Current events: 2025-04-24

Wikipedia Current Events · 2025-04-24T20:12:58-0400

Armed conflicts and attacks

Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Kyiv strikes
  - April 2025 Russian attack on Kyiv
    - Twelve people are killed and around 90 others, including children, are injured in a Russian KN-23 ballistic missile strike on Kyiv, Ukraine. (CTV News) (Reuters)
Middle Eastern crisis
- Gaza war
  - Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    - Three children are allegedly killed and several others are injured after an Israeli airstrike hits a tent encampment in the Nuseirat refugee camp, resulting in a fire which spread through parts of the camp. Altogether, at least 45 people are killed from today's attacks. (Al Jazeera)
- Israeli settler violence
  - Israeli settlers in the West Bank shoot and injure five Palestinians and set fire to several homes and farmland. (Al Jazeera)
Somali Civil War
- 2025 Shabelle offensive
  - Al-Shabaab militants seize the town of Wargaadhi and its military base in Middle Shabelle, Somalia. More than 40 militants and twelve clan fighters are killed in related combat. (Al Jazeera)
Islamist insurgency in the Sahel
- The Beninese government announces that 54 soldiers were killed in an attack by Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin (JNIM) in the north of the country last week, after previously announcing only eight soldiers were killed. JNIM claims 70 soldiers were killed in the attack. (BBC)

Disasters and accidents

American aerobatics pilot Rob Holland is killed when his MX Aircraft MXS crashed while landing at Langley Air Force Base in Hampton, Virginia, United States. (WTKR)

International relations

India–Pakistan relations
- 2025 India–Pakistan diplomatic crisis
  - Pakistan closes its land border and shared airspace with India indefinitely following the attack on tourists in Pahalgam, India-administered Kashmir several days prior, and India's executive actions against Pakistan yesterday. (DW)
The Palestinian Central Council votes 170–1 to establish the position of Vice President of the State of Palestine. (Reuters)

Law and crime

Highland Park parade shooting
- 24-year-old Robert E. Crimo is sentenced to 21 life sentences for killing seven people and injuring 48 others in a mass shooting during the 2022 Independence Day parade in Highland Park, Illinois, United States. (CNN)
Jones Road Fire
- A 19-year-old is arrested and charged with arson on suspicion of starting an ongoing large wildfire that has burned 15,000 acres in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States. (ABC News)
One student is killed and three others are critically injured in a mass stabbing at a private school in Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France. A 15-year-old student is detained. (Daily Mirror)
The perpetrator is killed and at least four others are injured in a mass shooting at a used car dealership in the Glenvar Heights, Florida, United States. (WSVN) (WPLG)
Former South Korean President Moon Jae-in is indicted on charges of alleged corruption and bribery for receiving ₩217 million (US$152,000) in connection with his son-in-law's employment at airline Eastar Jet in Thailand. (DW)

Science and technology

Chinese space program
- The Shenzhou 20 spacecraft launches successfully from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China, carrying three astronauts on a six-month mission to install space debris protection in the Tiangong space station and carry out scientific experiments on solar and cosmic ray radiation on planarians. (Reuters) (DW)