub, Nintendo, and Professional Sports Authenticator, pause price-sensitive business actions in the U.S. in order to evaluate the impact of recent tariff announcements. (The Wall Street Journal) (IGN) (The Verge)
- Stocks fall for the second consecutive day following Trump's recent tariff announcements. Over the past two days, the S&P 500 is down over 10%, while the FTSE 100 is down 6.97% for the week. (The Guardian)
- China–United States trade war
Disasters and accidents
- Kočani nightclub fire
- The death toll from the fire at a nightclub in Kočani, North Macedonia, in March increases to 60 as a burn victim dies in the hospital. (AP)
- Ten people are killed when a landslide caused by torrential rains buries two vehicles in Mojokerto, East Java, Indonesia. (AP)
Law and crime
- Impeachment of Yoon Suk Yeol
- The Constitutional Court of Korea unanimously upholds former President Yoon Suk Yeol's impeachment in an 8–0 vote, removing him from office. (The Korea Times)
Politics and elections
- Deportation in the second presidency of Donald Trump
- United States federal judge for the District Court of Maryland Paula Xinis orders the Trump administration to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national from Maryland who was mistakenly deported and sent to the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador. (AP)
- Thousands of people demonstrate in Bangui, Central African Republic, to protest against President Faustin-Archange Touadéra's plans to run for a third term with the backing of the Russian-led Wagner Group, who has killed indiscriminately in the country. (AP)
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