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- Silicon Valley Bank collapses in the second-largest bank failure in U.S. history.
- In the Estonian parliamentary election, the Reform Party, led by Kaja Kallas (pictured), wins the most seats in the Riigikogu.
- Cyclone Freddy leaves at least 29 people dead in Madagascar, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.
- Bola Tinubu, of the ruling All Progressives Congress, is elected President of Nigeria.
- A train crash in Thessaly, Greece, kills at least 57 people.
March 12, 2023 (Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Israeli soldiers kill three Palestinian gunmen near Nablus, West Bank, after coming under fire. (The Guardian)
March 11, 2023 (Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Afghanistan conflict
- A security guard is killed and eight other people are injured in an explosion in Mazar-i-Sharif, Balkh Province, Afghanistan. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- Eight miners are killed in Geita Region, Tanzania, when their pit is flooded with rainwater. (Xinhua)
Politics and elections
- 14th National People's Congress
- Li Qiang is elected as Premier of the People's Republic of China, succeeding Li Keqiang. (BBC News)
Sports
- 2022–23 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup
- Mikaela Shiffrin becomes the world's most successful alpine skier with her 87th World Cup victory. (Reuters)
March 10, 2023 (Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- A Palestinian man is shot dead by an Israeli settler near a farm in Karnei Shomron, in the West Bank. The Israeli military claims that the Palestinian man was armed at the time. (Al Jazeera)
Business and economy
- Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank
- American commercial bank Silicon Valley Bank is forcibly shut down by regulators for the U.S. state of California, and its assets controlled by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, after the bank failed to raise enough capital and a subsequent bank run occurred. With assets totalling US$209 billion, the bank's closure is the second-largest bank failure in American history. (CNN) (The Independent)
Disasters and accidents
- Ten people are killed and nine others are missing after a tractor-trolley falls into a canal in Dera Ghazi Khan District, Punjab, Pakistan. (AP)
International relations
- Iran–Saudi Arabia relations
- Iran and Saudi Arabia agree to resume diplomatic relations and reopen their embassies within the next two months, following diplomatic talks in Beijing brokered by China. (Al Jazeera)
Law and crime
- Corruption in Malaysia
- Former prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin is charged with corruption and abuse of power by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission over a COVID-19 subsidy programme. (CNA)
Politics and elections
- 2023 People's Republic of China presidential election
- Xi Jinping is re-elected to a third term as president. (The Guardian)
- Prince Edward is named as the new Duke of Edinburgh by King Charles III. The title was previously held by his father, Prince Philip. (BBC News)
March 9, 2023 (Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2022–2023 Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
- Russia launches cruise missiles at targets across Ukraine. Buildings and critical infrastructure are damaged, and at least five civilians were killed in Lviv Oblast when a missile destroyed their home, according to the region's governor Maksym Kozytskyy. (BBC News)
- 2022–2023 Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Three Palestinian Islamic Jihad gunmen are killed by Israeli special units during a operation in Jenin, West Bank. (Al Jazeera) (The Times of Israel)
- Three people are wounded by a shooting on Dizengoff Street, in Tel Aviv. The perpetrator is killed by police. (Al Jazeera)
- Afghanistan conflict
- Daud Muzamil, the Taliban-appointed governor of Balkh Province, is killed by an Islamic State suicide bomber at his office in Mazar-i-Sharif. Two civilians are also killed during the attack and four others wounded. (TOLO News) (Al Arabiya)
- Jihadist insurgency in Burkina Faso
- Eleven people are killed and four others are injured during an operation to retake territory in northeast Burkina Faso. (Reuters)
- Boko Haram insurgency
- At least 25 people are killed when Boko Haram gunmen storm a fishing village in Dikwa, Borno, Nigeria. (Reuters)
Business and economy
- The Belgian government announces a ban on gambling advertising, citing an increase in gambling addiction. Beginning in 2028, gambling companies will also no longer be able to sponsor professional sports clubs. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- Six people are killed and at least 79 others are injured in a collision between a train and a bus transporting civil servants to work in Lagos, Nigeria. (BBC)
- The wreckage of a Cessna 206 that was reported missing on January 24 in Isabela, Philippines, is found in Divilacan, with all six people aboard confirmed dead. Retrieval operations are ongoing. (Manila Bulletin)
- Three people are killed when a mine tunnel collapses in Catalonia, Spain. (AP)
- Fourteen people are killed and 54 others are rescued after a boat carrying migrants sinks off the Tunisian coast. (AP)
Law and crime
- Hamburg shooting
- Seven people are killed and at least 25 others are injured in a mass shooting at a Jehovah's Witnesses centre in Hamburg, Germany. The perpetrator kills himself after the shooting. (DW)
- 2023 Georgian protests
- Georgia's ruling party announces that it will withdraw a controversial bill concerning foreign agents which had prompted days of protests across the country. (MSN)
- 2023 Matamoros kidnappings
- Mexico's Gulf Cartel surrenders five purported perpetrators of last weekend's kidnapping of four U.S. citizens in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, and offers an apology to the victims, their families, and society in general. (BBC News)
- LGBT rights in Uganda
- The parliament of Uganda begins debates on a proposed bill that would criminalize people identifying as part of the LGBTQ community with up to 10 years in prison. The bill would also criminalize the "promotion" of homosexuality and "abetting" or "conspiring" to engage in same-sex relations. (Reuters)
- Capital punishment in Belarus
- President Alexander Lukashenko signs a bill into law which allows the use of the death penalty on officials and military servicemen convicted of high treason. (CNA)
Politics and elections
- 2023 French pension reform strikes
- The French Senate votes 201–115 to raise the legal retirement age in France from 62 to 64 despite mass strikes against the change. (Reuters)
March 8, 2023 (Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Syrian civil war
- Iranian involvement in the Syrian civil war
- A drone strike on a Iranian-backed weapons factory by an unknown attacker in Deir ez-Zor Governorate, Syria, kills seven people and injures 15 others, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which describes the dead as three Afghan fighters, three Syrian civilians and one unidentified Syrian. (Arab News)
- Iranian involvement in the Syrian civil war
- Kivu conflict
- Thirty-five people are killed by Islamist insurgents in the village of Mukondi, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Reuters)
Health and environment
- COVID-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
- COVID-19 pandemic in California
- Governor Gavin Newsom tests positive for COVID-19 for a second time. (KNTV)
- COVID-19 pandemic in California
- COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
Law and crime
- Foreign nationals detained in Iran
- Killing of Breonna Taylor
- The United States Department of Justice finds "reasonable cause to believe" that the Louisville Metro Police Department violated citizens' civil rights. The investigation was started in response to the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor. (BBC News)
March 7, 2023 (Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Syrian civil war
- Iran–Israel conflict during the Syrian civil war
- Israeli warplanes strike Syria's Aleppo International Airport with air-to-surface missiles, damaging the runway and putting the airport out of service. The Syrian transport ministry says that the delivery of humanitarian aid to Idlib will be rerouted to Bassel Al-Assad International Airport in Latakia Governorate following the strike. (Al Jazeera)
- Iran–Israel conflict during the Syrian civil war
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- At least six members of the Palestinian militant group Jenin Brigades are killed by Israeli soldiers during a raid in Jenin, West Bank. Among those killed is the killer of two Israeli settlers last month. (AFP via France 24)
Disasters and accidents
- 2023 Gulistan explosion
- At least 18 people are killed and more than 140 others are injured by an explosion at a commercial seven-story building in Gulistan, Dhaka, Bangladesh. (AFP via VOA)
- 2022–23 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season
- Cyclone Freddy becomes the longest lasting tropical cyclone on record, breaking the record previously held by Hurricane John (1994) which lasted 31 days.(CNN)
- A Piper J-3 Cub and Cherokee Piper 161 collide in midair over Lake Hartridge in Florida, United States, killing four people. (AP via KCBD-TV)
Law and crime
- 2023 Georgian protests
- Violent protests occur in Georgia in opposition of a new law regarding foreign agents. Police are reported to be using water cannons and tear gas to control the protesters. (ABC News)
- 2023 Matamoros kidnappings
- Two Americans are found dead, and two alive, after they had been kidnapped in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, four days earlier. (BBC)
- Argentine President Alberto Fernández announces the deployment of hundreds of federal security forces to the city of Rosario after an increase in violence between rival drug gangs. (AP)
Politics and elections
- 2023 Micronesian parliamentary election
- Citizens in the Federated States of Micronesia head to the polls to elect the 14 members of the Congress. (RNZ)
- 2023 transport strike in the Philippines
- Transport groups in the Philippines decide to end a one-week strike on its second day, following a meeting with Palace officials in relation to the Public Utility Vehicle Modernization Program. (The Philippine Star)
Science and technology
- English architect David Chipperfield wins the 2023 Pritzker Architecture Prize. (CNN)
March 6, 2023 (Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Insurgency in Balochistan, Terrorism in Pakistan
- Bolan suicide bombing
- At least nine police officers are killed and 16 other people are injured in Sibi District, Balochistan, Pakistan, when a separatist suicide bomber riding on a motorcycle rams a police vehicle. (DW)
- Bolan suicide bombing
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Five Palestinians are injured by Israeli settlers attacking a family on a street in Huwara, in the West Bank. Twenty-five Palestinians are injured by tear gas fired by Israeli soldiers during the attack. (Al Jazeera)
Disasters and accidents
- 2023 Serasan landslide
- Eleven people are killed and an estimated 50 others are missing when a landslide buries houses in Natuna Regency, Riau Islands, Indonesia. (Reuters)
International relations
- Canada–China relations
- 2019 Canadian Parliament infiltration plot
- Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau appoints an independent special rapporteur to investigate alleged foreign electoral intervention by the Chinese government in the 2019 and 2021 Canadian federal elections. (AFP via ABS-CBN News)
- 2019 Canadian Parliament infiltration plot
- Japan–South Korea relations
- South Korea agrees to pay compensation to citizens who were forced to work in Japanese factories during World War II. (BBC News)
Law and crime
- A court in Belarus sentences five opposition politicians after a trial in absentia. Pavel Latushka is sentenced to 18 years, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya to 15 years, and Maryya Maroz, Volha Kavalkova and Siarhei Dylevski to 12 years each. (AP)
Politics and elections
- 2023 transport strike in the Philippines
- Operators of traditional public jeepneys and minivans that are opposed to the implementation of the Public Utility Vehicle Modernization Program organize a weeklong nationwide strike in the Philippines. (Rappler)
- 2023 Turkish presidential election
- The Republican People's Party, Turkey's main opposition party, nominates its leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu as its candidate in the upcoming election. (The New York Times)
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