Portal:Current events/2015 April 24

• Italian police mount an operation against an al-Qaeda inspired cell in Sardinia claimed to be in operation since 2005. (NBC News)
• Three members of a United Nations peacekeeping mission to the Democratic Republic of the Congo have been abducted. (AFP)
• Yemeni Civil War (2015–present)
  • UNICEF reports that hundreds of children have been killed and injured in the Civil War while combatants have recruited hundreds more. (Reuters)
• Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
  • Iraqi Army Brigadier-General Hassan Abbas Toufan and three other officers are killed in a targeted car bombing in Anbar province. (AP via New York Times)
• Boko Haram insurgency
  • Boko Haram recapture the border town of Marte from the Nigerian Army. (AFP via France 24)
• Balochistan conflict
  • Pakistani human rights campaigner Sabeen Mahmud is killed by gunmen after attending a seminar on Balochistan’s "disappeared people" in Karachi. (Al Jazeera)

• Armenia commemorates the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide by the Ottoman Empire. (BBC)
• Former American Olympic Games champion Caitlyn Jenner announces that she is a trans woman. (CNN)

• In the United States, the NASDAQ and S&P 500 end at record highs spurred by strong results by tech giants Google, Amazon and Microsoft. (Reuters)

• A 6.4 magnitude earthquake occurs near the town of Kaikoura on the South Island of New Zealand. (New Zealand Herald)
• Chilean authorities urge further evacuations near the Calbuco volcano after mudflows of volcanic debris are located in a nearby river after this week's eruption. (AP)

• The Statue of Liberty in New York is evacuated after a bomb threat. (AP via News24) (CNN)

• A study by the University of Utah show that the magma reserves of the Yellowstone supervolcano are much greater than previously thought. (CNN)