Current events: 2023-03-17

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
    • Slovakia announces that it will donate its MiG-29 fighter jets, and supply part of its Kub air-defense system to Ukraine. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2023 Turkish floods
  • The death toll from the floods in Şanlıurfa and Adıyaman, Turkey, increases to eighteen. (A News)
• Fourteen people are killed and around a dozen others are injured following a roof collapse at a cold storage warehouse in Uttar Pradesh, India. (Metro)

International relations

• Enlargement of NATO
  • Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announces that Turkey will begin the process of ratifying Finland's membership of NATO without Sweden, which Turkey accuses of supporting the PKK. (Yle)
  • Hungary announces that a vote on Finland's membership application will take place on March 27. Fidesz parlimentary group leader Máté Kocsis says Sweden's application will be considered at a later date. (AFP via Barron's)

Law and crime

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • The International Criminal Court issues an arrest warrant for Russian president Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova, presidential commissioner for children's rights, for alleged war crimes involving the abduction and forced adoption of children from Ukraine. (AP)

Science and technology

• Censorship of TikTok
  • New Zealand bans the use of Chinese-owned video sharing app TikTok on government devices. (The Guardian)

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