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• 2023 Sudan clashes
□ Battle of Khartoum
☆ Germany and Japan announce their evacuation plans have failed in
Khartoum as both tried to evacuate at least 210 civilians and
citizens from the embattled capital. (New York Times) (Reuters)
□ Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno says that Japan will
send a Self-Defense Forces aircraft to evacuate 60 Japanese nationals
from Sudan. (Asahi Shimbun)
□ The United Kingdom, Germany and Japan urge their citizens to seek
shelter, hide or evacuate immediately as fighting rages in Sudan. (Sky
News) (The Print India)
□ Egypt announces one of its planes, an "Egyptian MiG-29", was destroyed
at an air base in Merowe. It also reports that one of them was captured
along with two planes nearly destroyed. (The Drive)
□ The Libyan National Army sends supplies to support the Rapid Support
Forces across the country. (Wall Street Journal)
• Over 155,000 Canadian federal workers go on strike, in the largest strike
of its kind in 30 years, after the Public Service Alliance of Canada failed
to reach an agreement with the government over pay raises and remote work.
(BBC)
• Bulgaria–Ukraine relations
□ Bulgaria temporarily bans the import of grain from Ukraine, except for
those in transit, following similar decisions by Poland and Hungary on
15 April and Slovakia on 17 April. (Reuters)
• List of heat waves#2023
□ A heatwave in Asia leads to deaths and school closures in India, and
record-breaking temperatures in other countries. Luang Prabang, Laos,
recorded 42.7 °C (108.9 °F), while Tak, Thailand, recorded 44.6 °C
(112.3 °F). (The Guardian)
• A report by the United Nations Population Fund estimates that India will
overtake China as the most populated country in the world by the middle of
this year. (NBC News)
• 2023 Sudan clashes
□ Battle of Khartoum
☆ A U.S. embassy convoy is attacked in Khartoum, amid U.S. efforts to
mediate a ceasefire. (AP)
☆ India tells its citizens to find shelter or stay indoors. (Dev
Discourse)
☆ Canada closes its embassy in Sudan and advises its citizens against
travelling to the country. (Global News)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
□ Russian annexation of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia
oblasts
☆ Russian president Vladimir Putin makes a rare visit to Russian
-occupied Kherson and Luhansk oblasts and meets with military
commanders in charge of military operations. (Reuters)
□ Former People's Deputy of Ukraine Oleh Barna is killed in combat.
(UNIAN)
• Netflix ends its DVD rental service after 25 years, citing the reduced
demand for physical rentals. (BBC News)
• 2023 Beijing hospital fire
□ Twenty-nine people are killed in a fire at a hospital in Beijing, China
. (Xinhua) (Al Jazeera)
• 2023 Torkham landslide
□ Two people are killed and dozens are feared missing after a landslide
occurs in the Khyber Pass in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (Reuters)
• 2023 New York City parking garage collapse
□ One person is killed and five others are injured by the partial
collapse of a parking garage in Manhattan, New York City, United States
. Nearby buildings of Pace University are evacuated due to the
instability of the garage's remaining structure. (WCBS-TV)
• Brazil–Ukraine relations
□ The Ukrainian government invites Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula
da Silva to visit Ukraine and criticizes Lula for his approach to the
conflict. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov welcomes Lula's
position on peace efforts. (Reuters)
• Mexico–United States relations
□ Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador accuses the United States
Department of Defense of spying and says that he will classify
information from the Mexican Armed Forces. (Reuters)
• Palestine–Saudi Arabia relations
□ Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas chairman Ismail Haniyeh
meet in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to discuss the increase in violence in
the West Bank, the detainment of Hamas-affiliated Palestinians in Saudi
Arabia, and about improving relations between Hamas and Saudi Arabia.
This is the first meeting between Hamas and the Saudi royal family
since 2015. (Al Jazeera)
• The European Parliament votes to grant visa-free travel for Kosovo citizens
to any country that is part of the Schengen Area. The policy will be in
effect no later than January 2024. (RFE/RL)
• Dominion Voting Systems v. Fox News Network
□ Fox News and Dominion Voting Systems reach a US$787.5 million
settlement in the defamation lawsuit, which was initially filed against
the network in March 2021 for spreading false claims about the company
regarding the 2020 United States presidential election. (Forbes)
• At least four people are severely injured in a stabbing attack at a gym in
Duisburg, Germany. (Evening Standard)
• 2023 Sudan clashes
□ Battle of Khartoum
☆ European Union ambassador Aidan O'Hara is assaulted at his home in
Khartoum. EU Foreign Affairs High Representative Josep Borrell
calls the assault a "gross violation of the Vienna Convention".
(BBC News)
□ Sudan closes its airspace, cancelling all flights in and out of the
country. Kenya likewise suspends all flights to and from Sudan. (Flight
Global) (Kenyans.co.ke)
□ China, Malaysia, and the United States urge their citizens in Sudan to
hide, find shelter, or evacuate the country. (SCMP) (FMT) (CBS News)
□ De facto leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan declares the Rapid Support
Forces to be a rebel group, and orders the group dissolved. (Al
Jazeera)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
□ Military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
☆ Slovakia transfers 13 MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine, according to
the Slovak Defence Ministry. (Reuters)
• Recycling in Australia
□ Further sites of illicit soft plastic storage are found in Sydney after
the collapse of commercial plastic recycler REDcycle. After taking $20
million from Coles and Woolworths to recycle soft plastics at 2,000
locations, the company instead stored 12,000 tonnes of plastics at more
than 44 locations across Australia. (9 News) (The Guardian)
• The provincial health ministry of Santa Fe, Argentina, asks the public to
"not underestimate" the current situation of dengue fever after the
province surpasses 10,000 cases and reports its third death from the
disease amid a national outbreak. (La Capital) (Infobae)
• Slovakia–Ukraine relations
□ Slovakia bans the import of food from Ukraine, following similar
decisions made by Poland and Hungary last week. (The Guardian)
• Myanmar's junta leader Min Aung Hlaing pardons 3,015 prisoners on the
occasion of the Buddhist New Year. (AFP via France 24)
• Russian opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza is convicted in a Moscow
court on charges of treason and violating Russia's war censorship laws, and
sentenced to 25 years in prison. (AP)
• The Evide data breach is made public. Ransomware results in data being
stolen from a company in Northern Ireland which provides computer services
to charities, including a charity that supports adult survivors of child
abuse. (The Journal)
• 2023 FIFA U-20 World Cup
□ Argentina is confirmed as the host of the FIFA U-20 World Cup by FIFA,
following the suspension of the tournament in Indonesia, which refused
to host the Israeli team. (Reuters)
• 2023 World Snooker Championship
□ A World Snooker Championship match between Robert Milkins and Joe Perry
is abandoned, while another match between Mark Allen and Fan Zhengyi is
delayed after Just Stop Oil activists storm The Crucible in Sheffield.
Two people are later arrested by South Yorkshire Police. (BBC Sport)