Portal:Current events
Topics in the news
- At the Academy Awards, Everything Everywhere All at Once wins seven awards, including Best Picture and Best Actress for Michelle Yeoh (pictured).
- Iran and Saudi Arabia agree to reestablish diplomatic relations, seven years after they were severed.
- Silicon Valley Bank collapses in the second-largest bank failure in U.S. history.
- In the Estonian parliamentary election, the Reform Party, led by Kaja Kallas, wins the most seats in the Riigikogu.
March 14, 2023
(Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Somali Civil War
- At least five people are killed and 11 others are injured, including Gedo governor Ahmed Bulle Gared, when a suicide car bomber drives into a guest house in Bardera, Jubaland, Somalia. (AFP via Barron's)
- Russia–United States relations
- 2023 Black Sea drone incident
- Russian fighter jets intercept and down a MQ-9 Reaper drone operated by the United States over the Black Sea. (Washington Post)
- 2023 Black Sea drone incident
March 13, 2023
(Monday)
Disasters and accidents
- 2022–23 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season
- Cyclone Freddy
- Cyclone Freddy kills at least 99 people in Malawi, including 85 people in Blantyre. It is the longest-lived tropical cyclone on record, according to the WMO, having formed on February 4. (The Guardian)
- Cyclone Freddy
- One person is killed and three others are injured by an apparent gas explosion in Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom. (BBC News)
Law and crime
- Amqui truck crash
- Two people are killed and nine others are injured when a truck strikes a group of pedestrians in Amqui, Quebec, Canada. (CBS News)
Politics and elections
March 12, 2023
(Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Iran–Israel conflict during the Syrian civil war
- Israeli airstrikes at a weapons depot in Masyaf, Hama Governorate, Syria, kill a Syrian soldier and two pro-Iranian militants. (Arab News)
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Israeli soldiers kill three Palestinian gunmen near Nablus, West Bank, after coming under fire. (The Guardian)
- Kivu conflict
- Nineteen people are killed by suspected Islamist insurgents in Kirindera, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Reuters)
Arts and culture
- 95th Academy Awards
- At this year's Oscars, Everything Everywhere All at Once wins seven awards, including Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay, Best Director, and Best Picture. (Variety)
- Malaysian actress Michelle Yeoh becomes the first Asian to win the Best Actress award for her performance in Everything Everywhere All at Once. (AFP via ABS-CBN News)
Business and economy
- March 2023 United States bank failures
- Collapse of Signature Bank
- New York-based commercial bank Signature Bank is closed down after a bank run on its deposits, and is taken into receivership by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. (Reuters)
- Collapse of Signature Bank
- Transport in Saudi Arabia
- Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman formally announces the establishment of Riyadh Air, a new flag carrier airline of Saudi Arabia. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- At least 22 people are killed and two others are reported missing after a boat heading to Mayotte capsizes off the coast of Madagascar. (Reuters)
- Thirty people are reported missing after a boat carrying migrants from Libya capsizes while crossing the Mediterranean Sea. (Reuters)
March 11, 2023
(Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Afghanistan conflict
- A security guard is killed and eight other people are injured by an explosion in Mazar-i-Sharif, Balkh Province, Afghanistan. (Reuters)
- Herder–farmer conflicts in Nigeria
- Sixteen people are killed by Fula gunmen at a police checkpoint in Zangon Kataf, Kaduna State, Nigeria. (AP)
Disasters and accidents
- Indonesia's Merapi volcano erupts. Eight villages have been affected by volcanic ash. (Reuters) (AFP)
- Eight miners are killed in Geita Region, Tanzania, when their pit is flooded with rainwater. (Xinhua)
- At least eight people are killed in a collision between two boats near Black's Beach in San Diego, California, United States. (Los Angeles Times)
Politics and elections
- 14th National People's Congress
- Li Qiang is elected as Premier of the People's Republic of China, succeeding Li Keqiang. (BBC News)
Sports
- 2022–23 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup
- Mikaela Shiffrin becomes the world's most successful alpine skier with her 87th World Cup victory. (Reuters)
March 10, 2023
(Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- A Palestinian man is shot dead by an Israeli settler near a farm in Karnei Shomron, in the West Bank. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) claims that the Palestinian man was armed at the time. (Al Jazeera)
- Kivu conflict
- Angola announces that it will deploy troops to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, following the failure of a ceasefire between government forces and M23 rebels in North Kivu. (BBC News)
Arts and culture
- Prince Edward is named as the new Duke of Edinburgh by King Charles III. The title was previously held by his father, Prince Philip. (BBC News)
Business and economy
- March 2023 United States bank failures
- Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank
- American commercial bank Silicon Valley Bank is forcibly shut down by regulators for the U.S. state of California, and its assets controlled by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, after the bank failed to raise enough capital and a subsequent bank run occurred. With assets totalling US$209 billion, the bank's closure is the second-largest bank failure in American history. (CNN) (The Independent)
- Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank
Disasters and accidents
- Ten people are killed and nine others are missing after a tractor-trolley falls into a canal in Dera Ghazi Khan District, Punjab, Pakistan. (AP)
International relations
- Iran–Saudi Arabia relations
- Iran and Saudi Arabia agree to resume diplomatic relations and reopen their embassies within the next two months, following diplomatic talks in Beijing brokered by China. (Al Jazeera)
Law and crime
- Corruption in Malaysia
- Former prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin is charged with corruption and abuse of power by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission over a COVID-19 subsidy programme. (CNA)
Politics and elections
- 2023 People's Republic of China presidential election
- Xi Jinping is re-elected to a third term as president. (The Guardian)
March 9, 2023
(Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2022–2023 Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
- Russia launches cruise missiles at targets across Ukraine. Buildings and critical infrastructure are damaged, and at least five civilians were killed in Lviv Oblast when a missile destroyed their home, according to the region's governor Maksym Kozytskyy. (BBC News)
- 2022–2023 Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
- Afghanistan conflict
- Islamic State–Taliban conflict
- Daud Muzamil, the Taliban-appointed governor of Balkh Province, is killed by an Islamic State suicide bomber at his office in Mazar-i-Sharif. Two civilians are also killed during the attack and four others wounded. (TOLO News) (Al Arabiya)
- Islamic State–Taliban conflict
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Three Palestinian Islamic Jihad members are killed by Israeli special units during a operation in Jenin, West Bank. (Al Jazeera) (The Times of Israel)
- Three people are wounded by a shooting on Dizengoff Street, in Tel Aviv. The perpetrator is killed by police. (Al Jazeera)
- Jihadist insurgency in Burkina Faso
- Eleven people are killed and four others are injured during an operation to retake territory in northeast Burkina Faso. (Reuters)
- Boko Haram insurgency
- At least 25 people are killed when Boko Haram gunmen storm a fishing village in Dikwa, Borno, Nigeria. (Reuters)
Business and economy
- The Belgian government announces a ban on gambling advertising, citing an increase in gambling addiction. Beginning in 2028, gambling companies will also no longer be able to sponsor professional sports clubs. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- Six people are killed and at least 79 others are injured in a collision between a train and a bus transporting civil servants to work in Lagos, Nigeria. (BBC News)
- The wreckage of a Cessna 206 that was reported missing on January 24 in Isabela, Philippines, is found in Divilacan, with all six people aboard confirmed dead. Retrieval operations are ongoing. (Manila Bulletin)
- Three people are killed when a mine tunnel collapses in Catalonia, Spain. (AP)
- Fourteen people are killed and 54 others are rescued after a boat carrying migrants sinks off the Tunisian coast. (AP)
Law and crime
- Hamburg shooting
- Six people and an unborn baby are killed, and eight others are injured, in a mass shooting at a Jehovah's Witnesses centre in Hamburg, Germany. The perpetrator kills himself after the shooting. (The Guardian)
- 2023 Georgian protests
- Georgia's ruling party announces that it will withdraw a controversial bill concerning foreign agents which had prompted days of protests across the country. (MSN)
- 2023 Matamoros kidnappings
- Mexico's Gulf Cartel surrenders five purported perpetrators of last weekend's kidnapping of four U.S. citizens in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, and offers an apology to the victims, their families, and society in general. (BBC News)
- LGBT rights in Uganda
- The parliament of Uganda begins debates on a proposed bill that would criminalize people identifying as part of the LGBTQ community with up to 10 years in prison. The bill would also criminalize the "promotion" of homosexuality and "abetting" or "conspiring" to engage in same-sex relations. (Reuters)
- Capital punishment in Belarus
- President Alexander Lukashenko signs a bill into law which allows the use of the death penalty on officials and military servicemen convicted of high treason.(CNA)
Politics and elections
- 2023 French pension reform strikes
- The French Senate votes 201–115 to raise the legal retirement age in France from 62 to 64 despite mass strikes against the change. (Reuters)
- Petr Pavel is inaugurated as the fourth president of the Czech Republic. (Reuters)
March 8, 2023
(Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Kivu conflict
- Allied Democratic Forces insurgency
- Mukondi massacre
- Allied Democratic Forces jihadist insurgents use machetes to kill about 40 people in the village of Mukondi, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Reuters)
- Mukondi massacre
- Allied Democratic Forces insurgency
- Syrian civil war
- Iranian involvement in the Syrian civil war
- A drone strike on a Iranian-backed weapons factory by an unknown attacker in Deir ez-Zor Governorate, Syria, kills seven people and injures 15 others, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which describes the dead as three Afghan fighters, three Syrian civilians and one unidentified Syrian. (Arab News)
- Iranian involvement in the Syrian civil war
Business and economy
- March 2023 United States bank failures
- American commercial bank and cryptocurrency services provider Silvergate Bank winds down its operations and liquidates its assets. (CNBC)
Law and crime
- Foreign nationals detained in Iran
- Killing of Breonna Taylor
- The United States Department of Justice finds "reasonable cause to believe" that the Louisville Metro Police Department violated citizens' civil rights. The investigation was started in response to the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor. (BBC News)
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