April 4, 2025
State Appeals Court Rules in Favor of Releasing 2023 School [A-F] Grades
In a victory to the Texas Education Agency and its chief, Mike Morath, a state appeals court, 15th Court of Appeals, on April 3, 2025 ruled in favor of releasing the 2023 campus accountability ratings that many school districts, DISD included, had filed lawsuit to block from being released. The state didn't release the 2020 through 2022 accountability ratings because of COVID-19. DISD and other school districts filed separate lawsuits to block the 2023 and 2024 accountability ratings.
Hungary to Leave ICC after Rolling out Red Carpet for Netanyahu
Hungary became the second nation--after the USA--to host Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after the November 2024 arrest warrant had been issued by The Hague-based International Criminal Court. A full-throttled military guard of honor received Netanyahu at Budapest on April 3, 2025 as Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban mocked the ICC as a "political" court. Hungary, a signatory to the covenant related to the International Criminal Court, is going to initiate the process to leave the court, Gergely Gulyas, chief of staff of Premier Viktor Orban, has said afterward in a press statement.
Israeli Airstrikes Kill at least 100
April 3, 2025 turned out to be one of the most gruesome days in the Palestinian casualties in Gaza Strip since the cease-fire had ended and a full-scale military campaign by Israel had resumed. As the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stepped on the Hungarian soil as Budapest defied an ICC arrest warrant, the death toll from multiple airstrikes in Gaza on April 3, 2025 rose to at least 100, including 27 civilians killed in a hit on a school in Gaza City which Israeli military dubbed a "Hamas command and control center", a label Hamas denied, instead accusing Israel of committing a "massacre".
President Removed, Elections to be Held in Two Months
South Korea's Constitutional Court on April 4, 2025 unanimously removed President Yoon Suk Yeol from the office, almost four months after his December 14, 2024, impeachment by the National Assembly. Under the South Korean Constitution, the nation has now to hold the presidential election within two months.
