Portal:Current events/March 2024

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Haitian crisis
  • Gang war in Haiti
    • The European Union evacuates all diplomatic staff from Haiti. (Politico)
    • The Caribbean Community holds an emergency summit in Kingston, Jamaica, in response to the deteriorating security situation in Haiti. (Al Jazeera)
    • Haitian prime minister Ariel Henry agrees to resign when a transitional presidential council is formed. (AP)
• Red Sea crisis
  • Houthi officials say that at least 17 U.S. and British airstrikes across western Yemen, including in Al Hudaydah, have killed eleven people and injured 14 others. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• LATAM Airlines Flight 800
  • A
    Boeing 787-9 enroute between Sydney and Auckland loses altitude due to a technical issue, injuring 50 passengers and crew. (BBC News)
• Five skiers are found dead after they went missing two days ago while travelling from the town of Zermatt to the village of Arolla in Switzerland. A sixth skier is still missing. (AP)
• Two
  Mount Yotei in Hokkaido, Japan. (The Guardian)

• A man fatally stabs his wife and three children in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States. (The Guardian)

Politics and elections

• Former Conservative Party deputy chairman and Ashfield MP Lee Anderson defects to Reform UK, becoming the party's first member of parliament. Anderson was suspended by the Conservatives after claiming that London mayor Sadiq Khan was "controlled" by radical Islamists. (BBC News)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • 2024 Western Russia incursion
      • The Freedom of Russia Legion, the Sibir Battalion, and the Russian Volunteer Corps enter Belgorod and Kursk oblasts. Russia claims to have repelled the attacks. (The Guardian)
    • Ukraine launches 25 drones at Russian cities, hitting a major oil refinery in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast. (The Guardian)
  • 2024 Ivanovo Ilyushin Il-76 crash
    • A Russian Aerospace Forces Ilyushin Il-76 military transport plane with 15 people on board crashes in Ivanovo Oblast, Russia. (The Guardian)
  • Bombing of Kryvyi Rih
    • Three people are killed and at least 36 others are injured in a Russian missile strike on apartment buildings in Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine. (Reuters)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • Israeli Air Force jets launch airstrikes in Lebanon's Beqaa Valley, striking "Hezbollah military command centers". Hezbollah says that two of its members were killed in the airstrikes. (Reuters)
  • Hezbollah launches more than 100 Katyusha rockets into northern Israel, targeting several Israeli military outposts. (The New York Times)
• Piracy off the coast of Somalia
  • About 20 armed
    pirates hijack a Bangladeshi bulk carrier in the Indian Ocean that was en route to the United Arab Emirates. The vessel is under the control of the pirates and is heading towards the coast of Somalia. (The National News)
• War in Sudan
  • The
    Sudanese Army says that it has taken control of the national television and radio broadcaster in Omdurman from the Rapid Support Forces. (Reuters)

• Argentina–Venezuela relations
  • Argentina announces diplomatic actions against Venezuela after president Nicolás Maduro banned Argentina-licensed aircraft from entering Venezuelan airspace amid deteriorating relations between the two countries. (The San Diego Union-Tribune)

Law and crime

• Lithuania and the Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • The opposition politician Leonid Volkov is attacked outside his home in Vilnius, Lithuania, apparently on orders by Vladimir Putin. The incident is being investigated as a terror crime. (Al Jazeera)
• Israeli Police kill a 13-year-old boy who allegedly fired fireworks at them in Shuafat, East Jerusalem. (Al Arabiya)
• Capital punishment in Japan
  • A court in
    life in prison. Nomura had originally been sentenced to death for a 1998 murder. (The Mainichi)
• Three Coptic Christian monks from Egypt are killed during a mass stabbing at a monastery in Cullinan, South Africa. (Reuters)
• A
  Tristan Tate can be extradited to the United Kingdom to face charges of sexual aggression. (BBC News)
• Zimbabwean police arrest a self-proclaimed prophet and rescue 251 children from a compound operated by his followers. (The Guardian)

Politics and elections

• 2024 United States presidential election
  • 2024 Democratic Party presidential primaries
    • The Democratic Party holds presidential nominating contests in Georgia, Mississippi, the Northern Mariana Islands, and Washington. Democrats Abroad also concludes its primary. (AP)
    • Incumbent President Joe Biden officially surpasses the 1,968 delegate threshold needed to become the presumptive Democratic Party nominee for President. (The Washington Post)
  • 2024 Republican Party presidential primaries
    • The Republican Party holds presidential nominating contests in Georgia, Hawaii, Mississippi, and Washington. (AP)
    • Former President Donald Trump officially surpasses the 1,215 delegate threshold needed to win his third consecutive Republican Party nomination for President, joining Richard Nixon as the only people in U.S. history to win the Republican nomination thrice. (NBC News)

Science and technology

• A scientific expedition to the Bounty Trough off the coast of New Zealand reports the discovery of more than one hundred new species. (The New York Times)

Sports

• Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund announces a $2 billion offer to buy both professional tennis tours, the ATP Tour and the WTA Tour. (The Telegraph)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Ukraine launches a wave of drone strikes in Russia for a second consecutive day, causing a fire at a Rosneft oil refinery in Ryazan Oblast, while a Ukrainian drone is reportedly shot down near Kirishi refinery in Leningrad Oblast. Russian President Vladimir Putin says the attacks are an attempt to disrupt the upcoming presidential election. (Reuters)
  • Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Two people are killed and at least eight others are injured in a Russian drone attack on an apartment building in Sumy. (The Kyiv Independent)
  • Military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
    • The
      €5 billion to their Ukrainian military aid fund. (Reuters)
• Piracy off the coast of Somalia
  • Operation Atalanta
    • The European Union's counter-piracy mission says that one of its warships is currently shadowing the hijacked Bangladeshi bulk carrier Abdullah as it sails toward the coast of Somalia. At least 23 crew members are being held hostage by pirates on the ship. (AP)
• Haitian crisis
  • The United States deploys a Marine Corps Security Force Regiment platoon to secure the U.S. embassy complex in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (NBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• Seven people are killed and 27 others are injured in an explosion caused by a suspected
  Hebei Province, China. (China Daily) (China Daily)
• Sixteen SWAT officers are injured in an explosion at a training center in Orange County, California, United States. (ABC News)

Law and crime

• The British government announces that it will ban foreign state ownership of newspapers amid a controversial bid by a United Arab Emirates-led consortium to take over the Telegraph Media Group, which publishes The Daily Telegraph. (AP)

Politics and elections

• 2023–2024 Dutch cabinet formation
  • Party for Freedom leader Geert Wilders abandons his bid to become the next Prime Minister of the Netherlands citing a lack of support from other political parties in coalition formation talks. Wilders led his party to a surprise victory in the 2023 Dutch general election with 37 seats. (BBC News)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • A civilian is killed and three others are injured by airstrikes launched by Ukraine in Belgorod Oblast, Russia. (TASS)
  • Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant crisis
    • Russian-installed officials at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Enerhodar, Ukraine, say that shelling has hit critical infrastructure at the plant and that "such attacks are unacceptable". (Reuters)
• War in Sudan
  • Battle of Khartoum
    • The Sudanese Army captures the Wad al-Bashir bridge in Omdurman. (Sudan Tribune)
    • Sudanese forces capture several South Sudanese mercenaries fighting for the RSF in Omdurman. (Sudan Tribune)
  • Several civilians are killed after fighting breaks out in Ibtenki refugee camp in eastern Chad. (Radio Dabanga)
• Israel–Hamas war
  • March 2024 Kuwait Roundabout attacks
    • At least 20 people are killed and 155 are injured at a food distribution point in the Kuwait Roundabout. (CNN)
• Somali civil war
  • 2024 Mogadishu SYL Hotel attack and siege
    • An al-Shabaab member blows himself up outside a hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia, killing three guards and two security forces. Six gunmen then stormed the hotel in 13-hour siege, causing a gunfight with the army in which three soldiers and the six attackers are killed. Twenty-seven other people are wounded. (Al Jazeera) (NDTV)
• Western Sahara conflict
  • Western Saharan clashes
    • The SPLA reportedly attacked Moroccan army headquarters in the Al-Mahbas sector. (Sahrawi Press Service)

International relations

• Russia–United Kingdom relations
  • A Royal Air Force plane carrying UK Defence Secretary Grant Shapps and several journalists has its GPS signals jammed while flying near Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia. Mobile phone signals were also jammed during the flight. The Russian military is suspected of being behind the jamming. (BBC News)

Law and crime

• Iraq's National Security Council formally bans the Kurdistan Workers' Party following a high-level meeting between Iraqi and Turkish officials in Baghdad, Iraq. (Al Monitor)
• Police in Angola report that around 50 people have died after being forced to drink a toxic concoction to prove they are not witches. (CBS News)

Politics and elections

• 2024 Croatian parliamentary election
  • The Croatian government votes to dissolve the parliament, thereby requiring that a parliamentary election be held within the next two months. The parliamentary election was originally scheduled to be held on September 22. (Reuters)
• Conscription in Denmark
  • military conscription to women for the first time and to also increase the standard service time. (BBC News)

• SpaceX Starship integrated flight test 3
  • SpaceX successfully launches the first Starship rocket, the most powerful rocket ever built, at Starbase in Texas, United States, after two previous failed attempts. The rocket reached an altitude of more than 200 kilometres (120 mi), but was destroyed during re-entry. (Al Jazeera)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hamas war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • Rafah offensive
      • Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that he has approved a military operation to capture Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip amid international pressure to stop the offensive. (Reuters)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Odesa strikes
    • At least 20 people are killed and at least 73 others are injured in a
      missile strike in Odesa, Ukraine. (CNN)

• The Netherlands awards a contract to French defense firm Naval Group to build its Orka-class submarines. The new submarines will replace the aging Walrus-class submarine fleet. (Le Monde)

Disasters and accidents

• At least three people are killed by tornadoes in Logan County, Ohio, United States. (AP)

Law and crime

• Capital punishment in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • The
    death penalty in an attempt to reduce the level of violence in the country. (ABC News)

• 2024 Russian presidential election
  • Voters elect the next president of Russia. Incumbent president Vladimir Putin is seeking a fifth term in office. (TASS)
• War in Sudan
  • The Sudanese National Forces Coordination, a coalition of pro-SAF armed groups led by vice president Malik Agar, declares its support politically and militarily for the SAF. (Radio Dabanga)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Russia says that two civilians have been killed by Ukrainian shelling in the city of Belgorod. (AP)

Law and crime

• Storming of the Legislative Council Complex
  • A court in Hong Kong sentences 12 people, including actor Gregory Wong and activists Ventus Lau and Owen Chow, to prison terms ranging from four to seven years in prison for storming the Legislative Council Complex in July 2019. (Reuters)
• Three people are fatally shot in Levittown, Pennsylvania, United States with the gunman fleeing to Trenton, New Jersey by commandeering a car to his house. A standoff involving several hostages ends with the gunman's arrest. (NBC News) (CNN)

Politics and elections

• 2024 Welsh Labour leadership election
  • Vaughan Gething is elected leader of Welsh Labour with 51.7% of the vote, making him the first Black First Minister of Wales upon taking office. (BBC News)

Science and technology

• The Hokuriku Shinkansen extension from Kanazawa, Ishikawa, to Tsuruga, Fukui, Japan, is completed. (NHK)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Northern Ukraine skirmishes
    • Ukraine says that three Russian sabotage groups have been intercepted in Sumy Oblast. (The Kyiv Independent)
• Transnistria conflict
  • A drone reportedly hits a military base in Transnistria, destroying an Mi-8 helicopter. (The Kyiv Independent)

Disasters and accidents

• At least 21 people are killed and 38 others are injured in a traffic accident in Grishk District, Helmand Province, Afghanistan. (AP)

International relations

• Alliance of Sahel States
  • Niger–United States relations
    • Niger's military junta revokes a military accord with the United States that allowed U.S. Defense Department personnel on its soil. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• 2024 Russian presidential election
  • Russian president Vladimir Putin is reelected to a fifth term in office with 87% of the vote. External observers widely consider he had "no real opposition". (Reuters)
  • The Noon Against Putin protest occurs. (The Washington Post)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hamas war
  • Siege of Gaza City
    • Dozens of people are killed in an Israeli attack on the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. The Israeli military claims that twenty Hamas militants were killed, including a senior figure of the group. (NOS) (BBC News)
    • Al Jazeera Arabic reporter Ismail al-Ghoul is arrested by Israeli forces at Al-Shifa hospital, with the network joined by journalist advocacy groups in denouncing his arrest. (Al Jazeera)
• Afghanistan–Pakistan border skirmishes
  • Afghanistan claims five women and three children are killed in two Pakistani airstrikes in Afghanistan, following accusations that attacks in Pakistan were masterminded in Afghanistan, which the Taliban authorities deny. In response, Taliban forces open mortar fire on Pakistani troops at the border. (Reuters)
• Gang war in Haiti
  • The bodies of at least twelve people are discovered in the neighborhood of Pétion-Ville, in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince. The perpetrators of the killings are unknown. (Al Jazeera)
• Nigerian bandit conflict
  • Around 80 people are kidnapped by unknown bandits near Kajuru Station, Kaduna State, Nigeria. (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• Schools across South Sudan close for the day, as an extreme heat wave is expected to hit the country. (Firstpost)

Law and crime

• A police officer is killed and two others are injured during a shooting, over a search at a home for suspected drug trafficking, in Charleroi, Belgium. The suspect was shot and killed by police. (DeMorgen)

Politics and elections

• 2024 Cuban protests
  • Hundreds of people protest in eastern Cuba against ongoing food shortages and power outages. (BBC News)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gang war in Haiti
  • Four armed men storm the Bank of the Republic of Haiti in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, injuring a security guard. All the attackers are killed in the ensuing shootout with police. (The Haitian Times)
• Israel–Hamas war
  • Israel announces the death of senior Hamas military leader Marwan Issa, following an airstrike on a tunnel complex last week, making Issa the highest ranking Hamas official killed in the war so far. (BBC News)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Russia claims to have captured the village of Orlivka in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (Anadolu Agency)
• Somali Civil War
  • Two Somali National Army airstrikes kill 39 alleged al-Shabaab militants in Afgooye, Somalia. (Horseed Media)

Disasters and accidents

• A bus crashes into a tunnel wall on an expressway in Linfen, China, killing 14 people. (AP)

Law and crime

• Rankin County torture incident
  • Former Mississippi sheriff's deputy Hunter Elward is sentenced to 20 years imprisonment for his role in torturing two men in January 2023. (CBS News)
• Founder of Chinese property developer Evergrande Group Hui Ka Yan is fined 47 million yuan ($6.53 million) and barred from the securities market for life after the China Securities Regulatory Commission accused the group of inflating its revenue. (Reuters)
• The
  local enaction bill on national security, which had been tasked by Article 23 of the Hong Kong Basic Law. (Reuters)
• Former
  COVID-19 vaccination status. (AP)

• Armenia–Azerbaijan border crisis
  • Armenia begins a process of border demarcation with Azerbaijan in the Tavush Province, amid Azerbaijiani demands that Armenia withdraw its forces from the disputed villages of Bağanis Ayrum, Aşağı Əskipara, Xeyrimli, and Qızılhacılı. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan says that failure to compromise could result in war "by the end of the week". (Reuters) (RFE/RL)

Politics and elections

• 2024 United States presidential election
  • 2024 Democratic Party presidential primaries
    • The Democratic Party holds presidential nominating contests in Arizona, Illinois, Kansas, and Ohio. (The Hill)
  • 2024 Republican Party presidential primaries
    • The Republican Party holds presidential nominating contests in Arizona, Florida, Illinois, Kansas, and Ohio. (The Hill)
• Haitian crisis
  • CARICOM and United Nations officials appoint seven seats out of eight of a presidential council to address the political crisis in Haiti. Once the council is installed, Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry will resign. (Miami Herald)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Kharkiv strikes
    • A
      missile strike kills at least five people and injures eight others in an industrial area of Kharkiv, Ukraine. (Reuters)
• Israel–Hamas war
  • Israeli incursions in the West Bank during the Israel–Hamas war
    • Three Jenin Brigades militants are killed during an airstrike against a vehicle by Israel in Jenin, Palestine. (Al Mayadeen)
• Gang war in Haiti
  • Gangs attack the neighborhood of Pétion-Ville in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, killing at least five people. (The Washington Post)
  • The United States evacuates its citizens by helicopter as fighting spreads. (The Guardian)
• Insurgency in Balochistan
  • Eight Balochistan Liberation Army gunmen are killed after trying to storm Gwadar's port in the Balochistan Province, Pakistan. Two security guards are also wounded in the gunfight, which lasted for two hours. (Al Jazeera)
• Mexican drug war
  • Twelve bodies are found in Mexico, five inside a truck in the municipality of Villa Corona, Jalisco and seven in Sonora. (El Universal)

Disasters and accidents

• Twelve people are killed in an explosion at a mine in Harnai District, Balochistan, Pakistan. (AP)
• Eight people are killed, one is injured, and two are missing after the South Korean-flagged tanker Keoyoung Sun loaded with 980 tons of acrylic acid capsizes near Mutsure Island, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. (Al Jazeera)

International relations

• Argentina–Venezuela relations
  • Argentina tells the International Civil Aviation Organization that Venezuela violated the Convention on International Civil Aviation when Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro banned Argentine aircraft from its airspace earlier this month. (Infobae)

Politics and elections

• 2024 Fine Gael leadership election
  • Leo Varadkar announces his resignation as Taoiseach and leader of Fine Gael, triggering a leadership election. Varadkar will remain as Taoiseach until his successor as party leader is elected. (CNN)
• 2024 Indonesian general election
  • The General Elections Commission announces that Prabowo Subianto had received the most votes in the presidential election, but the determination of the winner as president-elect is still waiting complaints from other candidates at the Constitutional Court. (Al Jazeera)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Eastern Ukraine campaign
    • The
      Russian Ministry of Defence announces that its forces have captured the Ukrainian village of Tonenke in Donetsk Oblast. (Al Arabiya)
  • Kyiv strikes
    • Russia launches a massive attack on Kyiv and the surrounding region with ballistic and cruise missiles, injuring at least 17 people. (CNN)
  • Mykolaiv strikes
    • At least one civilian is killed and four others are injured in a Russian ballistic missile attack on Mykolaiv, Ukraine. (Reuters)
• Islamic State–Taliban conflict
  • 2024 Kandahar New Kabul Bank bombing
    • A
      suicide bomber kills 21 people and injures 50+ at a New Kabul Bank in Kandahar, Afghanistan. ISIS-K claims responsibility. (TOLO News)
• Spillover of the Israel–Hamas war
  • The Islamic Resistance in Iraq launches drone attacks on Kiryat Shmona Airport and Ben Gurion Airport in Israel. (Mehr News Agency) (Islamic Republic News Agency)

Disasters and accidents

• A capsized boat carrying
  Rohingya refugees is found off the coast of Aceh, Indonesia, with 69 refugees rescued. (NOS)
• The death toll of the capsized South Korean-flagged tanker Keoyoung Sun increases to nine with one person still missing. (Reuters)

International relations

• Accession of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the European Union
  • The European Council agrees to open talks on Bosnia and Herzegovina's membership of the European Union days after the recommendation by the European Commission. (AP)

Law and crime

• A court in
  life in prison for the murders of 31 elderly women in Tatarstan in 2011 and 2012. (Reuters)
• Pope Francis laicizes Belgian bishop Roger Vangheluwe due to allegations of abuse. (NOS)
• The
  British soldiers of the HMS Prince of Wales after multiple incidents in Rotterdam, Netherlands. (NOS)
• Filipino former
  Red Notice in connection with his role in the 2023 massacre in Negros Oriental, Philippines. (AFP via Barron's)

• President of Vietnam Võ Văn Thưởng resigns after just over a year in office amid the Communist Party's anti-corruption campaign, making him the shortest-serving president in Vietnamese history. (Reuters) (Al Jazeera) (Bloomberg)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
    • March 2024 Ukraine missile strikes
      • Russia launches dozens of ballistic missiles at Ukrainian cities for a second consecutive day with reports of power outages in Kharkiv after critical infrastructure was damaged. At least eight missile strikes on Zaporizhzhia are reported, while a "critical infrastructure object" is damaged in Vinnytsia. More than a million people are left without power across Ukraine due to the strikes, with five people killed and dozens more reportedly injured. (BBC News) (U.S. News & World Report)
      • The Dnieper Hydroelectric Station in Zaporizhzhia is hit by a missile causing extensive damage and a large fire. A trolleybus initially reported as carrying civilians was destroyed in the attack, later confirmed to have been empty apart from the driver who was killed. Shelling also damages one of the two power lines connected to the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. (The Guardian) (The Kyiv Independent)
  • The Russian government states in a press conference that the invasion of Ukraine is now a "war" and is no longer a "special military operation", the official term used for the war by the Russian government. In another press conference later in the day, Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov tells reporters that although the invasion is a de facto war, the Russian government is not currently planning to change the invasion's de jure status as a "special military operation". (NOS) (Reuters) (Meduza)
• Crocus City Hall attack
  • At least 135 people, including two attackers, are killed and more than 140 others are injured in a mass shooting at the Crocus City Hall music venue in Krasnogorsk, Moscow Oblast, Russia, with the building subsequently catching on fire following an explosion. The perpetrators remain at large after escaping in a vehicle. (Baza) (Meduza) (Baza 2) (Reuters)
  • The Islamic State claims responsibility for the attack in a statement issued by its official Amaq News Agency. (CNN)
  • The Freedom of Russia Legion claims that the Russian government committed the attack. (Ukrainska Pravda)
  • The Russian government claims that the
    Russian Army to mobilize more troops in its invasion of Ukraine. (Anadolu Agency)
• Jihadist insurgency in Niger
  • At least 23
    jihadists. The Nigerien junta states that 30 jihadists were also killed. (Sahara Reporters)
• Moro conflict
  • The
    Basilan provinces, and negotiations are ongoing for their surrender. (Atlas News) (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
• Nigerian bandit conflict
  • Fourteen people are rescued from
    vigilante groups in Katsina State, Nigeria. (Channels TV)

• 2024 East Java earthquakes
  • A magnitude 6.4 earthquake strikes Bawean, East Java, Indonesia, causing severe damage. (Detik)
• The International Organization for Migration (IOM) says that at least 65 bodies have been discovered at a mass grave in the Libyan Desert. The IOM says the bodies are those of migrants who were being smuggled towards Europe. (BBC News)

Law and crime

• Cannabis in Germany
  • The Bundesrat approves a partial legalization of cannabis in Germany, which is expected to come into effect on April 1. (DW)
• Gang war in Haiti
  • Prominent Haitian gang leader Ti Greg, who escaped from prison earlier this month, is shot dead by police in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (Sky News)

Politics and elections

• diagnosed with cancer following recent abdominal surgery and is currently undergoing chemotherapy. (BBC News)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Crimea attacks
    • The Ukrainian Air Force launches a wave of airstrikes across Crimea, with several explosions reported in Sevastopol. Russian officials say at least ten missiles have been shot down over the peninsula, and that at least two civilians have been injured. (NDTV)
  • Eastern Ukraine campaign
    • The Russian military states that it has captured the town of Ivanivske in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (Barron's)
• Crocus City Hall attack
  • The death toll from yesterday's
    terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall music venue in Krasnogorsk, Moscow Oblast, Russia, increases to at least 137 people. Russian authorities report that 11 suspects, including the four assailants, have been arrested. (Reuters) (The Moscow Times)
• Red Sea crisis
  • A
    Houthi missile hits Panamanian-flagged, Chinese-owned and operated oil tanker Huang Pu. It suffers minimal damage and a fire on board is quickly extinguished. No casualties are reported, and the vessel resumes its course. (X) (Newsweek) (Marine Log)
• Somali civil war
  • 2024 Busley army base attack
    • insurgents storm a Somali military base in Lower Shabelle, killing seven soldiers, including the commander of the base, while ten al-Shabaab fighters are reportedly killed in the ensuing shootout. (Reuters)

• The Safeguarding National Security Ordinance law, passed by the Legislative Council, comes into effect in Hong Kong. The new law allows for a pre-charge detention of up to 16 days, and restricts legal rights for suspects, including their access to lawyers. (Hong Kong Free Press)

Politics and elections

• 2024 Tasmanian state election
  • The Liberal Party win a plurality of seats in the state. (ABC News Australia)
• 2024 United States presidential election
  • Primary elections are held for the Republican and Democratic parties in Louisiana and for the Democratic Party in Missouri. (AP)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • March 2024 Polish airspace violation
    • A Russian cruise missile violates NATO airspace over Poland, prompting the activation of aircraft from the Polish Air Force. (Reuters) (Sky News)
  • Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
    • Russia launches major airstrikes on Kyiv and Lviv in Western Ukraine using Kinzhal hypersonic missiles and drones with strikes damaging ground level infrastructure at Ukraine's main gas storage site. (Reuters)
• Nigerian bandit conflict
  • Kuriga kidnapping
    • The pupils
      kidnapped on March 7 from schools in Kuriga, Chikun, Kaduna State, are freed. (BBC News)
• 2024 Ecuadorian conflict
  • Brigitte García, the youngest mayor in Ecuador, and one of her advisors are found shot dead in Manabí Province, western Ecuador. (Reuters)
• Crocus City Hall attack
  • Four Tajik men are charged with terrorism. They are brought to Basmanny District court in Moscow, where they are ordered to be held in pre-trial detention until at least May 22. (BBC)
• Salvadoran gang crackdown
  • Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele announces the beginning of a blockade of four municipalities in northern El Salvador, mobilizing 5,000 soldiers and 1,000 police officers to arrest suspected gang members. (El Mundo)
• Three gunmen attack the police headquarters in Yerevan, Armenia. Two of the attackers are injured by their grenades, all three gunmen are detained. No casualties are reported. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 East Sepik earthquake
  • A magnitude 6.9 earthquake has hit a remote part of western Papua New Guinea, killing five people and causing extensive damage to around 1,000 homes. (VOA)
• Twenty-three people are killed in a
  states, Brazil. (ABC News)
• A rally car veers off the road and crashes into a group of spectators during the Esztergom-Nyerges Rally between the towns of Lábatlan and Bajót in northwest Hungary, killing four people and injuring eight others. (AP)

Law and crime

• Assassination of Marielle Franco
  • The Brazilian Federal Police arrests three men, including federal deputy Chiquinho Brazão and his brother Domingos, for ordering and planning the assassination of Rio de Janeiro city councillor Marielle Franco in 2018. (G1) (The Guardian)

Politics and elections

• 2024 Fine Gael leadership election
  • Simon Harris is elected as Leader of Fine Gael following the resignation of Leo Varadkar. At age 37, Harris will become Ireland's youngest ever Taoiseach upon taking office. (AP)

• Dutch female darts players Anca Zijlstra and Aileen de Graaf, leave the Netherlands National Team to protest trans athlete Noa-Lynn van Leuven playing on the team. (NOS)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Boko Haram insurgency
  • Seven Chadian soldiers conducting a patrol near Lake Chad are killed in an IED bombing. Chadian president Mahamat Déby accuses jihadist group Boko Haram of being behind the attack. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• Antipas highway collision
  • Seventeen people are killed and another is injured when a passenger van collides with a dump truck and catches fire in Antipas, Cotabato, Philippines. (AFP via Barron's)

Health and environment

• Puerto Rico declares an epidemic of dengue fever following an increase in cases. (AP)

International relations

• Israel–Hamas war
  • United Nations Security Council Resolution 2728
    • The
      UN Security Council passes a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and the release of hostages held by Hamas, with the United States abstaining. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cancels a planned visit to the U.S. in response to the abstention. (Reuters)

• An investigation by
  political advisor" for China for several years. (NOS)