Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Kryvyi Rih strikes
      • Three days of mourning are announced after yesterday’s strikes on Kryvyi Rih, one of the deadliest strikes of the invasion. (de Volkskrant)
• Somali Civil War
  • 2025 Shabelle offensive
    • Colonel Nur Farey, the senior Somali military commander of the 14th brigade, is assassinated by a man believed to be an al-Shabaab militant in Addow Dibille near Afgoye, Lower Shabelle, Somalia. (Hiiraan Online)

Business and economy

• Tariffs in the second Trump administration, Executive orders in the second presidency of Donald Trump
  • Executive Order 14257
    • The first of two tariff rounds go into effect in the United States, containing a 10% blanket tariff on every import into the country. The second round of country-specific tariffs is scheduled to go into effect on April 9. (Reuters)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • More than 30 people are killed from Israeli strikes in Gaza. (Channel 4 News)
• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Kharkiv strikes
      • Five people are killed, including a child, and 35 are injured in a Russian drone attack on a residential area in Novobavarskyi District of Kharkiv, Ukraine. (Ukrainska Pravda)
    • Kryvyi Rih strikes
      • A Russian ballistic missile strike on a residential area in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, kills 19 people, including nine children, and injures more than 50 others. The Russian Defence Ministry says its forces were targeting a military gathering in the city. (CNN) (BBC News) (Ukrainska Pravda) (Reuters)
• M23 campaign
  • 2025 Walikale offensive
    • The Congolese media reports that M23 rebels retreating from Walikale have arrived in Kibua in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Critical Threats)
• Syrian civil war
  • Syrian peace process
    • Groups of Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) militants withdraw from the two neighborhoods of Sheikh Maqsood and Achrafieh in Aleppo, Syria, as part of a deal with the Syrian government, which will eventually merge the SDF and the Syrian Armed Forces under one command. (AP)

Business and economy

• Tariffs in the second Trump administration
  • China–United States trade war
    • China responds to U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs with a 34% reciprocal tariff on imports of American goods. The tariffs will take effect on April 10. (CNN)
  • Donald Trump's Liberation Day speech
    • Multiple companies, including Klarna, StubHub, Nintendo, and Professional Sports Authenticator, pause price-sensitive business actions in the U.S. to evaluate the impact of the recent tariff announcements. (The Wall Street Journal) (IGN) (The Verge)
    • Stocks fall for the second consecutive day following Trump's recent tariff announcements. Over the past two days, the S&P 500 is down over 10%, while the FTSE 100 is down 6.97% for the week. (The Guardian)
• Democratic Republic of the Congo–United States relations
  • Lamuka opposition coalition spokesperson Prince Epenge criticizes the proposed minerals-for-security deal between the Democratic Republic of Congo and the United States, describing it as a "sell-off." (Critical Threats)

Disasters and accidents

• Kočani nightclub fire
  • The death toll from the fire at a nightclub in Kočani, North Macedonia, in March increases to 60 as a burn victim dies in the hospital. (AP)
• Ten people are killed when a landslide caused by torrential rains buries two vehicles in Mojokerto, East Java, Indonesia. (AP)

Law and crime

• Impeachment of Yoon Suk Yeol
  • The Constitutional Court of Korea unanimously upholds former President Yoon Suk Yeol's impeachment in an 8–0 vote, removing him from office. (The Korea Times)

Politics and elections

• Deportation in the second presidency of Donald Trump
  • United States federal judge for the District Court of Maryland Paula Xinis orders the Trump administration to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national from Maryland who was mistakenly deported and sent to the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador. (AP)
• Thousands of people demonstrate in Bangui, Central African Republic, to protest against President Faustin-Archange Touadéra's plans to run for a third term with the backing of the Russian-led Wagner Group, who has killed indiscriminately in the country. (AP)

Sports

• 2024–25 NHL season
  • In ice hockey, Washington Capitals forward Alexander Ovechkin scores his 894th career goal, tying the all-time goals record held by Wayne Gretzky. (ESPN)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • Rafah offensive
      • The Israel Defense Forces retakes control of Rafah, prompting thousands of Palestinians to flee the city. (Reuters)
      • At least 100 Palestinians are killed and 70 others are injured, including some critically, in airstrikes across the Gaza Strip. One of the strikes killed at least 27 people, including 8 men, 14 women, and 5 children, at a sheltering school in the north. (AP News)
• M23 campaign
  • 2025 Walikale offensive
    • M23 spokesperson Lawrence Kanyuka claims that the group's withdrawal from Walikale, North Kivu Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, was to show goodwill for peace negotiations. (Critical Threats)
• Mexican drug war
  • At least five CJNG gunmen were killed and 116 explosive device were seized after a combined operations that took place in Apatzingán after the dead of a peasant due to the explosion of a landmine. In the same day in the municipality of Parácuaro, an encounter between delincuents and SEDENA, National Guard, left one gunmen killed.(La Jornada)(Contramuro)
• A dispute between two groups of miners over access to gold deposits in La Paz Department, Bolivia, escalates into clashes with six people reportedly killed and several others missing. (Reuters)

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)
  • Multinational car manufacturer Stellantis announces it will lay off 900 workers across five of its U.S. factories and will pause production at assembly plants in Canada and Mexico in response to the tariffs. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• January 2025 Southern California wildfires
  • The death toll from wildfires in Southern California, U.S., increases to 30. (CTV News)
• Mediterranean Sea migrant smuggling
  • Two boats carrying migrants capsize in the early hours of the morning near Lesbos in the Aegean Sea, killing 16 people and leaving one more missing. More than 40 people are rescued by the Hellenic Coast Guard. (AP)
• Tornado outbreak of April 1–3, 2025
  • At least seven people are killed and thirteen others are injured by overnight severe weather including tornadoes, storms, hail and floods across Tennessee, Missouri, and Indiana in the United States. (NBC News)

International relations

• Hungary–Israel relations
  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lands in Budapest, Hungary, a signatory of the International Criminal Court (ICC), for a state visit in defiance of the international arrest warrant against him for alleged war crimes. (The Jerusalem Post) (AP)
  • The Hungarian government announces it will withdraw from the ICC. (Reuters)
• China arrests three Filipinos suspected of espionage near Chinese military facilities as part of a network recruited by Philippine intelligence to gather sensitive information. The Philippines say the arrests are related to previous arrests of Chinese nationals for similar offences. (AFP via CNA) (Reuters)

Law and crime

• 2025 Turkish protests
  • Turkish National Police detain eleven people for spreading calls for and participating in shopping boycotts in the country as a protest against the arrest of Istanbul mayor and opposition presidential candidate Ekrem İmamoğlu. (DW)
• Canada convoy protests
  • The Ontario Court of Justice in Ontario, Canada, convicts Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, two leaders of the truck driver protest movement against COVID-19 vaccination in Canada, of criminal mischief. (AP)
• Mass shootings in the United States
  • Three people, including the perpetrator, are killed and two others are injured in a mass shooting when a 29-year-old man shoots his mother and at passing cars in Sabattus, Maine, United States. (ABC News)
• Seven people, including the perpetrator, are injured in a mass stabbing near Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., United States. A suspect was arrested. (The Independent)
• A 50-year-old man sets himself on fire inside of his car in a failed car bombing near the National Monument on Dam Square in Amsterdam, Netherlands, causing a small explosion and injuring himself. No bystanders were injured. (NDTV)

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)
• 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)
• 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)
  • Iran–United States relations
    • The United States Air Force deploys 6 nuclear-capable B-2 stealth bombers to Diego Garcia, amid rising tensions with Iran over their nuclear program. (AP)
• 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 M_W 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 break through March 23 Movement (M23) positions in Kampala, DRC and launch an attack on the M23 rebels in Walikale. (Critical Threats)
• Mexican drug war
  • An elder peasant was killed after the blasts of a landmine when was riding his motorcycle in a rural road in the community of Puerta de Alambre, Apatzingán municipality, Michoacán.(Revista Proceso)

Arts and culture

• 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)
      • In the 10% tariff, the U.S. lists the Australian territory of Heard Island and McDonald Islands near Antarctica, despite the fact that it has no human inhabitants, imports or exports. In response to finding these islands in the list, Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese commented that "Nowhere on earth is safe" for the tariff. (The Guardian)
    • 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)

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)

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)
  • Israel–Hezbollah conflict
    • 2024 Israel–Lebanon ceasefire agreement
      • Four people are killed, including Hassan Bdeir, a high-ranking Hezbollah official, and seven others are injured by an Israeli airstrike on a building in Dahieh, Beirut, Lebanon. (Reuters) (Al Jazeera)
  • 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)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Eastern front of the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • The Russian ministry of defence says that Russian forces have captured Rozlyv [uk] in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (Al Arabiya)

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)

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)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Kharkiv strikes
    • Six Russian drones hit Kyivskyi district of Kharkiv, Ukraine, damaging several buildings and injuring three people. (Ukrainska Pravda)
• 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

• 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)

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)
• 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 M_w earthquake strikes near the island country of Tonga with a 6.1 M_w 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)