Portal:Current events/2025 April 22
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April 22, 2025 (Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Gaza war
- Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
- Israeli airstrikes kill at least 25 people across the Gaza Strip. (RTÉ News)
- Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
- Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
- 2025 Pahalgam attack
- At least 28 people are killed and dozens of others are injured when terrorists open fire on people in Pahalgam, Anantnag district, Indian-controlled Jammu and Kashmir. (The New Indian Express) (The Guardian)
- 2025 Pahalgam attack
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Zaporizhzhia strikes
- Russian guided bombs target Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, killing one person and wounding 26 others, according to regional governor Ivan Fedorov. (Reuters)
- Zaporizhzhia strikes
Disasters and accidents
- Jones Road Fire
- Roughly 5,000 residents are evacuated, the Garden State Parkway is shut down and a business is destroyed after a large wildfire burns 12,500 acres (51 km2) in Lacey Township, New Jersey, United States. (WCAU-TV) (WPVI-TV)
Law and crime
- Palestine–Syria relations
- Syria detains two senior members of the paramilitary organization Palestinian Islamic Jihad. (Reuters)
- Seven people are killed in a mass stabbing when a man enters a bakery and attacks sleeping employees in Antipolo, Rizal, Philippines. (GMA Network)
- Interpol rescues 33 West Africans, including people from Benin, Togo, Burkina Faso, and Ghana, from human trafficking rings in the Ivory Coast. (AP)
Politics and elections
- 2025 Ivorian presidential election
- Main opposition leader Tidjane Thiam is disqualified from the 2025 Ivorian presidential election. (BBC News)
- U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says that the U.S. State Department will cut 15% of its staff and that the office of the Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights will be abolished. (NPR)