Current events: 2025-04-07

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Syrian civil war
  • Western Syria clashes
    • 2025 massacres of Syrian Alawites
      • The number of mainly-Alawite Syrian civilians killed in ongoing sectarian reprisal massacres by pro-Syrian government forces and Sunni parties since March 6 rises to 1,767. (SOHR)

• Gaza war
  • Israeli occupation of the Gaza Strip
    • Israel reportedly controls over half of the land in the Gaza Strip after razing multiple Palestinian properties to expand its buffer zone. (AP) (CNN)
  • An Israeli airstrike hits near a charity kitchen in Gaza where displaced Palestinians gathered for food, killing more than 30 people. (AP)
• Herder–farmer conflicts in Nigeria
  • The National Emergency Management Agency reports that at least 52 people have been killed and over 2,000 others have been displaced from their homes in recent days in tit for tat attacks by rival herders over control of arable land in Plateau State, Nigeria. (Reuters)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • A Pakistan Army raid on a Pakistani Taliban militant hideout in Dera Ismail Khan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, kills nine militants, including a high-profile Taliban leader who coordinated recent attacks on Pakistani military facilities in the region. (AP)

Business and economy

• Tariffs in the second Trump administration, Executive orders in the second presidency of Donald Trump
  • Executive Order 14257
    • The Nikkei 225, SSE Composite Index, and Hang Seng Index experience substantial losses following Friday’s losses on the New York Stock Exchange as a result of U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs. European markets also decline, particularly in banking and defense sectors. The ASX 200 in Australia and the Kospi in South Korea also closes lower. (BBC News)
    • European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen offers to negotiate with U.S. president Donald Trump to avoid a trade war and further economic panic, including a zero-for-zero tariff deal on all industrial goods. (Politico) (Euronews)
    • President of Taiwan Lai Ching-te states that he intends to not implement retaliatory tariffs against the United States. He instead expressed Taiwan's intent to import more American exports and increase its investments in the U.S. economy, beginning with a proposal for a Taiwan–U.S. bilateral zero-tariff deal. (NBC News)
  • China–United States trade war
    • U.S. president Donald Trump issues an ultimatum to China on Truth Social to reverse its 34% retaliatory tariff on all American goods by tomorrow (April 8) or face a new 50% tariff, resulting in a total 104% tariff. (CNBC) (NBC News)
    • China says it "will not bow" to pressure and threats by the U.S. on trade and will not lift its reciprocal tariffs despite Trumps's ultimatum to do so by tomorrow. (AFP via Barron's)

International relations

• Algeria–Mali relations
  • Algeria bans flights to and from Mali in response to "recurrent violations" of Algerian airspace by Malian military drones. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• At least fifteen schools are closed in Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, due to violent threats from unknown far-right extremist individuals, totaling at least 17,000 children affected. (DW)

Politics and elections

• 2025 South Korean presidential election
  • South Korea announces a snap presidential election after the dismissal of former president Yoon Suk Yeol, scheduled for June 3. (Korea JoongAng Daily)

Science and technology

• De-extinction
  • Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi
    • Colossal Biosciences announce they have bred three genetically modified wolf pups which approximate anatomical features of extinct dire wolves. (TIME) (Bloomberg News)
• The first birth of a baby in the United Kingdom to a person with a transplanted womb is announced. The baby girl, delivered at Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital in London to a 36-year-old woman, is reported to be healthy. (BBC News)

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