Current events: 2025-04-22

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
    • Israeli airstrikes kill at least 25 people across the Gaza Strip. (RTÉ News)
• Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
  • 2025 Pahalgam attack
    • At least 28 people are killed and dozens of others are injured when separatists open fire on people in Pahalgam, Anantnag district, Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir. (The New Indian Express) (The Guardian)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Zaporizhzhia strikes
    • Russian guided bombs target Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, killing one person and wounding 26 others, according to regional governor Ivan Fedorov. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Palestine–Syria relations
  • Syria detains two senior members of the paramilitary organization Palestinian Islamic Jihad. (Reuters)
• Seven people are killed in a mass stabbing when a man enters a bakery and attacks sleeping employees in Antipolo, Rizal, Philippines. (GMA Network)
• Interpol rescues 33 West Africans, including people from Benin, Togo, Burkina Faso, and Ghana, from human trafficking rings in the Ivory Coast. (AP)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Ivorian presidential election
  • Main opposition leader Tidjane Thiam is disqualified from the 2025 Ivorian presidential election. (BBC News)

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