Portal:Current events/2023 April 24
April 24, 2023 (Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- War in Sudan (2023)
- Battle of Khartoum
- Switzerland suspends all diplomatic operations at its embassy in Khartoum. (Reuters)
- Evacuation of foreign nationals during the War in Sudan (2023)
- Brazil, South Africa, Niger and Mexico evacuate more than 100 citizens from Sudan. (Radio Mozambique) (Universo Online) (El País) (ABC News)
- Battle of Khartoum
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2022–2023 Crimea attacks
- Russian forces in Crimea repel a drone attack on Sevastopol, according to governor Mikhail Razvozhaev, in the first attack on the peninsula since February. (The Guardian)
- 2022–2023 Crimea attacks
Business and economy
- Fox News and host Tucker Carlson part ways. Less than an hour later, CNN fires host Don Lemon. (Politico)
Disasters and accidents
- 2023 Kabal explosions
- Seventeen people are killed and more than 50 others are injured after explosive material in the basement of a police station in Kabal Tehsil, Swat District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, catches fire, causing explosions. (Al Jazeera)
Law and crime
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Five people are injured when a 39-year-old Palestinian terrorist rams his car into a crowd of people on a street in Jerusalem. He is later killed by an armed citizen. (Reuters)
- Thirteen suspected gang members are lynched and set on fire by residents in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (Al Jazeera)
Politics and elections
- 2023 British Virgin Islands general election
- Citizens of the British Virgin Islands head to the polls to elect the 13 members of the House of Assembly. (Jamaica Observer)
- Iranian workers in major industries continue their strike for a third day. (Iran International)
Science and technology
- Solar Cycle 25
- A geomagnetic storm hits Earth, causing auroras as far south as Alabama and southern England. The storm registers at a G4. (San Francisco Chronicle) (New York Times) (Fox News)