Portal:Current events/2025 April 20

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Red Sea crisis
  • US–UK airstrikes on Yemen
    • March–April 2025 United States attacks in Yemen
      • The Houthis report that twelve people are killed and thirty others are injured in airstrikes on a market and a residential zone in Farwa District, Sanaa, Yemen. (Le Monde)

Disasters and accidents

• The death toll from drownings during the week across Australia increases to seven after a fisherman dies after being swept off rocks near Sydney. Three people remain missing and one other was injured. (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
• The death toll of the capsized Hong Hai 16 off Occidental Mindoro, Philippines, rises to nine. Two others are still missing. (Manila Bulletin)
• Three people are killed and ten others are injured, including one critically and four firefighters, in a large house fire in Jamaica Estates, Queens, New York, United States. (WABC-TV) (WCBS-TV)

Law and crime

• At least one person, the perpetrator, is killed and six others are injured, in an arson attack when a man sets fire to an apartment building with a flamethrower in Bongcheon-dong, Seoul, South Korea. (Yonhap)

Sports

• In table tennis, Hugo Calderano of Brazil defeats Lin Shidong of China 4–1 sets, winning the ITTF World Cup and becoming the first athlete from the Americas to win the competition. (CNN Brasil)