Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Israel–Hamas war
    • Israel–Hezbollah conflict
      • The Israeli military conducts an airstrike and assassinates Ismail Yusuf Baz, the commander of Hezbollah’s coastal sector in Lebanon. (Israel Defense Forces)
  • Killing of Benjamin Achimeir
    • A mob of Israeli settlers in Aqraba kills two Palestinians in revenge for the killing of Israeli teenager Benjamin Achimeir amid escalating ethnoreligious violence in the West Bank. (The Guardian)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signs a new army draft law. (Reuters)
• 2024 Wakeley church stabbing
  • Australia says the stabbing attack at the Assyrian church in Sydney was an Islamic terrorist act. (Reuters)

Business and economy

• Argentina and Denmark sign a 2.1 billion kroner ($300 million) deal for the sale of 24 Royal Danish Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcons to Argentina. No date for the F-16s to be handed over to Argentina has been announced. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

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  • A fire breaks out in Copenhagen's 17th-century Stock Exchange Building, leading to the collapse of its iconic {{lang|da|Dragespir}} spire. Important Danish artworks including From Copenhagen Stock Exchange were carried to safety. (Reuters) (The Guardian)
• Heavy rains and flash floods have swept parts of the Persian Gulf, killing at least 18 people in Oman and causing travel disruption in the United Arab Emirates. (Al Jazeera)

Politics and elections

• Brussels police shut down the right-wing National Conservatism conference attended by Nigel Farage and expected to host Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. (Politico)

Sports

• It is suspected Chinese marathon record holder He Jie won the Beijing half marathon due to match fixing. World Athletics expresses integrity concerns and the organization starts an investigation. (NOS) (Reuters)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Iran–Israel proxy conflict
  • 2024 Iran–Israel conflict
    • 2024 Iranian strikes in Israel, Iran–Japan relations
      • Japan increases its four-stage danger ranking level for most of Iran, including Tehran, to Level 3, which urges Japanese citizens to avoid all travel to Iran. (The Japan News)
• War in Sudan
  • Battle of El Fasher
    • At least nine civilians are killed and sixty others are injured in a renewed offensive by the Rapid Support Forces on the city of El Fasher. (Sudan War Monitor)
  • Siege of El Obeid
    • Five civilians are killed and ten others are injured in crossfire between the Sudanese Armed Forces and Rapid Support Forces in the city of El Obeid. (Sudan War Monitor)
  • Humanitarian impact of the war in Sudan
    • Donors pledge more than 2 billion euros for humanitarian aid in Sudan. (Reuters)
  • The Rapid Support Forces capture Mellit, North Darfur. (Sudan War Monitor)
  • The Joint Darfur Force declares war on the Rapid Support Forces and allies with the Sudanese Armed Forces. (Sudan War Monitor)
  • Clashes occur in Al-Madina Arab, Gezira State, between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces. (Radio Tamazuj)

Business and economy

• Tesla CEO Elon Musk announces that more than 10% of the company's global workforce will be laid off. (CNBC) (Reuters)
• Lockheed Martin wins a $17 billion defense contract from the U.S. government to develop missile interceptors against intercontinental ballistic missiles. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• Floods in Africa
  • Fifty-eight people have been killed in Tanzania and 13 people have been killed in Kenya in the past two weeks by flooding caused by torrential rains, with more than 125,000 people in coastal areas of East Africa affected by the flooding. Tanzania announces plans to construct fourteen dams in an attempt to reduce the damage from future floods. (AP)
• Lightning and heavy rains have killed at least 49 people across Pakistan in the past three days, mainly farmers in the eastern Punjab province. (AP)
• The death toll from landslides caused by torrential rain in Tana Toraja, South Sulawesi, Indonesia, increases to 20, after the last missing people are found dead. (AP)
• A magnitude 6.5 earthquake strikes West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea. No damage or casualties are reported. (ABC News)

International relations

• Sudan–United Kingdom relations, War in Sudan
  • The United Kingdom sanctions Alkhaleej Bank and Al-Fakher Advanced Works, two companies financing the Rapid Support Forces, and Red Rock Mining, which finances the Sudanese Armed Forces. (Radio Tamazuj)

Law and crime

• 2021 Australian Parliament House sexual misconduct allegations
  • Former Australian political staffer Bruce Lehrmann loses his defamation case against Network 10 and journalist Lisa Wilkinson for broadcasting an interview with Lehrmann's former coworker Brittany Higgins in which she claimed that Lehrmann raped her. (The Guardian)
• 2024 Wakeley church stabbing
  • Four people are injured, including bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel, in a mass stabbing at a church in Sydney, Australia. The perpetrator is arrested. A mob clashes with police outside the church while trying to attack the detained suspect. (Sky News Australia)

Politics and elections

• Lee Hsien Loong announces that he will resign as Prime Minister of Singapore on May 15 and will be succeeded by Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Lawrence Wong. (CNA)
• Thousands of people protest against a controversial foreign agent law in Tbilisi, Georgia. Georgia's Interior Ministry reports at least 14 people have been detained. Georgian Dream parliamentary leader Mamuka Mdinaradze is punched during a debate in parliament by a member of the opposition. (DW)
• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Pro-Palestinian protests in the United States stopped traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge and disrupted traffic to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. (Washington Post)

April 16

• 1520 – A revolt of citizens in Toledo, Castile, opposed to the rule of the foreign-born Charles I began when the royal government attempted to unseat radical city councilors.
• 1862 – Slavery in Washington, D.C., ended when the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act became law.
• 1945 – Second World War: British and Canadian forces concluded the Liberation of Arnhem in the Netherlands from German occupation.
• 1948 – The Organisation for European Economic Co-operation, headquartered in Paris, was founded.
• 2014 – The ferry MV Sewol (pictured) capsized and sank off Donggeochado, South Korea, killing 306 people, mainly students from Danwon High School.