Portal:Current events/2014 April 23

April 23, 2014 (Wednesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine:
- Ukrainian security officials discover that the Assumption Monastery Lavra of the Moscow Patriarchate in Sviatohirsk served as a military base for pro-Russian insurgents who have besieged the region. (Kyiv Post)
- Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Yarema announces that pro-Russian militants will be targeted in four eastern cities, Kramatorsk, Sloviansk, Donetsk and Luhansk, as they refuse to vacate government buildings they previously seized, defying the international deal made in Geneva. (CNN)
Post-coup unrest in Egypt:
- An Egyptian general is killed and a police officer is injured after a bomb attached to the general's car exploded. (CNN)
Central African Republic conflict:
- Russia and China have blocked a proposal by the United States and France to impose U.N. sanctions on Central African Republic's former President François Bozizé and two other people linked to the conflict. (Reuters)
A car bomb detonates outside a police station in Nairobi, Kenya, killing 4 people. (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

A 6.6 magnitude earthquake hits 94 km south of Port Hardy in the Canadian province of British Columbia at around 8:10 pm PDT. Seismic activity was felt as far as Kamloops. (USGS) (CBC News)
Sinking of the MV Sewol:
- The official death toll of the ferry capsizing rises to 150 with 150 people still missing. (CBS)
2014 Katanga train derailment:
- More than 60 people are killed and 80 are seriously injured in a train crash in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Katanga Province. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

Palestinian rival factions Fatah and Hamas have announced reconciliation to form a unity government. They split up violently in 2007. (BBC News)