Current events: 2023-03-01

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Disasters and accidents

• Two people are killed after a boat carrying around 30 migrants capsizes near the coast of Kos, Greece. (AP)

International relations

• Enlargement of NATO
  • Finland–NATO relations
    • The Finnish Parliament votes 184–7 to formally approve the country's accession to NATO, and to adopt the military alliance's founding documents. Only Hungary and Turkey are yet to approve Finland's membership. (Euractiv)

Politics and elections

• Tempi train crash
  • Greek Transport Minister Kostas Karamanlis resigns in response to last night's train wreck in Tempi that killed over 40 people. (ABC News)

Science and technology

• Thousands of users of Twitter worldwide report issues on using the social media platform including the inability to view new posts on their main timelines. (Wall Street Journal)
• Romanian Prime Minister Nicolae Ciucă unveils an AI-run "honorary advisor" named Ion, whose purpose is to analyze and report on the biggest priorities facing Romanian citizens based on user submissions. Ciucă claims that this makes Romania the first country in the world to have an AI government advisor. (Politico.eu)

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