Armed conflicts and attacks

• Sudanese civil war
  • Siege of El Fasher
    • At least two civilians are killed in attacks by the Rapid Support Forces on a displacement camp in El Fasher, North Darfur, Sudan. (AP)
• Gaza war
  • 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)
• Myanmar civil war
  • The ruling junta in Myanmar 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{{sub|W}} 7.7 earthquake in the country several days ago. The ceasefire is expected to last until April 22. (DW)

Disasters and accidents

• Tornadoes of 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)

Health and environment

• The Slovakian 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 its southern neighbour'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 US 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)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Eastern front of the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • The Russian ministry of defence says that Russian forces have captured {{ill|Rozlyv|uk|Розлив (Волноваський район)}} 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)