Current events: 2025-04-16

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Kherson strikes
    • Russian artillery and glide bombs target Kherson, Ukraine, killing one person and injuring nine others. A sports facility, a supermarket, and residential buildings were among those hit. (AP)
  • Dnipro strikes
    • A large-scale drone attack on Dnipro, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, kills two people and injures 16 others. (Reuters)
• Somali Civil War
  • 2025 Shabelle offensive
    • Al-Shabaab militants capture the Adan Yabal District in Middle Shabelle, Somalia, as the group continues to advance towards the capital Mogadishu. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• Authorities recover the remains of a Filipino crew member from the sand barge that capsized off Occidental Mindoro, Philippines, yesterday, bringing the total death toll to two. Nine others are reportedly still missing. (GMA News)
• A boat carrying around 400 people catches fire and capsizes on the Congo River in the Republic of the Congo, killing at least 50 people and leaving hundreds more missing. (AP)

Health and environment

• The United Kingdom suspends the import of cheese and meat products from the European Union to prevent the spread of foot-and-mouth disease. (BBC News)

Law and crime

• Transgender rights in the United Kingdom
  • The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom rules that legal gender is based upon biological sex for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010. (BBC News)
• A German palliative care doctor is charged for allegedly killing fifteen patients between 2021 and 2024 in Berlin. He is being investigated in an additional 75 suspected cases and also accused of trying to cover up the evidence by starting fires in their homes. (AP) (tagesschau)

Politics and elections

• Sudanese civil war
  • The leader of the Sudanese Rapid Support Forces, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, announces the establishment of the Government of Peace and Unity, a rival government to the country's armed forces. (BBC News)

Science and technology

• A colossal squid is filmed in the Southern Atlantic Ocean for the first time since the species was discovered in 1925. The {{cvt|30|cm|in|abbr=on}}-long juvenile was filmed by a team of scientists led by the University of Essex near the South Sandwich Islands at a depth of {{cvt|600|m|ft|abbr=on}}. (BBC News)

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