Armed conflicts and attacks

• Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea
  • Pirates kidnap some crew members of a Danish-owned ship which they later abandoned near São Tomé and Príncipe. (Al Arabiya)

Disasters and accidents

• At least 35 people are killed and 18 more injured after a well collapses during prayers at a temple in Madhya Pradesh, India. (BBC News)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Internal conflict in Myanmar
  • Eight people are killed by a bombing in a village in Chin State, Myanmar. (AP)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Four people are killed and six others are injured by two roadside bombings in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• 2023 Fort Campbell mid-air collision
  • Two Sikorsky HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopters collide over Fort Campbell in Kentucky, United States, killing all nine people on board. (BBC News)

Health and environment

• New Zealand records its first case of rabies in a human. A patient who had been in hospital since early March died from the disease, which did not spread further. (News24)

International relations

• Enlargement of NATO, Finland–NATO relations
  • The Turkish Parliament unanimously votes to accept Finland's NATO application, becoming the last member to do so. (Al Jazeera)
• Iran–United States relations
  • The International Court of Justice (ICJ) rules that the United States violated its 1955 friendship treaty with Iran when it allowed its domestic courts to freeze assets held by Iranian companies, but said that the ICJ does not have jurisdiction over the US$1.75 billion worth of frozen assets held by the Central Bank of Iran. Both countries claimed victory in the ruling. (Reuters)
• European colonization of the Americas
  • The Vatican officially repudiates the discovery doctrine, writing that the 15th-century papal bulls which promoted it were "manipulated for political purposes by competing colonial powers in order to justify immoral acts against indigenous peoples that were carried out, at times, without opposition from ecclesiastical authorities". (Al Jazeera)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Lawmakers from the right-wing Freedom Party of Austria walkout from the lower house of Austria's parliament during a speech by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as a protest against the violation of Austria's national principle of neutrality. (Al Jazeera)

Law and crime

• Stormy Daniels–Donald Trump scandal
  • Indictment of Donald Trump
    • A grand jury in Manhattan, New York City, indicts former U.S. President Donald Trump regarding a hush payment he made while he was a candidate in 2016. (NBC News)
• The Lahore High Court rules that Pakistan's sedition law is unconstitutional, on the grounds that the law violates free speech. (Al Jazeera)