Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko says that Minsk should be included in negotiations aimed at ending the war.
S&P 500
+0.27%
$6,280
BTC
+2.30%
$113,637
OIL (WTI)
-2.19%
$66
April 7, 2022 (Thursday)
2.5 minutes to read
Armed conflicts and attacks
Mayor Borys Filatov requests that all women, children, and elderly leave the city of Dnipro in preparation for a possible Russian attack.
Three people are killed and 11 more are injured during a mass shooting at a bar in Tel Aviv, Israel. The attacker is killed during a shootout in nearby Jaffa.
The governor of Luhansk Oblast, Serhiy Haidai, reports that all hospitals in the province have been completely destroyed by the Russian Armed Forces. Russia denies the claim, accusing Ukraine of destroying their own hospitals.
Business and economy
The Russian ruble goes above the pre-war level after falling as low as 150 rubles per US dollar in early March.
Disasters and accidents
A DHL Boeing 757-200 cargo plane breaks into two parts after making an emergency landing at the Juan SantamarĂa International Airport in San JosĂ©, Costa Rica. No one is injured.
Around two million people in Puerto Rico are left without electricity after a fire occurs at one of the island's largest power plants.
Eight people are killed and three more injured during an explosion at a bar in a military camp in Goma, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. The causes of the blast are unknown.
Health and environment
Kazakhstan will lift their COVID-19 travel restrictions at the country's borders with Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Uzbekistan.
International relations
The emergency special session of the United Nations General Assembly votes to suspend Russia from the Human Rights Council, with 93 votes in favor, 24 against and 58 abstentions. Russia is the second country to be suspended from the council, after Libya in 2011 during the final year of Muammar Gaddafi's rule.
Law and crime
Former German Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger and former Interior Minister Gerhart Baum file a complaint with German federal prosecutors accusing Russian President Vladimir Putin, all 32 members of the Security Council of Russia, and members of the Russian Armed Forces of committing war crimes in Ukraine.
An unknown assailant throws acetone and red paint at Russian Nobel Prize laureate Dmitry Muratov as he traveled on a Moscow–Samara train, injuring him. A motive for the attack is unknown, but it is suspected to be a possible reaction to Muratov's opposition to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Politics and elections
Ketanji Brown Jackson is confirmed for the Supreme Court of the United States, following a 53–47 vote by the Senate. Jackson is the first black woman to be confirmed for this position and will replace justice Stephen Breyer after he retires in the court's summer session.
The government of Pedro Castillo announces that they have deployed the Peruvian Army to highways amid protests against inflation in the country.
President of Yemen Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi resigns from office, dismisses vice president Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar and transfers both office's powers to the newly formed eight member Presidential Leadership Council chaired by Rashad al-Alimi.
Science and technology
It is announced that over 5,000 new species of previously undiscovered RNA viruses were found in ocean-living organisms and proposed to group them into five new phyla, according to a paper published in Science.
Get the app
