Wednesday

April 22, 2015

Armed conflicts and attacks

A tribal fight in Papua New Guinea's Hela Province between the Wapiago and Tapamu clans claims the lives of ten people, mostly children. (ABC News Australia)

War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)

The Taliban announces the start of its annual spring offensive warning it would attack foreign embassies as well as military targets. (Reuters via Daily Mail)

Syrian Civil War

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights estimates that Syrian government air strikes on areas controlled by Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant kills 32 people. The air strikes hit a hospital in Dayr Hafir killing at least 21 people. (AP via ABC News America)

Business and economy

The European Union opens an antitrust case against Russian gas giant Gazprom which supplies most of Central and eastern Europe with supplies of natural gas. (AP via Daily Mail)

Google announces a new wireless network in the United States called Project Fi with a pay as you go data rate. (Venture Beat)