Current events: 2024-03-11

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Red Sea crisis
  • An explosion near a ship in the Red Sea is suspected to have been an attack by Yemen's Houthis, though the blast caused no damage to the vessel. (ABC)

Disasters and accidents

• In Switzerland, five skiers are found dead after they went missing two days ago en route from the town of Zermatt to the village of Arolla. A sixth person is still missing. (AP)
• Two New Zealand skiers are killed and another is injured during an avalanche on Mount Yotei, Hokkaido, Japan. (The Guardian)

Law and crime

• A man fatally stabs his wife and three children in the state's deadliest murder-suicide case in 24 years in Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S. (The Guardian)

Politics and elections

• Former Conservative Party deputy chairman and Ashfield MP Lee Anderson defects to Reform UK, becoming the party's first member of parliament. Anderson was suspended by the Conservatives after claiming London mayor Sadiq Khan was "controlled" by radical Islamists. (BBC News)

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