Portal:Current events/2023 April 24

Armed conflicts and attacks

• 2023 Sudan conflict
  • Battle of Khartoum
    • Switzerland suspends all diplomatic operations at its embassy in Khartoum. (Reuters)
  • Evacuation of foreign nationals during the 2023 Sudan conflict
    • Brazil, South Africa, Niger and Mexico evacuate more than 100 citizens from Sudan. (Radio Mozambique) (Universo Online) (El País) (ABC News)
• 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)

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)