Portal:Current events
Topics in the news
- Earendel, the farthest known star, is discovered 12.9 billion light-years away from Earth.
- CODA wins Best Picture and Dune (director Denis Villeneuve pictured) wins in six categories at the Academy Awards.
- The Labour Party, led by Robert Abela, wins the most seats in the Maltese general election.
- Al-Shabaab kill at least 48 people in a series of attacks in Mogadishu and Beledweyne, Somalia.
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russo-Ukrainian War
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Battle of Chernobyl
- Energoatom confirms that the Russian forces who occupied the former nuclear power plant in Chernobyl have left the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. (Ukrinform)
- Siege of Mariupol
- Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk says that Ukraine has sent buses to Mariupol in an effort to evacuate citizens from the city. (BBC News)
- Battle of Chernobyl
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- The Israeli Defense Forces raid the city of Jenin in the West Bank, to capture a suspect linked to the Bnei Brak shooting two days prior, killing two people and wounding 14. (Times of Israel) (Haaretz)
- A Palestinian militant stabs an Israeli civilian on a bus in Neve Daniel with a screwdriver, seriously injuring him and is killed by another passenger. (Haaretz)
Business and economy
- Economic impact of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2022 boycott of Russia and Belarus
- Australia revokes the most favoured nation status for Russia and Belarus, and will impose 35% tariffs on produce coming from these countries starting on 25 April. (The Guardian)
- 2022 boycott of Russia and Belarus
Arts and culture
Disasters and accidents
- Wildfires in 2022
- 2022 Wears Valley wildfire
- Evacuations and school closures are issued in Sevier County, Tennessee after a wildfire, known as the Hatcher Mountain Road/Indigo Lane Fire, breaks out last night near the Great Smoky Mountains National Park grows to 1,000 acres. (CNN)
- Sevier County Mayor Larry Waters announces that two firefighters are injured, and five firetrucks were damaged during the wildfire that broke out near the Wears Valley community. (WATE-TV)
- 2022 Wears Valley wildfire
- A chartered helicopter heading for Ulupna Island in Victoria, Australia, crashes into Mount Disappointment, killing all five people onboard. (ABC News Australia)
International relations
- Micronesian president David Panuelo urges Solomon Islands to not sign a security pact with China, citing "grave security concerns" and arguing that the Pacific islands would be "the epicenter of major confrontation between these major powers". (Reuters)
Law and crime
- Russia investigation origins counter-narrative
- The Federal Election Commission fines the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign for violating rules with the funding of the Steele dossier, a dossier which made accusations of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. Both the DNC and the Clinton campaign have agreed not to contest the fines and pay a civil penalty of US$105,000 and US$8,000 respectively. (The Washington Post) (Business Insider)
- Rock throwing causes a bus to crash into a car in Halhul, West Bank. Two people are injured. (Times of Israel)
Politics and elections
- The acting Australian Information Commissioner orders the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) to comply with a request by The Guardian under the Freedom of Information Act 1982 which the PMO had previously rejected and search the mobile phone of Prime Minister Scott Morrison for correspondence with Morrison's friend and QAnon conspiracy theorist Tim Stewart, who the Australian Broadcasting Corporation alleged influenced Morrison's use of the term "ritual abuse" in a speech to survivors of child sexual abuse in 2019. (The Guardian)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russo-Ukrainian War
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Eastern Ukraine offensive
- Battle of Chernobyl
- Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk calls for Russia to withdraw from the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone area and for Russian troops occupying the former nuclear plant to pull out. (Reuters)
- A U.S. official says that Russian forces have begun withdrawing from the Chernobyl area and have moved into Belarus. (France 24)
- 2022 Ukrainian refugee crisis
- The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees says more than four million Ukrainians have fled the country since the invasion began on February 24. (France 24)
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- The Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan attack a military base in Tank, Pakistan, killing six soldiers. (Arab News)
Arts and culture
- Actor Bruce Willis's family announces that he is retiring from acting after being diagnosed with aphasia. (MSN and CBS News)
Health and environment
- COVID-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
- COVID-19 vaccination in the United States
- U.S. President Joe Biden receives his second booster shot of the COVID-19 vaccine. (CBS News)
- COVID-19 vaccination in the United States
- COVID-19 pandemic on cruise ships
- The U.S. CDC removes their travel warnings for cruise ships, which were imposed during the beginning of the pandemic. However, passengers will still be required to be vaccinated and to test negative for COVID-19. (The Washington Post)
- Treatment and management of COVID-19
- According to a new study, the antiparasitic drug ivermectin does not prevent hospitalizations from COVID-19. (New England Journal of Medicine)
- COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
International relations
- Reactions to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2022 Russia–Ukraine peace negotiations
- Ukrainian negotiator Davyd Arakhamia says that the Russian and Ukrainian delegations will resume their peace talks online on April 1 after the latest round of negotiations in Turkey has ended. (Reuters)
- 2022 Russia–Ukraine peace negotiations
- 2021–2022 North Korean missile tests
- North Korea–South Korea relations
- The South Korean military says that last week, North Korea tested Hwasong-15 from November 2017, instead of a Hwasong-17. This comes a day after the defense ministry and lawmakers also confirmed this. (DW) (CBS News)
- North Korea–South Korea relations
- Iran–United States relations
- Iranian missile tests
- The United States sanctions the Iranian ballistic missile program. (CNN)
- Iranian missile tests
- Russia–South Ossetia relations
- The President of South Ossetia, Anatoly Bibilov, declares that the partially recognised state will undertake "legal steps" in the near future for accession to become part of Russia. (Meduza)
Politics and elections
- 2021–2022 Tunisian political crisis
- Tunisian President Kais Saied orders the Assembly of the Representatives of the People to be dissolved, after 116 of the 124 MPs who convened online voted earlier in the day to strip Saied of the "exceptional measures" he had taken on since last July. (Reuters)
Science and technology
- Cyberwarfare by Russia
- Russia announces that it will ban all usage of software from other countries in government agencies beginning in 2025. Additionally, beginning on March 31, all foreign software purchases for government agencies must be pre-approved by the government. (Reuters) (TASS)
- It is reported that Russian government hackers have attacked and compromised the servers of Hungary's Ministry of Foreign Affairs since late 2021. (Direkt36)
- South Korea launches a solid-fuel indigenous space rocket at the Agency for Defense Development site in Taean County, South Chungcheong Province. (Korea Herald)
- The Hubble Space Telescope observes the most distant single star ever. The star, named Earendel by astronomers, is 28 billion light-years away. It is the farthest detection of a star, dating back 900 million years after the Big Bang. This discovery surpasses Hubble's record from 2018, when it discovered a star that existed when the universe was roughly four billion years old. (CNN)
Sports
- 2021–22 UEFA Women's Champions League knockout phase
- A crowd of 91,553 attends the second leg of the quarterfinal between archrivals FC Barcelona and Real Madrid at Camp Nou in Barcelona. This set a new record for documented attendance at a women's sporting event, surpassing the 90,185 attendance at the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup Final. Barça won 5–2 on the day and 8–3 on aggregate. (ESPN)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russo-Ukrainian War
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Southern Ukraine offensive
- Battle of Mykolaiv
- Mykolaiv government building airstrike
- A missile strike hits the regional administration's headquarters in Mykolaiv, killing twelve people and injuring 22 others. (Reuters)
- Mykolaiv government building airstrike
- Kyiv offensive, Northeastern Ukraine offensive
- Russian troops begin retreating from positions in Kyiv Oblast and Chernihiv Oblast, according to Ukrainian and American officials. The United States European Command confirms the Russian withdrawal, observing a "major strategy shift". (U.S. News) (Times of Israel)
- Attack on Snake Island
- Roman Hrybov, the border guard who told the Russian warship command over the radio "Russian warship, go fuck yourself" in defiance of its order to surrender Snake Island, is freed in a prisoner swap. Initial reports erroneously suggested that 13 border guards on the island had died. (The Guardian)
- Battle of Mykolaiv
- Reactions to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Russia–NATO relations
- The U.S. deploys 200 marines from the Marine Air Control Group 28, 10 F/A-18 Hornet fighter jets, and an unspecified number of C-130s to Lithuania as part of NATO's response to Russian military aggression in Eastern Europe. (USNI)
- Russia–NATO relations
- 2022 Russia–Ukraine peace negotiations
- The Ukrainian and Russian delegations hold face-to-face peace talks in Turkey for the first time in two weeks. (AP)
- Russian officials agree to "fundamentally cut back military activity in the direction of Kyiv and Chernihiv" during the negotiations. (The Guardian)
- A shell strikes a temporary Russian military camp near the city of Belgorod, 25 km from the Russia–Ukraine border. Russian authorities report at least four injuries, and say that the shell was fired from Ukrainian territory. Ukraine denies firing the missile, instead attributing the strike to an error on Russia's part. (Reuters)
- Southern Ukraine offensive
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- 2022 Bnei Brak shootings
- Five people are killed and another is injured during a series of drive-by shootings in Bnei Brak, Tel Aviv District, Israel. The attacker, a Fatah sympathizer, is shot dead. (Jerusalem Post) (Times of Israel)
- 2022 Bnei Brak shootings
- Yemeni Civil War
- The Saudi-led military coalition suspends all military activity in Yemen. (Arab News)
- Nigerian bandit conflict
- Bandits attack villages in the Bakura and Talata Mafura local government areas of Nigeria. Many people are killed. (Premium Times Nigeria)
- Kivu conflict
- 2022 MONUSCO helicopter crash
- Six Pakistani crew members and a Russian and a Serbian soldier are killed as a MONUSCO helicopter crashes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The rebel March 23 Movement group is accused of being behind the crash. The group has denied their involvement. (Reuters)
- 2022 MONUSCO helicopter crash
Arts and culture
- 2022 boycott of Russia and Belarus
- It is announced that officials from Russia and Belarus will not be welcomed at the upcoming ceremony to mark the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp due to their role in the invasion of Ukraine. (Forbes)
Health and environment
- COVID-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
- COVID-19 vaccination in the United States
- The U.S. FDA and the CDC approve fourth doses of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines for people over the age of 50 years. (CNBC) (NBC News)
- COVID-19 vaccination in the United States
- COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
International relations
- Reactions to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2021–2022 North Korean missile tests
- North Korea–South Korea relations
- South Korean lawmakers and the defense ministry say that last week, North Korea has tested a Hwasong-15, which was successfully tested in November 2017, instead of a Hwasong-17. (ABC News) (AP)
- North Korea–United States relations
- Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby says that the U.S. is still analyzing the missile test recently conducted by North Korea. (Korea Herald)
- North Korea–South Korea relations
- The Democratic Republic of the Congo joins the East African Community, becoming the largest country in both area and population to do so, and thereby granting the bloc access to the Atlantic Ocean. (Bloomberg)
Law and crime
- International sanctions during the Russo-Ukrainian War
- The United Kingdom's National Crime Agency seizes the 58.5 metre superyacht PHI on the River Thames in London after its unnamed Russian oligarch owner was sanctioned by the British government. (Reuters)
- Lynching in the United States
- U.S. President Joe Biden signs the Emmett Till Antilynching Act into law, which makes lynching a federal crime. (CBS News)
- 2021–2022 Belarus–European Union border crisis
- A regional court in the border town of Hajnówka rules that pushbacks against migrants on the Belarus–Poland border violated Polish law. (Gazeta Wyborcza) (Rzeczpospolita)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russo-Ukrainian War
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Kyiv offensive
- Battle of Irpin
- Mayor Oleksandr Markushyn says that Irpin has been recaptured by Ukrainian Ground Forces. (Times of Israel)
- Battle of Irpin
- Northeastern Ukraine offensive
- Battle of Kharkiv
- Russian artillery damages a school in Kharkiv. (Yahoo News) (Sky News)
- Battle of Kharkiv
- Eastern Ukraine offensive
- Russian troops shell Rubizhne, Luhansk Oblast, killing one person. (Ukrinform)
- Trostyanets is retaken by Ukrainian Armed Forces. (Jerusalem Post)
- 2022 Russia–Ukraine peace negotiations
- Russia cautions against expecting any "significant breakthroughs" ahead of the first round of in-person negotiations with Ukraine. (MSN)
- Two Ukrainian negotiators as well as sanctioned Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich are reported to have fallen victim to suspected poisoning during peace talks on the Belarus–Ukraine border earlier this month. Their health has since improved. (Reuters) (BBC News)
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says that some mayors abducted by invading Russian forces have been found dead. (Ukrayinska Pravda) (The Economist)
- Kyiv offensive
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Nigerian bandit conflict
- Bandits bomb and open fire at a train in Kaduna State carrying 970 passengers travelling from Abuja to Kaduna, Nigeria, killing 7 people and wounding 22 more. Some others are kidnapped. (BBC News)
- Kivu conflict
- Militants belonging to the March 23 Movement attack military bases near Goma in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Congolese authorities say that two Rwandan soldiers were participating in the attack. The movement have regrouped and retaken strategic areas for the first time since their defeat in 2013. (Reuters)
Business and economy
- P&O sacking of 800 staff
- The United Kingdom's Maritime and Coastguard Agency seizes P&O Ferries-operated ferry MS Pride of Kent at the Port of Dover after the ferry "failed safety checks" by authorities. It is the second P&O Ferries ship to be detained by UK authorities since the firm fired all 800 British crew members and replaced them with cheaper agency workers. (Sky News)
- The Department for Transport gives P&O Ferries a deadline of March 31 to rehire all the fired staff. (BBC News)
Health and environment
- COVID-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 pandemic in Asia
- COVID-19 pandemic in mainland China
- COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia
- Indonesia surpasses six million cases of COVID-19. (Medcom.id)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Israel
- Prime Minister Naftali Bennett tests positive for COVID-19. (Jerusalem Post)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Australia
- COVID-19 pandemic in Canada
- COVID-19 pandemic in Yukon
- Yukon reports 49 new cases of COVID-19, the highest in the province since January 19, 2022. (Yukon News)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Yukon
- COVID-19 pandemic in Andorra
- The Andorran government announces the lifting of indoor mask usage, except in sanitary spaces, as well as the need for antigen testing for nightlife. The government also announces the relaxation of the protocol for positive contacts. (Andorra Difusió)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Asia
International relations
- Reactions to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Kazakhstan–Russia relations
- Kazakhstan says that it does not want to be behind a "new iron curtain", and that international companies boycotting Russia are welcome to "move production to Kazakhstan". (Reuters)
- Kazakhstan–Russia relations
- Abraham Accords
- The foreign ministers of Israel, Egypt, Morocco, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, as well as the United States Secretary of State, meet in Sde Boker, Israel, and agree to hold regular meetings about regional security and commit to further expanding economic and diplomatic cooperation. (Times of Israel) (The Washington Post)
Law and crime
- Mexican drug war
- Las Tinajas massacre
- Twenty people are killed and four more are injured in a mass shooting at an illegal cockfighting pit in Las Tinajas, Michoacán, Mexico. (BBC News)
- Las Tinajas massacre
- Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández will be extradited to the United States on drug trafficking charges. (France 24)
Politics and elections
- 2021–2022 Tunisian political crisis
- Speaker of the Assembly Rached Ghannouchi announces that the parliament will hold two full sessions this week, the first time since President Kais Saied seized most executive powers and suspended parliament last July, to try to block attempts by Saied to adopt a new constitution that will solidify his rule. (Reuters)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- 2022 Hadera shooting
- Two policemen are killed and 12 more people are injured during a mass shooting by two Islamic State gunmen at a bus stop in Hadera, Haifa District, Israel. The attackers are shot dead. (Reuters) (Times of Israel)
- 2022 Hadera shooting
Arts and culture
- 94th Academy Awards
- CODA wins this year's Best Picture, while Jane Campion wins Best Director for The Power of the Dog. (CNN)
- Will Smith wins Best Actor for his portrayal of Richard Williams in King Richard, shortly after assaulting presenter Chris Rock on stage for joking about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith's hair loss from alopecia, while Jessica Chastain wins Best Actress for her portrayal of Tammy Faye Messner in The Eyes of Tammy Faye. (ABC News) (The Guardian)
- Dune wins the most awards in six, mostly untelevised categories. (Showbiz Cheat Sheet)
- CODA star Troy Kotsur wins Best Supporting Actor, becoming the first deaf male actor to win an Academy Award. (Variety)
- West Side Story star Ariana DeBose wins Best Supporting Actress, becoming the first queer woman of colour to win an Academy Award (The Guardian)
- Celebrities at the Awards wear blue and gold ribbons to stand in solidarity with Ukraine and pay tribute to the refugees. (USA Today) (The Wrap)
Disasters and accidents
- Wildfires in 2022
- Ukrainian Human Rights commissioner Lyudmyla Denisova warns that around 10,000 hectares of forest fires are currently burning near the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. (The Independent)
- A wildfire engulfs the uninhabited Gruinard Island in Gruinard Bay, Scotland. (BBC News)
Health and environment
- COVID-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 pandemic in Asia
- COVID-19 pandemic in mainland China
- COVID-19 pandemic in Shanghai
- Shanghai imposes a lockdown in the Pudong area and other parts of the city. Additionally, areas near the Huangpu River will undergo four days of COVID-19 testing beginning tomorrow. (South China Morning Post)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Shanghai
- COVID-19 pandemic in Hong Kong
- Chief Executive Carrie Lam announces that Hong Kong will begin offering COVID-19 vaccinations at home for elderly people in the coming weeks in order to increase the vaccination rate. (Bloomberg)
- COVID-19 pandemic in mainland China
- COVID-19 pandemic in Asia
International relations
- Reactions to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Russia–Ukraine relations
- Ukrainian delegate Davyd Arakhamia announces that in-person ceasefire talks between the Ukrainian and Russian delegations will occur in Turkey. The talks are expected to occur from March 28 to March 30. (Ukrinform)
- Russia–Ukraine relations
- Nuclear program of Iran
- U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says that the U.S. and their Gulf allies will deter Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon, regardless if a deal to revive the 2015 agreement has been reached or not. (CNN)
Law and crime
- Protests against the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2022 anti-war protests in Russia
- Russian artist Yevgenia Isayeva douses herself in fake blood during an anti-war protest in Saint Petersburg. She is later detained by police. (RFE/RL)
- 2022 anti-war protests in Russia
- Crime in El Salvador
- El Salvador declares a state of emergency after 62 people were murdered in the country yesterday, making it the most violent 24-hour period since the end of the civil war in 1992. (BBC News)
Politics and elections
- 2022 Uruguayan Law of Urgent Consideration referendum
- A referendum is held in Uruguay on whether to repeal the Urgent Consideration Law, which gives the government more power to dismantle protests and increased security measures after record high crime rates in Uruguay in 2017. (MercoPress)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russo-Ukrainian War
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Northeastern Ukraine offensive
- Battle of Kharkiv
- The Holocaust memorial at Drobytsky Yar is hit by Russian shelling, damaging the memorial's menorah. (Jerusalem Post)
- Battle of Kharkiv
- Russian forces airstrike the western city of Lviv, injuring five people. (Reuters)
- Northeastern Ukraine offensive
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Yemeni Civil War
- Houthi–Saudi Arabian conflict
- The Saudi coalition in Yemen launches a series of air raids on targets in Yemen in response to attacks on Saudi Arabian energy facilities by the Houthis. (Global News)
- Houthi–Saudi Arabian conflict
- Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
- 2021–2022 Armenia–Azerbaijan border crisis
- Azerbaijani troops continue to advance into the Askeran Province of the Republic of Artsakh, clashing with Artsakh Defence Army forces in Farukh and Khramort. (Asbarez)
- Russia says that Azerbaijani forces have entered the Russian peacekeeping zone in Nagorno-Karabakh. Azerbaijani officials say it was a false flag operation by Armenian soldiers.(Times of Israel) (Radio Free Europe)
- 2021–2022 Armenia–Azerbaijan border crisis
Business and economy
- Economic impact of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Saudi Arabia and Kuwait sign off on a 50-year program to explore the Arash gas field, which is located on the maritime border between the two countries and also extends into Iranian waters. Iran says that the deal is illegal. (Tasnim)
Disasters and accidents
- 2020–2022 Taal Volcano eruptions
- The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology raises the alert status of the Taal Volcano to level 3 after the volcano had a short-lived phreatomagmatic eruption. (CNN Philippines)
Health and environment
- COVID-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 pandemic in mainland China
- COVID-19 pandemic in Shanghai
- It is announced that Shanghai will not impose a full-scale lockdown despite an increase in COVID-19 cases. (South China Morning Post)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Shanghai
- COVID-19 pandemic in Bulgaria
- The government announces that the country will not extend their COVID-19 state of emergency beyond March 31. (The Sofia Globe)
- COVID-19 pandemic in mainland China
International relations
- Reactions to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Russia–United States relations
- U.S. President Joe Biden declares in a speech that Russian President Vladimir Putin "cannot remain in power". In response to reports that the statement constitutes a call for regime change, the White House later releases a statement saying that Biden's "point was that Putin cannot be allowed to exercise power over his neighbors or the region. He was not discussing Putin's power in Russia, or regime change". In response to Biden's statement, the Kremlin states that this is a choice of the Russian people. (CNN) (The Hill)
- Russia–United States relations
Law and crime
- Protests against the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2022 anti-war protests in Russian-occupied Ukraine
- Slavutych mayor Yurii Fomichev is released by Russian soldiers after protesters opposed Fomichev‘s kidnapping and Russia’s occupation of the town. (EuroWeekly News) (I News)
- Anti-war protesters gather in London to stand in solidarity with Ukraine. (The Guardian)
- 2022 anti-war protests in Russian-occupied Ukraine
Politics and elections
- 2022 Maltese general election
- Maltese citizens go to the polls to elect members of the Parliament. (Euronews)
Science and technology
- 65 terabytes of data belonging to the Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviation), the Russian airspace regulator, gets lost indefinitely in a hacker attack, which is said to be one of the largest ever. The data lost includes all official documents, files on its servers, the public procurement system of Rosaviation, as well as all emails for the last one and a half years; no backups are available. As a result, the agency is forced to switch to paper-based workflow. (Kommersant) (Aviation24.be)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russo-Ukrainian War
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Kyiv offensive
- Battle of Kyiv
- Russia says that it used Kalibr cruise missiles to destroy a major oil terminal near Kyiv. (Reuters)
- Battle of Kherson
- A United States defense official states that the Russian forces are no longer in full control of Kherson, the only major city they had captured in Ukraine. (The New York Times)
- Battle of Kyiv
- Belarusian involvement in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko reaffirms that Belarus has "no plans to fight in Ukraine". However, he also warned that Belarus could join the war if aggression is launched against it. (TASS)
- Russia says that the first phase of the invasion has been completed. (BBC News)
- The Russian Defence Ministry updates its official casualty figures in Ukraine, stating that 1,351 troops have been killed in action and 3,825 others have been injured since the "special military operation" began on February 24. (Eurasian Times)
- Kyiv offensive
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Yemeni Civil War
- Houthi–Saudi Arabian conflict
- Houthi rebels launch 16 missile and drone attacks on Saudi Arabian cities. An airstrike also hits an ARAMCO facility in Jeddah, setting fire to an oil storage facility near a Formula One racing track where drivers were preparing for the 2022 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix. (ABC News) (France24)
- Houthi–Saudi Arabian conflict
Business and economy
- Economic impact of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2022 boycott of Russia and Belarus
- Iranian officials consider the possibility of recognising the electronic payment system MIR, in response to moves to ban Russian banks from SWIFT. (Iran Daily) (MEMonitor)
- 2022 boycott of Russia and Belarus
Health and environment
- COVID-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil
- COVID-19 vaccination in Brazil
- The Butantan Institute opens a factory that will develop more products of China’s CoronaVac COVID-19 vaccine beginning in 2023. (Xinhua)
- COVID-19 vaccination in Brazil
- COVID-19 pandemic in Japan, COVID-19 drug development
- The Government of Japan signs a basic agreement with Shionogi to provide million doses of oral COVID-19 treatment the company is now developing pending the regulatory approval. (Reuters)
- Travel during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Emirates Airline will resume flights to India and return to pre-COVID-19 levels beginning on April 1. (Al Arabiya)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil
International relations
- Afghanistan–United States relations
- Treatment of women by the Taliban
- The U.S. State Department cancels meetings with the Taliban leadership in Doha, Qatar, dealing with the Afghan economy, in response to the Taliban barring high-school girls from returning to school. (Reuters)
- Treatment of women by the Taliban
- 2021–2022 North Korean missile tests
- The Korean Central News Agency confirms that North Korea tested an ICBM yesterday, which is revealed to be the Hwasong-17. (Yonhap)
- Finland–Russia relations
- Finland's state-owned VR Group announces that it will suspend all train services on the Riihimäki–Saint Petersburg railway, which connects Helsinki and Saint Petersburg, on March 28. The suspension will close one of the last public transport routes to the European Union for Russians. (Al Arabiya)
Law and crime
- Russia investigation origins counter-narrative
- Former U.S. President Donald Trump files a lawsuit against Hillary Clinton, alleging that her campaign tried to rig the 2016 United States presidential election by creating a false narrative that tied Trump's campaign to the Russian government. Trump is seeking compensatory and punitive damages worth US$24 million. (Reuters) (The Washington Post)