Armed conflicts and attacks

• Human Rights Watch says the Armed Forces of Burkina Faso executed over 220 villagers in February. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Kenya floods
  • Floods in East Africa kill dozens of people. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• Politics of Scotland
  • The Scottish National Party's coalition in the Scottish government with the Scottish Greens collapses as the SNP withdraws. The SNP announce its intention to continue as a minority government. The Scottish Conservatives call a no confidence vote in First Minister Humza Yousaf. (Reuters) (BBC News)
• Haitian crisis
  • Ariel Henry formally resigns as Prime Minister of Haiti in a letter released today, and signed yesterday in Los Angeles. He is replaced by the Transitional Presidential Council. (AP) (France 24)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
    • The United States announces a $61 billion aid package for Ukraine as part of a bill that was recently approved after being stalled in the US Congress for months. The package includes ammunition for artillery and air defense systems, along with armoured fighting vehicles. (CNN)

Business and economy

• The union representing air traffic controllers in France cancels a planned 24-hour strike on Thursday, although a majority of flights have already been cancelled. (Euronews)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Kenya floods
  • Widespread flooding occurs in Nairobi, Kenya, with tens of thousands of people affected. (BBC News)

Law and crime

• AMIA bombing
  • Argentina issues an arrest warrant via Interpol for Iranian interior minister Ahmad Vahidi in connection with the 1994 bombing of a Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires. Vahidi is currently believed to be in Sri Lanka. (BBC News)
• Human rights in Colombia
  • The Government of Colombia issues a formal apology to the indigenous communities of the Amazon basin for their enslavement and mistreatment during the Amazon rubber boom in the 19th and 20th centuries. (El Espectador)
• President of the United States Joe Biden signs the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act into law. (Reuters)
• Moldova announces that it has brought a criminal case against Gagauzia governor Evghenia Guțul for using Russian funds to finance the now-banned Șor Party. (Reuters)
• Three people are injured in a stabbing at the Ysgol Dyffryn Aman school in Ammanford, Wales. The suspect is arrested. (ITV News) (The Guardian)
• Russian Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov is arrested on suspicion of bribery. (CNN)

Politics and elections

• Thousands of people protest in Buenos Aires, Argentina, against reductions in funding for universities made by President Javier Milei. (BBC News)
• Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez says that he is considering resigning from office after the launch of a judicial investigation into his wife after accusations by a right-wing legal platform. (AP)

April 25: Liberation Day in Italy (1945)

• 1643 – First English Civil War: Despite being vastly outnumbered, a Parliamentarian force under James Chudleigh defeated a Royalist army near Okehampton, Devon, at the Battle of Sourton Down.
• 1915 – First World War: The Australian and New Zealand Army Corps landed at Anzac Cove while British and French troops landed at Cape Helles to begin the Allied invasion of the Gallipoli peninsula in the Ottoman Empire.
• 1960 – The U.S. Navy submarine Triton (pictured) completed the first submerged circumnavigation of the world.
• 1983 – The first issue of The Jakarta Post was published in Indonesia.
• 2015 – Nepal was struck by a magnitude-7.8 earthquake, killing more than 8,000 people.