Portal:Current events/2015 April 22
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April 22, 2015 (Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- A tribal fight in Papua New Guinea's Hela Province between the Wapiago and Tapamu clans claims the lives of ten people, mostly children. (ABC News Australia)
- War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
- The Taliban announces the start of its annual spring offensive warning it would attack foreign embassies as well as military targets. (Reuters via Daily Mail)
- Syrian Civil War
- The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights estimates that Syrian government air strikes on areas controlled by Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant kills 32 people. The air strikes hit a hospital in Dayr Hafir killing at least 21 people. (AP via ABC News America)
Business and economy
- The European Union opens an antitrust case against Russian gas giant Gazprom which supplies most of Central and eastern Europe with supplies of natural gas. (AP via Daily Mail)
- Google announces a new wireless network in the United States called Project Fi with a pay as you go data rate. (Venture Beat)
Disasters and accidents
- Australian east coast low
- The storm in Australia's New South Wales is declared a "catastrophe" with four deaths, heavy flooding and disruption of transport to the state's largest cities Sydney and Newcastle. (The Australian) (WA Today)
- Twelve areas of NSW are declared as disaster zones including Dungog, Maitland, Cessnock Gosford, Great Lakes Council, Lake Macquarie, Newcastle, Pittwater Council, Port Stephens, Singleton, Warringah and Wyong. (WA Today)
- Sinking of the MV Sewol
- South Korea approves plans to recover the MV Sewol which sank last year with the loss of 300 people. (AP)
- The Calbuco volcano erupts in southern Chile forcing the evacuation of 4000 residents. (Reuters via Yahoo! Canada) (Wall Street Journal)
Law and crime
- The United States Senate unanimously passes a bill to combat human trafficking after a long delay caused by a dispute over abortion funding. (New York Times)
- An 11-judge panel of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals overturns the 2011 conviction of all-time Major League Baseball home run leader Barry Bonds on obstruction of justice charges stemming from the BALCO doping scandal. (AP via ESPN)
Politics and elections
- Anguillan general election, 2015
- Voters in Anguilla go to the polls for a general election with the Anguilla United Front led by Victor Banks elected to government. (Jamaica Observer)