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Revision as of 18:17, 25 April 2022
April 23, 2022 (2022-04-23) (Saturday)Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russo-Ukrainian War
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2022 bombing of Odessa
- Infrastructure in the Southern Ukrainian city of Odessa is hit by airstrikes, killing at least five people, including a baby, and injuring 18 others, according to the local authorities. (Reuters) (Times of Israel)
- The Investigative Committee of Russia announces that they are investigating allegations by RIA Novosti that troops from the British SAS have been deployed to Western Ukraine. (Reuters) (Al Jazeera)
- 2022 bombing of Odessa
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- War in Darfur, Darfur genocide
- Human rights groups say that eight people were killed during clashes followed by a Janjaweed raid on Thursday and Friday in Kreinik, West Darfur. (AP)
- 2021–2022 Democratic Republic of the Congo attacks, Ituri conflict, Kivu conflict
- Kenya says that the East African Community plans to deploy a peacekeeping force in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (AP)
- Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- Unknown gunmen from Afghanistan storm a Pakistani military outpost near the border in Pakistan’s North Waziristan District, killing three soldiers. (Al Jazeera)
Disasters and accidents
- 2022 Imo/Rivers explosion
- Over 100 people are killed after an illegal oil refining depot explodes in Ohaji/Egbema, Imo State, Nigeria. (Reuters)
- European migrant crisis
- Three people are killed and 98 more are rescued after an explosion at the Gaisky ore mine in Orenburg, Russia. (Reuters)
- Ten people are dead and 16 more are missing as a sightseeing boat sinks off Japan's northern island of Hokkaido. (Reuters)
- Four people are dead and six more are missing after an accident in a coal mine in Jastrzębie-Zdrój, Poland. (Reuters)
- One person dies and 40 people are rescued after a boat sinks in Tripoli, Lebanon. (Reuters)
International relations
- Russia–Turkey relations
- Turkey closes its airspace to Russian Armed Forces flights to Syria, as well as civilian aircraft that are suspected of carrying Russian troops. (The Jerusalem Post)
Politics and elections
- Thousands of Argentinian farmers protest against President Alberto Fernández's new export taxes on farm goods in Argentina, which protesters say is a "rope that is being used to choke us". The farmers used tractors to block the road leading to the Casa Rosada in Buenos Aires. (Reuters)
Sports
- 2022 Major League Baseball season
- In baseball, the Chicago Cubs defeat the Pittsburgh Pirates, 21-0, the largest defeat in Pirates history and the largest victory in Cubs history since 1901. (CBS News) (Chicago Sun Times)
- Tyson Fury vs. Dillian Whyte
- Tyson Fury retains the WBC world heavyweight title after defeating Dillian Whyte via technical knockout in round 6 in front of 94,000 spectators at Wembley Stadium, London, a post-war British record. Post-match, Fury suggests that he may now retire from professional boxing. (BBC Sport)