Current events: 2023-03-30

Wikipedia Current Events · Mar 30, 2023

Armed conflicts and attacks

Internal conflict in Myanmar
- Eight people are killed by a bombing in a village in Chin State, Myanmar. (AP)
Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- Four people are killed and six others are injured by two roadside bombings in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (AP)
Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Lawmakers from the right-wing Freedom Party of Austria walkout of the lower house of Austria's parliament during a speech by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to protest against the violation of Austria's national principle of neutrality. (Al Jazeera)
European colonization of the Americas
- The Vatican officially repudiates the discovery doctrine, writing that the 15th-century papal bulls which promoted it were "manipulated for political purposes by competing colonial powers in order to justify immoral acts against indigenous peoples that were carried out, at times, without opposition from ecclesiastical authorities". (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

Health and environment

New Zealand confirms its first-ever case of rabies in humans in the country. The patient, who was in hospital since early March, died from the disease, though authorities dismissed any further risks to the population. (News24)

International relations

The Vatican officially repudiates the discovery doctrine, writing that the 15th-century papal bulls which promoted it were "manipulated for political purposes by competing colonial powers in order to justify immoral acts against indigenous peoples that were carried out, at times, without opposition from ecclesiastical authorities". (Al Jazeera)

Law and crime

Stormy Daniels–Donald Trump scandal
- Indictment of Donald Trump
  - A grand jury in Manhattan, New York City, indicts former U.S. President Donald Trump for allegedly falsifying a hush payment as a legal expense while he was a candidate in 2016. (NBC News)