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The Tisza Party, led by Péter Magyar, wins the Hungarian parliamentary election, ending sixteen years of rule by Viktor Orbán's Fidesz.
- Parliamentary elections were held in Hungary on 12 April 2026 to elect all 199 members of the National Assembly. It was the 10th parliamentary election and the highest-turnout election since Hungary's transition to democracy in 1990. The opposition Tisza Party, led by MEP and former Fidesz member Péter Magyar, won the election in a landslide, defeating the incumbent Fidesz–KDNP government of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and ending the 16-year Orbán era. Tisza won a two-thirds supermajority, which is the legislative threshold to amend the constitution of Hungary. In the process, it won the largest number of votes and rate of seats that a Hungarian party has ever won in a free election.
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A study finds that an ongoing chimpanzee war in Kibale National Park is the deadliest on record.
- The Ngogo chimpanzee war involves two groups of chimpanzees in the Ngogo hill region of Kibale National Park, Uganda which have been engaged in a violent conflict since 2015. The conflict has been characterized by one-sided violence, including killing, brutal attacks, and mutilations, by the Western faction against the Central faction. Because the Ngogo chimpanzees formerly constituted a single peaceful community that violently split apart, this conflict has been described as a "civil war". The New York Times said the conflict was the bloodiest among chimpanzees ever recorded.
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In golf, Rory McIlroy wins the Masters Tournament.
- The 2026 Masters Tournament was the 90th edition of the Masters Tournament and the first of the four men's major golf championships held in 2026. The tournament was played April 9–12 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia, United States.
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Israeli attacks on Lebanon kill at least 357 people, hours after a ceasefire is announced in the region.
- On 8 April 2026, shortly after the announcement of a ceasefire to the 2026 Iran war and Hezbollah signalling a pause in attacks against Israel according to the ceasefire, Israel launched what it described as its "most powerful attacks" on Lebanon, killing at least 357 people. The casualty count was among the highest of the 2026 Lebanon war.
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Romuald Wadagni wins the Beninese presidential election.
- Presidential elections were held in Benin on 12 April 2026 following parliamentary elections on 11 January in accordance with the election code. President Patrice Talon, who was serving his second and final constitutional term, had repeatedly stated that he did not intend to amend the constitution to seek re-election. The election resulted in a landslide victory for finance minister Romuald Wadagni, who won over 94% of the vote.
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Two separate school shootings in Siverek and in Onikişubat, Turkey, leave 12 people dead and 35 others injured.
- On 14 April 2026, 19-year-old Ömer Ket opened fire at the Ahmet Koyuncu Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School in Siverek, Şanlıurfa Province, Turkey, injuring 16 people before committing suicide. Twenty-eight hours after the shooting, another shooting occurred in the Onikişubat district of Kahramanmaraş.
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- On 15 April 2026, a school shooting occurred at the Ayser Çalık Secondary School in the Onikişubat district of Kahramanmaraş Province, Turkey. İsa Aras Mersinli, a 14-year-old student enrolled at the school, shot and killed 10 people and injured 12 more before being subdued by two staff members, breaking free, and then getting slashed across the leg by Necmettin Bekçi, the father of two children who attended the school. Mersinli later died of blood loss. The shooting occurred only 28 hours after another school shooting in the Siverek district of Şanlıurfa Province. It is the deadliest school shooting in the history of Turkey.
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Ismaïl Omar Guelleh is re-elected for a sixth consecutive term in the Djiboutian presidential election.
- A presidential election was held in Djibouti on 10 April 2026. Incumbent fifth term president Ismaïl Omar Guelleh was re-elected to a sixth term, having been president since 1999. Originally ineligible for a sixth term due to an age limit of 75, a constitutional amendment was passed in 2025 that allowed him to run again. Most of the opposition parties either boycotted the election or decided to support Guelleh.
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Afghanistan–Pakistan war (ongoing)
- War between Afghanistan and Pakistan began in late February 2026 following Pakistani airstrikes in Afghanistan's Nangarhar, Paktika, and Khost provinces. Pakistan said the strikes targeted militant camps and hideouts linked to the Pakistani Taliban (TTP) and Islamic State – Khorasan Province (ISIS–K), and described them as retaliation for recent terrorist attacks in Islamabad, Bajaur, and Bannu. Taliban officials and the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), however, said the attacks caused civilian casualties, although they reported different figures.
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Iran war (ongoing)
- On 28 February 2026, the United States and Israel launched airstrikes on Iran, targeting military and government sites, assassinating Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and other Iranian officials, and inflicting civilian casualties. The surprise attacks were launched during negotiations between Iran and the US. Iran responded with missile and drone strikes against Israel, US bases, and Arab countries in the Middle East, and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, disrupting global trade.
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Lebanon war (ongoing)
- Since 2 March 2026, there has been an ongoing war in Lebanon, between Israel and the Lebanese Shia militant group Hezbollah. It is a resumption of major fighting in the Hezbollah–Israel conflict that began in late 2023, and is part of the wider conflict in the Middle East. The war has killed more than 2,000 militants and civilians in Lebanon and displaced over 1 million, 20% of the country's population, creating a humanitarian crisis.
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Russo-Ukrainian war (ongoing)
- On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine, starting the largest and deadliest war in Europe since World War II, in a major escalation of the existing war between the two countries that began when Russia attacked Ukraine in 2014. The fighting has caused hundreds of thousands of military casualties and tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilian casualties. As of April 2026, Russian troops occupy roughly 20% of Ukraine. From a population of 41 million, about 8 million Ukrainians have been internally displaced and 6–7 million have fled the country, creating Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II.
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Sudanese civil war (ongoing)
- Since April 2023, there has been a civil war in Sudan between two factions of the country's military government. The conflict involves the internationally recognized government controlled by the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and consisting of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Republican Guard; and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), led by General Hemedti, who leads the broader Janjaweed coalition. Smaller armed groups have taken part. Fighting began on 15 April 2023 after a power struggle within the government that had taken power following the 2021 coup. As of 5 February 2025, the conflict has caused 12 million people to be forcibly displaced, 9 million internally, and 3.5 million have fled the country as refugees, making it one of the largest displacement crises in recent history.
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