Sunday, March 9th, 2025 

The United States Secret Service shoots and arrests an armed man outside the White House. (NBC News) 

According to a report in the academic journal Science, the population of the 554 recorded species of butterflies in the U.S. have declined by 22% since 2000. (NPR) 

According to the French minister of the Armed Forces Sebastien Lecornu, France will use €195 million in interest from Russian assets to fund a military aid package to Ukraine. (Reuters) 

More than 40,000 passengers at the Hamburg Airport in Hamburg, Germany, are affected and flights are cancelled after a worker protest organized by the trade union ver.di. (CTV News) 

Nationalist candidate Călin Georgescu, first-round winner in the 2024 election, is barred from running in the 2025 Romanian presidential election by the Central Electoral Bureau. (G4 Media) 

A Beechcraft Bonanza plane carrying five people crashes in a retirement community in Manheim Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, shortly after takeoff from Lancaster Airport. (CNN)

Saturday, March 8th, 2025 

Al Shabaab seizes the town of Cadale and some villages including Bushra Sheekh, Ceel Xarar and Xaruur, around 70 km (43 mi) of Mogadishu. Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud asks Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed for help. Ethiopia sends ten thousand ENDF troops near the Ethiopia–Somalia border. (Idil News) 

Dozens of people are killed, including a senior police commander, as heavy fighting breaks out after Al-Shabaab fighters attack the Police Force. Al-Shabaab claims to have taken over new areas of Al-Kawthar and Boos-Hareeri in Middle Shabelle region, Hirshabelle State, Somalia. (Idil News) 

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports that groups attributed to the Syrian Ministry of Defense have killed over 750 Alawite civilians across several massacres in western Syria. (CTV News) 

Three Palestinians are killed in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip, two by a drone strike in Rafah and one by gunfire in al-Tannour, Rafah Governorate, which violates the 2025 ceasefire. (Al Jazeera) 

A Russian ballistic missile strike on Dobropillia, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, kills at least eleven people and injures 37 others. (Reuters) 

A Russian Shahed drone strike on a business park in Bohodukhiv, Kharkiv Oblast, kills three people and wounds seven others. (Ukrinform) 

China announces that it will implement 100% tariffs on several Canadian agricultural exports, including rapeseed and peas, and 25% tariffs on pork and aquacultural products will be implemented on March 20 in retaliation against earlier tariffs instituted by Canada on Chinese electric vehicles and metal exports. (AP) 

One person is confirmed killed and thirteen others are injured in floods caused by Cyclone Alfred as it passes through Queensland and New South Wales, Australia. (AP) 

Eight people are injured, including two critically, in a vehicle-ramming attack at a CarMax car dealership in Inglewood, California, United States. (NBC News) 

Two ski jumpers from the Norwegian ski jumping team, Marius Lindvik and Johann André Forfang, are disqualified for cheating and Lindvik loses the silver in the men’s individual normal hill in Granåsen, Trondheim. (Kronen Zeitung) 

Friday, March 7th, 2025 

The Native American Rights Fund, on behalf of five Indigenous American students and three tribes, the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, and the Pueblo of Isleta, file a lawsuit against the United States Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) for alleged wrongful dismissals of BIE schoolteachers. (AP) 

Convicted murderer Brad Sigmon is executed by firing squad at Broad River Correctional Institution in South Carolina, United States. He is the first inmate to be executed via firing squad since June 2010. (Sky News) 

All trains running through the Gare du Nord railway station in Paris, France, including Eurostar trains from London and Brussels, are canceled due to the discovery of a World War II-era unexploded ordnance containing 200 kg (440 lb) of explosives near the rail tracks near the station. (The Independent) (DW) 

Ukraine deploys its Dassault Mirage 2000 jets against Russian forces for the first time, with the jets intercepting several Russian cruise missiles with air-to-air missiles. (BBC News) (Politico) 

Russia launches an overnight missile and drone attack across Ukraine, damaging energy and gas infrastructure. Ukraine says that it shot down 34 of 67 missiles and 100 of 194 drones. (Reuters) 

The Federal Government of Somalia bans most weapons and armored vehicles at Mogadishu Airport following U.S. warnings of Al-Shabaab threats to Mogadishu. (Garowe Online) 

A Syrian war monitor reports that Syrian security forces executed 52 Alawite men in Latakia province after clashes broke out the day prior against the new Syrian regime. (AFP via Al Arabiya) (AP) 

The United States Army stationed in Puntland maintains its operations and will not pull out of the region in response to double ongoing operations in the fight against ISIS in Puntland’s Bari Region. (Garowe Online) 

A UNMISS helicopter operator and approximently 27 South Sudanese soldiers are killed after being fired on by a local militia group while evacuating Nasir, South Sudan. (Reuters) 

Al Shabaab militants carry out several attacks in Middle Shabelle, Hiiraan regions of Hirshabelle and Lower Shabelle region from South West State of Somalia. The group’s main goal is to capture Mogadishu. (Mepa News) 

Egyptair joins Qatar Airways and Turkish Airlines in suspending flights to Mogadishu’s Aden Adde airport following a U.S. warning about a potential imminent terrorist attack on the airport. (Mustaqbal Media) 

At least 22 people are killed after rival factions of the Los Tiguerones drug trafficking syndicate shoot at each other in Guyaquil, Ecuador. (Al Jazeera) 

Hudson’s Bay, Canada’s oldest department store, files for creditor protection and intends to restructure. (CBC News) 

At least ten people are killed in floods caused by heavy rain in Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. (Reuters) 

Organized demonstrations and walkouts of scientists take place across 30 cities in the United States and France in protest of the Donald Trump administration’s grant budget and employment cuts to several government scientific agencies. (AP) 

Canada and the Philippines conclude negotiations on a visiting forces agreement. (Reuters) 

The Seoul Central District Court lifts the arrest warrant for South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol after his initial detention period expired. (DW) 

Bosnian Serb police begin removing state police from their posts in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, in a move aimed at implementing separatist legislation signed into law by Republika Srpska leader Milorad Dodik. (Reuters) 

Twelve people are injured in a mass shooting at a pub in Toronto, Canada. Three suspects are at large. (BBC News) 

Thursday, March 6th, 2025 

The United States begins direct negotiations with Hamas over the release of the remaining Israeli hostages. President of the United States Donald Trump later threatens on Truth Social and X that the people of Gaza “are dead” unless they return the hostages “immediately”. (Sky News) (Al Jazeera) (NBC News) 

The United Nations World Food Programme announces that it will reduce the emergency food rations for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh from US$12.50 to $6 per person. (Al Jazeera) 

Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof announces US$3.8 billion in national military funding for Ukraine in 2026, including $700 million in Dutch drone manufacturing. Norwegian and Polish leaders also announce increases in military aid for Ukraine. (ABC News) 

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announces that Spain will accelerate defense spending to 2% of its GDP in four years. (El Mundo) 

At least 16 members of the security forces and 28 Assad loyalists are killed in a series of ambushes and shootouts in Latakia Governorate, Syria. (France 4) 

Four smuggling suspects are killed in clashes between Jordanian border forces and armed groups attempting to cross from Syria. (The New Arab) 

Save the Children says that landmines and unexploded ordnance in Syria have killed or injured at least 188 children since the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad in December 2024. (Al Arabiya) 

Turkish Airlines and Qatar Airways temporarily suspend flights to Aden Adde International Airport in Mogadishu, Somalia, following security warnings from the United States embassy about potential terrorist attacks targeting the airport. (AeroTime) (Hiiraan Online) 

Following phone calls between United States President Donald Trump, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Trump announces a pause on some tariffs on both Canada and Mexico until April 2. Sheinbaum states that Mexico will collaborate with the United States on migration and security issues, including controlling cross-border fentanyl smuggling. (ABC News)

U.S. President Donald Trump signs an executive order creating a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve funded exclusively with bitcoin seized in criminal and civil forfeiture cases. (CNBC) 

Two South Korean Air Force KF-16 jets erroneously release eight MK82 bombs over home territory in Pocheon, Gyeonggi Province, striking a residential area and multiple homes, injuring at least 15 people, four of them seriously. (Reuters) 

At least two people are killed and 186 others are missing after four boats carrying African migrants heading towards the Arab Gulf states capsize off the coast of Yemen and Djibouti. Two Yemeni crew members are rescued by the International Organization for Migration. (Al Jazeera) 

French defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu says France will continue sharing military intelligence to Ukraine regarding the Russian invasion. (AP) 

The United States withdraws from the Just Energy Transition Partnership, a program that helps emerging countries transition away from non-renewable energy sources like fossil fuels. (DW) (Reuters) 

The government of Sudan files a lawsuit in the International Court of Justice against the United Arab Emirates for its alleged support of the Rapid Support Forces and its complicity in genocide against the Masalit people in Darfur, Sudan. The UAE denies its involvement in Sudan and calls the lawsuit a “publicity stunt“. (Middle East Eye) (Al Jazeera) 

The European Court of Justice fines Germany €34 million (US$36.7 million) for failing to implement a European Union law to protect whistleblowers by 2021. The Court also fines Czechia €2.3 million, Hungary €1.5 million, and Luxembourg and Estonia €500,000 each for the same reason. (DW) 

Six individuals, including retired general and far-right politician Radu Theodoru, are arrested on accusations of being involved in a Russian-backed coup d’état plot in Romania. (The Financial Times) (Politico) 

SpaceX launches its eighth test flight of the Starship launch vehicle from Starbase in Texas, United States. The first stage was caught by the launch tower despite Raptor engine failures during landing, but the second stage failed during its burn, mirroring the last flight test in January. (Reuters) 

Intuitive Machines‘ space probe IM-2 Athena lands on Mons Mouton near the lunar south pole after launching from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, U.S., on February 27. (BBC News) 

An Ariane 6 rocket launches French military satellite CSO-3 from Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana. It is the first commercial launch of the Ariane 6 expendable launch system. (AP) 

Two South Korean Air Force KF-16 jets erroneously release eight MK82 bombs over home territory in Pocheon, Gyeonggi Province, striking a residential area and multiple homes, injuring at least 15 people, including two seriously. (Reuters) 

The European Court of Justice fines Germany €34 million (US$36.7 million) for failing to implement a European Union law to protect whistleblowers by 2021. The Court also fines Czechia €2.3 million, Hungary €1.5 million, and Luxembourg and Estonia €500,000 each for the same reason. (DW) 

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