Portal:Current events/2015 April 22

April 22, 2015 (Wednesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

A tribal fight in Papua New Guinea's Hela Province between the Wapiago and Tapamu clans claims the lives of ten people, mostly children. (ABC News Australia)
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
- The Taliban announces the start of its annual spring offensive warning it would attack foreign embassies as well as military targets. (Reuters via Daily Mail)
Syrian Civil War
- The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights estimates that Syrian government air strikes on areas controlled by Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant kills 32 people. The air strikes hit a hospital in Dayr Hafir killing at least 21 people. (AP via ABC News America)

Business and economy

The European Union opens an antitrust case against Russian gas giant Gazprom which supplies most of Central and eastern Europe with supplies of natural gas. (AP via Daily Mail)
Google announces a new wireless network in the United States called Project Fi with a pay as you go data rate. (Venture Beat)

Disasters and accidents

Australian east coast low
- The storm in Australia's New South Wales is declared a "catastrophe" with four deaths, heavy flooding and disruption of transport to the state's largest cities Sydney and Newcastle. (The Australian) (WA Today)
- Twelve areas of NSW are declared as disaster zones including Dungog, Maitland, Cessnock Gosford, Great Lakes Council, Lake Macquarie, Newcastle, Pittwater Council, Port Stephens, Singleton, Warringah and Wyong. (WA Today)
Sinking of the MV Sewol
- South Korea approves plans to recover the MV Sewol which sank last year with the loss of 300 people. (AP)
The Calbuco volcano erupts in southern Chile forcing the evacuation of 4000 residents. (Reuters via Yahoo! Canada) (Wall Street Journal)

Law and crime

The United States Senate unanimously passes a bill to combat human trafficking after a long delay caused by a dispute over abortion funding. (New York Times)
An 11-judge panel of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals overturns the 2011 conviction of all-time Major League Baseball home run leader Barry Bonds on obstruction of justice charges stemming from the BALCO doping scandal. (AP via ESPN)

Politics and elections

Anguillan general election, 2015
- Voters in Anguilla go to the polls for a general election with the Anguilla United Front led by Victor Banks elected to government. (Jamaica Observer)

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