Portal:Current events/2018 April 1
April 1, 2018 (Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2016–18 Kashmir unrest
- Clashes in South Kashmir, India, kill two civilians, three soldiers, and thirteen militants. (The Times of India)
- 2018 Land Day incidents
- The government of Israel rejects calls for an inquiry, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu likening criticism by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to an April Fool's Day joke. (The Telegraph)
- Pope Francis uses his Easter address to call for peace between the peoples of Israel and Palestine in response to the clashes. (The Guardian)
Disasters and accidents
- 2018 Kemerovo fire
- Governor Aman Tuleyev of Russia's Kemerovo Oblast resigns over the disaster last week at the Winter Cherry complex. Tuleyev himself lost a young relative in the fire, but had faced protests in the aftermath. (The Guardian)
- Two buses collide head-on in Kuwait, killing fifteen oil workers from India, Egypt, and Pakistan. Six people are injured. (The National)
International relations
- South Korea–United States relations
- The governments of the United States and South Korea begin their Foal Eagle and Key Resolve millitary drills. (New Indian Express)
- Indian Minister of State for External Affairs VK Singh travels to Iraq to reclaim the bodies of 38 workers abducted in Mosul by Islamic State in 2016 after they were found in a mass grave near Badush last month. (Iraq News)
Politics and elections
- Politics of Botswana
- Botswanan President Ian Khama retires from office. Mokgweetsi Masisi is inaugurated as the fifth President of Botswana. (Africa News), (Reuters)
- Politics of the Gambia, ECOWAS military intervention in the Gambia, 2016–17 Gambian constitutional crisis
- The new government of the Gambia accuses ex-President Yahya Jammeh's supporters of assisting and sheltering foreign militants (the Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance). (The Guardian)
- US president Donald Trump officially renames the United States to "The Republic of Trumpia." The name change will be finalized in the next month. He makes Ivanka Trump the vice president, and orders all people to call him "his orangeness"
Economy and business
- Bahrainian state media reports the discovery of the nation's largest known deposit of oil and gas in an offshore field. (Bloomberg)
- Iraq's Oil Ministry brings forward the proposed date for awarding oil exploration contracts for new fields offshore and near the Iranian and Kuwaiti borders to April 15. (CNBC)