Armed conflicts and attacks
Business and economy
Disasters and accidents
Health and environment
International relations
Law and crime
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- Middle Eastern crisis
- Gaza war
- March 2025 Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip
- Hamas announces that an Israeli airstrike has killed Abdel Latif al-Qanou, who served as Hamas' spokesman. (Al Arabiya)
- March 2025 Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip
- Red Sea crisis
- Israel intercepts two ballistic missile fired by the Houthis from Yemen. (Reuters)
- Gaza war
- Haitian crisis
- Gang war in Haiti
- A Kenyan police officer is killed in a suspected gang ambush, according to Haitian authorities. Kenya has confirmed that the officer is missing but has not yet verified his death. (BBC News)
- Gang war in Haiti
Business and economy
- Tariffs in the second Trump administration
- 2025 United States trade war with Canada and Mexico
- Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says a 25% tariff on automotive imports to the United States is a "direct attack" on his country by the Trump administration and vows to respond. (AP)
- Japan confirms it has asked the U.S. for an exemption from the new automotive tariffs, saying the 25% tariff on vehicle imports would have a massive negative impact on its automotive industry. Japan is one of the largest exporters of cars to the United States. (Kyodo News)
- 2025 United States trade war with Canada and Mexico
- The United States suspends financial contributions to the World Trade Organization. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- March 2025 South Korea wildfires, Landmarks destroyed by climate change
- Ongoing climate-exacerbated wildfires in South Korea develop into the worst natural fire disaster in the nation's history after doubling in size over the course of 24 hours, killing at least 26 people and destroying much of the ancient Gounsa temple site. (The Guardian) (Yonhap News)
- Six people are killed and 39 others rescued after a submarine carrying Russian tourists sinks off the Red Sea coast of Hurghada, Egypt. (BBC News)
- Two people are killed, including alpine skier Berkin Usta, and four others are injured in a fire at a ski resort in Uludağ, Turkey. (Metro)
Health and environment
- British environmental activist group Just Stop Oil announces they will end all civil resistance, direct action, and vandalism-related protests immediately and disband by April after the British government announced it will halt the granting of oil and gas permits. (DW) (Government of the United Kingdom)
International relations
- Belarus–European Union relations
- The European Union announces that they have expanded sanctions against Belarus to include the Central Election Commission of Belarus for political repression in the country. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- 2025 Amsterdam stabbing attack
- Five people are wounded in a mass stabbing at Dam Square in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The suspect is arrested by police. (Reuters)
- Proposed secession of Republika Srpska
- The government of Bosnia and Herzegovina issues an international arrest warrant for Milorad Dodik, the President of Republika Srpska, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina, accusing him of repeatedly taking actions that could violate the Dayton Accords. (DW) (AP)
- South Sudanese vice president Riek Machar is detained by security forces following an arrest warrant on "unclear charges", according to his spokesperson. The Sudan People's Liberation Movement-in-Opposition says Machar's arrest has effectively ended the 2018 peace agreement which ended the civil war. (Sky News)
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