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Michelle Yeoh

 At the Academy Awards, Everything Everywhere All at Once wins seven

awards, including Best Picture and Best Actress for Michelle Yeoh (pictured).
 Silicon Valley Bank collapses in the second-largest bank failure in U.S.
history.
 In the Estonian parliamentary election, the Reform Party, led by Kaja
Kallas, wins the most seats in the Riigikogu.
  Cyclone Freddy leaves at least 41 people dead in Madagascar, Malawi,
Mozambique and Zimbabwe.
Ongoing: 
 Russian invasion of Ukraine
Recent deaths: 
 Jesús Alou
 Traute Lafrenz
 Mystic Meg
 John Nagenda
 Chaim Topol
 Georgina Beyer
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March 13, 2023 (Monday)

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Politics and elections

 2023 Tokelauan general election

o Kerisiano Kalolo becomes the new Head of Government of
Tokelau. (RNZ)
March 12, 2023 (Sunday)

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Armed conflicts and attacks

 Iran–Israel conflict during the Syrian civil war

o Israeli airstrikes at a weapons depot in Masyaf, Hama
Governorate, Syria, kill a Syrian soldier and two pro-
Iranian militants. (Arab News)
 Israeli–Palestinian conflict
o Israeli soldiers kill three Palestinian gunmen near Nablus, West
Bank, after coming under fire. (The Guardian)
 Kivu conflict
o Nineteen people are killed by suspected Islamist insurgents in
Kirindera, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Reuters)
Arts and culture

 95th Academy Awards

 o At this year's Oscars, Everything Everywhere All at Once wins
seven awards, including Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best
Original Screenplay, Best Director, and Best Picture. (Variety)
o Following her Best Actress win for Everything Everywhere All at
Once, Malaysian actress Michelle Yeoh becomes the first Asian to
win that category. (AFP via ABS-CBN News)
Business and economy

 2023 United States bank failures

o Collapse of Signature Bank
 New York-based commercial bank Signature Bank is
closed down after a bank run on its deposits, and is
taken into receivership by the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation. (Reuters)
 Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman formally announces the
establishment of Riyadh Air, a new flag carrier airline of Saudi
Arabia. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents

 At least 22 people are killed and two others are reported missing after a boat
heading to Mayotte capsizes off the coast of Madagascar. (Reuters)
 Thirty people are reported missing after a boat carrying
migrants from Libya capsizes while crossing the Mediterranean
Sea. (Reuters)
March 11, 2023 (Saturday)

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Armed conflicts and attacks

 Afghanistan conflict
o A security guard is killed and eight other people are injured by
an explosion in Mazar-i-Sharif, Balkh
Province, Afghanistan. (Reuters)
 Herder–farmer conflicts in Nigeria
o Sixteen people are killed by Fula gunmen at a police
checkpoint in Zangon Kataf, Kaduna State, Nigeria. (AP)
Disasters and accidents

 Indonesia's Merapi volcano erupts. Eight villages have been affected by

volcanic ash. (Reuters) (AFP)
  Eight miners are killed in Geita Region, Tanzania, when their pit is flooded
with rainwater. (Xinhua)
 At least eight people are killed in a collision between two boats near Black's
Beach in San Diego, California, United States. (Los Angeles Times)
Politics and elections

 14th National People's Congress

o Li Qiang is elected as Premier of the People's Republic of China,
succeeding Li Keqiang. (BBC News)
Sports

 2022–23 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup

o Mikaela Shiffrin becomes the world's most successful alpine skier
with her 87th World Cup victory. (Reuters)
March 10, 2023 (Friday)

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Armed conflicts and attacks

 Israeli–Palestinian conflict
o A Palestinian man is shot dead by an Israeli settler near a farm
in Karnei Shomron, in the West Bank. The Israel Defense
Forces (IDF) claims that the Palestinian man was armed at the
time. (Al Jazeera)
 Kivu conflict
o Angola announces that it will deploy troops to the Democratic
Republic of the Congo, following the failure of
a ceasefire between government forces and M23 rebels in North
Kivu. (BBC News)
Arts and culture

 Prince Edward is named as the new Duke of Edinburgh by King Charles III.

The title was previously held by his father, Prince Philip. (BBC News)
Business and economy

 2023 United States bank failures

o Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank
 American commercial bank Silicon Valley Bank is
forcibly shut down by regulators for the U.S.
state of California, and its assets controlled by
the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, after the
 bank failed to raise enough capital and a
subsequent bank run occurred. With assets
totalling US$209 billion, the bank's closure is
the second-largest bank failure in American
history. (CNN) (The Independent)
Disasters and accidents

 Ten people are killed and nine others are missing after a tractor-trolley falls
into a canal in Dera Ghazi Khan District, Punjab, Pakistan. (AP)
International relations

 Iran–Saudi Arabia relations

o Iran and Saudi Arabia agree to resume diplomatic relations and
reopen their embassies within the next two months, following
diplomatic talks in Beijing brokered by China. (Al Jazeera)
Law and crime

 Corruption in Malaysia
o Former prime minister Muhyiddin
Yassin is charged with corruption and abuse of power by
the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission over a COVID-
19 subsidy programme. (CNA)
Politics and elections

 2023 People's Republic of China presidential election

o Xi Jinping is re-elected to a third term as president. (The Guardian)

March 9, 2023 (Thursday)

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Armed conflicts and attacks

 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine

o 2022–2023 Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
 Russia launches cruise missiles at targets
across Ukraine. Buildings and critical infrastructure are
damaged, and at least five civilians were killed in Lviv
Oblast when a missile destroyed their home, according
to the region's governor Maksym Kozytskyy. (BBC
News)
 Israeli–Palestinian conflict
 o Three Palestinian Islamic Jihad members are killed by Israeli
special units during a operation in Jenin, West Bank. (Al
Jazeera) (The Times of Israel)
o Three people are wounded by a shooting on Dizengoff Street,
in Tel Aviv. The perpetrator is killed by police. (Al Jazeera)
 Afghanistan conflict
o Islamic State–Taliban conflict
 Daud Muzamil, the Taliban-appointed governor of Balkh
Province, is killed by an Islamic State suicide bomber at
his office in Mazar-i-Sharif. Two civilians are also killed
during the attack and four others wounded. (TOLO
News) (Al Arabiya)
 Jihadist insurgency in Burkina Faso
o Eleven people are killed and four others are injured during an
operation to retake territory in northeast Burkina Faso. (Reuters)
 Boko Haram insurgency
o At least 25 people are killed when Boko Haram gunmen storm a
fishing village in Dikwa, Borno, Nigeria. (Reuters)
Business and economy

 The Belgian government announces a ban on gambling advertising, citing an

increase in gambling addiction. Beginning in 2028, gambling companies will
also no longer be able to sponsor professional sports clubs. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents

 Six people are killed and at least 79 others are injured in a collision between
a train and a bus transporting civil servants to work in Lagos, Nigeria. (BBC
News)
 The wreckage of a Cessna 206 that was reported missing on January 24
in Isabela, Philippines, is found in Divilacan, with all six people aboard
confirmed dead. Retrieval operations are ongoing. (Manila Bulletin)
 Three people are killed when a mine tunnel collapses
in Catalonia, Spain. (AP)
 Fourteen people are killed and 54 others are rescued after a boat carrying
migrants sinks off the Tunisian coast. (AP)
Law and crime

 Hamburg shooting
o Six people and an unborn baby are killed, and eight others are
injured, in a mass shooting at a Jehovah's Witnesses centre
in Hamburg, Germany. The perpetrator kills himself after the
shooting. (The Guardian)
 2023 Georgian protests
 o Georgia's ruling party announces that it will withdraw a
controversial bill concerning foreign agents which had prompted
days of protests across the country. (MSN)
 2023 Matamoros kidnappings
o Mexico's Gulf Cartel surrenders five purported perpetrators of last
weekend's kidnapping of four U.S. citizens in Matamoros,
Tamaulipas, and offers an apology to the victims, their families,
and society in general. (BBC News)
 LGBT rights in Uganda
o The parliament of Uganda begins debates on a proposed bill that
would criminalize people identifying as part of the LGBTQ
community with up to 10 years in prison. The bill would also
criminalize the "promotion" of homosexuality and "abetting" or
"conspiring" to engage in same-sex relations. (Reuters)
 Capital punishment in Belarus
o President Alexander Lukashenko signs a bill into law which allows
the use of the death penalty on officials and military
servicemen convicted of high treason(CNA)
Politics and elections

 2023 French pension reform strikes

o The French Senate votes 201–115 to raise the legal retirement
age in France from 62 to 64 despite mass strikes against the
change. (Reuters)
 Petr Pavel is inaugurated as the fourth president of the Czech
Republic. (Reuters)
March 8, 2023 (Wednesday)

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Armed conflicts and attacks

 Syrian civil war

o Iranian involvement in the Syrian civil war
 A drone strike on a Iranian-backed weapons factory by
an unknown attacker in Deir ez-Zor Governorate, Syria,
kills seven people and injures 15 others, according to
the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which
describes the dead as three Afghan fighters,
three Syrian civilians and one unidentified Syrian. (Arab
News)
 Kivu conflict
o Allied Democratic Forces insurgency
  Mukondi massacre
 Allied Democratic
Forces jihadist insurgents use machetes to kill
about 40 people in the village of
Mukondi, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of
the Congo. (Reuters)
Business and economy

 2023 United States bank failures

o American commercial bank and cryptocurrency services
provider Silvergate Bank winds down its operations and liquidates
its assets. (CNBC)
Law and crime

 Foreign nationals detained in Iran

o A court in Iran sentences a 64-year-old Irish-French tourist to six-
and-a-half years in prison for spying for "an enemy country". (BBC
News)
 Killing of Breonna Taylor
o The United States Department of Justice finds "reasonable cause
to believe" that the Louisville Metro Police Department violated
citizens' civil rights. The investigation was started in response to
the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor. (BBC News)
March 7, 2023 (Tuesday)

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 Syrian civil war

o Iran–Israel conflict during the Syrian civil war
 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)
 Israeli–Palestinian conflict
o At least six members of the Palestinian militant group Jenin
Brigades are killed by Israeli soldiers during a raid in Jenin, West
Bank. Among those killed is the killer of two Israeli settlers last
month. (AFP via France 24)
Disasters and accidents

 2023 Gulistan explosion

o At least 18 people are killed and more than 140 others are injured
by an explosion at a commercial seven-story building in Gulistan,
Dhaka, Bangladesh. (AFP via VOA)
 2022–23 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season
o Cyclone Freddy becomes the longest lasting tropical cyclone on
record, breaking the record previously held by Hurricane John
(1994) which lasted 31 days.(CNN)
 A Piper J-3 Cub and Cherokee Piper 161 collide in midair over Lake
Hartridge in Florida, United States, killing four people. (AP via KCBD-TV)
Law and crime

 2023 Georgian protests

o 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)
 2023 Matamoros kidnappings
o Two Americans are found dead, and two alive, after they had been
kidnapped in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, four days
earlier. (BBC 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)
Politics and elections

 2023 Micronesian parliamentary election

o Citizens in the Federated States of Micronesia head to the polls to
elect the 14 members of the Congress. (RNZ)
 2023 transport strike in the Philippines
o Transport groups in the Philippines decide to end a one-
week strike on its second day, following a meeting
with Palace officials in relation to the Public Utility Vehicle
Modernization Program. (The Philippine Star)
Science and technology

 English architect David Chipperfield wins the 2023 Pritzker Architecture

Prize. (CNN)
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Disasters
 COVID-19 pandemic
 Global spread of H5N1
 Opioid epidemic
 Chile wildfires
 São Paulo floods and landslides

Economics
 2020–present global chip shortage
 2021–2023 global energy crisis
 2021–2023 inflation surge
 2022–2023 food crises
 2023 United States bank failures
 Lebanese liquidity crisis
 Pakistan economic crisis
 South African energy crisis
 Sri Lankan economic crisis
 Turkish currency and debt crisis
 United Kingdom cost of living crisis
 Zimbabwean hyperinflation

Politics
 Belarus−European Union border crisis
 French pension reform strikes
 Georgian protests
 Haitian crisis
 Iranian protests
 Israeli anti-judicial reform protests
 Libyan crisis
 Moldovan protests
 Myanmar protests
 North Kosovo crisis
 Peruvian protests
  Philippine transport strike
 Qatargate
 Ukrainian refugee crisis
 United Kingdom railway strikes
 United States abortion protests
 Venezuelan crisis
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Elections and referendums
Recent
 February

 25−26: Nigeria, President, Senate,
   House of Representatives

 March

 2: Vietnam, President (indirect)
 5: Estonia, Riigikogu
 7: Micronesia, Congress
 9: Nepal, President (indirect)
 10: China, President (indirect)
 12: Cameroon, Senate (indirect)

Upcoming
 19: Kazakhstan, Mäjilis
 19: Montenegro, President
 26: Cuba, National Assembly of People's Power
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Recently concluded
 Indonesia: Ferdy Sambo
 United States: Alex Murdaugh

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 Armenia: Serzh Sargsyan
 Guinea: Moussa Dadis Camara
 Israel: Benjamin Netanyahu
 Italy: Matteo Salvini
 Kosovo: Specialist Chambers
 Malta: Yorgen Fenech
 Philippines: Leila de Lima
 Sudan: Omar al-Bashir
  Vatican City: Giovanni Angelo Becciu
 ICC: Ali Kushayb
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 Association football

 2022–23 UEFA Champions League

 2022–23 UEFA Europa League
 2022–23 Bundesliga
 2022–23 La Liga
 2022–23 Ligue 1
 2022–23 Premier League
 2022–23 Serie A
 2023 MLS season

 Basketball

 2022–23 NBA season

 2022–23 EuroLeague
 2022–23 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Season
 2022–23 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Season

 International cricket

 2021–23 ICC World Test Championship

 2020–23 ICC Cricket World Cup Super League
 2019–23 ICC Cricket World Cup League 2

 Golf

 2022–23 PGA Tour

 2023 PGA Tour Champions
 2023 Ladies European Tour
 2023 European Tour
 2023 LPGA Tour

 Ice hockey

 2022–23 NHL season

 2022–23 PHF season

 Motorsport

 2023 Formula One World Championship

 2023 NASCAR Cup Series
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 2023 Six Nations Championship

 Tennis

 2023 ATP Tour

 2023 WTA Tour

 Other sports seasons

 2022–23 curling season

 2022–23 snooker season
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 11: Bud Grant
 9: Robert Blake
 9: Mystic Meg
 8: Chaim Topol
 8: Bert I. Gordon
 7: Ian Falconer
 7: Lynn Seymour
 6: Georgina Beyer
 5: Mark Pilgrim
 5: Gary Rossington
 4: Judith Heumann
 4: Roel Degamo
 3: David Lindley
 3: Tom Sizemore
 3: Rafael Viñoly
 2: Wayne Shorter
 1: Just Fontaine
 1: Jerry Richardson

February
 28: Pirouz
 28: Jay Weston
 27: Ricou Browning
 27: Gérard Latortue
 27: Burny Mattinson
 27: Gleb Pavlovsky
 26: Bob Richards
 26: Betty Boothroyd
  26: Ans Westra
 25: Gordon Pinsent
 24: Walter Mirisch
 24: Bernard Ingham
 24: Juraj Jakubisko
 23: Thomas H. Lee
 23: John Motson
 22: Ahmed Qurei
 21: Abby Choi Tin-fung
 19: Red McCombs
 19: Jansen Panettiere
 19: Richard Belzer
 19: Dickie Davies
 18: John Matthew Salilig
 18: Barbara Bosson
 18: Thomas R. Donahue
 18: David G. O'Connell
 18: Tom Whitlock
 17: Gerald Fried
 17: Kyle Jacobs
 17: George T. Miller
 17: Stella Stevens
 16: Chuck Jackson
 16: Maon Kurosaki
 16: Tim McCarver
 15: Paul Berg
 15: Raquel Welch
 14: Friedrich Cerha
 14: Jerry Jarrett
 14: Shoichiro Toyoda
 13: Huey "Piano" Smith
 13: Oliver Wood
 13: Leiji Matsumoto
 13: Zia Mohyeddin
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Congo

 Allied Democratic Forces insurgency

 Ituri conflict
 Kivu conflict
 Lord's Resistance Army insurgency

 Ethiopia

 Oromo conflict

 Mozambique

 Insurgency in Cabo Delgado

 Nigeria

 Boko Haram insurgency

 Niger Delta conflict

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 Burkina Faso insurgency

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 Naxalite–Maoist insurgency

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 Papua conflict

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 Rohingya conflict

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