Current events: 2024-03-05

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Russian Navy patrol ship Sergey Kotov is sunk in the Black Sea after being struck by Ukrainian MAGURA V5 naval drones. (The Guardian)

International relations

• Enlargement of NATO
  • Sweden–NATO relations
    • Hungarian President Tamás Sulyok signs a bill formally approving Sweden's membership bid to join NATO as its 32nd member. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • International Criminal Court investigation in Ukraine
    • The International Criminal Court issues arrest warrants for Sergey Kobylash, the commander of the Long-Range Aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces, and Viktor Sokolov, the commander of the Black Sea Fleet. (Reuters)
• An appeals court in Montenegro overturns a decision to extradite cryptocurrency mogul Do Kwon to the United States on fraud charges. Kwon, who is South Korean, was arrested a year ago in Montenegro. (AP)

Politics and elections

• 2024 United States presidential election
  • Super Tuesday
    • 2024 Democratic Party presidential primaries
      • The Democratic Party holds presidential nominating contests in Alabama, American Samoa, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Virginia. (ABC News)
    • 2024 Republican Party presidential primaries
      • The Republican Party holds presidential nominating contests in Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Virginia. (ABC News)

Science and technology

• Meta Platforms suffers a large-scale outage of most of its services, including Facebook and Instagram. Sporadic issues are also reported by the users of Google, X and Microsoft Teams. (The Guardian)

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