All news: Tuesday 29 April 2025

2025 India–Pakistan border skirmishes

Pakistani Information Minister Attaullah Tarar says that India intends to launch a military strike on Pakistan within the next 24 to 36 hours.

Rif Dimashq clashes (April 2025–present)

Gunmen reported to be aligned with the Syrian government engage in fatal clashes with armed Druze combatants in the Druze-majority city of Jaramana in southern Syria. At least 13 people are killed, and 12 others are injured.

Boko Haram insurgency

At least 26 people are killed when a truck hits a roadside bomb in Borno State, Nigeria.

A 38-year-old man suspected of seriously injuring two women on Saturday in a shooting and crossbow attack on the Otley Run pub crawl in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, succumbs to a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the hospital. It is confirmed that the perpetrator's motive was misogyny.

2025 Liaoning Liaoyang Hotel Fire

Twenty-two people are killed and three others are injured after a fire breaks out in a restaurant in Liaoyang, Liaoning, China.

Three people are killed and over 400000 lose power due to severe storms in Western Pennsylvania, United States.

Three people are killed and two others are injured when scaffolding collapses at a developing liquefied natural gas plant in Port Arthur, Texas, United States.

Fifteen people are killed, including two children, and thirteen others are injured in a fire at a hotel in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

Eighteen Russians are injured in a bus crash in Side, Turkey.

President of Russia Vladimir Putin signs a decree restoring the "Stalingrad" name to the Volgograd Airport.

2025 European power outage

At least five fatalities are reported in Spain as a consequence of the power outage that affected the Iberian Peninsula the day before.

2025 Uppsala shooting

Three people are killed in a shooting at a hair salon in Uppsala, Sweden, with the perpetrator still at large.

Jalisco extermination camp

Alejandro Gertz Manero, Attorney General of Mexico, concluded that the Izaguirre Ranch was used by the Jalisco New Generation Cartel as a recruitment camp between 2021 and 2024, but found no evidence that it served as an extermination site.

Three people are killed and two others are seriously injured in a mass shooting in Minneapolis, Minnesota