Armed men on motorcycles killed at least 20 people in a mining village in northwest Nigeria, extending a wave of violence that has left communities repeatedly exposed and insecure.
Fighting over a strategic base in Middle Shabelle left competing claims of victory, with al-Shabab saying it took Wargaadhi and Somali officials insisting they killed more than 40 attackers.
Benin says 54 soldiers were killed in an attack near its northern borders with Burkina Faso and Niger, revising sharply higher an earlier toll of eight and marking the country's deadliest known insurgent attack.
Russia launched an extended missile and drone attack on Kyiv that killed at least 12 people, making it the deadliest strike on the Ukrainian capital since July and prompting a rare public rebuke of Moscow from U.S. President Donald Trump.
A Russian drone hit a civilian bus in Marhanets on April 23, killing nine people and injuring dozens more, according to Ukrainian officials and the Guardian report from the scene.
Cardinal Kevin Farrell announced Pope Francis's death on Easter Monday, closing a 12-year papacy marked by humility, reform efforts, and sharp internal resistance.
On April 18, 2025, a mob of hardline Islamists attacked Pakistan’s Ahmadiyya community in Karachi, killing one man and exposing once again the vulnerability of the minority group.
The Houthi-run health ministry said a U.S. strike on the Ras Isa oil port killed 74 people and wounded 171, the deadliest known attack in Trump’s new campaign.
2025-04-17 event: Civil defence officials said strikes hit tents for displaced Palestinians in al-Mawasi, killing at least 37 people and injuring dozens more.
Somalia said two joint air strikes with the United States killed 12 Al-Shabaab fighters in central Somalia and destroyed a vessel carrying weapons for the insurgent group, presenting the operations as part of continuing counterterror pressure.
Suspected U.S. airstrikes hit multiple parts of Houthi-controlled Yemen on 2025-04-17, with authorities in Sanaa reporting at least one death and no immediate details from the U.S. military.
The former first lady and her son landed in Brasília after Peru sentenced her and ex-president Ollanta Humala to 15 years in prison for money laundering.
Lawmakers voted to amend the Immigration Act so that Israeli passport holders will be barred from entering the Maldives until the war in Gaza is judged to have ended.
Officials say a police bus was hit in Mastung district, sending injured officers to hospital and renewing concern over militant attacks in Pakistan’s southwest.