Tuesday 22 April 2025

2025 Ivorian presidential election

Main opposition leader Tidjane Thiam is disqualified from the 2025 Ivorian presidential election.

Disasters

A fuel tanker and a bus collided head-on in Ghana, killing 11.

Crime & Justice

Interpol rescues 33 West Africans, including people from Benin, Togo, Burkina Faso, and Ghana, from human trafficking rings in the Ivory Coast.

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.

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.

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.

Disasters

A truck carrying passengers fell off a ravine in Jamshoro District, Sindh, Pakistan, killing 16 and injuring 20.

Crime & Justice

Seven people are killed in a mass stabbing when a man enters a bakery and attacks sleeping employees in Antipolo, Rizal, Philippines.

Zaporizhzhia strikes

Russian guided bombs target Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, killing one person and wounding 26 others, according to regional governor Ivan Fedorov.

Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip

Israeli airstrikes kill at least 25 people across the Gaza Strip.

Palestine–Syria relations

Syria detains two senior members of the paramilitary organization Palestinian Islamic Jihad.