Portal:Current events/2023 April 14

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • A Russian missile strike on Sloviansk, Donetsk Oblast, kills at least eight civilians and injures 21 others. (The New York Times)
• Yemeni civil war
  • A major prisoner swap of nearly 900 prisoners begins between rival factions in Yemen. (AFP via France 24)
• At least thirty people are killed after suspected militants conducted a riad on a village in Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2023 Tunisia migrant boat disasters
  • The death toll from a boat that sank off the coast of Tunisia increases to 33 after eight more bodies are found. (Reuters)
• At least four people are killed and thirteen others are injured after a fire breaks out in a shelter in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil. (Reuters)

Health and environment

• Ghana becomes first country to approve Oxford malaria vaccine R21/Matrix-M (Pharmaceutical Technology).

Law and crime

• LGBT rights in Tanzania, Capital punishment in Tanzania
  • Tanzanian members of parliament call on the government to tighten laws against homosexual sex with the death penalty. (The Citizen)
• Cannabis in Quebec
  • The Supreme Court of Canada upholds Quebec's provincial ban on homegrown cannabis despite a 2018 federal ruling which allowed small quantities of cannabis to be grown at home. (Reuters)

Science and technology

• Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) is launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) to search for life in the Jovian system, with an expected arrival date of 2031. (BBC News)