Start your day off right with five things you need to know this morning.
Five things you need to know
The president of Chad has died in battle, the country's army has announced. Idriss Déby is said to have died of his injuries following clashes with rebels. The president, 68, had just won a sixth term in office.
BREAKING: Chad's long-serving President Idriss Deby has died from injuries sustained in frontline battles with rebels, a source tells CNN https://t.co/2tDrwDqUt4
— CNN (@CNN) April 20, 2021
The judge in the Derek Chauvin case has expressed disgust at a Democratic Party congresswoman's comments. Maxine Waters, who has been accused of inciting violence on previous occasions, told demonstrators that they should "get more confrontational" and "stay on the streets" if Chauvin is found not guilty of the murder or manslaughter of George Floyd. Judge Peter Cahill said Waters' comments were "abhorrent." Jurors in the case are now deliberating.
'Maxine Waters may have handed you grounds for appeal': Derek Chauvin judge blasts 'abhorrent' Democrat https://t.co/NiuRIh9s3x
— Daily Mail US (@DailyMail) April 19, 2021
India is struggling to cope amid a second wave of COVID-19 cases in the country. Uttar Pradesh – India's most populous state – is said to be particularly affected. India has so far reported over 850,000 positive COVID-19 tests, alongside nearly 10,000 deaths associated with the virus.
India's health care system is collapsing under the worst surge in coronavirus infections that it has seen so far. Oxygen is scarce. Intensive care units are full. Nearly all ventilators are in use, and the dead are piling up at crematoriums and graveyards. https://t.co/PZaKr1a16J
— The Associated Press (@AP) April 20, 2021
Tyrannosaurs could have been more social animals than previously thought, new research claims. Paleontologists in the US have found that the giant dinosaurs might at times have had more in common with wolves than solitary hunters like leopards.
Tyrannosaurs may have hunted in packs like wolves, new research has found https://t.co/IVi13pHpn8
— Guardian news (@guardiannews) April 19, 2021
Former US Vice President Walter Mondale has died aged 93 in Minneapolis. Mondale served in Jimmy Carter's administration from 1977 to 1981. He then ran for president in the 1984 election, but was wiped out by Ronald Reagan in one of the biggest defeats in American political history.
Walter Mondale, the former vice president and champion of liberal politics, died on Monday. He was 93.
— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 20, 2021
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