Portal:Current events/2025 April 29

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Kashmir conflict
  • 2025 India–Pakistan border skirmishes
    • Pakistani Information Minister Attaullah Tarar says that India intends to launch a military strike on Pakistan within the next 24 to 36 hours. (Reuters)
• Rif Dimashq clashes (April 2025–present)
  • Gunmen reported to be aligned with the Syrian government engage in fatal clashes with armed Druze combatants in the Druze-majority city of Jaramana in southern Syria. At least 13 people are killed, and 12 others are injured. (Al Jazeera) (CTV News)
• Boko Haram insurgency
  • At least 26 people are killed when a truck hits a roadside bomb in Borno State, Nigeria. (Al Jazeera)
• A 38-year-old man suspected of seriously injuring two women on Saturday in a shooting and crossbow attack on the Otley Run pub crawl in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, succumbs to a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the hospital. It is confirmed that the perpetrator's motive was misogyny. (BBC News)

Business and economy

• 2025 European power outage
  • At least five fatalities are reported in Spain as a consequence of the power outage that affected the Iberian Peninsula the day before. (ABC.es)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Liaoning Liaoyang Hotel Fire
  • Twenty-two people are killed and three others are injured after a fire breaks out in a restaurant in Liaoyang, Liaoning, China. (CNA)
• Three people are killed and over 400000 lose power due to severe storms in Western Pennsylvania, United States. (CBS)
• Three people are killed and two others are injured when scaffolding collapses at a developing liquefied natural gas plant in Port Arthur, Texas, United States. (Times Now)
• Fifteen people are killed, including two children, and thirteen others are injured in a fire at a hotel in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. (Business Standard) (The Telegraph)
• Eighteen Russians are injured in a bus crash in Side, Turkey. (Telegrafi)

Law and crime

• 2025 Uppsala shooting
  • Three people are killed in a shooting at a hair salon in Uppsala, Sweden, with the perpetrator still at large. (BBC News)
• Jalisco extermination camp
  • Alejandro Gertz Manero, Attorney General of Mexico, concluded that the Izaguirre Ranch was used by the Jalisco New Generation Cartel as a recruitment camp between 2021 and 2024, but found no evidence that it served as an extermination site. (AP)
• Three people are killed and two others are seriously injured in a mass shooting in Minneapolis, Minnesota (Minnesota Public Radio)

Politics and elections

• President of Russia Vladimir Putin signs a decree restoring the "Stalingrad" name to the Volgograd Airport. (Reuters)