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April 12, 2023 (Wednesday)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Business and economy
NPR announces that it will no longer use Twitter after the social media site labeled it and the BBC as "government-funded media". Shortly thereafter, Twitter CEO Elon Musk announces that the labelling of the BBC will be changed to "publicly-funded media".
Disasters and accidents
Twenty-five people are killed and others are missing after a boat carrying migrants sinks off the coast of Tunisia.
International relations
Syrian foreign minister Faisal Mekdad meets with Saudi foreign minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in the first such visit between the two countries since the start of the Syrian civil war in 2011 in order to discuss the security situation in Syria and the return of Syrian refugees.
Law and crime
Four soldiers are killed in a mass shooting at a military base in Bathinda, Punjab, India. Authorities say that the shooting is not terror-related.
The Federal Ministers Karl Lauterbach and Cem Özdemir present key points on the partial legalisation of cannabis in Germany.
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