Business and economy

• Tariffs in the second Trump administration
  • A 25% tariff on all automotive imports into the United States enters force. No exemptions are announced despite requests from several major trade partners, including Japan and the United Kingdom. (Reuters)

International relations

• International Criminal Court arrest warrants for Israeli leaders
  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lands in Budapest, Hungary, a signatory of the International Criminal Court, for a state visit in defiance of the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant against him for alleged war crimes. (The Jerusalem Post)
  • The Hungarian Government announces it will withdraw from the ICC.(Reuters)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Kharkiv strikes
      • Russian forces target Kharkiv with at least 13 Geran-2 drones, causing fires in industrial and residential areas and injuring eight people, including a child. (Ukrainska Pravda)
    • Kryvyi Rih strikes
      • A Russian missile strike on an industrial park in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, kills at least four people and injures 14 others. (Reuters)
• Sudanese civil war
  • Siege of El Fasher
    • At least two civilians are killed in the artillery shelling of a displacement camp in El Fasher, North Darfur, Sudan, by the Rapid Support Forces. (AP)
• Middle Eastern crisis
  • Israeli invasion of Syria
    • The Israeli Air Force launches airstrikes in Syria targeting the remaining "military infrastructure", destroying much of Hama Air Base and Tiyas Air Base, including all remaining hangars and radars. The Barzah scientific research centre is also reportedly bombed. (The Times of Israel)
  • Gaza war
    • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
      • Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu announces the country's military will seize large areas of land in the Gaza Strip and establish a new occupation zone called the Morag Corridor, potentially stretching from Rafah to Khan Younis. (AP)
  • Iran–United States relations
    • The United States Air Force deploys 6 nuclear-capable B-2 Stealth Jets to Diego Garcia, amid rising tensions with Iran over their nuclear program. (AP)
• Myanmar civil war
  • The Myanmar government declares a temporary ceasefire with the National Unity Government-in-exile and its various allied ethnic armed organizations to facilitate relief efforts following the M 7.7 earthquake in the country several days ago. The ceasefire is expected to last until April 22. (DW)
• M23 campaign (2022–present)
  • 2025 Walikale offensive
    • Wazalendo militias broke through March 23 Movement (M23) positions in Kampala, DRC, and launched an attack on the M23 rebels in Walikale. (Critical Threats)

Arts and culture

• Classical archaeology
  • Archaeologists with the Vienna Museum announce the discovery of a mass grave in Simmering district in Vienna, Austria, of around 150 Ancient Roman soldiers from the 1st century who likely died in a battle. (DW) (Caledonian Record)

Business and economy

• Tariffs in the second Trump administration
  • China–United States trade war, 2025 United States trade war with Canada and Mexico
    • Donald Trump's Liberation Day speech
      • U.S. president Donald Trump announces a universal 10% tariff on most imports into the United States, a 20% tariff on goods from the European Union, and a 34% tariff on all imports from China. The tariffs will take effect from April 5. Exceptions include Canada, Cuba, Mexico, North Korea, and Russia. (BBC News) (France 24) (India Today)
      • The United States Senate votes 51-48 on a non-binding resolution to rebuke and reverse tariffs on Canada, with Republicans Rand Paul, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and Mitch McConnell voting for the resolution. (NPR)

Disasters and accidents

• Tornado outbreak of April 1–3, 2025
  • The Storm Prediction Center in the United States issues a high risk convective outlook over parts of the Mississippi River valley, ahead of an expected tornado outbreak. (Storm Prediction Center) (Nine News)
• Tropical cyclone naming
  • The World Meteorological Organization retires Beryl, Helene, Milton, and John from their rotating list of names for hurricanes for the North Atlantic and East Pacific basins.(WMO)
• Five people are killed and at least one other is critically injured when a private Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation bus collides head-on with two vehicles on the Khamgaon-Shegaon highway in Buldhana, Maharashtra, India. (News18 India)
• A Russian Air Force Tupolev Tu-22M strategic bomber crashes due to a technical malfunction in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, killing one crew member and injuring three others. (Reuters)

Health and environment

• The Slovak government approves a plan to cull 350 brown bears after a man was found mauled by a bear on March 30. The government had previously culled 144 bears in 2024. (AP)
• The Polish government increases border controls with Slovakia in response to the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease among Slovakia's and Hungary's livestock. (TVN24)

Law and crime

• War on drugs in Ecuador
  • A court in New York City indicts José Adolfo Macías Villamar, the leader of the organized crime syndicate Los Choneros, on seven counts of drug trafficking, conspiracy, arms trafficking, and illegal drug distribution in the United States. Villamar is not currently in U.S. custody. (AP)

Sports

• 2025 CFL season
  • TSN president Stewart Johnston is announced as the 15th commissioner of the Canadian Football League, replacing Randy Ambrosie who had served in the role since 2017. (CBC)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • Gaza war
    • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
      • UNICEF reports that over 332 children have been killed and 609 injured by the new Israeli military offensive across the Gaza Strip since the resumption of the war after the breakdown of the 2025 ceasefire. (BBC News) (UNICEF)
  • Israel–Hezbollah conflict
    • 2024 Israel–Lebanon ceasefire agreement
      • Four people are killed, including Hassan Bdeir, a high-ranking Hezbollah official, and seven others are injured by an Israeli airstrike on a building in Dahieh, Beirut, Lebanon. (Reuters) (Al Jazeera)
  • Red Sea crisis
    • March 2025 United States attacks in Yemen
      • The Houthis claim that they shot down a U.S. military-operated MQ-9 Reaper drone in Marib Governorate, Yemen. (AP)
      • U.S. missile strikes on Hodeidah, Yemen, hit a water management facility, killing at least four people, according to the Houthi-run Al-Masirah network. (Al Jazeera)
      • The U.S. announces it is sending a second aircraft carrier strike group, the group, to the region. (Al Jazeera)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Eastern front of the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • The Russian ministry of defence says that Russian forces have captured in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (Al Arabiya)

Disasters and accidents

• 2023–2025 Sundhnúkur eruptions
  • Seismic activity increases near Grindavík, Iceland, with the Icelandic Meteorological Office reporting that a volcanic eruption has occurred and a earthquake is being registered. People visiting the Blue Lagoon are evacuated rapidly. (The Watchers)
• 2025 Putra Heights pipeline fire
  • At least 305 people are injured after a gas pipeline owned by Petronas explodes and ignites a fire in Putra Heights, Selangor, Malaysia. (Malay Mail)
• A small airplane crashes into a lake in Os near Bergen, Norway, killing the two people onboard. (Sunnmørsposten)

International relations

• Cross-strait relations
  • The Chinese PLA Navy and Air Force conduct large-scale military exercises around Taiwan. At least 19 Chinese warships are deployed, including the aircraft carrier Shandong, marking its closest ever approach to the island. (The Guardian) (Financial Times)

Politics and elections

• Cory Booker's marathon speech
  • U.S. Senator Cory Booker delivers the longest speech in United States Senate history, breaking the previous record set by Strom Thurmond in 1957. (AP News)

Science and technology

• Private spaceflight
  • SpaceX successfully launches four humans into orbit over Earth’s poles for the first time for the human spaceflight mission Fram2. The journey will last three to five days. (The New York Times)

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