Armed conflicts and attacks

A large-scale drone attack on Dnipro, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, kills two people and injures 16 others. (Reuters)

• https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/mass-drone-attack-kills-one-injures-seven-ukraines-dnipro-governor-says-2025-04-16/

Disasters and accidents

Authorities recover the remains of a Filipino crew member from the sand barge Hong Hai 16 that capsized off Occidental Mindoro, Philippines, yesterday, bringing the total death toll to two. Nine others are reportedly still missing. (GMA News)

• https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/topstories/regions/942984/death-toll-of-capsized-ship-off-mindoro-now-2-pcg-searching-for-survivors/story/

Disasters and accidents

Three people are killed and two others are injured when two boats collide on Lewis Smith Lake in Cullman County, Alabama, United States, during a Major League Fishing tournament. (ABC News)

• https://abcnews.go.com/US/alabama-boat-collision-smith-lake/story?id=120887192

Health and environment

The United Kingdom suspends the import of cheese and meat products from the European Union to prevent the spread of foot-and-mouth disease. (BBC News)

• https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2vpp8zzd7o

Law and crime

The Slovak government passes a law requiring non-governmental organizations to disclose their funding sources and the names of major donors. Opposition groups criticize the law as it could restrict civil society institutions. (DW) (Politico)

• https://www.dw.com/en/slovakia-passes-law-on-ngos-amid-criticism/a-72268853
• https://www.politico.eu/article/slovakia-adopts-russian-bill-targeting-ngos/

Law and crime

The Lebanese military detains a group of people, including several Palestinians, for firing rockets towards Israel in two separate attacks. Hezbollah denies their involvement in the rocket attacks. (AP)

• https://apnews.com/article/lebanon-israel-rockets-palestinians-detained-hamas-7c2be638daa75ecc39e5c89515d616b7

Law and crime

The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom rules that legal gender is based upon biological sex for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010. (BBC News)

• https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg7pqzk47zo

Law and crime

A German palliative care doctor is charged for allegedly killing fifteen patients between 2021 and 2024 in Berlin. He is being investigated in an additional 75 suspected cases and also accused of trying to cover up the evidence by starting fires in their homes. (AP) (Tagesschau)

• https://apnews.com/article/germany-palliative-doctor-patients-deaths-berlin-fires-637c1779ca95cd085d80cb76ab2e5c12
• https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/regional/berlin/palliativarzt-mord-anklage-berlin-100.html

Science and technology

A research team at the University of Cambridge announces that the James Webb Space Telescope has detected dimethyl sulfide, a chemical thought to be produced in nature only by living organisms, on exoplanet K2-18b, a sub-Neptune planet around 124 light-years (38 pc) away from Earth. (BBC News)

• https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c39jj9vkr34o