The world on
Tuesday 29 April 2025
14 stories, region by region.
Africa
Boko Haram insurgency
At least 26 people are killed when a truck hits a roadside bomb in Borno State, Nigeria.
Americas
Disasters
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.
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.
Disasters
Three people are killed and over 400000 lose power due to severe storms in Western Pennsylvania, United States.
Crime & Justice
Three people are killed and two others are seriously injured in a mass shooting in Minneapolis, Minnesota
Asia-Pacific
Disasters
Fifteen people are killed, including two children, and thirteen others are injured in a fire at a hotel in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
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.
Europe
Politics
President of Russia Vladimir Putin signs a decree restoring the "Stalingrad" name to the Volgograd Airport.
2025 Uppsala shooting
Three people are killed in a shooting at a hair salon in Uppsala, Sweden, with the perpetrator still at large.
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.
Middle East
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.
Stories adapted from Wikipedia’s Current events portal for 29 April 2025, by Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0.