Wednesday, March 8th, 2023 

A drone strike on an Iranian weapons factory in Deir ez-Zor Governorate, Syria, kills seven people and injures 15 others, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Three of those killed were militiamen from Afghanistan. It is unclear who carried out the airstrike. (Arab News) 

Two Americans are found dead, and two alive, after they had been kidnapped in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico four days earlier. (BBC) 

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) 

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) 

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) 

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Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau appoints an independent special rapporteur to investigate an alleged foreign electoral intervention by the Chinese government in the 2019 and 2021 Canadian federal elections. (AFP via ABS-CBN News) 

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) 

Ukraine releases the name of a prisoner of war who was executed in a graphic video. (BBC) 

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) 

At least six members of the Jenin Brigades are killed by Israeli soldiers during a raid in Jenin. Among those killed is the alleged killer of two Israeli settlers days ago. (AFP via France 24) 

A Piper J-3 Cub and Cherokee Piper 161 collide in midair over Lake Hartridge in Florida, United States, killing four people. (KCBD) 

Monday,  March 6th, 2023 

Five Palestinians are wounded as Israeli settlers attack 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) 

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) 

South Korea agrees to pay compensation to citizens who were forced to work in Japanese factories during World War II. (BBC News) 

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) 

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) 

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Sunday, March 5th, 2023 

In a rare high-level visit to the Donbas, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu is filmed inspecting troops in “the eastern military district in the south Donetsk direction”. (The Guardian) 

Heavy street fighting takes place between Russian and Ukrainian troops in Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast. The city’s deputy mayor Oleksandr Marchenko says that “not a single building” has remained untouched by fighting, and that the city is “almost destroyed”. (BBC News) 

One person is killed and nine others are injured in a human stampede at a GloRilla concert in Rochester, New York, United States. (AP) 

Three Armenian police officers and two Azerbaijani soldiers are killed during border clashes near the Lachin Corridor. Both countries accuse the other of opening fire first. (DW) 

Jihadist group al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula acknowledges that a senior leader was killed in a recent airstrike by the United States Air Force in Yemen. (WION) 

Estonians head to the polls to elect the 101 members of the Riigikogu. (AP) 

Saturday, March 4th, 2023 

United Nations member states finalize the text of the High Seas Treaty, which aims to declare 30% of the world’s oceans marine protected areas by 2030. (BBC News) 

Burundi deploys 100 troops to the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo to help the country fight insurgencies by militias, including M23. (AFP via The East African) 

A Norfolk Southern train derails in Clark County, Ohio, United States, with local residents advised to shelter in place. The derailment comes just over one month after the derailment of a Norfolk Southern train carrying hazardous materials in East Palestine, Ohio. However, no hazardous materials are known to be involved in the Clark County derailment. (WDTN-TV) 

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Friday,  March 3rd, 2023 

A court in Minsk, Belarus, sentences human rights activist and 2022 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski to 10 years in prison on charges of “financing actions violating public order” and smuggling. (AP) 

A court in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, sentences opposition figure Kem Sokha to 27 years in prison on charges of “collusion with foreigners” and treason. (The Guardian) 

Seventeen people are killed and fifty others are injured in a fire at a fuel storage station in Koja, Jakarta, Indonesia. (Reuters) 

Sixteen people are killed when a pipeline explodes in Emohua, Rivers State, Nigeria. (AP) 

One person is killed in Yazoo County, Mississippi, United States, and more than 310,000 people are left without power across five states due to a system of storms affecting the area. (CNN) 

Thursday, March 2nd, 2023 

Russia accuses a Ukrainian sabotage group of attacking the villages of Lyubechane and Sushany in Bryansk Oblast and taking hostages. However, Ukraine accuses Russia of staging a false “provocation”. (Reuters) 

A Russian missile strike on an apartment building in the city of Zaporizhzhia kills three civilians and injures at least four others, according to Ukrainian police. (Reuters) 

Twenty people are injured by severe turbulence on a Condor flight from Frankfurt, Germany, to Mauritius. (AP) 

Israel criticizes the government of Brazil for allowing two Iranian warships to dock in Rio de Janeiro and urges Brazil to send the warships away calling it a “dangerous and regretful development”. (Reuters) 

The National Assembly of Vietnam elects Võ Văn Thưởng as the country’s new president, succeeding Nguyễn Xuân Phúc. (Nikkei Asia) 

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