April 22, 2024 (Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Eastern Ukraine campaign
- The Russian Ministry of Defence claims control over the village of Novomykhailivka in Donetsk Oblast. (Reuters)
- Military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
- The United Kingdom announces its largest ever military support package for the Ukrainian military, pledging 400 vehicles, including 162 MXT-MVs, 60 boats, 1,600 air defence missiles, 4 million rounds of firearm ammunition, and an additional £500 million in funding. (The Guardian)
- Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
- Russia strikes the Kharkiv TV Tower with a Kh-59 cruise missile, causing the upper half of the tower to collapse and disrupting the broadcasting signal in Kharkiv, Ukraine. (Reuters)
- Eastern Ukraine campaign
- Israel–Hamas war
- Siege of Khan Yunis
- Israeli troops and tanks raid Khan Yunis in Gaza after abruptly withdrawing from the city earlier this month. (Reuters)
- Siege of Khan Yunis
- Islamic State insurgency in the North Caucasus
- Two police officers are killed and another is injured during a mass shooting of a police squad in Karachay-Cherkessia, Russia. (Tass)
- Moro conflict
- Twelve Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters militants are killed and seven soldiers are wounded during a shootout in Datu Saudi Ampatuan, Maguindanao del Sur, Philippines. (AP)
Disasters and accidents
- 2024 Guangdong floods
- Four people are killed and ten are missing during floods caused by heavy rain in Guangdong Province, China. Around 110,000 people are evacuated. (BBC News)
International relations
- China–Japan relations
- Controversies surrounding Yasukuni Shrine
- China objects to an offering that Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida made at Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine on Sunday. (Reuters)
- Controversies surrounding Yasukuni Shrine
Politics and elections
- Israel–Hamas war
- 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel
- The head of the Military Intelligence Directorate of Israel Aharon Haliva resigns for failing to prevent the Hamas offensive on Israel on October 7, 2023. (AP)
- 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel
- 2024 Maldivian parliamentary election
- President Mohamed Muizzu's party, the People's National Congress, is declared the winner of the election. (Reuters)
- 2024 Basilicata regional election
- Vito Bardi is re-elected president of the Italian region of Basilicata. (RAI News)
Law and Crime
- A familicide of the Candy family in Yukon, Oklahoma, United States kills five people including the perpetrator, 42-year-old Jonathon David Candy.(Koco News)
Science and technology