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Several countries including the US, Spain and the UK had evacuated embassy staff from Sudan as of April 23, 2023, as rival military factions battled in the nation’s capital Khartoum. The fighting that broke out on April 15 between the Sudanese army and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group has killed at leas…
Police have found dozens of bodies in shallow graves in eastern Kenya where an alleged cult leader told his followers to starve themselves to death so they could “meet Jesus”. As of April 23, 2023, investigators had found 47 corpses and a search is under way for possible survivors in an 800-acre forested area near t…
Sri Lankans took to the streets on April 21, 2023, to demand justice and answers for the 2019 Easter bombings that left over 260 dead in the capital Colombo. Religious groups gathered to honour the victims while the Bishop of Colombo called out successive governments for not releasing information on the investigatio…
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South Korean pop star and Astro boy band member Moonbin has died aged 25, his label Fantagio confirmed. The singer was found unresponsive at his Seoul apartment on April 19, 2023. Local media reported suicide as the suspected cause of death, but police have declined to comment. Moonbin’s funeral is set for April 22.
More than 80 people were killed and hundreds injured in a crush at a charity distribution event in war-torn Yemen on April 19, 2023, according to officials from the rebel Houthi movement. The latest tragedy to strike the Arabian Peninsula’s poorest country came days ahead of the Muslim holiday Eid al-Fitr, which mar…
Chinese authorities have detained a dozen people over a hospital fire in Beijing that left at least 29 people dead and forced desperate survivors to jump out of windows to escape. The blaze, which broke out on April 18, 2023, at the Changfeng Hospital in the Chinese capital, killed mostly patients, and left scores o…
Authorities in India on April 19, 2023, discarded over 900 litres (240 gallons) of toxic alcohol after it killed at least 27 people in less than a week in the eastern state of Bihar. The distribution and consumption of alcohol is banned in several parts of India, including in Bihar. Initial investigations showed tha…
A fire in a hospital in Beijing killed at least 21 people on April 18, 2023, according to Chinese state-run media. Images posted on social media showed people sitting on external air conditioning units or clinging to ropes after the blaze broke out at around 12.57pm local time. The flames were put out about half an …
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Intense fighting has broken out in Sudan’s capital Khartoum, with dozens of civilians and soldiers alike reported killed since fighting began on April 15, 2023. Clashes between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces (RSF) for control of the country have spilled into cities across the natio…
Former Indian lawmaker Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf were shot dead in a dramatic attack that was caught live on television in northern India, officials said on April 16, 2023. The two brothers were under police escort on their way to a medical check-up when three men posing as journalists shot the brothers at c…
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The Brazilian government announced new curbs on social media content on April 12, in response to an assailant’s killing of four preschool children a week earlier. The newly released regulations will be targeted at violent content and users who promote or support violence against schools. Social media platforms will …
The Louisville Police Department has released recordings of 911 calls related to the April 10 bank shooting in the US state of Kentucky, which left five people dead and nine wounded. One call was from the shooter’s mother. The gunman, who was also killed, worked at the bank and live-streamed the massacre on Instagra…
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Iranian authorities are installing cameras in public places to identify and penalise women not wearing a headscarf, Iran's chief of police announced on April 8, 2023. The increased surveillance is an attempt to rein in the growing number of women defying Iran's compulsory dress code. Since the death of 22-year-old K…
Authorities in Australia’s New South Wales released bodycam footage on April 11, 2023, showing a raid on an illegal tobacco plantation, whose crop is reportedly worth up to US$28 million. Local police warned of a booming trend in the use of illegal plantations to fund criminal activities among syndicates. Growing to…
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A Moscow court plans to hear an appeal, on April 18, 2023, from the lawyers of American reporter Evan Gershkovich, who is seeking to lift his pre-trial detention. Gershkovich, a US citizen, was arrested on March 29 in Russia and charged with espionage, which carries a prison term of up to 20 years. Media groups and …
Clashes erupted in Paris as nationwide protests against pension reform entered the eleventh day on April 6, 2023. Demonstrators threw bottles and paint at police and set fire to the awning of the bistro La Rotonde, one of French President Emmanuel Macron’s favourite restaurants. The Constitutional Council is expecte…
Grieving Brazilians held a funeral on April 6, 2023, for one of four children killed in a nursery axe attack the previous morning. The tragedy took place at a nursery in southern Brazil when a 25-year-old man armed with an axe climbed over a wall to enter the facility before attacking the children between the ages o…
Israeli police raided the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem on April 5, 2023, sparking violent clashes with Palestinian worshippers and leaving hundreds injured and arrested. Palestinian militants fired rockets into Israel in response, prompting calls for restraint by the United States and the UN, and drawing condemnation…
Umer Zada stood over the coffin of his seven-year-old son Saad, offering prayers with other mourners on April 5, 2023. Saad was among a dozen people killed in a stampede at a food distribution centre on March 31, 2023, when a hungry crowd of hundreds began to panic and push to collect food. The incident is the deadl…
A law enforcement officer was seen clinging onto a car hood and being dragged several hundred metres after a motorist forced their way through a checkpoint in southern China.
Russian investigators on April 4, 2023, charged Darya Trepova with terrorist offences over the killing of pro-war blogger Vladlen Tatarsky in a cafe bomb blast. The 26-year-old has been accused of working for Ukrainian intelligence and has been remanded in custody for at least two months. Trepova allegedly delivered…
An avalanche killed at least seven tourists in India’s northeastern state of Sikkim on April 4, 2023. At least 350 people were rescued from the mountainous region along India’s border with China, but dozens more are feared still trapped under the snow. An eyewitness said police had recently warned tourists against t…
Donald Trump pleaded not guilty at his arraignment in Manhattan District Court on April 4, 2023. He’s been charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. The case related to a 2016 pay-off of adult film star Stormy Daniels has resulted in the first criminal charges ever being brought against a former …
Malaysia’s lower house of parliament has passed a legal reform measure that would put an end to issuance of mandatory death penalties and natural-life sentences. The country paused executions in 2018, but courts have continued to send inmates to death row. The bill passed by the Dewan Rakyat on April 3, 2023, would …
The grandson of South Korean military dictator Chun Doo-hwan has apologised to victims of a massacre that happened when the former leader ordered troops to put down the 1980 Gwangju Uprising. Chun Woo-won visited the May 18th National Cemetery on March 31, 2023, and used his own coat to clean gravestones of some of …
A temple in India was completely demolished by authorities on April 3, 2023, after at least 36 people were killed when it collapsed the previous week. A concrete slab covering the roof of a stepwell in the complex fell and crushed devotees who had gathered to celebrate the Hindu festival ‘Ram Navami’ on March 30, 2023.
A man used yogurt to attack two women in Iran, according to surveillance camera footage recorded on March 30, 2023. The man was arrested for disturbing public order, while the two women were also arrested for flouting Iran’s strict female dress rules. The incident has revived tensions in Iranian society over rules a…
Prominent Russian pro-war influencer Maxim Fomin, also known by his pseudonym Vladlen Tatarsky, was killed in an explosion at a cafe in St Petersburg on April 2, 2023. The 40-year-old was reportedly presented with a box containing a statuette that exploded, according to witnesses. Local media have not yet reported a…
Cynthia Houniuhi and 26 other law students banded together in 2019 and started a campaign to bring climate change to the world's top court. They asked the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to define the obligations of states to combat climate change and the consequences for not doing so. On March 29, 2023, the Un…
Former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak failed in his latest, and last, attempt to quash his corruption conviction on March 31, 2023, as the country’s highest court upheld its decision to send him to jail. He will continue to serve a 12-year jail sentence unless he receives a royal pardon from the king. In Augus…
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was detained for two months by a Moscow court on espionage charges on March 30, 2023. Russia’s Federal Security Service confirmed the 31-year-old journalist had been detained for attempting to obtain classified information on Russia’s “military-industrial complex”. Inter…
The Post’s chief news editor, Yonden Lhatoo, accuses the International Criminal Court of cowardice and double standards after it issued an arrest warrant only for Russian President Vladimir Putin for ordering an invasion of Ukraine.
A Russian man sentenced to two years in a penal colony on March 28, 2023, over an anti-war picture his daughter drew in school has reportedly fled house arrest. Alexei Moskalyov was found guilty of discrediting the armed forces, an offence Russia introduced soon after its February 2022 invasion of Ukraine. After a n…
Video circulating on social media showed the moment two trucks shunted into one another on the passing lane of the North Lantau Highway in Hong Kong on the morning of March 30, 2023. Later, a taxi slammed into the rear of one of the heavier vehicles and caught fire. The driver of the taxi was confirmed dead at the s…
An Afghan toddler has been reunited with her siblings and uncle's family in the Qatari capital Doha on March 27, 2023, after being orphaned during a family attempt to flee Kabul when the Taliban re-took Afghanistan. Her parents were killed in the Kabul airport bombing on August 26, 2021, as they fled with their four…
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Fresh strikes and protests roiled France on March 28, 2023, when a record number of police officers were deployed to back President Emmanuel Macron’s defiant stance over a pensions reform bill that has sparked turmoil across the country. It was the tenth day of unrest since protests against the measure began in mid-…
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The first protest in three years authorised by the Hong Kong police took place on March 26, 2023, in Tseung Kwan O. About 80 Hongkongers marched to protest against a plan to build six public facilities on a new patch of reclaimed land southwest of the residential district. The rally was the first of its kind since 2…
Female inmates in Kyrgyzstan are celebrating the arrival of spring during the Nowruz festival in the Central Asian country’s only female prison. Nowruz, an ancient Persian holiday that usually falls between March 19 to 21 every year, is one of the few days the women can briefly forget the realities of being a prison…
A zebra is back home safe and sound after escaping from a zoo in Seoul on March 23, 2023. The male zebra named Sero wandered the busy streets for nearly three hours before police and emergency workers in the South Korean capital managed to hit the animal with a tranquilliser dart. An official from the Seoul Children…
