Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Israeli occupation of the Gaza Strip
    • Israel reportedly controls over half of the land in the Gaza Strip after razed patches of land to expand its buffer zone. (AP) (CNN)
• Herder–farmer conflicts in Nigeria
  • The National Emergency Management Agency reports that at least 52 people have been killed and over 2,000 others have been displaced from their homes in recent days in tit for tat attacks by rival herders over control of arable land in Plateau State, Nigeria. (Reuters)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • A Pakistan Army raid on a Pakistani Taliban militant hideout in Dera Ismail Khan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, kills nine militants, including a high-profile terrorist known as "Shireen" who coordinated recent attacks on Pakistani military facilities in the region. (AP)

Business and economy

• Tariffs in the second Trump administration, Executive orders in the second presidency of Donald Trump
  • Executive Order 14257
    • The Nikkei 225, SSE Composite Index, and Hang Seng Index experience substantial losses as collateral in New York Stock Exchange values dropping as a result of U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs. European markets also decline, particularly in banking and defense sectors. The ASX 200 in Australia and the Kospi in South Korea also closes lower. (BBC News)
    • European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen offers to negotiate with US President Donald Trump to avoid a trade war and further economic panic, including a zero-for-zero tariff deal on all industrial goods. (Politico) (Euronews)
  • China–United States trade war
    • U.S. President Donald Trump issues an ultimatum to China on Truth Social to reverse its 34% retaliatory tariff on all American goods by tomorrow (April 8) or face a new 50% tariff, resulting in a total 104% tariff. (CNBC)(NBC News)

International relations

• Algeria–Mali relations
  • Algeria bans flights to and from Mali in response to "recurrent violations" of Algerian airspace by Malian military drones. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• At least fifteen schools are closed in Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, due to violent threats from unknown far-right extremist individuals, totaling at least 17,000 children affected. (DW)

Politics and elections

• South Korea announces a snap presidential election after the dismissal of former President Yoon Suk Yeol, scheduled for June 3. (Korea JoongAng Daily)

Science and technology

• De-extinction
  • Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi
    • Colossal Biosciences announce they have successfully genetically modified wolves to bear three dire wolves, effectively bringing back the species that went extinct over 10,000 years ago. (TIME) (Bloomberg News)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • 2025 Sumy Oblast incursion
    • Russian troops reportedly capture the village of Basivka in Sumy Oblast, Ukraine. (Reuters)
  • Kyiv strikes
    • A Russian airstrike in Darnytskyi District, Kyiv, Ukraine, kills one person and injures three others. (CTV News)
  • Kryvyi Rih strikes
    • The death toll from Friday's missile strike on Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, rises to 20 deaths, including several children, and 75 injuries. (CTV News)
• Gaza war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • At least 46 people are killed in Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip over the last 24 hours. (Al Jazeera)
• Red Sea crisis
  • March–April 2025 United States attacks in Yemen
    • Between four and 70 people are killed and at least 16 others are injured in overnight U.S. airstrikes targeting Houthi forces in Saada, Yemen. (CTV News)
• Somali Civil War
  • 2025 Shabelle offensive
    • At least eight civilians are injured after Al-Shabaab militants launch mortar shells for the second consecutive day targeting Aden Adde International Airport and the heavily fortified Halane compound in Mogadishu. Following the attack, Turkish Airlines and Egyptair cancel scheduled flights. (Garowe Online) (Hiiraan Online) (Garowe Online)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 South Korea wildfires
  • The death toll from the wildfires across South Korea rises to 32 after a Bell 206 firefighting helicopter crashes during operations to combat a wildfire in Daegu, killing the pilot. (Korea JoongAng Daily)
• Tornado outbreak and floods of April 2–6, 2025
  • The death toll from the severe weather in the United States rises to 18. (ABC News)
  • Kentucky governor Andy Beshear says that two people have died and 500 roads are closed in the state due to flooding. (Reuters)
• Around thirty people are killed from overnight heavy flooding caused by torrential rains and water overflowing from the banks of the Ndjili River in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Al Jazeera)
• An air ambulance helicopter crashes in the Tsushima Strait off the coast of Nagasaki Prefecture in southwestern Japan, killing three of the six occupants onboard. (AP) (NHK)

Health and environment

• 2025 Southwest United States measles outbreak
  • A child dies from measles complications at the UMC Health System in Lubbock, Texas, United States, becoming the third measles-related death amid outbreaks and the second unvaccinated child victim. (CTV News)

Law and crime

• Four children are injured in a mass stabbing inside a house in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States. The perpetrator was shot and critically injured by responding police officers. (NBC News)

Politics and elections

• 2025 French far-right protests
  • The National Rally party organizes a large demonstration in central Paris to protest Marine Le Pen's conviction in the National Front assistants affair rendering her ineligible to run in the 2027 French presidential election. (AP)

Sports

• 2024–25 NHL season
  • In ice hockey, Washington Capitals forward Alexander Ovechkin scores his 895th career goal, surpassing the all-time goals record held by Wayne Gretzky. (Reuters)