The edition of
Tuesday 22 April 2025
11 stories, section by section, the most important first.
International
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.
Israeli airstrikes kill at least 25 people across the Gaza Strip.
Russian guided bombs target Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, killing one person and wounding 26 others, according to regional governor Ivan Fedorov.
Politics
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.
Main opposition leader Tidjane Thiam is disqualified from the 2025 Ivorian presidential election.
The Law
Interpol rescues 33 West Africans, including people from Benin, Togo, Burkina Faso, and Ghana, from human trafficking rings in the Ivory Coast.
Syria detains two senior members of the paramilitary organization Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
Seven people are killed in a mass stabbing when a man enters a bakery and attacks sleeping employees in Antipolo, Rizal, Philippines.
Environment
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.
A truck carrying passengers fell off a ravine in Jamshoro District, Sindh, Pakistan, killing 16 and injuring 20.
A fuel tanker and a bus collided head-on in Ghana, killing 11.
Stories adapted from Wikipedia’s Current events portal for 22 April 2025, by Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0.