Current events: 2023-03-23

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Disasters and accidents

• Five people are killed when migrant boats sink off the coast of Sfax, Tunisia. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Former Indian National Congress president Rahul Gandhi is sentenced to two years in prison for defaming Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a campaign rally in April 2019. (BBC)
• A 28-year-old male is charged by West Midlands Police with attempted murder for immolating two elderly Muslim men outside of mosques in London and Birmingham between February 27 and March 20. (Al Jazeera)
• 2023 French pension reform strikes
  • Riots break out across France a day after a speech by Emmanuel Macron on pension reform. The entrance to the city hall of Bordeaux is set on fire. (Le Monde)

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