While You Were Sleeping: 5 stories you might have missed, April 25, 2025
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Ukrainian rescuers carrying the body of a victim at the site of a Russian missile strike in Kyiv, on April 24.
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‘Vladimir, STOP!’ Trump turns on Putin after deadly strike
Donald Trump called on April 24 on Vladimir Putin to halt attacks on Ukraine, in a rare rebuke of the Russian leader after Moscow fired missiles and drones at Kyiv in the deadliest attack on the capital in months.
The US president’s direct appeal to Mr Putin came after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky urged his allies to put Russia under more pressure to halt its invasion.
Mr Zelensky cut short a trip to South Africa to deal with the aftermath of the strikes, the latest in a wave of Russian aerial attacks that have killed dozens of civilians.
“I am not happy with the Russian strikes,” Mr Trump, who is pushing to end the war, said on social media.
Vatican releases details of Pope Francis’ marble tomb
EPA-EFE
A simple, marble tomb nestled in a niche of a Roman basilica beloved by Pope Francis will mark the pontiff’s last resting place, the Vatican said on April 24, releasing an image of the project.
The tombstone will bear only the inscription “Franciscus” – the Pope’s name in Latin – and its marble will be sourced from Liguria, the northwestern Italian region that was once home to the Argentinian pontiff’s Italian ancestors.
A reproduction of the pectoral cross worn by Francis during his lifetime will hang above it.
Student kills one, wounds three in France stabbing
REUTERS
A 15-year-old boy killed a fellow pupil and wounded three others in a stabbing attack at a high school in the western French city of Nantes on Thursday before he was overpowered by teachers, police said.
BFM TV reported that the student who died was a girl and that the three injured students were boys. Police did not confirm the age or gender of the victims.
Teaching staff subdued the attacker at the Notre-Dame-de-Toutes-Aides, a private Catholic school, before law enforcement officials arrived, a police spokesperson said. She said there was nothing to indicate a terrorist motive.
Trump announces interview with Signal chat reporter
AFP
President Donald Trump announced on April 24 he will sit for an interview with the reporter who uncovered a major security lapse after being inadvertently added to a group chat in which top US officials shared secret military strike plans.
The Atlantic magazine editor Jeffrey Goldberg was propelled to global fame – and roundly attacked by Mr Trump and other Cabinet officials – after publishing details of the sensitive exchanges on the Signal app in the run up to US strikes on rebel Houthis in Yemen.
Mr Trump referenced the so-called “Signalgate” scandal when he announced the interview – scheduled for later on April 24 – in a social media post that accused Mr Goldberg of being “the person responsible for many fictional stories about me.”
Leicester icon Jamie Vardy saying farewell to club
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Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy will leave the Premier League club at the end of the season following their relegation, bringing the curtain down on an era where he established himself as one of the greats in a team that punched above their weight.
Vardy, who was signed from fifth-tier side Fleetwood Town for £1 million in 2012, became the club’s greatest player of the modern age, scoring 198 goals across all competitions.
But his most famous achievement was leading Leicester to the 2015-16 Premier League title when the team that avoided relegation the season before made a mockery of 5,000-1 odds to beat the established elite to an unlikely title.
