Current events: 2025-03-24

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Airstrike campaign in Yemen
  • March 2025 United States attacks in Yemen
    • The U.S. military launches air raids across Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen overnight, killing at least four people and injuring 13 others in the capital city Sanaa. (Middle East Eye)
    • A Signal group chat containing many of President Trump's cabinet is discovered after journalist Jeffrey Goldberg is accidentally added to it.
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Eastern front of the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • A Ukrainian artillery strike kills six people, including several journalists from Russia's Izvestia newspaper and Zvezda state media network in Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine. (Reuters)
  • Peace negotiations in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • The United States and Russia wrap up talks focusing on a ceasefire for the Black Sea between Kyiv and Moscow. (Reuters)

Business and economy

• United Kingdom cost-of-living crisis
  • British supermarket chain Morrisons announces that it will permanently close 52 cafes and 17 stores as part of cost-cutting measures with the loss of at least 365 jobs expected. (BBC News)
• American genetic testing company 23andMe files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and announces plans to sell its assets. (AP)

International relations

• Proposed United States acquisition of Greenland
  • Greenlandic prime minister Múte Bourup Egede says a planned visit to the island by senior American officials, including National Security Advisor Michael Waltz and Second Lady Usha Vance, is "highly aggressive" and was designed to "demonstrate power over us". (CNN)

Law and crime

• 2025 Turkish protests
  • Over 1,100 Turkish anti-government protesters have been detained since the arrest of Ekrem İmamoğlu, with Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan accusing the demonstrations of being a "movement of violence". (Reuters) (The Guardian)
• Impeachment of Han Duck-soo
  • The Constitutional Court of South Korea dismisses the impeachment motion of prime minister Han Duck-soo by the National Assembly of South Korea in a 7–1 vote. (Yonhap) (Reuters)

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