Portal:Current events/2025 April 18

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Red Sea crisis
  • US–UK airstrikes on Yemen
    • March–April 2025 United States attacks in Yemen
      • 2025 Ras Isa oil terminal airstrikes
        • The Houthis say that American airstrikes targeted the Ras Isa port in Yemen, killing 74 people and wounding 171 others. This marks the single-deadliest known attack under President Donald Trump's new campaign targeting the Houthis. (AP)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Peace negotiations in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announces that the Trump administration is ready to abandon diplomatic efforts and "move on" if it is not possible to end the war in "a matter of days". (CNN)
• Persecution of Ahmadis in Pakistan
  • One man is killed in Karachi, Pakistan, after a mob of radical Islamists belonging to Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan attack the Ahmadiyya community after Friday prayer. (DW)

Disasters and accidents

• The death toll of the fire and capsizing of the wooden boat HB Kongolo on the Congo River in Democratic Republic of the Congo three days ago rises to 148. Hundreds of others remain missing. (Reuters)
• Three people are killed when a Cessna 180 Skywagon crashes into the Platte River in Fremont, Nebraska, United States, just outside of Omaha. (KLKN)
• Three people, including a lay minister, are killed and seventeen others are injured when a car driven by an Indian national driving under the influence hits a tricycle and crashes into a procession in Bacolod, Philippines. (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
• The death toll of the capsized Hong Hai 16 sand barge three days ago off Occidental Mindoro, Philippines, rises to six. Five others are still missing. (GMA)