Portal:Current events/2024 March 7
Appearance
March 7, 2024
(Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Myanmar civil war
- Operation 1027
- The Kachin Independence Army launches a large offensive against junta outposts near Laiza and on the highway between Bhamo and Myitkyina. Five outposts are seized with fighting ongoing at five other outposts. (ABC News)
- Local People's Defence Force groups capture the town of Kani in Sagaing Region. (The Irrawaddy)
- Operation 1027
- Haitian crisis
- Haiti's main seaport Port international de Port-au-Prince suspends operations after being attacked and looted by armed gangs. The national state of emergency is also extended for another month amid ongoing civil unrest. (BBC News)
- Iran–United States relations
- Iran confiscates the cargo of the American oil tanker Advantage Sweet in response to U.S.-led sanctions restricting the sale of medication for epidermolysis bullosa to Iran. (Barron's)
- Islamist insurgency in the Sahel
- The Alliance of Sahel States, comprised of Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger, announces the creation of a joint force to combat jihadist groups in the three countries. (Africanews)
International relations
- Enlargement of NATO
- Ukraine–United Kingdom relations
- Former Ukrainian Chief of Staff Valerii Zaluzhnyi is appointed Ukrainian ambassador to the United Kingdom by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- Killing of the Wickramasinghe family
- Six people, including four children and their mother, with a man, a family friend are killed, and the father of a Sri Lankan family is injured in a mass stabbing at a home in the Barrhaven neighborhood of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Febrio De-Zoysa, 19, a Algonquin College student is arrested. (CBOT-DT)
Politics and elections
- 2024 State of the Union Address
- U.S. president Joe Biden delivers the 2024 State of the Union address to the 118th United States Congress. (NPR)