An India-Pakistan war likely means an 8 month winter in Montreal, and most likely a 2 week long "summer".

🇰🇵🇷🇺 - North Korea officially confirms troop deployment to Russia - Yonhap

🇻🇦- The papal conclave to elect the next Pope will commence on May the 7th, says the Vatican.

🇪🇸 - Spain authorities ask residents to stay put amid blackout

Spain's government working 'to identify origin' of blackout: PM's office

🇪🇸 - M-30 tunnels around Madrid are now closed.

🇮🇳🇵🇰 - Pakistani Defense Minister Khawaja Asif says an Indian incursion into Pakistani territory is "imminent".

Notre Père, qui es aux cieux,
que ton nom soit sanctifié,
que ton règne vienne,
que ta volonté soit faite
sur la terre comme au ciel.
Donne-nous aujourd’hui
notre pain de ce jour.
Pardonne-nous nos offenses,
comme nous pardonnons aussi
à ceux qui nous ont offensés.
Et ne nous laisse pas entrer en tentation,
mais délivre-nous du Mal.

Carney wins.

🇨🇦 - Mark Carney’s Liberal party has won the federal elections in Canada.

🇨🇦 - With the current numbers, the Bloc and Quebec nationalists would have the sufficient power to dictate their terms to the government of Canada, LPC + NDP + Greens not having a majority even all together and needing the Bloc.

🇬🇪 - Widespread police raids target prominent Georgian anti-government activists.

🇮🇳🪖💥🪖🇵🇰 — In April/May of 1999, militants from Pakistan crossed the Line of Control (de facto border) in Kashmir, taking up positions on hills and mountains on the Indian side. Some documents claim that these were regular Pakistani army personnel. Artillery provided some cover for these infiltrations, and most groups were not discovered right away. Indian troops were mobilized, and by June had driven out or destroyed most of the infiltrators. There were widespread fears of a nuclear exchange, but this of course never occurred. Most fighting was localized to the Kashmir area. This event is commonly referred to as the Kargil War (after the Kargil district), or the Fourth Indo-Pakistani War.

🇸🇪 — Ongoing active shooter event near Uppsala, Sweden. Police are searching for the shooter, who apparently fled on an electric scooter.

🇵🇰🇮🇳 - Skirmishes being reported on the international border of India and Pakistan too, not just the Kashmir based line of control.

🇨🇦 - Special caucus of Alberta conservative government announced amid future "discussion on the province's constitutionnal future".

🇺🇸 - The US plans to close several embassies in Africa.

🇺🇸 - Marjorie Taylor Greene bought Palantir stock on April 8th.

On April 17th, Palantir was awarded a government contract with ICE to develop ImmigrationOs.