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April 2015 Jalalabad suicide bombing. A suicide bomber allegedly affiliated with ISIL strikes a bank in the city of Jalalabad in Afghanistan, killing at least 33 and wounding 100. Yemeni Civil War (2015–present) An Iranian Naval convoy is headed towards Yemen to potentially resupply Shia Houthi rebels.
April 14 – President Barack Obama moves forward with removing Cuba from the State Sponsors of Terrorism list in light of his efforts to normalize relations with the country. April 23 – Shayna Hubers is convicted of the 2012 murder of her boyfriend Ryan Poston in Lexington, Kentucky. Hubers had shot Poston six times and tried to claim she ...
22 April – Supermarket retailer Tesco posts a record £6,400,000,000 annual loss for the year ending in February 2015. Participants in the 2015 London Marathon; 26 April More than 38,000 people take part in this year's London Marathon, making it the biggest in the event's thirty-five-year history.
March 29 – Australia wins the 2015 Cricket World Cup. April. April 2 – 148 people are killed, the majority students, in a mass shooting at the Garissa University College in Kenya, perpetrated by the militant terrorist organization al-Shabaab. April 4 – A total lunar eclipse was visible in
In Fujian, Southeast China an explosion and fire at a paraxylene producing petrochemical plant by Dragon Aromatics occupied 430 firemen. (Reuters) Tropical storms kill at least 36 people and injure scores in Bangladesh over the past couple of days, with Bogra District hardest hit (20 deaths). (AP via Fox News)
Former American football player Aaron Hernandez is convicted of murder in the first degree in the town of Fall River, Massachusetts. Hernandez shot a former friend Odin Lloyd in 2013. He was automatically sentenced to life in prison without parole. (CNN) In Arizona, dashcam video showed a police officer intentionally running over an armed suspect.
List of killings by law enforcement officers in the United States, April 2015; King of the Ring (2015)
April 2015 Nepal earthquake. The official death toll exceeds 5,000 with the United Nations estimating that 1.4 million people in the region need emergency food assistance. (CNN) At least 250 people are missing after a mudslide and avalanche in Ghodatabela, a remote village near the epicenter of the earthquake.
April 2015 Jalalabad suicide bombing. A suicide bomber allegedly affiliated with ISIL strikes a bank in the city of Jalalabad in Afghanistan, killing at least 33 and wounding 100. Yemeni Civil War (2015–present) An Iranian Naval convoy is headed towards Yemen to potentially resupply Shia Houthi rebels.
Armed conflicts and attacks. Somali Civil War (2009–present) A deadly explosion in a Mogadishu restaurant kills at least four people and injures ten others. (Al Jazeera) Yemeni Civil War. Saudi Arabia announces that it is ending its bombing campaign in Yemen. (BBC)