Current events: 2025-03-09

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Armed conflicts and attacks

Syrian civil war
- Western Syria clashes
  - 2025 massacres of Syrian Alawites, March 2025 Western Syria clashes
    - Over 1,300 Syrians are killed over the course of 72 hours amid ongoing clashes between the Syrian transitional government and pro-Assad holdouts. At least 830 Alawites, Christians, and civilians of other religious minorities are killed in reprisal massacres by alleged transitional government-associated armed forces. (NPR) (BBC)
Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Military aid to Ukraine, France–Ukraine relations, France–Russia relations
  - According to the French minister of the Armed Forces Sebastien Lecornu, France will use €195 million in interest from Russian assets to fund a military aid package to Ukraine. (Reuters) Business and economy
More than 40,000 passengers at the Hamburg Airport in Hamburg, Germany, are affected and flights are cancelled after a worker protest organized by the trade union ver.di. (CTV News)

Disasters and accidents

A Beechcraft Bonanza plane carrying five people crashes in a retirement community in Manheim Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, shortly after takeoff from Lancaster Airport. (CNN) (LNP)

Law and crime

The United States Secret Service shoots and arrests an armed man outside the White House. (NBC News) Politics and elections
2025 Romanian presidential election
- Nationalist candidate Călin Georgescu, first-round winner in the 2024 election, is barred from running in the 2025 Romanian presidential election by the Central Electoral Bureau. (G4 Media)
2025 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election
- Mark Carney wins a landslide victory in the 2025 Liberal Party leadership election, with 86.85% of the vote, becoming Prime minister–designate of Canada, replacing outgoing PM Justin Trudeau. (CBC)