The day

Tuesday 29 April 2025

14 stories, biggest first.

1. 1

   NewsRif 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.

2. 2

   News

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

3. 3

   News2025 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.

4. 4

   News

   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.

5. 5

   NewsBoko Haram insurgency

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

6. 6

   Politics

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

7. 7

   News

   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.

8. 8

   News2025 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.

9. 9

   CrimeJalisco 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.

10. 10

    News

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

11. 11

    News

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

12. 12

    Crime2025 Uppsala shooting

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

13. 13

    Money2025 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.

14. 14

    Crime

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

Stories adapted from Wikipedia’s Current events portal for 29 April 2025, by Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0.