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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Monday,  March 3rd, 2025 

A 70-year-old man is killed and three others are injured in a mass stabbing at a bus station in Haifa, Israel. The perpetrator, an Israeli-Druze from Shfar’am, is killed by civilians present at the attack. (Al Jazeera) (DW)

The Congolese military announces that eight members of the Mobondo militia, including one of their leaders, were killed the previous day when an army patrol seized the group’s headquarters in the Kwamouth Territory, Mai-Ndombe Province. (Radio Okapi) 

A female suicide bomber kills one person and wounds three others in Kalat, Balochistan, Pakistan. (AP News) 

Cyclone warnings are issued to residents of Brisbane, South East Queensland and the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales as Tropical Cyclone Alfred is expected to make landfall on Thursday or early Friday local time. (The Guardian Australia) 

A bus rolls down a ravine in southern Bolivia, killing at least 15 people, and wounding nineteen others. (Reuters) 

A car drives into a crowd of people near a Carnival market in Mannheim, Germany, killing two people and injuring 25 others, including fifteen seriously. A man is arrested. (Euronews)

Sunday, March 2nd, 2025 

The 97th Academy Awards take place at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Anora wins the most awards, taking five, including Best Picture. Adrien Brody wins Best Actor for The Brutalist, while Mikey Madison wins Best Actress for Anora. (Reuters) 

United Kingdom prime minister Keir Starmer announces after a meeting of European Union leaders in London that a “coalition of the pathetic” is working on a Ukraine peace plan that they will present to president Donald Trump. (Sky News) 

Firefly Aerospace successfully lands the Blue Ghost Mission 1 on the Moon as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program, delivering payloads to Mare Crisium with instruments to study lunar regoliths and the interactions between solar wind and Earth’s magnetic field. (Space.com) (NASA) 

Israel agrees to a United States-led plan to extend the first phase of the ceasefire through Ramadan and Passover, during which half of the 59 remaining hostages will be released. Hamas rejects the proposal, insisting that the deal proceed with phase two, which includes the release of all remaining living hostages, a full withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza and a permanent end to the war. (The Times of Israel) 

Several wildfires erupt across South Carolina and North Carolina, United States, resulting in the evacuation of endangered towns, including several in the Myrtle Beach area. South Carolina governor Henry McMaster declares a state of emergency in response. (NBC) 

United States Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth orders a halt to offensive cyber operations and information operations against Russia by U.S. Cyber Command. (NBC News) 

Acting leader of Abkhazia Badra Gunba is elected President with 55% of the votes. Georgia rejects the election, as it claims Abkhazia as part of its territory. (Reuters) 

Saturday, March 1st, 2025 

The Puntland Dervish Force captures an IS–Somalia base in Buqa Caleed, in the Cal Miskaad mountain range of Bari Region, Puntland, Somalia. (The Somali Digest)  

United States Central Command says that it has carried out a precision airstrike in Syria, targeting and killing Muhammed Yusuf Ziya Talay, a senior military leader in Hurras al-Din. (Al Arabiya) 

Three men are found dead in a vehicle near the village of Orú in the Tibú municipality, Norte de Santander, Colombia, with one body dressed in a National Liberation Army (ELN) uniform. (El Heraldo de Colombia) 

After placing an ELN flag at the entrance of the municipality of Saravena, Arauca, the ELN detonate an improvised explosive device, targeting Colombian soldiers attempting to remove the flag. No casualties are reported. (El Heraldo de Colombia) 

The first phase of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas is scheduled to expire today while talks on the second phase, which aims to end the war, remain inconclusive. (DW) 

Israel blocks the entry of all humanitarian aid from entering Gaza as the first phase of the ceasefire ends. (AP) 

Civil society groups in the Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, report that 23 people were killed and another 20 were taken hostage in raids by an Islamic State-affiliated faction of the Allied Democratic Forces militia over the past week. (Arab News) 

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party announces a ceasefire with Turkey after forty years of conflict. (Al Jazeera) 

At least one person is killed and approximately nine others are wounded in the Druze-majority city of Jaramana, following armed confrontations between local residents and security forces affiliated with the transitional government. In response, the Suwayda Military Council declares a state of alert, while Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz instruct the Israel Defense Forces to “prepare to defend” the city. (ANHA) (Times of Israel) 

At the 2025 Brit Awards, Charli XCX wins British Artist of the Year while her album Brat wins British Album of the Year and her song Guess wins Song of the Year in collaboration with Billie Eilish. Ezra Collective wins Best British Group. (BBC News) 

At least 37 people are killed and 30 others are injured when two passenger buses collide near Uyuni, Potosí department, Bolivia. (BBC News) 

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky meets with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer in London, where they sign off on a British loan of £2.26 billion to buy military supplies for Ukraine. (BBC) 

Tens of thousands of demonstrators hold a rally in Bucharest in support of presidential candidate Călin Georgescu and demand that the second round of the annulled 2024 election is held instead of a new election. (AP) 

United States President Donald Trump signs an executive order designating English as the country’s official language. (The Guardian) 

Yamandú Orsi and Carolina Cosse are inaugurated as the president and vice president of Uruguay in Montevideo. (Reuters) 

At their annual general meeting in Northern Ireland, the International Football Association Board approves a new rule stating that beginning the following season, if a goalkeeper holds the ball for more than eight seconds, the opposing team is awarded a corner kick. (BBC) 

The End Sunday 

Saturday, March 1st, 2025 

The first phase of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas is scheduled to expire today while talks on the second phase, which aims to end the war, remain inconclusive. (DW) 

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party announces a ceasefire with Turkey after forty years of conflict. (Al Jazeera) 

Three men were found dead in the village of Orú, municipality of Tibú, Norte de Santander. One of the bodies was wearing a camouflage uniform and an ELN armband. In the municipal seat an explosive cylinder was defused by authorities, suspecting that the explosive was intended for members of the security forces. (El Heraldo de Colombia) 

An explosive device blasts after security forces attempt to take down an ELN flag at the entrance of the municipality of Saravena, Arauca. The officers are unharmed. (El Heraldo de Colombia) 

At least 37 people are killed and 30 others are injured when two passenger buses collide near Uyuni, Potosí department, Bolivia. (BBC News) 

Friday,  Februrary 28th, 2025 

U.S. president Donald Trump, U.S. vice president JD Vance and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy end their talks early after their meeting in the White House turns into a “heated” exchange. Trump rejects any discussion of specific security guarantees for Ukraine, being interested solely in discussing the Ukraine–United States Mineral Resources Agreement. (Time)  

The U.S. State Department terminates U.S. support of Ukraine’s energy grid restoration amid an ongoing energy crisis. (NBC) 

A 24-hour consumer spending boycott takes place across the United States, in protest of wealth and income inequality, high prices of essential goods, and the rollback of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives by the Trump administration. (AP) 

The United States Social Security Administration announces it will lay off over 7,000 jobs to align with President Donald Trump‘s executive order, despite its workforce already being at a 50-year low. (NPR) 

Five people, including Hamid Ul Haq Haqqani, the head of a faction of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (S) party and son of Sami-ul-Haq, are killed and twenty others are injured in a suicide bombing inside of a mosque in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (The Indian Express) 

Rose Girone, an Austrian Poland-born Holocaust survivor who was believed to be the oldest Holocaust survivor, dies at 113 years and 42 days. (DW) (Jewish Telegraphic Agency) 

At least four people were show dead in a mechanical workshop in the city of Coatzacoalcos, state of Veracruz This is the second massacre during the week in the entity, being reported in other mechanical workshop in the municipality Perote, Veracruz, leaving three workers dead and one wounded.(La Jornada) 

Three policemen and a civilian were killed in two attacks in the state of Guanajuato, the first took place in Celaya when a motorcycle agent was shoot dead, and his son resulted wounded, hours later, an attack took place in front of a local sport center in Apaseo el Alto, leaving a civilian and two policemen killed.(Revista Proceso) 

Three people are killed as tropical cyclone Garance makes landfall in Réunion in the Indian Ocean. (AP) 

At least sixty fatalities and nearly 1,100 symptomatic cases are reported to be a result of a disease outbreak of unknown etiology in the Province of Équateur, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (CBS News) 

At least 60 fatalities and nearly 1,100 symptomatic cases are reported to be a result of a disease outbreak of unknown etiology in the Province of Équateur, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (CBS News) 

5 construction workers are trapped, 48 others are rescued and 4 people are killed after a group of 57 people are swept away by an avalanche near the Mana Pass, Uttarakhand, India. (CTV News) 

The number of measles cases in Texas, United States, increases to 146 with 20 people hospitalized, spanning nine counties in the state. (AP) 

Russia appoints Alexander Darchiev as its new ambassador to the U.S. following talks between the two countries in Istanbul on restoring regular diplomatic contacts and embassy staffs. The post has been vacant for several months. (Barron’s)  

The East African Community (EAC) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) postpone the joint summit of their foreign ministers that would have agreed on a ceasefire plan for the conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Congolese and Rwanda governments never received invitations to the meeting. (Critical Threats Project) 

Mexico extradites 29 alleged cartel members to the United States, including Rafael Caro Quintero, Miguel Treviño Morales, Omar Treviño Morales, Vicente Carrillo Fuentes and Jose Rodolfo Villarreal-Hernandez. (BBC News)  

Greeks organize a 24-hour nationwide general strike on the second anniversary of the Tempi train crash, Greece’s deadliest railway disaster. (Reuters) Following the 2024 quota reform movement in Bangladesh, students who led the protests announce the formation of a new political party, the National Citizen Party, led by Nahid Islam, a student activist and the chief coordinator of the Students Against Discrimination movement. (DW) 

Microsoft announces it will shut down Skype in May 2025 to focus its support and development on Teams. (DW)  

As part of the first stage of the ceasefire deal, Hamas releases the bodies of four Israeli hostages in return for the Israeli government releasing 617 Palestinian prisoners. The second phase of the ceasefire has not been negotiated. (DW) 

The End