Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • North Korean involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • The South Korean intelligence agency claims North Korean troops suffered some 4,700 casualties so far, including about 600 of the 15,000 North Korean troops that were killed while fighting for Russia against Ukraine and injuries. (CBC News)
• Red Sea crisis
  • US–UK airstrikes on Yemen
    • The British Armed Forces launches airstrikes at the site of buildings made by the Houthis to manufacture drones south of Sanaa, Yemen. (CTV News)
• Puntland–Somaliland dispute
  • Puntland–Somaliland prisoner exchange
    • Las Anod conflict (2023–present)
      • Puntland released 15 prisoners of war in exchange as Somaliland set free 11 prisoners of war involving combatants captured during the conflict in the contested Sool region. This was the second prisoner exchange between individuals who were captured during the conflict of Las Anod, which erupted in early 2023. (Hiiraan Online) (Horn Observer)

International relations

• New Zealand–Philippines relations
  • New Zealand defence minister Judith Collins and Philippine defense secretary Gilbert Teodoro sign a visiting forces agreement in Manila. (The Washington Post)
• Foreign relations of Somalia, Foreign relations of Taiwan, Somaliland–Taiwan relations
  • Amid warming relations between Taiwan and Somaliland, the Government of Somalia announces a ban on the entry and transit of Taiwanese passport holders through Somalia citing United Nations Resolution 2758 and the One-China policy. Taiwan in response lodges a protest with the Somalia and believes China instigated the ban. (Focus Taiwan) (Hiiraan Online)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Kashmir conflict
  • 2025 India–Pakistan border skirmishes
    • Pakistani Information Minister Attaullah Tarar says that India intends to launch a military strike on Pakistan within the next 24 to 36 hours. (Reuters)
• 2025 Jaramana clashes
  • Gunmen reported to be aligned with the Syrian government engage in fatal clashes with armed Druze combatants in the Druze-majority city of Jaramana in southern Syria. At least 13 people are killed, and 12 others are injured. (Al Jazeera) (CTV News)
• A 38-year-old man suspected of seriously injuring two women on Saturday in a shooting and crossbow attack on the Otley Run pub crawl in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, succumbs to a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the hospital. It is confirmed that the perpetrator's motive was misogyny. (BBC News)

Business and economy

• 2025 European power outage
  • At least five fatalities are reported in Spain as a consequence of the power outage that affected the Iberian Peninsula the day before. (ABC.es)

Disasters and accidents

• Twenty-two people are killed and three others are injured after a fire breaks out in a restaurant in Liaoyang, Liaoning, China. (CNA)
• Fifteen people are killed, including two children, and thirteen others are injured in a fire at a hotel in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. (Business Standard) (The Telegraph)
• Eighteen Russians are injured in a bus crash in Side, Turkey. (Telegrafi)

Law and crime

• Three people are killed in a shooting at a hair salon in Uppsala, Sweden, with the perpetrator still at large. (BBC News)
• Three people are killed in two other are seriously injured in a mass shooting in Minneapolis, Minnesota <ref>https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/04/30/minneapolis-shooting-multiple-people-dead</ref>

Politics and elections

• President of Russia Vladimir Putin signs a decree restoring the "Stalingrad" name to the Volgograd airport. (Reuters)