

Sevier County Mayor Larry Waters announces that two firefighters are injured, and that five fire trucks were damaged by the wildfire that broke out near the Wears Valley community.Evacuations and school closures are issued in Sevier County, Tennessee, United States, after a wildfire, known as the Hatcher Mountain Road/Indigo Lane Fire, breaks out near the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and grows to 1,000 acres.President Joe Biden orders the release of up to one million barrels of crude oil per day from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve for the next six months in an attempt to contain inflation. Australia revokes the most favoured nation status for Russia and Belarus, and will impose 35% tariffs on produce coming from these countries beginning on April 25.

Economic impact of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.The world expo in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, which was delayed to October 1, 2021, closes after six months.Rock throwing causes a bus to crash into a car in Halhul, West Bank, injuring two people.A Palestinian militant uses a screwdriver to stab and seriously injure an Israeli civilian on a bus in Neve Daniel, before being killed by another passenger.Two people are killed and 14 more injured as the Israeli Defense Forces raid the city of Jenin in the West Bank in order to capture a suspect linked to Tuesday's shooting in Bnei Brak.Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk says that Ukraine has sent buses to Mariupol in an effort to evacuate citizens from the city.Russian troops also withdraw from the city of Slavutych, returning to Belarus. The International Atomic Energy Agency confirms that Russian forces have handed over control of the former nuclear power plant back to Ukraine.Energoatom confirms that the Russian forces who occupied the former nuclear power plant in Chernobyl have left the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.
