Portal:Current events/2020 April 28
April 28, 2020 (Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Syrian Civil War
- A suicide bombing, involving a fuel tanker, detonates at a busy market killing at least 42 civilians, including 11 children, in Afrin, Aleppo Governorate. The Turkish defense ministry has accused the People's Protection Units (YPG) of carrying out the attack. No group has claimed responsibility. (Rudaw)
Health and environment
- 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic
- 2020 coronavirus pandemic in North America
- 2020 coronavirus pandemic in the United States
- 2020 coronavirus pandemic in North Carolina
- A pug in Chapel Hill, North Carolina becomes the first dog in the United States to test positive for COVID-19. Three of the humans it lives with have also tested positive for the disease. (WRAL)
- 2020 coronavirus pandemic in North Carolina
- 2020 coronavirus pandemic in the United States
- 2020 coronavirus pandemic in North America
Politics and elections
- Joe Biden 2020 presidential campaign
- Former 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton officially endorses former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive nominee in the Democratic Party primaries.