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Attacks and armed conflicts

• 2025 Darul Uloom Haqqania bombing
  • Five people, includingHamid Ul Haq Haqqani, the head of a faction of theJamiat Ulema-e-Islam (S) party and son ofSami-ul-Haq, are killed and twenty others are injured in asuicide bombing inside of amosque inKhyber Pakhtunkhwa,Pakistan.(The Indian Express)
• Mexican drug war
  • At least four people are shot dead in a mechanical workshop inCoatzacoalcos,Veracruz,Mexico. This is the second massacre this week in the state, the other inPerote, which left three workers dead and one wounded.(La Jornada)
  • Three policemen and a civilian are killed in two attacks inGuanajuato, Mexico, the first inCelaya and the second inApaseo el Alto.(Revista Proceso)

Business and economy

• Protests against Donald Trump
  • Protests against the second presidency of Donald Trump
    • Economic Blackout
      • A 24-hourconsumer spendingboycott takes place across theUnited States, in protest of wealth andincome inequality, high prices of essential goods, and the rollback ofdiversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives by theTrump administration.(AP)
• 2025 United States federal mass layoffs
  • TheUnited StatesSocial Security Administration announces it willlay off over 7,000 jobs to align withPresidentDonald Trump'sexecutive order, despite its workforce already being at a 50-year low.(NPR)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024–25 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season
  • Three people are killed astropical cycloneGarance makes landfall inRéunion in theIndian Ocean.(AP)
• 2025 disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • At least 60 fatalities and nearly 1,100 symptomatic cases are reported to be a result of a disease outbreak of unknown etiology in theProvince of Équateur,Democratic Republic of the Congo.(CBS News)
• 2025 Uttarakhand avalanche
  • 5 construction workers are trapped, 48 others are rescued and 4 people are killed after a group of 57 people are swept away by anavalanche near theMana Pass,Uttarakhand,India.(CTV News)

Health and environment

• 2025 Southwest United States measles outbreak
  • The number ofmeasles cases inTexas, United States, increases to 146 with 20 people hospitalized, spanning ninecounties in the state.(AP)

International relations

• Ukraine–United States relations
  • Peace negotiations in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • 2025 Trump–Zelenskyy meeting
      • U.S. presidentDonald Trump,U.S. vice presidentJD Vance andUkrainian presidentVolodymyr Zelenskyy end their talks early after their meeting in theWhite House turns into a "heated" exchange. Trump rejects any discussion of specific security guarantees forUkraine, being interested solely in discussing theUkraine–United States Mineral Resources Agreement.(Time)(AP)
      • TheU.S. State Department terminates U.S. support ofUkraine's energy grid restoration amid an ongoingenergy crisis.(NBC)
• Colombia–Israel relations,Israel–Malaysia relations,South Africa–Israel relations,Boycotts of Israel
  • ColombianpresidentGustavo Petro,Malaysianprime ministerAnwar Ibrahim, andSouth AfricanpresidentCyril Ramaphosa release a joint statement announcing they will close theirports to any ship carryingweapons supplied to Israel.(Middle East Monitor)
• Democratic Republic of the Congo–Rwanda conflict
  • TheEast African Community (EAC) and theSouthern African Development Community (SADC) postpone the joint summit of their foreign ministers that would have agreed on a ceasefire plan for the conflict in the easternDemocratic Republic of the Congo. The Congolese andRwanda governments never received invitations to the meeting.(Critical Threats Project)
• Russia–United States relations
  • Russia appointsAlexander Darchiev as its newambassador to the U.S. following talks between the two countries inIstanbul on restoring regular diplomatic contacts and embassy staffs. The post has been vacant for several months.(Barron's)(Interfax)

Law and crime

• Mexico extradites 29 alleged cartel members to the United States, includingRafael Caro Quintero,Miguel Treviño Morales,Omar Treviño Morales,Vicente Carrillo Fuentes andJose Rodolfo Villarreal-Hernandez.(BBC News)(CBS News)

Politics and elections

• Greeks organize a 24-hour nationwidegeneral strike on the second anniversary of theTempi train crash,Greece's deadliest railway disaster.(Reuters)
• Following the2024 quota reform movement inBangladesh, students who led the protests announce the formation of a new political party, theNational Citizen Party, led byNahid Islam, astudent activist and the chief coordinator of theStudents Against Discrimination movement.(DW)

Science and technology

• Microsoft announces it will shut downSkype in May 2025 to focus its support and development onTeams.(DW)(Bloomberg News)