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Armed conflicts and attacks

• Syrian civil war
  • Israel's role in the Syrian civil war
    • The Israeli Air Force launches airstrikes near Damascus, killing two civilians, according to Syrian state media. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says an "unknown number" of Iran-backed militants were also killed in the strikes, which targeted a counter-battery radar in As-Suwayda Governorate, and a glass factory in al-Kiswah, Rif Dimashq Governorate. (France 24)
• War against the Islamic State
  • United States Central Command says U.S. forces killed senior Islamic State leader Khalid 'Aydd Ahmad al-Jabouri, who was allegedly planning attacks in Europe during Easter, in an overnight raid in rebel-held northwest Syria. The U.S. says there were no civilian casualties. (Reuters)
• Islamic State–Taliban conflict
  • Six Islamic State members are killed during a raid by the Taliban in the Balkh Province, Afghanistan. (Al Arabiya)

Business and economy

• Satellite launch service provider Virgin Orbit files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after failing to secure long-term funding. The California-based company announces that it will layoff 85% of its workforce. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2023 Voorschoten train crash
  • One person is killed and 50 others are injured, nineteen of them hospitalized, when a train derails in Voorschoten, South Holland, Netherlands. (BBC News)
• Seven people are killed and eleven more injured by an avalanche in the Himalayas, India. (Associated Press)

International relations

• Enlargement of NATO
  • Finland–NATO relations
    • Finland officially joins NATO, becoming the 31st member of the military alliance. NATO's border with Russia expands by 1,300 kilometres (810 mi) upon Finland joining the bloc. (Time) (BBC News)
• China–India relations
  • Sino-Indian border dispute
    • The Ministry of Civil Affairs of China standardizes the names of 11 places in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh in a renewed attempt to assert Chinese territorial claim over the state. (Times of India)

Law and crime

• Legal affairs of Donald Trump
  • Indictment of Donald Trump
    • Former U.S. President Donald Trump pleads not guilty to falsifying business records and a hush money payment to Stormy Daniels at a Manhattan court. (CBS News) (The Independent)
    • Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg formally announces the indictment of Trump. (Bronx Daily)
• A court in the United Kingdom rules that High Court of Justice has no jurisdiction over a lawsuit presented by a creditor against Cuba and Cuba's Central Bank over unpaid loans from the 1980s. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• 2017–present Peruvian political crisis
  • The Congress of Peru votes against the petition of impeachment of President Dina Boluarte over the alleged killings of protesters during the ongoing protests, amidst a worsening volatility in the country's politics. (Reuters)

Science and technology

• The United Kingdom's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) fines TikTok £12.7m for "failing to protect the privacy of children" on the online video platform. It is one of the largest ever fines issued by the ICO. (BBC News)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Battle of Bakhmut
    • Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner Group, claims "legal control" of Bakhmut, although Ukraine denies this, stating that its troops continue to remain in the city's western districts. (CNBC)
• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • A Lions' Den militant and a Fatah member are killed during a raid by Israeli soldiers in Nablus, in the occupied West Bank. Two other Palestinians are arrested and dozens more are hospitalized due to tear gas. (Al Jazeera)

Business and economy

• 2021–2023 inflation surge
  • Brent crude oil prices increase by $4.30 to $84.19 per barrel after OPEC announces an unexpected reduction in the output of oil exports by about 1.16 million barrels per day. U.S. crude oil prices increase by $4.17 to $79.84 per barrel in response to the announcement. (Al Jazeera)
• Acquisition of WWE by Endeavor
  • Endeavor Group Holdings, owners of Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), announce that they will acquire World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. in a deal estimated to be worth US$9.3 billion. The two entities will be merged and spun off, with Endeavor controlling 51% of the combined company, and WWE shareholders controlling the remaining 49%. (CNBC)

Disasters and accidents

• 2023 Papua New Guinea earthquake
  • A 7.1 magnitude earthquake strikes East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea, killing seven people, injuring several others, and causing damage. (Deccan Herald)
• A magnitude 6.5 earthquake strikes Kamchatka Krai, Russia, with damage reported in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. The Mutnovskaya Power Station is also temporarily shut down. (KAM24)
• Four people are injured in a fire at a hospital in Berlin, Germany. One person has been arrested on suspicion of arson. (AP)
• Six people are killed and 64 others are missing after a boat capsizes in the Lake Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Reuters)

Science and technology

• Artemis 2
  • NASA announces the four members of Artemis 2, the first crewed mission of the Artemis program which will send astronauts to the Moon for the first time since Apollo 17: Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch, Jeremy Hansen, and Victor J. Glover. (The New York Times)

Sports

• 2023 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament
  • In basketball, the UConn Huskies rout the San Diego State Aztecs 76–59 to win the championship, making it the fifth national championship for the Huskies. (ESPN)
• 2023 FIFA U-17 World Cup
  • Peru is removed as a host for the FIFA U-17 World Cup after failing to meet the requirements for staging the tournament. (AP)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Russian forces shell Kostiantynivka, Donetsk Oblast, killing six civilians and injuring eight others, according to the Ukrainian government. (Reuters)
  • 2022–2023 Western Russia attacks
    • 2023 Saint Petersburg bombing
      • Russian pro-government war correspondent Vladlen Tatarsky is killed by a bombing at a café in Saint Petersburg owned by oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin. Sixteen others are injured. (TASS)
• Kivu conflict
  • South Sudanese troops arrive in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, becoming the fourth country to join a coalition of peacekeeping missions to fight insurgencies. (Xinhua)

Disasters and accidents

• At least 21 people are dead and others are missing after a landslide in Bolowa, Democratic Republic of Congo. (Al Jazeera)
• Fifteen people are killed after two pits are flooded in Cibitoke, Burundi. (Associated Press)

Politics and elections

• 2023 Andorran parliamentary election
  • Andorrans head to the polls to elect the 28 members of the parliament. (elPeriódico)
• 2023 Bulgarian parliamentary election
  • Bulgarians head to the polls to elect the 240 members of the parliament. Exit polls show former Prime Minister Boyko Borisov's party GERB narrowly defeating former Prime Minister Kiril Petkov's party We Continue the Change by 0.2%. (DW)
• 2023 Finnish parliamentary election
  • Finns head to the polls to elect the 200 members of the parliament. Centre-right National Coalition Party wins the most votes at 20.7%, while the ruling Social Democratic Party places third with 19.9%. (Euronews 1) (Euronews 2)
• 2023 Montenegrin presidential election
  • Former economic minister Jakov Milatović defeats incumbent Milo Đukanović to become the new President of Montenegro, with 60.1% of the vote. (Reuters)
• 2024 Republican Party presidential primaries
  • Former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson announces his campaign for the 2024 United States presidential election during an interview with ABC News. (ABC News)

Business and economy

• In India, a new income tax law comes into effect. It is a significant change on the old 1961 statute, and contains a controversial "angel tax" provision seeking to capture some of the income entering the country from foreign investors funding India's start-ups. (Bloomberg Tax)

Disasters and accidents

• Tornado outbreak of March 31 – April 1, 2023
  • The toll from yesterday's tornado outbreak rises to 32 people dead and at least 90 injuries, especially in the states of Arkansas and Illinois. (CNN)
• Two people are killed and another is injured after a hot air balloon catches fire near Teotihuacan, State of Mexico, Mexico. (AP)

International relations

• Russia assumes the Presidency of the United Nations Security Council as part of the standard monthly rotation among the council's 15 members. (BBC News)

Science and technology

• Professor Alan Jamieson of the University of Western Australia's Minderoo-UWA Deep Sea Research Centre announces that his team has captured footage of a snailfish species, Pseudoliparis belyaevi, swimming at 8,336 metres (27,349 ft) in the Izu–Ogasawara Trench off Japan's southern coast. This is the lowest depth recorded for any fish, and closest to the estimated maximum depth possible for fish to survive. (BBC News)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea
  • Pirates kidnap some crew members of a Danish-owned ship which they later abandon near São Tomé and Príncipe. (Al Arabiya)

Disasters and accidents

• Tornado outbreak of March 31 – April 1, 2023
  • The Storm Prediction Center issues a high risk convective outlook, the first high risk issued in over two years, ahead of an expected severe weather outbreak across the Mississippi River valley in the United States. (Storm Prediction Center)
  • A large tornado causes major damage to the Little Rock, Arkansas metropolitan area, killing at least three people and injuring 24 others. (KTHV-TV)
  • One person is killed and 28 others are injured when a tornado causes the roof of a theater in Belvidere, Illinois, to collapse during a concert. (WIFR-TV)
• Indore stepwell collapse
  • Thirty-six people are killed and 17 others are injured when a stepwell collapses during prayers at a Hindu temple in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India. (The Guardian)
• 2023 Pakistan ration distribution stampedes
  • Eleven people die after being crushed in a crowd which gathered to collect food outside a factory in Karachi, Pakistan. (Al Jazeera)
• Four people are killed by avalanches in Northern Norway. (AFP via Barron's)
• More than a dozen people are injured in separate incidents after two trains derail during a storm in Switzerland. (AP)

Science and technology

• Italy's Data Protection Authority blocks ChatGPT for allegedly breaching data protection rules and failing to verify that its users are at least 13 years old. (Reuters)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Internal conflict in Myanmar
  • Eight people are killed by a bombing in a village in Chin State, Myanmar. (AP)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Four people are killed and six others are injured by two roadside bombings targeting police in Lakki Marwat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• 2023 Fort Campbell mid-air collision
  • Two Sikorsky HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopters collide over Fort Campbell in Kentucky, United States, killing all nine people on board. (BBC News)
• A collision between a Pwani University bus and a minibus in Naivasha, Kenya, kills 14 people. (AA)
• Fourteen people are killed and dozens of others are injured by a mine collapse in Northern state, Sudan. (Reuters)

Health and environment

• New Zealand records its first case of rabies in a human. A patient who had been in hospital since early March died from the disease, which did not spread further. (News24)

International relations

• Enlargement of NATO, Finland–NATO relations
  • Finland–Turkey relations
    • The Turkish Parliament unanimously votes to accept Finland's NATO application, becoming the last member to do so. (Al Jazeera)
• Iran–United States relations
  • The International Court of Justice (ICJ) rules that the United States violated its 1955 friendship treaty with Iran when it allowed its domestic courts to freeze assets held by Iranian companies, but said that the ICJ does not have jurisdiction over the US$1.75 billion worth of frozen assets held by the Central Bank of Iran. Both countries claimed victory in the ruling. (Reuters)
• European colonization of the Americas
  • The Vatican officially repudiates the discovery doctrine, writing that the 15th-century papal bulls which promoted it were "manipulated for political purposes by competing colonial powers in order to justify immoral acts against indigenous peoples that were carried out, at times, without opposition from ecclesiastical authorities". (Al Jazeera)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Lawmakers from the right-wing Freedom Party of Austria walkout from the lower house of Austria's parliament during a speech by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as a protest against the violation of Austria's national principle of neutrality. (Al Jazeera)

Law and crime

• Stormy Daniels–Donald Trump scandal
  • Indictment of Donald Trump
    • A grand jury in Manhattan, New York City, indicts former U.S. President Donald Trump regarding a hush payment he made while he was a candidate in 2016. (NBC News)
• The Lahore High Court rules that Pakistan's sedition law is unconstitutional, on the grounds that it violates free speech. (Al Jazeera)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Colombian conflict
  • ELN rebels launch homemade mortar shells at a military base in El Carmen, Norte de Santander, Colombia, killing nine soldiers and injuring nine others. (ABC News)

Disasters and accidents

• Sinking of MV Lady Mary Joy 3
  • Thirty-one people are killed and more than 200 others are rescued after a ferry catches fire near an island in Basilan, Philippines. At least seven are still missing. (AP)
• Four people are killed by a storm in Syria. (AP)

Health and environment

• 2020–2023 H5N1 outbreak
  • Chile detects its first case of H5N1 bird flu in a 53-year-old man. (Reuters)

International relations

• Brazil–China relations
  • Brazil and China sign an agreement to trade in their own currencies, ceasing the usage of the United States dollar as an intermediary. (The Straits Times)
• Burkina Faso–North Korea relations
  • Burkina Faso formally resumes diplomatic relations with North Korea after suspending them in 2017 over the country's nuclear weapons program. (Andolu Agency)

Law and crime

• Myanmar's ruling military junta dissolves the National League for Democracy, the political party of former State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi. (NHK)
• Prime Minister of Fiji Sitiveni Rabuka announces that the Media Industry Development Authority will repeal a controversial 2010 law which strictly controlled media in the country. (RNZ)
• Evan Gershkovich, an American reporter at The Wall Street Journal, is arrested in Yekaterinburg by Russia's Federal Security Service under charges of espionage. (RFE/RL)

Politics and elections

• Repeal of the 2002 AUMF
  • The U.S. Senate passes a bill to repeal the 1991 and 2002 Authorizations for Use of Military Force (AUMFs) that allowed the past wars in Iraq, with a bipartisan majority of 66–30 votes. (Reuters)
• Syrian President Bashar al-Assad reshuffles the government's cabinet amid an increase in prices and shortages of food due to the severe economic situation the country, which was worsened by the recent earthquake. (AP via The Washington Post)
• UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan announces that he has named his son Khaled bin Mohamed Al Nahyan as the Abu Dhabi Crown Prince. City Football Group owner Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan is also appointed as Vice President. (Al Jazeera)

Sports

• 2023 FIFA U-20 World Cup
  • FIFA strips Indonesia of hosting this year's FIFA U-20 World Cup tournament after the Governor of Bali I Wayan Koster refused to host the Israel national under-19 football team. (The Guardian)
• 2022–23 NBA season
  • In basketball, the Sacramento Kings make the NBA playoffs for the first time since 2006, ending their 17-year playoff drought, the longest in NBA history. (USA Today) (KTXL-TV)