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Donald Trump announcing tariffs
- US president Donald Trump imposes trade tariffs (announcement pictured) on most countries.
- Marine Le Pen, the runner-up in the 2017 and 2022 French presidential elections, is convicted of embezzlement and banned from standing in elections for five years.
- A magnitude-7.7 earthquake leaves more than 4,300 people dead in Myanmar and Thailand.
- The Sudan People's Liberation Movement-in-Opposition unilaterally voids the 2018 peace agreement after the arrest of South Sudanese vice president Riek Machar and his wife, interior minister Angelina Teny.
April 3, 2025 (Thursday)
Business and economy
- Tariffs in the second Trump administration
- A 25% tariff on all automotive imports into the United States enters force. No exemptions are announced despite requests from several major trade partners, including Japan and the United Kingdom. (Reuters)
International relations
- International Criminal Court arrest warrants for Israeli leaders
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lands in Budapest, Hungary, a signatory of the International Criminal Court, for a state visit in defiance of the International Criminal Court's arrest warrant against him for war crimes. (The Jerusalem Post)
- The Hungarian Government announces it will withdraw from the ICC. (Reuters)
April 2, 2025 (Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russo-Ukrainian War
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Kharkiv strikes
- Russian forces target Kharkiv with at least 13 Geran-2 drones, causing fires in industrial and residential areas and injuring eight people, including a child. (Ukrainska Pravda)
- Kryvyi Rih strikes
- A Russian missile strike on an industrial park in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, kills at least four people and injures 14 others. (Reuters)
- Kharkiv strikes
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Sudanese civil war
- Siege of El Fasher
- At least two civilians are killed in the artillery shelling of a displacement camp in El Fasher, North Darfur, Sudan, by the Rapid Support Forces. (AP)
- Siege of El Fasher
- Middle Eastern crisis
- Israeli invasion of Syria
- The Israeli Air Force launches airstrikes in Syria targeting the remaining "military infrastructure", destroying much of Hama Air Base and Tiyas Air Base, including all remaining hangars and radars. The Barzah scientific research centre is also reportedly bombed. (The Times of Israel)
- Gaza war
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu announces the country's military will seize large areas of land in the Gaza Strip and establish a new occupation zone called the Morag Corridor, potentially stretching from Rafah to Khan Younis. (AP)
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- Iran–United States relations
- The United States Air Force deploys 6 nuclear-capable B-2 Stealth Jets to Diego Garcia, amid rising tensions with Iran over their nuclear program. (AP)
- Israeli invasion of Syria
- Myanmar civil war
- The Myanmar government declares a temporary ceasefire with the National Unity Government-in-exile and its various allied ethnic armed organizations to facilitate relief efforts following the MW 7.7 earthquake in the country several days ago. The ceasefire is expected to last until April 22. (DW)
- M23 campaign (2022–present)
- 2025 Walikale offensive
- Wazalendo militias broke through March 23 Movement (M23) positions in Kampala, DRC, and launched an attack on the M23 rebels in Walikale. (Critical Threats)
- 2025 Walikale offensive
Arts and culture
- Classical archaeology
- Archaeologists with the Vienna Museum announce the discovery of a mass grave in Simmering district in Vienna, Austria, of around 150 Ancient Roman soldiers from the 1st century who likely died in a battle. (DW) (Caledonian Record)
Business and economy
- Tariffs in the second Trump administration
- China–United States trade war, 2025 United States trade war with Canada and Mexico
- Donald Trump's Liberation Day speech
- U.S. president Donald Trump announces a universal 10% tariff on most imports into the United States, a 20% tariff on goods from the European Union, and a 34% tariff on all imports from China. The tariffs will take effect from April 5.
- Exceptions include Canada, Cuba, Mexico, North Korea, and Russia. Canada and Mexico had tariffs placed on them in February, while Cuba, North Korea, and Russia are under U.S. sanctions. (BBC News) (France 24) (India Today)
- The United States Senate votes 51-48 on a non-binding resolution to rebuke and reverse tariffs on Canada, with Republicans Rand Paul, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and Mitch McConnell voting for the resolution. (NPR)
- Donald Trump's Liberation Day speech
- China–United States trade war, 2025 United States trade war with Canada and Mexico
Disasters and accidents
- Tornado outbreak of April 1–3, 2025
- The Storm Prediction Center in the United States issues a high risk convective outlook over parts of the Mississippi River valley, ahead of an expected tornado outbreak. (Storm Prediction Center) (Nine News)
- Tropical cyclone naming
- The World Meteorological Organization retires Beryl, Helene, Milton, and John from their rotating list of names for hurricanes for the North Atlantic and East Pacific basins.(WMO)
- Five people are killed and at least one other is critically injured when a private Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation bus collides head-on with two vehicles on the Khamgaon-Shegaon highway in Buldhana, Maharashtra, India. (News18 India)
- A Russian Air Force Tupolev Tu-22M strategic bomber crashes due to a technical malfunction in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, killing one crew member and injuring three others. (Reuters)
Health and environment
- The Slovak government approves a plan to cull 350 brown bears after a man was found mauled by a bear on March 30. The government had previously culled 144 bears in 2024. (AP)
- The Polish government increases border controls with Slovakia in response to the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease among Slovakia's and Hungary's livestock. (TVN24)
Law and crime
- War on drugs in Ecuador
- A court in New York City indicts José Adolfo Macías Villamar, the leader of the organized crime syndicate Los Choneros, on seven counts of drug trafficking, conspiracy, arms trafficking, and illegal drug distribution in the United States. Villamar is not currently in U.S. custody. (AP)
Sports
- 2025 CFL season
- TSN president Stewart Johnston is announced as the 15th commissioner of the Canadian Football League, replacing Randy Ambrosie who had served in the role since 2017. (CBC)
April 1, 2025 (Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Middle Eastern crisis
- Gaza war
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- UNICEF reports that over 332 children have been killed and 609 injured by the new Israeli military offensive across the Gaza Strip since the resumption of the war after the breakdown of the 2025 ceasefire. (BBC News) (UNICEF)
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- Red Sea crisis
- March 2025 United States attacks in Yemen
- The Houthis claim that they shot down a U.S. military-operated MQ-9 Reaper drone in Marib Governorate, Yemen. (AP)
- U.S. missile strikes on Hodeidah, Yemen, hit a water management facility, killing at least four people, according to the Houthi-run Al-Masirah network. (Al Jazeera)
- The U.S. announces it is sending a second aircraft carrier strike group, the USS Carl Vinson group, to the region. (Al Jazeera)
- March 2025 United States attacks in Yemen
- Gaza war
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Eastern front of the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- The Russian ministry of defence says that Russian forces have captured Rozlyv in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (Al Arabiya)
- Eastern front of the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Disasters and accidents
- 2023–2025 Sundhnúkur eruptions
- Seismic activity increases near Grindavík, Iceland, with the Icelandic Meteorological Office reporting that a volcanic eruption has occurred and a earthquake is being registered. People visiting the Blue Lagoon are evacuated rapidly. (The Watchers)
- 2025 Putra Heights pipeline fire
- At least 305 people are injured after a gas pipeline owned by Petronas explodes and ignites a fire in Putra Heights, Selangor, Malaysia. (Malay Mail)
- A small airplane crashes into a lake in Os near Bergen, Norway, killing the two people onboard. (Sunnmørsposten)
International relations
- Cross-strait relations
- The Chinese PLA Navy and Air Force conduct large-scale military exercises around Taiwan. At least 19 Chinese warships are deployed, including the aircraft carrier Shandong, marking its closest ever approach to the island. (The Guardian) (Financial Times)
Politics and elections
- Cory Booker's marathon speech
- U.S. Senator Cory Booker delivers the longest speech in United States Senate history, breaking the previous record set by Strom Thurmond in 1957. (AP News)
Science and technology
- Private spaceflight
- SpaceX successfully launches four humans into orbit over Earth’s poles for the first time for the human spaceflight mission Fram2. The journey will last three to five days. (The New York Times)
March 31, 2025 (Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Gaza war
- War crimes in the Gaza war
- The bodies of fourteen aid workers killed on March 23 are recovered from a mass grave in southern Gaza. One body had previously been recovered and one more is believed to remain buried. Of the sixteen workers, nine are members of the Palestine Red Crescent Society, six are civil defense workers, and one is a UN agency employee. (CNN)
- War crimes in the Gaza war
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Kharkiv strikes
- Six Russian drones hit Kyivskyi district of Kharkiv, Ukraine, damaging several buildings and injuring three people. (Ukrainska Pravda)
- Kharkiv strikes
- Middle Eastern crisis
- The Iranian IRGC Navy seizes two foreign oil tankers in the Persian Gulf and is towing the vessels to the country's Bushehr port, claiming they are part of a "fuel-smuggling network". It is currently unknown what countries the vessels belong to. (Al Arabiya)
Business and economy
- Japanese restaurant chain Sukiya orders the temporary closure of almost all of its nearly 2,000 locations in the country after finding a rat and a cockroach in its food. (AP) (CBS News)
- The Caribbean guilder becomes legal tender in Curaçao and Sint Maarten, which will co-circulate alongside its predecessor, the Netherlands Antillean guilder, until 1 July 2025. (NOS)
Disasters and accidents
- 2025 Myanmar earthquake
- The Myanmar government declares a period of national mourning in Myanmar to last until April 6 as the death toll from the earthquake last week rises to over 3,050 people. (AFP via Barron's)
- The recovery operation of the U.S. Army M88 vehicle that sank in Lithuanian swamps on Pabradė Training Area finishes after five days. Lithuanian president Gitanas Nauseda says that 3 out of 4 missing Americans are found dead, with the last person still missing. (DW) (LRT)
- Five people are killed and four are injured after an explosion at a coal mine in Degaña, Asturias, Spain. (BBC News)
- Three people are killed in a multiple-vehicle collision involving a bus and a car near Heathrow Airport in Greater London, England. (The Independent)
International relations
- Australia–North Korea relations
- The Royal Australian Air Force deploys a long-range maritime patrol aircraft P-8 Poseidon to Kadena Air Base in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, to monitor North Korean maritime activities in the Yellow Sea, including weapons shipments prohibited under international sanctions. (NK News)
- Brazil–Syria relations
- Brazilian police arrest a Syrian consulate employee in Brazil after discovering over 600 smuggled electronic devices and other luxury goods valued at over US$700,000 in his diplomatic vehicle during a highway inspection in Ponta Porã. (G1)
- China–United States relations, Hong Kong–United States relations
- The United States announces sanctions on six Chinese and Hong Kong officials, including head of the national security office Dong Jingwei, accusing them of "transnational oppression and undermining Hong Kong autonomy". (DW)
- Moldova–Russia relations
- The Moldovan foreign affairs ministry expels three Russian diplomats and declares them personae non gratae after accusing the Russian embassy in Chișinău of helping Alexandr Nesterovschi, a pro-Russia politician convicted of corruption, escape to Transnistria. (DW) (The Kyiv Independent)
- Proposed United States acquisition of Greenland, Denmark–United States relations
- Newly elected Prime Minister of Greenland Jens-Frederik Nielsen rules out Greenland joining the United States while he is in office. (AP)
Law and crime
- 2025 Nepalese pro-monarchy protests
- Supporters of former King of Nepal Gyanendra clash with riot police in Kathmandu, Nepal, leaving two people dead and several others injured. (AP)
- Killing of Zvi Kogan
- A court in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, sentences three people to death for killing Israeli-Moldovan rabbi Zvi Kogan in 2024. A fourth accomplice who aided in the murder receives a life sentence. (AP)
- National Rally assistants affair
- National Rally politician Marine Le Pen is convicted of embezzlement and banned from running for political office for five years, meaning she cannot stand in the next French presidential election. (France24)
March 30, 2025 (Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Red Sea crisis
- Israel intercepts a ballistic missile fired from Yemen in the eighth Houthi attack since the Israeli Defense Force resumed the Gaza war. The Houthis claim to have launched three attacks with drones, missiles, and naval forces against the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman in the past 24 hours. (The Times of Israel)
Disasters and accidents
- 2025 Myanmar earthquake
- Structures and infrastructure affected by the 2025 Myanmar earthquake
- The count of the total amount of destroyed ancient pagodas and religious buildings in Myanmar rises to 61, including the previously unreported Four-Storied Monastery in Inwa, Mandalay Region. (NP)
- Structures and infrastructure affected by the 2025 Myanmar earthquake
- Severe weather and tornadoes break out in the areas between south Indiana and north east Texas, United States. (The New York Times)
- Three children are killed and three other people are injured after a tree hits their vehicle near Kalamazoo, Michigan. (AP)
- A 7.0 Mw earthquake strikes near the island country of Tonga with a 6.1 Mw aftershock. A tsunami warning is issued and later lifted. (AP)
International relations
- Middle Eastern crisis
- Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian says that Iran will not have direct negotiations with the U.S. on its nuclear program, but is open for indirect talks to rebuild trust, after U.S. president Donald Trump threatened "bombing" if Iran does not agree to a new nuclear deal. (Al Jazeera) (Reuters)
Law and crime
- A bus driver shoots and kills two passengers on a Miami-Dade Transit bus in Miami Gardens, Florida, United States. (AP)
Science and technology
- German space programme
- The uncrewed German-built Spectrum orbital rocket is launched in Andøya, Norway, becoming the first orbital rocket to launch from mainland Europe. The rocket stays in the air for just over half a minute before striking the ground and exploding. (The Guardian) (VG)
March 29, 2025 (Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Middle Eastern crisis
- Gaza war
- March 2025 Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip
- The Israeli Defense Forces launch a new ground offensive on Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. (Al Jazeera)
- March 2025 Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip
- Red Sea crisis
- March 2025 United States attacks in Yemen
- One person is killed and four more are injured by U.S. military airstrikes in the Saada Governorate, Yemen. (Yahoo News)
- March 2025 United States attacks in Yemen
- Gaza war
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Kharkiv strikes
- A Russian drone attack on Kharkiv, Ukraine, kills two people and injures 30 others, including five children. A shopping centre, multi-story residential buildings, a medical facility, and an office building were among those targeted. (Ukrainska Pravda)
- Kharkiv strikes
- Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- Ten civilians are killed in an alleged anti-insurgents security operation in Katlang, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The Pakistani government reports that circumstances will be investigated. (AP)
Disasters and accidents
- 2025 Brooklyn Park TBM-700 crash
- A SOCATA TBM-700 crashes into an unoccupied house in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, United States, killing everyone on board. (FOX9 News)
- One person is killed and four others are injured in an explosion at a factory in İzmir, Turkey. (Caliber)
Law and crime
- Protests against Donald Trump
- Protests against Elon Musk, Protests against the second presidency of Donald Trump
- Protests are held at Tesla dealerships across the United States, Canada, and Europe to protest against DOGE chief and Tesla CEO Elon Musk's role in the second Trump administration. (Taipei Times) (AP)
- Protests against Elon Musk, Protests against the second presidency of Donald Trump
- Gaza war protests
- Four people are injured in a stabbing attack in Trondheim, Norway, with the perpetrator being arrested. (Euro Weekly News)
Politics and elections
- Second Syrian transitional government
- Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa announces the creation of a new transitional government, following the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime. (Reuters)
March 28, 2025 (Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israeli invasion of Lebanon
- 2024 Israel–Lebanon ceasefire agreement
- The Israel Defense Forces strikes southern Beirut, Lebanon, for the first time since November 2024, violating the ceasefire agreement. (CNN)
- 2024 Israel–Lebanon ceasefire agreement
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Red Sea crisis
- March 2025 United States attacks in Yemen
- At least seven people are injured by U.S. military airstrikes in the Yemeni capital city Sanaa. (Euronews)
- March 2025 United States attacks in Yemen
Disasters and accidents
- 2025 Myanmar earthquake
- 2025 Bangkok skyscraper collapse
- An under-construction government office skyscraper collapses in Bangkok, Thailand, killing at least six people and leaving more than 101 others missing and trapped under the rubble. (CTV News)
- A 7.7 magnitude earthquake strikes Sagaing, Myanmar, with significant damages reported as far away as Bangkok, Thailand. Over 1,000 people are killed in Myanmar and ten more in Thailand. A state of emergency is declared by the Myanmar government. (CNN Live) (NBC News)
- The Ava Bridge in Mandalay Region, Myanmar, partially collapses as a result of the earthquake. (News18)
- 2025 Bangkok skyscraper collapse
- Russian authorities say that yesterday's sinking of the Sindbad submarine in Hurghada, Egypt, killing six Russians, happened during boarding and not due to a collision as reported. (The National)
International relations
- Proposed United States acquisition of Greenland
- U.S. Vice President JD Vance and several other senior Trump administration officials visit the Pituffik Space Base, a United States Space Force facility in Greenland. (NPR)
Law and crime
- Arrest of Ekrem İmamoğlu
- Turkish authorities detain Mehmet Pehlivan, a lawyer representing opposition leader Ekrem İmamoğlu in the ongoing investigation, and later release him. (Reuters)
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