Current events: 2025-04-10

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Syrian civil war
  • Western Syria clashes
    • 2025 massacres of Syrian Alawites
      • The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reports a marked re-escalation of extrajudicial killings of civilians in Alawite-dominated coastal Syrian regions, with sixteen civilians executed in 72 hours. Several civilian homes in Tartus Governorate are seized by government-affiliated forces. (SOHR) (SOHR 2)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • War crimes in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • A video leaked by Ukrainian officials and verified by the Associated Press shows Russian soldiers summarily executing four Ukrainian prisoners of war last month in Piatykhatky, Zaporizhzhia Oblast. (AP)
• Papua conflict
  • Seventeen people are killed by West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) militants in Yahukimo Regency, Highland Papua, Indonesia. The TPNPB alleges that they attacked Indonesian Army soldiers disguised as gold miners, while the Indonesian government rejects the claim. (AP)

Business and economy

• Tariffs in the second Trump administration
  • China–United States trade war
    • The White House clarifies the tariff rate on China, stating that a 145% tariff on all imports to the United States is in effect. The 20% addition came from China's alleged role in supplying synthetic opioids, including fentanyl, to the United States. (The New York Times)
  • The European Union announces a 90-day pause on counter measures against the U.S. tariffs on European goods. (BBC News)
• Land reform in Zimbabwe
  • Zimbabwe begins issuing the first financial compensation payments to White Zimbabwean farmers whose farms were seized by Robert Mugabe's government between 2000 and 2002. A total of 740 farmers will be compensated as per the 2020 agreement with the Commercial Farmers' Union. (BBC News)
• The United Kingdom's Cabinet Office announces it will cut around 2,100 jobs from its department, about a third of its total workforce, as part of wider government spending cuts. (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Hudson River helicopter crash
  • A Bell 206 sightseeing helicopter crashes into the Hudson River off Lower Manhattan, New York, United States, killing all six people on board, including a family of five from Spain and the pilot. (AP) (ABC News)
• Jet Set nightclub roof collapse
  • The number of deaths caused by the roof collapse of the Jet Set nightclub in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, rises to 218, with the disaster site's chief of operations ruling out the discovery of any more survivors although not stopping rescue operations. (CTV News)

Health and environment

• Hungary's Minister of the Prime Minister's Office Gergely Gulyás suggests a biological attack could be the source of a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in the country. (Reuters)

International relations

• Russia–United States relations
  • A Russian-American citizen arrested in the city of Yekaterinburg in early 2024 and a dual German-Russian citizen arrested in Cyprus in 2023 are released in a prisoner swap between Russia and the U.S. (BBC News)

Law and crime

• 2025 Turkish protests
  • The government of Turkey releases 127 people on bail, most of which are university students, after they were arrested for taking part in protests calling for the release of Istanbul mayor and opposition figure Ekrem İmamoğlu. (AP)
  • Turkish police detain two journalists, one from BirGün and one from Cumhuriyet, and raid their offices, accusing them of making threats and blackmail after they reported on the arrest of İmamoğlu. Reporters Without Borders condemn the arrests as an infringement on freedom of information. (DW)

Politics and elections

• Presidency of Javier Milei
  • Argentines organize a 24-hour nationwide general strike against the Javier Milei administration for the third time. According to the government, this constitutes an "attack against the republic". (The Straits Times) (Yahoo News)
• The German governing coalition announces it will abolish the expedited 3-year naturalization path for "integrated" immigrants who are spouses of German citizens or have completed the Integrationskurs. The path requiring 5 years of continuous residency will remain. (DW)

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