Current events: 2023-03-28

Wikipedia Current Events · Mar 28, 2023

Armed conflicts and attacks

Yemeni Civil War
- Six Houthis and five Yemeni soldiers are killed during clashes in government-controlled Lahj Governorate, displacing many villagers. (Xinhua)
Azerbaijani National Assembly member Fazil Mustafa is shot multiple times outside his home in Baku by unknown assailants in an assassination attempt. His condition is described as satisfactory, and his life is not reported to be in danger. (News.az)

Disasters and accidents

Ciudad Juárez migrant center fire
- Central and South American detainees at a migrant center in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico, deliberately set fire to their mattresses, killing at least 39 people and injuring 29 others. (AP)
Three people are killed and sixteen others are missing after a boat capsizes near Saint Kitts, Saint Kitts and Nevis. (AP) Law and crime
2023 Lisbon Ismaili Center stabbing
- Two Portuguese women are killed during a stabbing attack at a Isma'ilism Shia religious centre in Lisbon, Portugal. Police shoot the suspect, an Afghan man, in the leg at the scene, who is then arrested and taken to a hospital. (BBC News)

International relations

Philippine drug war
- President Bongbong Marcos announces that the country will cut ties with the International Criminal Court due to the ICC's refusal to suspend its investigation of alleged crimes committed by the administration of former president Rodrigo Duterte during the war on drugs in the country. (Bloomberg)

Politics and elections