Friday,  March 24th, 2023  

A United States contractor is killed and five others are injured when a drone hits a U.S. base near Al-Hasakah in northern Syria. The United States responds with airstrikes on Iranian-linked targets, killing eleven people. (Al Jazeera) 

A rocket attack targets a U.S. military base in Syria in retaliation for retaliatory airstrikes from the United States hours earlier. No damages or casualties are reported. (Al Arabiya) 

Fifteen people are killed and 40 others are kidnapped in Hama Governorate during an ambush on truffle hunters by Islamic State members. (UCA News) 

At least 23 people are killed after a series of violent tornadoes impact the U.S. state of Mississippi. (BBC News) 

Seven people are killed and many others are injured after an explosion at a chocolate factory in West Reading, Pennsylvania, United States. (The Guardian) 

A dual Haitian-Chilean citizen pleads guilty to three murder-related charges in a court in the United States over his role in the assassination of Haitian president Jovenel Moïse. (Reuters) 

Thursday, March 23rd, 2023 

A police raid in a favela in São Gonçalo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, results in the deaths of 13 people and the capture of two Comando Vermelho gang leaders from the northern states of Pará and Sergipe. (Barron’s) 

Riots occur across France a day after President Emmanuel Macron gives a speech on pension reform. The entrance to City Hall in Bordeaux is set on fire. (Le Monde) 

Former Indian National Congress president Rahul Gandhi is sentenced to two years in prison for defaming Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a campaign rally in April 2019. (BBC News) 

A 28-year-old Muslim man is charged by West Midlands Police with attempted murder for immolating two elderly Muslim men outside of mosques in London and Birmingham, United Kingdom, on 27 February and 20 March. (Al Jazeera) 

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Thursday, March 23rd, 2023 

Indian politician Rahul Gandhi is sentenced to two years in prison for defamation for asking in a 2019 speech: “Why do all these thieves have Modi as their surname? Nirav Modi, Lalit Modi, Narendra Modi.” (BBC) 

Mohammed Abbkr, 28, is charged with attempting to murder two elderly men in the United Kingdom, setting them on fire on 27 February and 20 March while leaving mosques in London and Birmingham. (Al Jazeera) 

A Russian missile strike on an apartment building in the city of Zaporizhzhia kills a civilian and injures 25 others. (AP) 

A Russian drone strike in Rzhyshchiv kills at least nine civilians. (Reuters) 

Argentine mathematician Luis Caffarelli wins this year’s Abel Prize “for his seminal contributions to regularity theory for nonlinear partial differential equations including free-boundary problems and the Monge–Ampère equation“. He becomes the first Latin American to win this prize. (The Guardian) 

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