Portal:Current events/2020 April 21
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Insurgency in Mozambique (2017–present)
- Islamist militants earlier this month in the Muidumbe District, Cabo Delgado Province, after they refused to join their ranks. (Reuters)
- Internal conflict in Myanmar
- A Arakan Army rebels deny any involvement in the attack. (BBC News)
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Arts and culture
- COVID-19 pandemic in Spain
- The city council of Pamplona announces the suspension of the San Fermín festival scheduled for July, for the fifth time in its history. (The Guardian)
Business and economy
- Cannabis in Lebanon
- The Lebanese Parliament legalizes cannabis farming for medicinal purposes, in hopes that it will bring revenue to the country. (Reuters)
- Oil Prices
- Crude Oil prices fell to a 21 year low with seller's paying as much as 30 dollars a barrel to take it off their hands. (Washington Post
Health and environment
- COVID-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 pandemic in Russia
- COVID-19, the highest daily death toll in the country to date, bringing Russia's death toll to 456 and 52,763 total cases. (TASS)
- A 56-year-old urologist becomes the first Russian doctor to die from COVID-19 at a hospital in Moscow. (The Moscow Times)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Russia
International relations
- China–United States relations, COVID-19 pandemic in Missouri
- U.S. state to file a lawsuit against the Chinese government over the coronavirus pandemic, claiming the government is responsible for the virus's negative impact on the state's economy and that the nation is "hoarding" masks. A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman says his country is "not under the jurisdiction of U.S. courts"; that "abuse of litigation" does not help the "epidemic response at home in the United States and also runs counter to international cooperation". (Reuters)
Law and crime
- 2020 Nova Scotia attacks
- The death toll in last Sunday's killing spree in Nova Scotia, Canada, rises to at least 23, including the perpetrator. (CBC News)
- Pio Tikoduadua, a member of Fiji's National Federation Party, is arrested after he uploaded a video to Facebook denouncing police brutality. His party demands his immediate release. (RNZ)
- Baakline attack
- A man kills his wife, brother and seven others in Baakline, Lebanon, in the country's worst mass shooting in years, before being arrested. It is suspected they were honor killings. (Reuters)
- A man kills his wife, brother and seven others in
- ISIL militant Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary and two other men, after raiding their apartment overnight in Almería. Abdel Bary is suspected of being a member of the The Beatles cell, who were responsible for beheading Western hostages in Syria. (AP)
Politics and elections
- 2020 Kiribati parliamentary election
- Kiribatians head to the polls to elect members of the House of Assembly in the second round of voting. (RNZ)
- 2019–2020 Chilean protests
- Protests against the Chilean government in commemoration of the International Workers' Day are suppressed by the police, citing social distancing laws established due to the coronavirus pandemic. (BBC News)