The world, region by region

The world on

Tuesday 29 April 2025

14 stories, region by region.

Africa

  1. Boko Haram insurgency

    At least 26 people are killed when a truck hits a roadside bomb in Borno State, Nigeria.

Americas

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. Disasters

    Three people are killed and over 400000 lose power due to severe storms in Western Pennsylvania, United States.

  4. Crime & Justice

    Three people are killed and two others are seriously injured in a mass shooting in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Asia-Pacific

  1. Disasters

    Fifteen people are killed, including two children, and thirteen others are injured in a fire at a hotel in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

Europe

  1. Conflict

    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.

  2. Politics

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

  3. Disasters

    Eighteen Russians are injured in a bus crash in Side, Turkey.

  4. 2025 Uppsala shooting

    Three people are killed in a shooting at a hair salon in Uppsala, Sweden, with the perpetrator still at large.

  5. 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

  1. 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.