Armed conflicts and attacks

• Somali civil war
  • 2025 Shabelle offensive
    • Cairo hotel attack
      • At least ten people are killed after five Al-Shabaab militants detonate a car bomb and attack a hotel in Beledweyne, Hiran, Somalia. (BBC News) (First Post)
• Syrian civil war
  • Western Syria clashes
    • 2025 massacres of Syrian Alawites, March 2025 Western Syria clashes
      • The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports the killings of 132 Alawite civilians, totaling 1,225 civilian deaths as a result of fourty-seven separate massacres in western Syria since 6 March. (BBC) (SOHR)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Ukraine launches a massive drone attack on Moscow, the largest inside Russia since the start of the war. At least three people are killed and 18 others are injured. Multiple fires are reported throughout the city and flights from Sheremetyevo International Airport are suspended. (BBC News) (Reuters)
    • Russia claims its air defences have shot down at least 337 Ukrainian drones overnight across 10 oblasts. (The Journal)
  • Kursk offensive
    • Russia announces that the Russian military in the previous several days retook multiple villages in Kursk Oblast up to the outskirts of Sudzha, the main town occupied by the Ukrainian military, as Ukrainian forces withdraw to avoid encirclement. (Reuters) (Al Arabiya)
  • United States and the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • The United States government lifts its suspension on sharing intelligence and military aid to Ukraine. (AP)
• Insurgency in Balochistan
  • 2025 Jaffar Express hijacking
    • The Jaffar Express passenger train traveling from Quetta to Peshawar in Pakistan is hijacked by the Balochistan Liberation Army, with 46 people being killed, 110 people being taken hostage and 104 others being rescued. The BLA claims it killed more than 30 Pakistan Army personnel, while Pakistani human rights activist Mama Qadeer claims more than 200 personnel have been killed. (News18) (ARY News)

Business and economy

• 2025 United States trade war with Canada and Mexico
  • U.S. President Donald Trump announces that he will raise tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminium imports from 25% to 50%. (BBC News)
  • Stock market indices in Asia fall after a similar selloff in the United States is triggered by U.S. President Donald Trump not ruling out that his tariffs could potentially lead to a recession. The Nikkei 225 falls 1.7%, the KOSPI falls 1.3%, and the Hang Seng Index falls 1%. (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• A bus overturns on a highway in Johannesburg, South Africa, killing at least 16 people and injuring 35 others, including 11 critically. (Euronews) (AP)
• At least three people are killed and eleven others are injured when a tram collides with a tank truck at a level crossing in Zeutern, Ubstadt-Weiher, Germany. (CTV News)

International relations

• Peace negotiations in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Coalition of the willing (Russo-Ukrainian War)
    • The military chiefs of all European NATO countries meet in Paris, France, to discuss a potential European peacekeeping force in Ukraine, alongside Ukrainian representatives. The U.S. was not involved in the meeting. (RFE/RL)
  • Ukraine–United States relations
    • The U.S. and Ukraine announce their intention to seek a 30-day ceasefire with Russia after talks in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, involving U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, and Ukrainian presidential chief of staff Andriy Yermak. (CBS)

Law and crime

• International Criminal Court investigation in the Philippines, Philippine drug war
  • Arrest of Rodrigo Duterte
    • Former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte is arrested by the Philippine National Police through the Interpol at Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila after being served an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court upon arriving from Hong Kong. (The New York Times)

Politics and election

• 2024–present Serbian anti-corruption protests
  • As protests against the Serbian government continue across Serbia, hundreds of students form a blockade around the headquarters of the Radio Television of Serbia in Belgrade, accusing the state television station of being biased towards President Aleksandar Vučić. At least one police officer is injured in clashes with students. (DW)
• 2025 Greenlandic general election
  • Greenlanders and other citizens of Greenland vote to elect the 31 members of the Inatsisartut between 213 candidates from six parties. (DW)
• United States District Judge for the District Court of the District of Columbia Amir Ali orders the Trump administration to pay nearly $2 billion ({{Euro}}1.84 billion) in unpaid funds for promised USAID programs that the administration ended. (DW)