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Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • A Russian missile strike on Sloviansk, Donetsk Oblast, kills at least two civilians and injures 29 others. (The Wall Street Journal)
  • The head of the Blagodarnensky District in Stavropol Krai, Russia, announces the death of Dmitry Lissitzky, commander of a battalion of the 247th Guards Air Assault Regiment who gained infamy in the 2014 Battle of Ilovaisk. Ukraine says he was killed in battle while pro-Russian sources say he committed suicide. (Novaya Gazeta Europe)

• Afghanistan conflict
  • Six people are killed and several others injured when a suicide bomber detonates himself near the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

• At least 16 people are killed by a landslide at a village in Alausí, Chimborazo Province, Ecuador. (BBC News)

International relations

• Enlargement of NATO
  • The National Assembly of Hungary votes 182–6 to approve Finland's accession to NATO, leaving Turkey as the last remaining NATO member to approve Finland's membership of the military alliance. (France 24)
• Foreign relations of Taiwan
  • Cross-Strait relations
    • Former Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou becomes the first Taiwanese leader to visit mainland China since the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949, when he met with China's Taiwan Affairs Office deputy chair Chen Yuanfeng in Shanghai. Taiwan's ruling Democratic Progressive Party criticized this visit as "endorsing" China's position on Taiwan. (Al Jazeera)
  • Honduran President Xiomara Castro orders Taiwanese diplomats to vacate the country's embassy in Tegucigalpa within 30 days, a day after establishing diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• 2023 Covenant School shooting
  • A woman kills six people at the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, United States, before being killed by police. (CNN)
• Burkina Faso suspends France 24 broadcasts after the news agency aired an interview with the leader of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb earlier this month. The Burkinabé government accused France 24 of being a "mouthpiece for terrorists" and "hate speech", which the agency denied as "unfounded". (Reuters)
• One person is killed and five others are injured during a mass stabbing at a school in São Paulo, Brazil. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• 2023 Israeli anti-judicial reform protests
  • Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu announces a pause on his government’s controversial judicial reform bill until April 30, the opening of the Knesset’s summer session. (USA Today)
• 2023 Scottish National Party leadership election
  • Health and Social Care Secretary Humza Yousaf is elected as the new leader of the separatist Scottish National Party, defeating Finance Secretary Kate Forbes with 52.1% of the vote. (BBC News)
• The Iraqi Parliament passes 206–13 a series of amendments that lowered the number of electoral districts in each governorate to one ahead of local elections in November. Various voting blocs and independent members claim that theh are designed to make it more difficult for the opposition to get elected to the legislature, and they boycotted the vote. (Al Jazeera)

Science and technology

• Censorship of TikTok, Censorship of Twitter
  • France bans the use of Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, and other apps on government employees’ phones due to concerns relating to insufficient data security measures. (AP News)

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