Portal:Current events/2023 April 20

Armed conflicts and attacks

• War in Sudan (2023)
  • Battle of Khartoum
    • Amid fighting, a food shortage is reported in Khartoum. (BBC News)
    • An American citizen is killed in Khartoum, becoming the second confirmed foreign death. (CBS News)
  • Evacuation of foreign nationals during the War in Sudan (2023)
    • The United States sends additional troops and equipment to Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti in preparation for a possible evacuation of Americans from Sudan. (ABC News)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Russian authorities report an explosion in Belgorod near the border with Ukraine, saying that it left a 20-metre (66 ft) crater in the city center. It resulted from an accidental discharge of ammunition from a Russian airplane. (Barron's via AFP) (Reuters)
• Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
  • Five Indian soldiers are killed in a suspected militant attack in Rajouri district, Jammu and Kashmir. (Al Jazeera)
• Iran–United States relations
  • An Iranian Navy commander claims on state television that the Iranian Navy forced a U.S. submarine to surface as it transited the Strait of Hormuz and that the submarine violated Iranian territorial waters. The U.S. denies the Iranian claims. (Radiofarda)

Business and economy

• American media site BuzzFeed reports that it will shut down BuzzFeed News as part of its site-wide layoffs. (NBC News)

Law and crime

• Former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo loses his request for an emergency stay in the United States, as a deadline for his extradition to Peru nears, where he faces numerous charges. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• Governor of Krasnoyarsk Krai Aleksandr Uss resigns after being offered a position in the federal government. Russian President Vladimir Putin invites Deputy Finance Minister Mikhail Kotyukov to assume the post of acting governor. (TASS)

Science and technology

• Solar eclipse of April 20, 2023
  • A hybrid solar eclipse occurs across the South Pacific in Australia, East Timor, and Indonesia. (The New York Times) (People)
• SpaceX Starship orbital test flight
  • SpaceX launches the first test flight of Starship, the largest and most powerful launch vehicle to ever fly, from Starbase in South Texas. The vehicle successfully launched but lost control and the flight was explosively terminated four minutes after liftoff. (The New York Times) (BBC News)