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April 7, 2023
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2023-04-07
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Israeli–Palestinian conflict
2023 Tel Aviv car-ramming
An
Italian
tourist
is killed and six Britons and Italians are injured in a
vehicle-ramming attack
in
Tel Aviv
,
Israel
. The perpetrator is shot dead by police.
(BBC News)
Murders of Lucy, Maia and Rina Dee
Three British Israelis are killed in a
drive-by shooting
near the
Hamra
settlement
in the
West Bank
.
(AP)
Russian invasion of Ukraine
Battle of Bakhmut
The
UK defence ministry
says that
Russian forces
have captured the
Bakhmutka
river west banks, endangering
Ukrainian
supply lines
.
(Reuters)
Allied Democratic Forces insurgency
Twenty people are killed after
Islamic State
members storm a village in Musandaba,
Democratic Republic of the Congo
.
(WION)
Insurgency in Balochistan
Pakistan
arrests the founder of the
Baloch Nationalist Army
in the country's southwest.
(AP via
The Washington Post
)
Law and crime
Murder of Luca Attanasio
A court in the
Democratic Republic of the Congo
sentences
six men to
life in prison
for the
assassination
of
Italian
envoy
Luca Attanasio
in February 2021.
(Reuters)
After being arrested in
Russia
, American journalist
Evan Gershkovich
is
charged
with
espionage
.
(Tagesschau)
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